Nevada County picayune., 1885-10-15
THE SPEAKING AT BODCAW.
Discussion Between the Hon. J. A. Ans ley, and the Hon. T. C. McRae, Upon tho Currency Ques-
 tion, Oct. 3, 1883.

Pursuant to his published ap- pointment, the Hon. J. A. Ansley began his address at 2:3O o'clock.
 He said his object was to stir the
 people up to the importance of or ganizing in their own behalf, so that they might protect themselves against the danger that now threat ened them from the money power fthe East. He charged that the l Associated Press as we'll as tine leaders and papers of both politi- cal parties have designs upon the liberties of the people, and in or der that the chains might be se- curely forged, they were endeavor- ing to attract their attention from the currency question, and make them believe that it was settled to put them to sleep as it were. He thought the currency question overshadowed every other, and de sired that the people night be ed
 heated upon it. He dwelt at some length upon the inequality of wealth and the prevalence of crime throughout our country, and with all the earnestness of his soul in sisted that the only remedy for it is that which wac applied by Ly- curgus, who he said rooted out in his day the evils of indolence, envy, ayarice, luxury, poverty and rich es. by a division of lanG in such manner that they were perfectly equal; and in order to take away every appearance of inequality,
 stopped the currency of gold and silver coin and gave his people all irredeema5le money; as the result
 of this legislation, (which be now
 urged for our own GovernnentJ
 he said there was no bribery, no fraud, no robbery, no adultery or fornitication, for period of five hundred years, and no change took place until q return of gold and silver. He said as soon as the coinage uf gold and silver was re- stored, there came avarice and meanness. Insisted that it was un- necessary to have coin tO make noney-that paper was preferable. Said the metal in it added nothing to it's value as money-that 1t was only money because made so by
 virtue of the National fiat. Said the only safe and reliable currency was irredeemablc, inc0nrertible paper money, this character of curren- cy was first put in practice by Ly- curgus, taught by Aristotle and Plato, practiced by the Chinese, Romans and Csrthagenians; was used by Russia and England, and also by our Government, from 1874 to 1922. That it was recommend ed as the best of chtrency, by Mir. Jefferson, Mir. Calhoun, Mir. WeD- ster, MT. Hunter, MT. Clay and Mir, Jackson, and is now the mon- ey of France. Said that such cur rency was never known to depre- ciate, but that coin and paper con vertible into coin as now favored
 by the Democratic party, always failed. Insisted that without it no nation could be free, and with it no nation need be poor. Argued that no one could lose anything by such money, because every citizen owes the Government, and it ac a sovereign, could make it a legal tender. Said he abandoned the
 Democratic party, because it aban- dOned this kind of currency, and in 1880 declared for "hOnest mon- ey, consisting of gold ard silver and paper convertible into coin on demand" In the bitterest terms, he denounced the National banking system, and charged that under It, while it pretcnds to have spe-
 cie basis, circulatiol of three
 dollars for every one dollar oi coin is issued, and that a holder of one third of the circula, ton can suspend a Bank. Said that with the present Legislation l it was in the power of the Roth childs or Vanderbilt to force pan ic at any time and ruin the debtor class of our people. He urged the people not to be deceived with the tariff, and other questions insisted upon by the Democrrtic party.
 He charged that in 1876, at the request of MT. Tilden, the commit tee on resolutions at the St. Louis