The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-13
OUR CURRENCY.
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 It would seem at this time, that while question. and especially by the men who really control the currency, that word from me would not be out oi place.
 Too much talking has been done 6y those only who have theoretical knowl. edge of money and it's eccentric habits People wtth a mere SmatteTing ot knowl, edge regarding nationai currency have been loQUacious while those who have made the matter study, have been kept ln the background.
 At this period in the history of oaf county, there seems to be general seIin. gency. and many are in the ssrngeaCy business who were never that way before. Everything seems to be demOnstised The demonetiS Atioa of groceries Is doing as mach toward the general w'Egly palsy of trade as anything know of
 But may say, in slludiug briefly to the silver dollar, that there are worse calamities than the silver dollar Other things may occur in our hv~s which, in the way of sadness and three oornered gloom, make the large, sobu.t dollar look like an old-fashionei halt oime.
 HCA & uA0G tnG VA6Fs 0AN &uNtt AWV years ago was running small paper at L,rrabie's Slough. He was then ia hts merdian as journalist, and hts paper was frequently quoted hv such widely read publication as the Asirk |! of kaAev af Uevk, humorous semi monthly journal He boldly assailed the silver dollar, and with his renchant pen he wrote such burning words of denuncia. tion that the printer had to set them O. ice before he could use the copy
 Last week met him on a Milwaukee X Sl Paul Vraip. He was very th,n in flesh. and the fire of defiance ~as no longer in his eye asked him how he came on with the paper M LAuabie's s Slough. He said it was no more
 "lt starred out" sand he, in a fearless way but ii was not SuStained."
 He then paused in low tone of voice, gulped. ard proceeded:
 Folks told me when l began ths; l ought to attack almost everything Make the paper non partisan but aggressive tha, was their idea Sail iAto everything and the paper would soon be power ln the land. So aggressed
 Friends came in very kindly and told me wha, to attack, They would neglec, their own business in order to tell me oi corruption in somebody else. went on that way for some tune in de ti an, mood attacking anything that happened to sug- gest itself.
 Finally l thought l would attack tho silver dollar. thought that friend, would come to me and praise me for my manly words, and that could atfmd to lose the friendship of the dollar provided could win friends.
 "ln six months took an unexpired an- nual pass over our LaITable Slough N ar row Gauge, or Otphan road, and with nothing else but the clothes 1 wore, told the plaintiff how to jerk the old Washington press and went away. The dear old Washington press tha, had more than once squat,ed my burning words into the pure white page. The dear old towel on which had wiped my soiled hands for years till it had almost become a part of myself, the dark blue Gordon press with its large fly wheel and inter. mittent chattel mortgage, press 10 which had contributed the first joint of nay front finger; the editors chalT; the sam- | ples ot large business cards printed in green with an inf ,rned red border, which showed that we could do colored work a, LArrabie's Slough just as we'll as they could in the large cities the 6les of our paper ; the large wil,ed potato that Mir Alorzo C.. pinkham of Ean Corners kindly laid on our table-All all had to