The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-12

Break the Bends that Binds Us.
Editor Redwood Gazette:
June 9Th, 1879.
Money is not wealth, only . means
ordained expressly for its acquisi-
tion, simply . tool. Only little,
candid, and impartial reelection is
necessary to see the logic of that
statement. I will make the state
ment in this form. Money is not
payment, but simply a tool which
enables us to acquire payment, in all
those articles which in and of them
selves satisfy our actual wants.
Therefore it logically follows, that
we never get the value Of labor, ser
vices, or goods, We sell for gold,
until we exchange the gold for arti-
cles we need. Money therefore, is
only a medium to assist us in ex-
changing to-day, for another proper
ty we need tomorrow. The Green
backs our Government created the
legal-tender, did perform this service.
They always did thus perform, and
always will, if they have chance.
They are better than any species OF
bank currency, for banks have failed
and always will sooner or later, and
when controlled by individuals or
corporations, the volume may be
made to fluctuate, sink and swell to
suit the speculative dishonesty of the
monopoly that controls it. History
demonstrates that a country can nev-
er grow beyond the money capacity
and volume, to transact its business,
and effect its exchanges. The larg-
er the country, the greater and more
diversified its resources, the larger
must be its money resources, or tool
of exchange to insure prosperity
among its people.
To talk about a per capita regula-
ton among the nations of the world
is the veriest noncense. France,
with a territory not larger than one
of our states, has SO per capita, and
acknowledges no inconvenience from
it. Our country being about the
size of all Europe, has hardly $l4
nominally, and much less actually.
We might as well regulate the num-
Der of cows a man should have by
the number of his family, as to at
tempt to regulate per capita. To IL
lustrate; q thousand dollars invested
in wheat in Kansas, could be used
but once or twice at the most in a
season, SO long is the distance to the
seaboard, and the time consequent in
making the returns. In France, that
amount of money, might be used,
and repeated, from three to ten days
and move from three to six times as
much wheat from the place of pro-
duction to the place of market, ow-
ing to less distance. And in our
case, we have what France has not,
a vast extent of country nearly all
the varieties of climate and produc-
ton, embraced within the zones; a
vast extent of territory undeveloped,
waiting the restoration of millions
of idle hands, that now hang idle
and almost palsied beside lean and
annotated bodies, starving for the
want Of that nourishment which
money, the tool of trade, alone can
supply.
With that facility which France
galvanized into life and activity,
the paralized energies of industry,
and to induce educated and skilled
labor from other hands, to tonch
with magic skill some of the latent
resources Of this glorious country.
we might bid defiance to the finan-
cial Barbarisms Of the old world, by
adopting the full legal tender green
back system of finance, based on the
entire wealth, real and personal,
public and private, together with our
christian civilization its consequent
wisdom, integrity and manhood, not
forgetting our patriotism, and love
of country, affording all necessary
protection to the government, we
would prosper as no other nation ev-
er did.
From the granite hills of New
England, from the vast undulated
plains of the west, from the central
chains of mountains of precious met
ais, from the majestic forests of un-
paralelled woods, fashioned under
the hand of skill, and shaped by the
ideality of genius, adapted to the
wants, luxuries and tastes of all con.
ditions of mankind, we would soon
produce such wonderful creations OF
labor, as would bring all nations to
our doors, to pour into our laps the
spices, fruits, and precious stones, Of
other climes, and the golden gods of
the Rothchilds, would fall at our
feet. We would then be, not az
now, bankrupt, a nation of beggars,
all tattered and torn, and trampling
forlorn, foot sore from the treadmills
of toll, low in the scale of intellect
ual developement induced by wan,
and lack of opportunity.
We ought to be in the van of civ
ilization, and not in the rear as many
older nationalities are, presenting .
manhood supremely exalted.
| G. p. G.
Care Of Horses,
/ have driven and watered horses
ever since I was large enough, and
never sponged one and never expect