Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-08-10

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Chicago Sentinel.
= "A few years ago there was grea
e party in this country, whose lcade
. talked delirlously about coming pape
| dollars, making an elastic currenc.
q equal TO the wants OF trade, and othe
t similar driyel. After the manner o
: shallow thinkers, they blunderingll
2 confused the sign OF the thing for The
thing itself. They made the SAINT
stupid mlSlak that man would who
I would imagine ticket for Il quart o
, milk TO be a quart of milk. They
} could not understand the plain distinc'
= ton that money is only token Of
- wealth and NOT wealth itself. 1t was
impossible TO make them understand
, That a grccnhack promise TO pay dol
lar was no more 4 dollar than mortg'
age is the farm 1t covers. They bab-
Died ON WcarlSomely about making dol
! lars enough ON a printing press to
double and treble the volume OF cir
: culation' and the advanced section
ol the party was sure that we should
= pay the nGtlonaI debt by compelling
: bond-holdcr' to take slips of paper on
which was printed The United States,
One Dollar and which bore no inter
est, in lieu Of the non intcrcst-bearing
evidences Of indebtedness for which
they had paid money of more or less
goodness. Others went still further
and insisted that if the government
would exercise lis functions properly,
il would, while il was at il, issue enough
to rive every man start in business,
Undoubtedly these last had as much
reason in their argument as any of
their party associates. If the govern
mrnt could make one dollar, 1t could
make Il DlIlon' or len billions or
'h"UTA 10 MAKE every man upon earth
"'alliN' Lake the schemes Tor per-
poIuai notion The starting was the
man trouble
Blu, what vas impossible 10 the
government j, possible to Il higher
power. OmniVOtcncc can accomplish
what prcpoloncc cannot. What man
may do for himself is limited by mar
row boundaries there are none to
what the world forces can do for him.
The fiat OF the government is but u
reed, along side the magic sccptrc of
nature.
"Thp kindly suuwooinpt thc prconont
earth is makino. wealth for thc nation
bryoud thc widest dreams of thr manor
money enthusiasts,
Tho burning rays fall upon land
furrowcd by the plow and the culliya-
tor. and n billion dollars worth of corn
and wheat rise to greet them Four
/ hundred million dollars worth of hay
cover the broad meadows, $500. .OOO,-
OOO worth Of cotton will soon blow ON
the southern plantations; 500. 900 900
of oats. barley. rye. buckwhcat, pots-
toes. and tobacco fill the smaller fields,
and fruits, cattle and wool. will swell
the amount so as TO couple another bill
lion dollar, on that Welded by wheat
field and corn furrow. Two billion
dollars is wha, the hoe and plow will
win from our fruitful acres this vror
/ II is sum vastly ryccrdinn that which
the liatists would turn ont from tbr
printing presses. II is NOT only better
/ than tErfi. imorinorv money. Inf il j..
bpttnr tb,n tbr rnol lrnlJ fnr if * vhst
mon rlaJIy riyr rIni for The fotists
rnycd ob6ui moEin~ 50 much money
thot thrrc world Ir $40 or $40. or cvcn
/ so q Ln.d for oyrrv onn nf nnr tifty
million noprlo,ion. 'Thr Labor of tbr
busbandmgn il now MAKING every one