The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-07-28

junta now enthroned in Washington.
Ninety-nine tons Of gold in the New
York assay Office in one heap-s6O, ,OOO,- :
600. Congress appropriated $40, 900 for
the cost of removing it to the mint in
Philadelphia. But We are told that it
costs $1,000 to remove $1,000, 900,
weighing eight and quarter tons, from
the one Office to the other. How it
costs so much does not appear, and how
even at that rate they could remove
only $50, ,OOO,O 900 out Of the 500. OOO, 900
received does not appear. But it does
appear that $50, 600. 900 or ninety-nine
tons does remain in the assay room for
want Of money to transport it.
Why should we 60 into all the alb
surdities connected with this botching
basis Of currency? The weighing, the
melting, chiefly from foreign coins to be
recast IN American mOldS the assay
ing, the double boiling in nitric acid,
everything connected with the business
an added proof of the mixed roguery and
stupidity that reigns in Shylock-ridden
Washington. There is no financial
business that this gold can do, at vast
labor. loss and expense. but the national
greenback could do without either labor,
loss or difficulty, not only as well but
ten times better-while in the circula-
tlon every green dollar lost by the indi-
vidual was gained by the nation. By
issuing aud using the greenback we
could pay off the thirty-year shackles
and save 81 900, 600, 900 . year now paid
to the conspiring syndicates on our na-
tional debt.
The immense masses of gold collected
in the pubic offices and in the private
vaults Of banks and of business do no
actual work III the world Of finance.
They are an inert dead-weight hung ON
to us to enable the public swindlers to
rob us--rob MS Of 800, oOO, 900 year in
the single item of the national debt. To
get down to this depth Of gold swindle
all business was paralyzed during the
lreary years from 1873 to 1879. All
debts doubled-all half prop
erty swept away from the owners. Sher-
man, in . message, acknowledged that
all this ruin must be gone through.
Distress, death and suicides had to be
walled through to bring rs down to such
pictures as we SEQ presented on those
central monuments Of stupid villainy-
the assay office in New York and the
mint in Philadelphia.
The use Of silver as q currency is, If
possible. still more ruinous and absurd
than the use Of gold. The forty or fifty
millions of stamp currency earned the
nation about Sl4, 900, 600 during their
circulation. To purchase silver from
Germany or our own bonanza thieves
would take sum the interest on which
will amount to s., 900, 900 or 80, 900 900
lost to us every year. We had got
the stamp currency beyond the reach of
counterfeiting. But any bungler can
counterfeit the silver. And tn re are 80
many at the work that one batch in New
York marching in for trial meets another
batch marching out We find, too,
bill before Congress for $1,000 to
build new storehouses to hold the ship
loads Of silver lying idle in the Washing
ton treasury. The bonanza owners re-
ceiving certificates Of deposit on which,
rs money, they can earn usury while the
nation undertakes for nothing the sole
storage Of their stolen goods.
Our whole financial system is one
great, clumsy, bungling conspiracy to
leeeh the hfe-blood out of the people.
1t has been measurably lost sight Of in
that more substantial, enduring villainy,
the robbery of land-land robbery both
in Ireland and the United States. It is
heavy, threefold triangular work that
lies before us-land robbery, finance
robbery and nnlimited-tax robbery a
right -angled triangle sort Of thing the
base, the land robbery: hypothenuse,
finance swindling; while the up-and-
down perpendicular is the unlimited
power to rob and call it tax. II we
had the base in possession-the land set
right-we could soon tumble down the
other two villainies. Public thought,
too, rushes in that direction-in the di-
rcctipn of the land And we'll it may
rush when United States troops are now
called ont to shoot Ancri IN citizens
md give their homes to this enormous
criminals. the. railroad robbers Of the
lands and moneys IT the nation. We
are. indeed. IN Il '.sea of troubles" and
unr first work i 10 strike ont vigorously
for the land. -iri>k Nori.