The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-04-24

Treasury building. Next to -
White House. Place where monev : 8
made, but where you don't lean =. &
make money. Fine granite struch,r.
BY muscular penance =
many steps. Why SO many iliQhfs g =
stairs to public buildings in an ago w.!
elevators elevate the racer Why -.
render it imperative to climb up info )
building in order to get down-stair1l
Money all about here cheap IS dirt
only to the eye. Otherwise, touch ~ &
taste not, handle not. Under guidanss
and close surveillance am taken Is ~ s:
Monetary Sanctum Financiorium when
are kept many millions for immelI1f1
use. bow in the presence Of mamnon
Mammon In gold, mammon in sily~.
mammon in paper, mammon in stooi
canvas bags Of dollars, mammon b 81.
81, IS, SO, 800 and 81, 900 package
of bills, which resemble packago3 4
tea. am given to lift-only to ia. 9
thousand bags of dollars. l mean
bag of q thousand silver dollars. A u
ON the muscular system. Ian N
given to lift S2,O00.000 packaQo q !
greenbacks in 81, 900 bills. No tax =
all on the muscular or any other system.
Balance of weight and clumsinen 3
favor of the silver; balance Of lighinor1
and convenience in favor Of the poporL
Hence, I prefer paper in mine; II fherJ'o
much of t. / laid the $1,000, 900 q
green5acks down and went away o.
rowing. Those bits of paper, viii
for a few seconds l had held In ~
hand, would secure me honor, cona
Grafton and position among men. ~
pite crows feet and radically ~
face. -
Shot up stairs to Treasury top noof|
per elevator to bureau of money -
craving and printing. Very interests
and hot with variety Of mechanios
smells. Money smells agood deal vhio
it is being made. Lots OF women priufp
ing sheets of money, cutting them ~
counting them. Money being baked b
ovens to make it dry and crisp. Ria
financial upper pie crust. BewildeFi11
series OF complicated machines -
making money. Here Is the financ|&
stomach OF the nation, where it, ~
blood of trade. commerce, dignity ~
position is being prepared for ciTcule,
ton, and that OF which the inordinale
love is the root of all evil turned out "
| the ton. Also, all manner Of revenne
stamps. More women handling Grsu1
| sheets Of uncut bills with q rustling N
| that of the withered leaves of antumu
which, as Patrick Henry REMARKED
"eyery gale from Wall street mort
brings to our ears" Here are the -
gravers making the heads of old Pre-
dents and politicians more beauidl
than ever were they in life, to ndof
money. Here are dyers up to Thu
elbows In green dyeing money. In
they are at the employees lunch coonf4
eating pound cake with moist, gFeo4
dyed fingers. and drinking CO.
4 from white cups, and leaxl
upon them the impress OF gre
dyed thumbs. Here be the -
where are kept the bank
plates, . third OF each separate pa
In separate safe, locked n
separate and individual lock and ~
and each lock different from the otheQ
and the key kept by q different -
and NO one man allowed access 70
other safes or granted to know ~
the others combination Of lock, NJ
by no one man can steal q whole
note plate. Eternal vigilence and
caution is here. The price OF go
and enforced honesty in the Uutl1
States Treasury policy. Here the e.
row passages are now beset by sve r.
of visitors, each swarm IN charge 9
| Treasury guide, each. swarm coun!!
| by watchful officials cs they enter
department on going IN and ccpz
again on coming out, lest some Qeol
full and desperately wicked hum
heart might be left to rummage -
among half-made money and bauk 20
/ plates. Here the swarms OF "
encounter and jostle each other. :
employees moist with green ana a. +.
, dye squeeze through them, ana
guides are troubled to keep Their
spective swarms from straying aPezs'
| lettering by the way, and their rel
i i've mechanical and monetary mann
, turing explanations get sonnet
, much mixed up. and at all times Co.
: to the ear by the hum and clan<
7 money making machinery and the g
ter of the money makers voices
) gaze critically If not quizzically -
! visitors in retaliation for being
: selves exhibited. :.
. Carried, then, down stairs g
I" Bond Room Kept here miiiio
; millions of securities from our q.
> National Banks, All inclosed e
, board boxes, and each box holo
( few sheets Of paper. All these
: dreds of millions of paper. Oar
. mon seems paper god. after AL
: may mold in gold and silver
Q you want to carry your tinanciaL
9 ates around you. you fall back g.
e per. Lady visitor in the bond roo
r patiated volubly on the ben:
}, wealth and the convenience q q,
q plenty of money. Popular
: Appropriate place the Treasul
il vault for such lecture. Lady ~
IL .....h ~~,<>x,ox, booos,ca abe 80 COMA