Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-08-10
Those words "of more or less good


Those words "of more or less goot
ness" were well put in! The write
probably did not have quite chee
enough to tell the truth by using tn
word "grcenback" Cor as he states i
another place, Il "greenback prOmis
to pay dollar'') for that would hay
completely demolished his own arr
ment against the idea of paying of
national debt in "slips Of paper
which should be printed The
States, One Dollar - Even
Sherman himself declared thG
bondholders demanded any
money from that with which
chased the bonds they were re
and eXtortioners.
During the war the govern
the old soldiers take these -
of paper" They were 90
for the boys in blue, but the
good enough for the Shy,
stayed at home and plumber
ernment.
Yes, "if the government
one dollar it can make billio,s
billions, but ii could ncyeli b., .
money enough to make ever /,
wealthy. The government Congress
possesses the only power in the United
States to make money. There is no
limit to the amount it can make [whetli-
cr made ofgold, silver or papcrl though
the Grccnbacker has wisdom enough
to understand that the amount should
be limited.
Yes, "Omnipotence is greater than
prepotcnce,' the ''higher law can do
more than the government, and "iiat''
Of the government is not equal to the
magic sceptre Of Nature" but there
is one thing that we doubt whether
even "Omnipotcncc,' the "hi.hcr
law or the magic sceptrc of Ma
ture' can accomplish, and that is to
beat any sense into the empty Uranium
Of the hard-money monkey Of the
Blade.
"Thc burning rays fall upon land fur
rowed by the plow and the cultivator,
and silver dollars worth Of corn and
wheat rise to greet them"
But suppose the government should
declare that the plow and the cultivator
should not be used; or suppose the
power to make and loan plows and
cutivators should be given exclusively
to 1000 private corporations, whose
officers were actuated solely by greed
NAL ,,su,.i.n ,,sI,,t ,,.,,,1l lnan,,,n g
the billion dollars worth of wheat and
corn? Yet money is to commerce what
the plow and the cultivator are TO the
farmers land-and il is as criminal
to leave commerce at the mercy of the
Shylocks rs it would be to leave the
number of plows and cultiyators to
them.
Without money all the wealth which
this great country can produce would
be worth little or nothing; for the man
ufactrer in the Last couldnot exchange
his products for the breadstufls of the
West, therefore the labOrcrs OF one
section would starve to death while
those Of the other section would perish
for want Of manufactured goods.
The "iiatists' say put money in cir
culation in order that the great re-
sources of the country may be dcvel-
oped; but, on the other hand, the Blade
belongs to that class who only few
years ago We're putting the thumb
screws upon the industries of the land
BY Il wicked contraction Of the cur
rency.
Money is the lifc-blood of commerce.
1t runs through every vein and artery
of the business world. Without it the
wheels Of industry would cease. And
"liatists" say that money should be the
most perfect that can be gotten up.
They say it shond not be given TO pri-
vate corporations to control the vol
ume of money and thereby con-
troll all this vast wealth that is being
created by the plow and the cultivator
They say that money is Il creature of
law, and not Of caprice, and that its
volume should be created by the pco-
ple'S representatives in congress, and
not by the bank Shylocks whose only
instincts are sellishness and avarice.
And all this wealth, all this prosper
ity, all this enormous development of
the country'S resources, arises from
what? From the use of the very kind |
of money which the "fiatists' advocate!
From the use ofpaper money!
Paper money has been the magic
scoptcr' that fed, clothed and equipped
the largest armies of modern times;
that has built more railroads than all
the rest of the civilized world; that
keeps busy and prosperous 50,00O,00O
of the most go-ahead people that the
sun ever shonc upon-and yet there arc
to be found brainlcss idiots like the
Blade who ridcule and belttlc paper
money.