Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-02-18
THE LEDGER.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Is.
Perpetual Motion-G. W. Drinkard
Heard From.

During the discussion OF the I'M
ted States Banking bill in Congress
some time in 1885 or 1886 John
Randolph, of Roanoke, who was OPP
posed to the passage OF the Dill
which was intended to establish Il
limited States bank. said that he
had discovered perpetual motion,
and it was very simple, being the
fact that
paper makes money,
Money makes banks,
Banks makes poverty,
Poverty makes rags,
Rags makes paper,
Paper makes money,
Money makes banks"
and so on forever and forever
Washington Star
The above clipping from heWash-
ington Star, and credited to the Gel
ebrated descendant Of Pocahontas,
is going the rounds of the press and
will soon be in the mouths of anti
Alliance men, and hurled at unso-
phisticated hayseeds for the purpose
of discredi:ing their demands for
$50 per capita circulation. While
we would detract nothing from the
craftsmanship IF patriotism OF the
sage of Roanoke, yet all will adj
nit that there were something that
the doughty antagonist of Clay did
not know.
And it Will not be deemed an eff
fort to magnify his attainments tosay
that Jefferson, jackson, Webster,
Calhoun and Clay, were in possess
ion Of some facts embraced in the
science Of Political Economy which
were enigmatical TO the irascible
kicker against paper money. For
instance we would suggest to the
ardent admirers of the high tenor
statesman, that his discovery does
not apply to the principles contained
in the T. & L.. L. demands. In our
case, law makes money sometimes
out Of, or a more correctly speak
ing, on metal and that without re-
gard to its intrinsic value, as for in
stance nickels, pennies and small
silver coins. Law also makes banks;
they never had a franchise not grant
ed by law. We submit the following
as an Improvement on John Ran
dolph's patent. Votes make Con-
gressmen, Congressman make laws,
laws make banks, banks issue their
own notes based on bonds and draw
interest on both, and that speedily
proverty vice and ignorance land the
poor dupes are ready to vote for
the same men to do the same
thing over again, and have actually
kept some Of them in office for the
last thirty years, where SO many
distinguished themselves, mention
of names might be deemed invidious
where so many like Millions devils
in counsel have raised to eminence
and received substantial tokens o.
acknowledgment from Shylock
We will venture a few, viz, join
Sherman, ex-Secretary Bayard.
Grover Cleveland, and according tc
his slender ability, Benjamin Harri
rison; there are some things, how.
ever, that | admire even in Benia.
min, chief amongst which is hi:
grandfather's hat. But the ole
hayseeds are going to file an %injunc.
ton against the extension Of Shy.
locks patent and have filed theil
eaueat for the following: Votes
make Congressman, Congressmef
make laws, law makes full legal
tender money, full legal tender
money makes prosperity and
prosperity makes intelligence, and
intelligence goes back on Doodle.
snatching beer guiding statesmen
which make Shylock and his sub.
sidized press and whippers how
like forty thousand thomas cat:
at 1 p. m. in a back alley. But
the righteous rejoice and all bust
ness interest boometh and the PEG
pie say Ego for en- again Old Hay.
seed" G. w. DRINKARD,
F. & l.. Z. Lecturer
Robert Rysdyk.
From Colman- s Rural World.