Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03

make them more brief:
"Are you not mistaken on the ques-
ton of honesty in regard to this mat
ter q
Possibly, but we have never yet been
taught to believe that it was either JUS
tice or policy for an individual, corpo-
ration or government to give short
weights, measures, or values. We shall
expect next spring, when we buy a
pound of carrot seeds of the Dr., to get
sixteen ounces for the pound, and we
hope to pay him in kind of currency
that will pass at par, either in New
port or across the Line in Stanstead. If
the DR.. sends us IA ounces of seed for
pound, even with provision on the
package that we can return it, if it is
not full weight, or sell it to the next
man, we shall not be satisfied with that
way of doing business.
Il suppose as politician you are
bound to say that every democrat or
greenbacker is a rogue ?'
No, we are not bound to say so. This
is extraneous, and why the DR.. should
set such an appreciation on the fellows
of his kin, we do not understand. We
will say this, however. If we should
lose our lean and disconsolate pocket
book, we should much rather have it
fall into the hands of good hard mon
ey Democrat or Republican. than into
the clutches of one of those statesmen"
who favored the making of So cent sill
yer dollars and the issue of millions of
irredeemable greenback currency. There
is some honesty in trying to pay the
nations debts in the manner and with
the money agreed, and none in attempting
to force off by the fat of the law, de-
preciated currency or dishonored
promise.
"Do you think the Republican states
men and the Republican President who
favored the silver dollar rogues %
We think they were governed more
by popular clamor, than by acute con-
sciences.
"Can you suggest any better way %
We can suggest way that seems
better to us: Let the silver currency,
particularly the legal tender currency,
be of such weight and worth that there
shall be little or no appreciable relative
difference between the value of gold
dollar and a silver dollar. This was
what the hard money men in congress
and throughout the country demand,
when the silver legislation was agitated
year ago or more.
"What disadvantage is there in the
present method %
This question really is the fundamen-
tai question in the whole subject, and
would require an answer longer than
we can give in short paragraph. We
will suggest the answers that might be
given by propOunding a few questions
ourselves. What if war, secession OF
other emergency shnnld make IL imrno-
sible or unadvisable for government to
exchange gold for silver? Would not
silver, in that event, depreciate here
to the value of a Mexican dollar thai
now sells for IS cents, or to a lesser
value? Would not the dollar then be
rated only at Its intrinsic value? Il
friend Hoskins shall take trip tx
Russia next summer to purchase some
new varieties of Siberian Crabs, or TIE
tofskys, will it be policy for him t.
take over lot of American silver? W,
venture the assertion that he will hav,
a leather belt around his waist in which
are carefully packed some of Uncl
Samuel's best gold coin, which passe
at par the world over.
If it is right to issue light weigh
silver, what harm is there in circulatin,
y counterfeit specie? or double-eagle
' that have had their insides dug out b,
counterfelters ? In one case, government
does the stealing, in the other the coun
: terfelter does it.
' "Would you have every days col
vary with the varying price of silver ?
No. We should have made the issu
of 1878 to contain a dollars worth q
silver, and if in five years the price {
silver had diminished so that our silve
- dollars were at a discount, then W
- should coin of heavier wei ht, an
take in and recon the old dollars if the
~ were of such weight and value as
bring them into disrepute.
~ 1t is law as we'll understood, as thu
u the heavier fluid will drive the lghte
- to the top, that cheap currency wi
drive more valued one out of sigh
= Gold and silver went out of circulation
;. the moment government found itse
embarrassed in the rebellion and bega
N to issue cheaper currency; and to-da
) this same memorable law shows itself
W the discount on the trade dollars, an
D. the lesser discount on silver halve
I'd quarters &c. AS the amount increas,
k there will be larger discount.
,e The supposition in the above articl
;. that silver may go up, instead of doao
D is not a rational one. The immen
y increase in the production of this met
and the action of some governments