The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

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measure and we should see produced in Eu-
rope result lamentable enough.-Lem Fan
chett.
| Money. as used in modern civilization, is
useful instrument that facilitates the exchange
of commodities and services.
| The intrinsic value idea of money was the
idea in the crude day of barbarism.-
Encyclopedia.
| Congress shall have the power to coin money,
to regulate the value thereof and offoreign coin,
emit bills of credit, or make anything besides
gold and silver legal tender in payment of
debts. The Constitution-Daniel Webster.
If there is one measure better calculated than
another to produce that state of things where
| the rich are daily getting richer and the poor
| daily getting poorer it Is a metallic currency.
| W. H. Harrison, Inaugural address, State Pa.
pers,2 2, 10, 4.
| It is too clear to be reasonably disputed that
| Congress, under its Constitutional powers to
| lay taxes, to regulate commerce. and to regu-
late the value of coin, possesses ample author
| ity to control the credit circulation. Salmon
P. Chase, Report, Dec. 1861.
The money question is not 90 much of
brain racker as Is by many supposed, but it is
| rather simple when Investigated in the right
manner. Money is simplya measure of values
and as the nation contracts its oircula ton, it
contracts the value of all property in like pro-
portion. A. h. CASTOR.
Thomas jefferson in his letters to Mr. Epps,
| volume of his works, says: Treasury bills,
bOttomed on taxes, bearing or not bearing in
terest, as may be found necessary, thrown into
circulation, will take the place of so much
gold and silver. Bank paper must be suppress-
ed, and the circulation estored to the nation,
| to whom it belongs"
Fellow citizens, | believe in the greenback. |
believe it is a constitutional currency in time
of peace as well as in time of war. | believe
it ought to be perpetuated as a fundamental
basis and an element OF our whole paper circu-
lation. | have no doubt that it is as far as it
goes, the very best currency that ever was in
this or any other country Stanley Mathews.
Money should be thing of, or belonging to,
| a country, not OF or belonging to the world
An exportable commodity is not fitted to be
money, and nothing could BE- more monstrous
than EnglaEd's iple-follOwed by the
United States up to the war-her legislation
forcing her people to be buyers of gold and
making their possession of gold--One of the
scarcest articles in the world--the condition of
Their being able to furnish themselves with
food and clothing. Isaac Buchanan
But when it was once clearly un-
derstood that gold and silver are not wealth,
but merely representatives of wealth; when
men began to see that wealth itself solely con-
ssts OF the valne which skill and labor can add
to the raw material, and that the money is of no
possible use to nation except to measure and
circulate its riches; all the old notions of the
supreme importance of the precious metals at
once tell to the ground. English History of
Commerce Buckle.
Benjamin Franklin, in volume 4, page So, of
his works, says: "Gold and silver are not in
trinsically Of equal value with iron. Their
value rests chiefly on the estimation they hap
pen 70 be in among the generality Of nations.
Amy other weli-founded credit is as much an
equivalent as gold and silver. Paper money,
we'll founded, has great advantages over gold
aud silver; being light and convenient tor hand
ling large sums and not likely to have its VOL
nme reduced by demands for ex portation On
the whole no method has hitherto been formed
| to establish medium of trade equal in all its
advantages, to bills Of credit made general
legal tender"
When the laborer has received his wages in
money he has not received an equivalent for his
services, but ouly something which will enable
him to get what he requires. The money there
fore is not the equivalent, but the evidence
that he has parted With commodities or services
and has not received an equivalent.
Gold and silver coin must be redeemed by
commodities and services on demand, or they
can no more perform the function Of money
than can irredeemable paper money.
The simplest and most perfect form OF cur
rency is that which represents transferable
debts-paper money with no intrinsic value.
Coin so long as it circulates for the purpose Of
buying and selling for the time, loses its in
trinslc value.
AS commodities gold and silver are capital,
but as mere money they are mere representa-
tives Of value.
All the confusion on the subject and which
has mystifed the works on economy arises
out OF the fact of not distinguishing between
gold as merchandise and gold as stamped mon
| ey.-Chas. Moran, France.
Reader can you define the sentence "main-
tanning the credit Of the nation!' 1t is simply
paying the bondholder gold while the indus
trial classes starve. Journal, PoIt Huron
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