The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30

natural law and of economic princi-
pies, but he has no power to abolish
either one or the other. To attempt
it is simply to knock ones head
against a stone wall. A mans head
is an infinitely greater and more i'm
portant thing than a stone wall, new
ertheless, when they are brought into
collision, it is not the wall that gets
hurt.
Now the Alliance does not propose
to abolish the law of gravitation or
overturn the constitution. If it finds
that some. fellow is using the power
of gravitation to whack the people
over the head, and that the force of
every blow of his stick is trebled by
the traction of the planet, it is not
necessary for the people to abolish
either the law of gravitation or the
planet; all it has to do is to take the
club out OF the villains hands and
begin to whack him over the head.
Then the attraction Of gravitation
continues to operate, but it operates
on the side OF the people, and it's
force is felt by the head OF the scamp
who oppressed the people. That's
all there is to it. The powers of gov
eminent have been used for years in
the interest of the many against the
few;-in the interest of those who
produced everything. Now we pro-
pose to WELD the club ourselves for a
while; and let the skalawags take
care of themselves.
We don't propose to abolish the
Supreme Court. AS an adjudicator
Of the quarrels between states or in
dividuals, it is all right. What we
object to is the. power which it has
assumed-for there is no warrant for
it in the constitution of the United
States,-to declare an act OF Con-
gress null and void. Whenever that
power is conceded to it it becomes
the sovereign government; for such
is the ingenuity of the human mind
that there is no law which cannot be
invalidated by some specious quib-
BILE. AS Lord Byron said, speaking
after the overthrow Of the first Ma
poleon, with an eye to his mercantile
interests:
"Shall wewho struck the lion down
Pay the wolf homage?'
Shall we, Americans, after having
fought the whole power OF the ram
part lion OF great Britain for eight
years, and established a government
in which the people were supreme,
now submit to have our rights taken
away from us by Jay Gould's packed
tribunal OF lawyers? Is that to be
the end OF the American experiment
of free government?
IGNATIUs DONNELLY.
Does National Bank Currency Add
to Circulation
Money is created to pay debts.
When a blacksmith makes a horse
shoe for a farmer the farmer owes a
debt. The blacksmith don't want
any hay just then, and 50 the farmer
pays the debt with something that
will stand for anything he does want
and that is called money.
Every fnancier, economist or stu
dent knows and distinctly states,
that money is for exchange, and
should not exceed the demands of ex
change-that is, the exchange OF
property. Every debt demands
EXCHANGE TO MEET 1T.
No man too simple to understand
this. It is principle recognized by
all-both plutocrat and poor man.
When government issues money of
it's own creation, whether coin or
paper, it does SO land never does
otherwise) only to pay debts.
Whether by salaries, construction
accounts, or the taking up OF loans
and bonds, it always pays a debt.
Debt is well known to measure ex-
change-whether a child buys a ball,
or a farmer pay a mortgage.
When the government pays out
$50 million dollars to pay certain
civil expenses it does not create a
debt on the part Of the persons who
receive it. No mortgage is given by
a senator when the U. S. government
pays him his salary. No government
issue can ever create a debt-and
therefore the issue of money
BY A GOVERNMENT TO PAY DEBT
does not create debt which de.
mands an equal amount OF currency