The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-28
THURSDAY. JANUARY %, 1885.

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FREEDOM SHRIEKS
Judging from the St. Paul Pioneer
Press, the Sioux City Journal and other
papers that are making weak and fool
ish efforts to buck the locomotive off
the track, j. g. induce a suspension of
the coinage Of silver dollars, Freedom
must have uttered an unearthly shrek
when Senator Van Wyck introduced
his bill in congress to prevent money
lenders and capitalists generally from
making contracts nullifylng the legal
teuder laws and thereby practically
making gold the only legal tender for
debts. And we suppose Freedom will
60 into commissions when that bill or
ono similar to it becomes law. To
read the papers referred to person not
posted would suppose the people of this
great northwest whose necessities COM
pei them to borrow money were terri
bly, anxious to give mortgages on their
farms conditioned to pay in gold; that
their hungry wives and naked children
with tears in their eyes were beseachinQ
their husbands and fathers to give such
mortgages; that even the little pratt
Ting infants were adding to the gene
raj hubbub by saying ''goe"Qd). And
now to have Senator Van Wyck strike
such blow to their God given right to
make such a contracr is simply das-
tardly. Those who are demanding the
privilege of giving such mortgages are
about as numerous as those who are
demanding the privilege of paying S
cents 4 mile for riding on the rail when
ths railroads are limited by law to 81
to cents a mile, and thai anybody
should dare to overthrow the rights Of
snch il multitude is preposterous.
All bad'nage aside, however, the jus
tice Of such 4 law us that proposed 10y
Senator Van Wyck rests on the same
foundation lis the law regulating the
charges of railroad companies, or limit.
ing the charges Of l'ackmen by city
ordinances. Because some person may
desire to go to st. Paul so much that
lie wonld rather pay cents mile than
not 60 does not give the railroad com
rany the right to demand that rate, and
the law steps in and says they shall
not. Then. too, in the case Of hack
men: No one is compelled to run /.
hack, hut if he does he must submit
to the right asserted hy cities to regu-
late the business and limit his charges
Likewise. no one is compelled to lend
his money to another, but if lie does
lie should submit to such laws us con-
gress deem necessary to regulate the
business and prevent Widespread dis
aster. Because man is SO financially
straitened that he consents to give a
mortgage payable in gold alone is no
reason why lenders should require it,
and the law should be so fixed that
they cannot A perfectly legitimate
course for borrowers to pursue is to
boycott lenders who require payment
to be made IN gold, and give their Gus
tom to those who make no distinction.
1t the money lenders have formed q
ring to practically nullify the legal ten
der laws, \ firm stand on the part ot
borrowers will break it. and they will
be able to get all the money they want
on mortgages payable in any legal ten.
der money. So long as a borrower can
pay in any money he pleases he is just
rs apt to pay in gold as anything else
but to require him to pay in gold alone
and then to ship all the gold possible to
Europe, as the capitalists threaten tc
do, and it will produce widespread
dlstress-the shipping of the gold will
not produce the distress, but ccmpell-
ing payments to be made in gold-and it
is certainly in the power of congress tc
prevent the making Of contracts to
nullify it's laws and to bring about such
. catastrophe.
Threats are frequently made that
unless the coinage of silver is suspended
gold will be shipped out of the country
Suppose it is; this country is gold
producing region, and can stand the
shipping of its annual product without
causing a ripple of disturbance. II
shipments in sufficient volume to cause
. arrangement in monetary affairs is
made it will be the result Of one of two
causes: either as an exhibition of spite
or because it is profitable. If the for
mer, the authors of 1t should be held
up to the execration of mankind, and
all the powers of the government
should be employed to prevent it; if tn,
latter, the same result would occur i
there were not q dollar in silver in the
country, and this furnishes a reason
why silver coinage should not be sus
pended. II the gold is shipped out w
will have something to take its place
Don't worry over the shipping of golt
to Europe. 1t is only sign tha
wheat is worth more than gold. ant
that fact need not trouble wheat pro
d ucers.
The first number of the Heron LAX
Wave, published by H. l.. Frost, is a
hand. 1t is a creditable sheet, both t
its editor and to the town of Hero
Lake. Barring few typographical er
rors it is well printed sheet. Takin
into consideration the. difficulties tn
editor had to contend with from biz
yards, pied type, ETC., the wonder !
that there were not more. The lirs
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