The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-08
Let The People Investigate.
STANwooD, May =, 1878.

STANwooD, May =, 1878.
ED. INTELLIGENCER Again comes
Terad with his shower of words" as
nj. S. B. would say, intimat.ng that
they are words only. Gently, my
friend discretion is the better part Of
valor Many waste time and money in
the search of :he royal metals; others
amass wealth upon wealth, and in the
absence of accurate statistics the COM
mon sense of mankind strikes the
equation.
M. S. Z. says: The same power
the Government-'sets the value upon
each, gold, silver and Government
bonds and even Col. Ingersoll cannot
obtain either from the Government for
nothing" Unfortunately for NJ. s. B.
the stamp of the Government upon a
given quantity and quality of gold and
silver as so many dollars does not fix
the value of the dollar, or even attempt
or pretend to fix it. The value of the
dollar depends upon the value of the
coin stamped. The Government very
shrewdly refuses to give bonds to Col.
Ingersoll or anybody else for nothing;
because, although the cost of the bond
is trifiing, the time must come for its
redemption. Col. Ingersoll hit wide of
the mark when he compared the Gov
eminent to bis hired man. Hired men
seldom make laws for their employers.
IF they did. they might even issue bills
Of credit.
If you enter the markets of the world
you cannot purchase articles that cost
labor and time with articles that cost
nothing. because they measure nothing.
Value for value; this is the law. Meas
ure for measure. An article is measured
by the cost of its production, because
labor is the first measure of wealth.
This law is eternal. Congress cannot
alter it. You cannot propel boat by
a bellows in the stern, and no cunning
device of Congressional resolve can en-
able you to do it.
Rural wants something practical
immigration and railroads" These
practical methods have been in opera
ton in the East year after year for
many years. and what has been the re-
suit ? Crime and want, and the cost of
its punishment and prevention has aug
mented with frightful rapidity. Owing
to immigration and railroads Not
per Sc of themselves but because
just systems of finance and railroad
management are needed to ensure sue
cess. One railroad king dies in New
York worth eighty millions, what does
it mean? 1t means want, and suffering,
and crime to thousands and thousands.
If the aggregate surplus of wealth laid
by is two per cent, and one man lays
by more than thousand men could
accumulate in a life time of toll, those
thousand men when thrown into idle.
ness, are forced to the grave of MUIR
derer, thief or suicide. You cannot
escape this conclusion if you would.
This Is question of government and
demands our careful consideration, and
like the Ghost of Banquo, will not down
at our bidding. Cicero said: mo
civil society no government can exist
except by the performance of the duty
OF rendering equal justice between
man and man." Let US ponder the
words of the old Greeks, and remember
/ that question SO momentous cannot be
settled by a single man in a single day.
In the clash Of opinions the progress of
truth is secured Many living can re.
member the crisis of 81; most of us
can remember the crash of 81. The
accommodations of life time were
swept away in an hour. What produced
it? Indifference on the part of the
people on the finance question. The
money ring walked over the reeking
slain. While the good man slumbered
the thieves entered and cleaned him
out. say with q correct system of
finance and railroads, this nation would
be the richest and most powerful on
the face of the globe. Poverty would
flee away from this country forever.
With untold wealth of climate and soil,
and mines. and the exhaustless capabil-
tiles of the most ingenious and per-
sistent race on the face Of the globe,
any other result would be impossible.
If this be true let us examine this sub
ject. with the care and attention COM
mensurate With its great Importance.
More anon, TERAD.