The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-05
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, to be Disseminated against ii should
be gold, as silver is the more apnro.
! PIRATE and better standard OF the
; two. According to the argument OF
our Benson correspondent silver
would be the preferred standard ii
tine government was not TO run in
Its interest OI those who have
money instead OF those who are try-
ing to get II" He fur. ."li:iore saws :
II am one that is willil4 10 believe
that the yield Of wheat would not
decrease over four bushels t. the
acre In Minnesota even il the :rold
In the country should decrease q A.
siderahly yet, and il it should aim. Il
disappear, as it did during our la. ].
! war, / still think the yield of po.a-
toes would be fully. 50 per cent. of
the present average, and that we
could send our silver to China and
buy all the tea We want"
A correspondent writing from
Alexandria favors. the continued
coinage Of silver, because ..all our
bonded debt was by the law Of
March 10, 1869, made payable in
coin OF the then stsndard weight and
hneness, and il We discontinue the
use Of either coin that will appreci-
ate the value OF the other at least
double, because we will then have
only bali as much coin with which
to pay the debt" He is also of
opinion that the ere ditors of tho
government ought not to complain
7 tney are paid in silver coin, be-
cause their bonds were originally
payable In paper currency, and
when the law was changed in 1869,
at their request, it stipulated pay
ment In gold and silver, and they
accepted the stipulation. Having
already realized an appreciation OF
50 per cent. on their bonds because
OF tho change whereby they were
made payable In coin instead Of
greenbacks, our Alexandria cores
pondent think the bondholders
ought to be satisfied without at
tempting to add another 100 per
cent appreciation to their value by
robbing the people Of their favorite
money. His objection to change
In the weight OF the present silver
dollar is that it changes the stipu-
lations Of the contract embodied in
the law OF 1869, and would thus give
the bondholders an opportunity to
demand payment Of their bonds in
gold alone. He holds that there is
just as much moral honesty in COM
pelling the bondholders to accept
our eighty-five cent dollar, Of the
weight they agreed to accept, as it
is to compel the day laborer to
receive cents less intrinsic value
for dollar than the boEdholder is
entitled to. By the law Of 1853 tho
halves, quarters and dimes were
made per cent, light, and by the
law Of 1879 they were made legal
tender for all Indebtedness less than
| SO. Our correspondent lays down
the following propositions:
"First-That all money, OF what
ever made, is made and unmade by
laws.
Second-That money, of whatever
made, is always national, never
cosmopolitan, and never so much
as international, unless by agree
ment between nations.
Third--That the money of ono
nation is not the money Of another
nation, though composed Of the
same material.
FOurth-That nations do not pay
debts to other nations in money, but
do pay in commodities. II coin be
paid, It Is not received as coin, but
as metal, by weight and not by
count. The history of the world
upon money proves the truth OF
these propositions"
A Bismark correspondent SAYS:
"The truth is. Dakota likes the silver
dollars and wants all it can get" A
Wisconsin farmer says: ITO destroy
the silver In order that obligations
may be made payable in gold and
thus increased in value is the bold
est speculation ever attempted by
the stock exchanges against proper
ty and labor" A Minneapolis work
ingman says: "If our congressman
want to know what the people think
OF the silver dollar let them como
to this city, or to st. Paul. where
hundreds Of new buildings are now
rising out Of the ground and ask tho
bricklayers, the carpenters, the hod-
carriers and the plumbers whether
they like the silver dollar. They arc
the people and know what the peo-
pie want" A Duluth merchant saws.
sThe war against silver Is a sin
against providence. The noblest
characters Of christendom have rais-
ed their voices In reprobation of this
crime against nature and the CON-
mon veal" A manufacturer OF
saltwater says; I'm giving an
explanation Of hard times you can
set it down that the causa causans.
the cause behind and generating all
others, is the modern endeavor to
destroy the monetary value OF half
the specie in the world"
Thus Il Is tho people are giving ey-
preston to their views on Il subject
OF vital interest to them. And.
although In some instances this may
be crude and clothed in homely Ian
guage, still they are entitled To
weight because they come from
those who are directly interested i'm
q determination of the question.
On q subject OF this kind, the opin-
ion Of an honest truckman is worth
more than half Of the editorial ESSAYS
which appear in the gold organs of
the East.-[St Paul Daily Globe,
Saturday morning, October II.
IT is related by tho Philadelphia
Press that when John Mccullough was
waited at the asylum by his wife, re-
Gently, he altogether failed to recoe-
nize her. Some friends who were with
him told him gently who she was. But
IN instant afterward, his thin hand rest
ing upon hers, he asked, with smile
and Q manner that recalled With mn