San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-02

the way to have prosperous times again
is to again go iu debt. Suppose l
bought farm for 5000 aud gave my
note for it and then l bought horses
aud wagons and gave my note; and
then bought piano for Mary and
gave my note, and cent James to school
and gave my note, and they all run a
year. What u magnificent time l could
have for that year. Then when they
came around and wanted me to pay the
note, I would say, II will give YOU lit
tie notes for the interest and let them
run another year. What q splendid
time I could have for another year.
Finally, when they come and say they
have got to have the money, what
would you think if | were to say to
them :! never had better time in my
lite than when was giving those notes.
All that is necessary for universal hap
piness and peace Is to let me keep
right on giving my notes." / say to
them the reason of hard times is be.
cause they have lost confidence in me.
They say the reason they have lost
confidence is that l have not got the
money.
Now, it is precisely the same with
an individual that it is with the gov
ernmena I say here to. day that every
farmer ought to know that he cant
make something out of nothing. The
United States government can't make
money. 1t can make what it calls
money. 1t has not the power to make
1t; it has the power to make you take
it. In other words. it has the power
to make the creditor take it and no.
body else. II you 20 to buy bushel
of wheat and You have got fiat money
the man can say, 1 will take one dol
lar iu gold for that wheat, butt wan'
$5 if you pay in fat money" How
are you going to prevent him? The
money you have got is good simply
because it promises to pay. Now it il
proposed to have money that we vii
promise not to pay. Ii nonsense cat
20 beyond that, l cannot conceive thu
route or path that it will take. TheI
if Congress says you must take it, Con
gress must fix the price ofevery thing.
1t must fix the price of wheat
it must fix the price of making speecf
in lawsuit; it must fix the price o
every article, or else it cannot make 1T
money good.
But some gentlemen say that Con
gress has the power to make money
and | want to ask them one question
| want you to think about it: Ii thi
government has the power to max
money, why should it collect taxes fron
US? Why don't they make it and lie
us alone? If this government cal
make dollar or a thousand dollar bill
{ just that quick [slapping his hands to
pether] why should they make US la
Dor day and night. and make us pa
> taxes to support them? If the govern
ment can make money, let them max
it and let us alone. But, instead Q
that, this great government comes u
1 here into this coupty with the bayone
and compels you to pay taxes. 1t
:, like tie ocean trotting around to Dor
, row q little salt water, or like tn
sun trying to get the loan of candl
from some poor devil that has wOrke
weeks to make that candle. So sa
e to them, if they can do it let them d
0 it.
, Very we'll, if the government ca
t make money how much can it make
How will | get my share2 How muc
, is il going to issue? Some sa
enough to produce prosperity" Br
a =. much they cant tell. Some ss
d IT, are going to pay up the bonds an
v bring money in that way into circuls
5 ton, and then business would be pro'
y porous tut / say business will b
3 prosperous when the country is proi
porous. But if you get too much p'
per and it does go down, who loses it
The man who has earned it an
t happened to have it in his posse p
o that is the man who loses iH 'Eo
/; need pot be afraid but what the suas'
: people-thepeople on Wall street4ss
y take care care of Themselves. The