The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-19
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EinaSr's y, tbe benefit OF the lSTEtLioES'
IiS iSSs ~. =" naote from them as tOltows'
eEl q "Ss ,he more money question, we
", k few easy aSSlS,noa QUESTIONS te - sayIns
f.s, ttas i !. mont money enough now, ana iaYiag '
sltfs 9 . =. 'iDSispS,able that without increas'
down v ,otSI II an )unt no man can get q dol
inS tae ~" ,O O~i,bout taking that much from
SO@eDolif ~ yon hold that those who have
tiFss.sSS:y 4 S:ye as much as they ought TO
have iSy,s.5,3-UO yoa bold that those who
s,SSSo ysS much, have no more than they ought
% ST4S,dLI,o 4Ed you hold It to be right that
lnIS !, .Ta,e IL i such a gulf between the rich
.TJ TI the he pOor? And finally;
-" "Fout6-li yOn do moi, what Ing nave e. you you
dane. sS. Sba, are you doing; and what 40 you
SSasa,e NAM 10 dotobring them nearer ieVel
We await the answer.
Not to attempt to answer these queries
vouId perhaps be interpreted by the Stdtt
,., confession -four inability 10 do 80. II
20 we're 10 express our real opinion about
tbem il would he to say that they are the
d}lles. ia,enogaiorjes ever propounded to
us by a tireenbACkcr.
Flnt-we do not hold that those who
have but little cash have as much as they
ought to have. But we do hold that you
can not extend to the CashIess the proper
per capita Of money by initiation. You can
swell the aggregate otHoney, initiate prices
make the rich richer, stimulate specula-
ton, and finally demoFalize trade and bur
~ up a crash. Nothing is more funda-
mental in finance than that when you en-
hance the volume Of money beyond the
legitimate needs Of trade-that is, beyond
the amount needed to effect the exchanges
Of the couutry-you begin to initiate values,
aud all sorts Of values, as q rule, initiate
faster than the wages Of common labor.
Secoud-We presume that Vanderbilt,
jay Could Garrett, and, in fact, all the
millionaires Of the country, have great
deal more money than is for their good,
and perhaps very much more than is for
the good OF society. There is no known
way however, to stop men from ac-
catnulating immense fortunes, unlesstt be
ID c6ndscato all over certain amount.
We are certain that the Grcenback policy
Obly plays into their hands. They flourish
in imitation periods. They sell vast
Of inflated trash to the people.
Third-There would be some sense in
this question il the propounder Of it or
those Of his "ilk" TO use his own word)
had ever offered the world panacea for
the Of poverty. He knows rs well as we
do that the founder Of Christianity himself,
more than eighteen hundred years ago,
spoke Of the poor that we always would
have with us. lie ought also to know that
thsseisa better average Of this world $ goods
aHOnsthc people to-daythan at any previ-
Gus periOdoi oithe worlds history. And this
average is extending. As new sources OF
wealth are Openedup and the new vocations
Ct higher civilization amplitied among
lnankind, wider distribution OF comfort
and luxury follows. There are still the
wide extremes Of great wealth and great
poverty, but the intermediate space shows
better fed, better clothed, better housed
and better educated mass than ever before.
This is brought about by the arts and
sciences; by the intelligence that has dis.
covered steam and ail its uses on land and
sea; that has discovered electricity and put
the whole world in daily communion; that
has invented machinery and subdivided
labor; that has multiplied the aids and
reliets to all sorta of household and farm
work. that has, in a word, penetrated eve
rywhere, and introduced the comforts, lux
Hries and refnements Of life among the
masses to an extent never dreamed of even
a hundred years ago.
FoaHh-HaviRg commented to this ex-
tent on three Of the interrogatories pro-
pounded by the STATE. it is unnecessary for
US to say that We are at least doing our
duty in one direction in the way of promo
ting Continuance and IN increase OF this
better condition OF things. We are oppos-
uS and exposing the Gunacy that attempts
. delude the people into the belief that
here is 4 way to create a desirable
artificial prosperity. 1t has been our mis-
sion to show that fiction cannot be coined
INTO TACT in the way Of money; that a
printing machine cannot create values in
The shape Of money. and that all sorts Of
that seek to do away with the
solId basis Of labor as the creator OF all real
values arc simply so many frauds upon
society and especially upon the poor.