The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-11
INITIATION, NOT EXPANSION.
ATLANTIC, Iowa, May 20,

ATLANTIC, Iowa, May Goth.
To THE EDIToR:-Your correspon-
pendent. "Zeno." makes the Judi
crous error that Is common to many
wise acres who discuss the financial
problem. He fails to discriminate
between Imitation" and Expansion"
Monetary imitation Is IN issue Of
currency subject to redemption,
largely In excess Of the coin deposit
&c to redeem it. Expansion Is an In
creased Issue Of money, placed in
circulation, not subject to redemp.
ton.
No enlightened greenbacker ever adj
vocated An imitation Of the currency
for it was ever . fraud Of the most
gigantic magnitude, and has ever
been the pet bantlipg Of both the old
parties.
%, G. Bates IN JOHN Srisatoa's
Paper,
There is then real science In
money. How very few there are that
know it. Not one in q hundred know,
or ut present can be made to see any
differ ence between money and cur
rency. Fewer still there are that
know any difference between infla-
ton Of currency and expansion Of
money. And yet these are the very
most important Of all questions In
our present civilization. Tho con-
dition OF advancement and human
progress can be safely calculated by
the amount OF money In circulation.
Nothing else forms 80 perfect . basis
for such calculation, nothing else
can, for it is progression itself, but
its management produces good or
bad results. All money has been
earned by labor. When it Is man.
aged in lab0r's interest. then are the
masses progressive, then II more
wealth produced, more homes hap
by. But when managed by tho cap
italist for the capitalist, by the idle
few in the interes. Of idlers, the re-
suits that follow are nation OF pau
pers, millions out Of employment,
the country filled with tramps,
children crying for bread. The
mother in desperation driven upon
the street as the last resort to sell
her virtue to keep them from starry
ing to death. And mothers Of child
rem in better circumstances turn with
scorn and contempt upon these poor
victims only to make them more
dishearted aud send them back upon
the street more needy and in worse
condition-an easier prey for the
yillainous dispositions that chuckle
with satisfaction over their increas-
ed advantage to. uso the bodies Of
the unfortunate victims. And bQsl-
ness men are often driven to such
conditions that they undertake for
gerry or swindling, that they may
even up with those that Cypress
them. Aud other petty offences are
committed. Then begins IN ever
lasting crusade OF law against the
poor and unfortunate The caliboose
is filed, then the jails und peniten-
tiaries, reform schools for the boys
that have been born Of parents ~
surrounded by circumstances rs tQ
make the practice Of virtue iMpossi.
bic are the next necessity, and about
the last OF all comes u reform school
for girls. And under all these bad
conditions not one thing Is done t.
make conditions better.
Our laws are all made by the ricl
for their own protection aud nothing
is manifest in them but disposition
to punish-relief is never offered
justice never thought OF. The though
i that tue poor should be happy 1
disgusting. The laborer has chad ,
birth-lnark Of disgracc upon hin
ever since poor old Adam and Ev'
were Get to work in the garden u
punishment for their weakness II
not being able to resist temptation
Ever since that idea has beel
brought forward the wealthy hu
somehow fancied themselves Goods
elect" il not gods In fact, and thu
they had y right to punish all thOs
that offended them, and attach u
much disgrace as possible to Label
In carrying ont this idea they hav
made use or the money or Vh4teyc
may he in circulation to do bushes
: upon as their greatest lever TO op
press hqmaAity, its possession be
!. ing = suilicielt guarantees 81 thel
!, superiority. Having potbiog 10 d
) to keep them ont OF devilment nm
ambitious Tor power, their cunnin
) has been cxeited to so manage m
direct the money Is to give them
selves increased power. The peo
pie having much to do and littl
time to inform themselves, havin
accepted whatever little they c0ul
/ get out Of their many hours Of to-
D and encouragement. Not KNOWN
. what Was the matter they could s..
, no way ont Of their difficulty an
for few dollars with which to bu