Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-08-08
Robert Morris, Philadel-

our liberties.
Q. Is it not therefore nonsense to
talk about a government creating -
money value by its mere "fat" or
| law?
A. 1t is. The simple promise of
one man was worth more In an emery
ency than all the pledges which the
thirteen United States could give.
@. How. then, shall we re-estab-
fish confidence and prosperity
A. By an exact fuIfIlment of all
the promises and bargains which the
United States has ever made, to the
end that individuals can form their
business plans and be sure the fnan-
ces will no. be disordered OF the cur
rency shriveled up in their hands
@. Did any nation ever flourish
permanently on paper currency which
was not convertible into coin at the
will of the holder.
/ A. Never, but many nations have
fallen into ruin by issuing irredeem-
/
Q. What did Abraham Lincoln say
of our currency in one of his annual
messages.
A "A return to specie payment at
the earliest period compatible with
due regard to all interests concerned
should ever be kept in view. Fluctu-
ations in the value of currency are al
ways injurious, and to reduce these
fluctuations to the lowest possible
point will always be leading purpose
in all wise legislation. Convertibility
into coin is acknowledged to be the
best and surest safeguard against
them"
@. What did Andrew jackson say
on the same subject?
A. There never was, nor never
could be, use for any other kind Of
currency than is redeemable in specie
except for spectators and gamblers for
stocks, and this to the utter ruin of
the labor and morals of the country.
A specie currency gives life and ac-
ton to the producing classes. on which
the prosperity of all is founded" -
Lansing Republican.
State Board of Health. There
is vast multitude of people who real
ly think any means of preventive
medicine" a humbug which does not
follow in the footsteps of their fathers
and adapt itself to their exalted ideas
of propriety-who appear ever credu-
Ions and are ready to be deceived
at any time. They think it is a
certain sign of evil if bat flies into a
room on simmer evening; or salt
cellar upsets, or cricket chirps on the
hearth, or if they see the moon
over the wrong shoulder. They think
it very disastrous to count the car
riages at a funeral. They would not
think of beginning any enterprise on
Friday, or Of returning to get for
gotten article after they had once
started on a journey. They believe in
ghosts and hobgoblins, and this class
of credulous people saw one Of their
ghostly apparitions near Watertown,
the other day. He heard strange and
unaccountable sounds IN the vacant
air near a certain mili-dam. Such
people are always ready to be duped.
Sanitary science offers no interest to
them, unless it is made to su3serve
their selfish desires. Preventive
medicine and the State Board of
Health are ''misnomers' to this class
OF people. We were both surprised
and panied to learn that the great
General Of the Madison Democrat, and
the Brigadier General of the Madison
journal, had so far forgotten their
manhood and standing in society as to
pander to such depraved tastes and
sentiments, or to be SO entirely want
ing i'll propriety and courtesy as was
characterized in their comments upon
the action had by the State Board of
Health in the Milford Dam matter.
These two great luminaries OF jour
nalism appear to think they nearly
carry the entire responsibility of the
state on their shoulders. They have
just closed an attack upon the State
Board Of Charities and Reform, as un-
kind as it was unjust, and now they
attempt to defame the good name and
standing of the State Board of Health
in the most scurrilous, ignominious
and untruthfnl manner, and by their
intimidating insinuations appear to
act as if they intended to forestal the
opinions which are 20 be had from the
Board and in the interest of the en-
tire people.
1t is we'll for this honored Board of
Health and for sanitary science that it
should know thus early in its career,
who its real enemies are, that it may
be the better prepared to stand off
from those who practice such inposi-
ton and chicanery, more for effect
than to subserve the interests of So
ciety. 1t is certainly a matter for any
thing but congratulation that journals
claiming to represent the Intelligence
of the people, rather than their super
stition and ignorance, should lend
themselves to such an attack.
Don't ruin your health, and make
yourself disagreeable to other people
by your continual coughing. A %
cont bottle of Dir MarshaU's LIMO