Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-06-06

| with and for; and there are millions in
it. Not always money your non.inter-
st-bearing note is NY money when you
swap it of for some other note. 1t il
good enough cash to pay all your debts
With. but when it comes nearly gratiously
from the government to you, then it has
no character Of money, it is only your
debt W ich, poor fellow, you are asking
your gentle creditors to extend from day
to day till the fine day comes, when you
can conveniently pay it." We thought
the man with pail looked interested,
for he asked quite intelligently: "But
what can | do when | have exhausted
my stock of demand notes, limited by
the number of my bonds :" "Wsll," we
replied, "get more bonds; or stop-you
need not be at that expense, the very
notes you swap off for three months
draft in the morning, come back as de-
posit in the afternoon and you lend them
over again. Some enterprising free
bankers lend their capital thus five times
over" The man seemed excited, and
the pail dropped upon the sidewalk
with loud bang. He picked it up and
asked nervously if that was really con-
trivance of Jefferson. 81 wonder" he
said, THAT anybody ever speak, Of the
declaration of independence"
We went on to enlighten him further.
" c asked to which of the watering pla-
ces he was going to take his family next
summer, and spoke of the comparative
advantages of Mount Desert, Long
Branch and Saratoga. He asked if these
things were free to all citizens too. Just
as free, we assured him, as banking.
There is the little requisite Of the $780,
900 capital in the one case the only re-
guisite in the other is that you shall
wear good clothes, and eat with
your fork. Or perhaps we suggested,
''you prefer to go the grand tour to
Switzerland and the Nile by an ocean
steamer, or to Salt Lake and Yosemite in
palace car. The White Star line is the
most comfortable. You can wear any
thing but over-alls. 1t is expensive, but
less so than ee-banking. 1t has sprung
up since JefFerson's day, but, no doubt
he would approve Of it.
"But really, my good fellow, these
are slow ways Of doing thing. Do you
see how stocks, Western Union, Lake
Shore, c. B. and q. 60 up and down in
the papers, and how wheat, cotton and
pork fuctuate between high and low.
Buy when they are low and sell when
they are high, and instead Of boiling
your dinner in ten minutes out Of that
tin pail, you may spend as many hours
chasing its fifteen elaborate courses down
your delighted palate on the glowing tide
of generous wine, as you have been spen-
ding in doing your days work"
And is ,ha, free to all citizens too
he asked now fairly aroused. "Just as
free," we told him, "as banking, and If
Jefferson did not in terms approve of 1t
it is quite in the spirit of Jefferson.
"How much capital must have for such
an occupation "You can go in,' we
told him, with a million, but with only
so much, you must take the chances OF
the tide up or down; the chance a little
against you. With $1,000, ,OOo, 900 like
Gould and Vanderbilt and Sage you can
raise or fall your own tides and make
success and fortune a dead certaintity.'
We released our clutch OF over-alls,
and the man with the pail marched
homeward nursed by sweet dreams. We
did not talk politics with him, but when
the time comes we pledge our reputation
upou it. be will vote for Jefferson and
free banking.
Portland Advertiser.)
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