The examiner., 1881-12-10
What is Money---How
 Made?

l. Plato answers "Money is crea- Sion of law to effect change"
 But, Almighty God makes money i" says James G. Blaine, in Chicago, and 1t IS quoted in the Messenger as B specially shrewd answer, totally crush. Ing poor greenbacker, who ventured to squeak the question. "Who makes money ?"
 Z. Aristotle answers: "Money is a medium Of exchange; a creation of law; not product of nature.''
 gBut, Colonel Ingersoll, the champion of Republican orato IS, says: "Govern- ment cannot ere ate money law cannot do its nature can only make noney." kgS. Answer by the court of kings bench, England. "As wax is not B seal without the stamp, so metal is not money without the impress of sovereign authority" This is one of the best definitions of money ever given It comes from the highest judicial au- thCrity.
 This is sustained by Judge Tiffany and by every text book referring to it; also, by many and every decision of our United States supreme court, and all our State courts But the Bankers associa tion declare it all unconstitutional (see proceedings for August, last yearl, Also, all Republicans and gold-bugs (see General Gar6eld's inaugural last March).
 4. Henry Olay's answer: Whatever the government agrees to receive in payment of public dues as medium of circulation, is money, currency money, no matter what it's form may be. Treasury notes, drafts, etc., such as notes bills of paper, issued under the authority of the United States Ere money"
 But, say all the money-changers, and even national bankers, who are Issuing their own notes and using them as legal-tender money, and charging for them as such, !" Money must have in- tcinsic value, must be the equivalent" of the thing bought, and of "un- changing value"-ssa standard" and only gold can be such money" etc. All this, too, when all history, author ity and science, ancient and modern, have shown and demonstrated thou Sand times thet no other commodity is so uncertain and extreme in it's changes ot valuc, as gold.
 5. Answer by Daniel Webster. In referring, in debate in the Senate, to the Constitution, he says: "A just read ing of the provision is this; Congress shall have power to coin money, emit bills of credit,' and make anything be- side gold and silver coin legal tender in payment of debts."
 This is pretty loud for these times; it may have been we'll enough in the days of such men as Webster, but any country editor or money changer, anti-labor, anti granger and full-blooded (pedigrees furnished) monopoly paper, can stand over all such stuff as this of Webster as easily as our John can slide down the cellar door, and prove in a twiukling that it never was and could not be so.
 Montesque says: Money is the re- presentative (mind the word representa- tive) of things the same as things are the represen: alive (don't forget it) of money; and that country is in pros porous conditi> where the one equals the other and both are plenty, that you may have the enc as soon as the other" " Bacon and Hume, as does every au- thority known, lay down this rule; but is that anything? It all does seem true and rational; but the policy, writing and voting of the old hard-money parties deny it all as lot of bosh, so silly as to justify ridicule and all man nersof fun madesof anyii<so simple as to believe it.-Fot Dodje (La.) Green bItEsr.
 A Pen Picture of Jefferson.