The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-10-14
COIN CURRENCY.
Antique Ideas Advocated ~ tho Democ-
racy and Called Progress.

COIN CURRENCY.
Antique Ideas Advocated BY the Democ-
racy and Cailed Progress.
A noted Democratic orator is
quotcu as saying: I'VE were the party
OF progress; to win we must again be-.
come the party Of progress" He then
proceeds to enumerate the several
things that he regards as progressive.
among them being a sound currency
based on coin.
Does that plank in the Democratic
platform demanding the repeal Of the
tax on state bank money constitute
progress?" asks the Chicago Ex-
press.
Who shall issue the currency he
does not state. Its nature and volume
are matters which he leaves to the
imagination of his hearers.
He would have "a sound currency
based on CON-" but the immortal
Jefferson. whose memory constituted
the theme of his speech. declared in
favor of legal tender treasury notes
bottomed on taxes,
We all know what sort Of money
the Democrats who were a party Of
progress gave the country during its
reign-it was a sound CURRENCY
based on coin" in theory. but in
practice it was worthless, wildcat
money.
10 become again .the party OF
progress and win will be to return to
the old Democrat wildcat state
bank money.
: 10 cling to the idea of coin money.
intrinsic-value money. is to go back
five thousand years and borrow a
custom of barbarlans And this is
what he calls 'progress!''
For fifty years the civilized world
has practically discarded the use of
coin money in its ordinary trans
actions of daily life-and yet here is
an old Democratic fossil cllnging to
the idea of basing currency upon
coin. and calling it .progress!"
Burn up your modern mower and
restore the old scythe and call it
progress!
Burn up the reaper and restore the
old sickle. and call it progress!
Burn up the steam threshing ma
chine and restore the old hand-f1ail
and call it progress!
Burn up the improved plow and
restore the old crooked stick, and call
it 'progress''! 3,
Burn up the railroad cars and re-
store the old stage coaches and canal
boats and call it PROCESS!
Tear down the telegraph wires and
restore the old system of mounted
couriers'' and call it progress!
Destroy the spinning jenny and re-
store the old distaff and spinning
wheel and call it progress!
Destroy the cotton gins and eturn
to the old system of hand work and
call it progress!
Destroy all the inventions of mod
ern mechanism and go back to the
implements and customs Of primitive
times and call it 'progress"'
Stick your nose into the dead past
of barbarism and call it progress!'
Swept on five thousand years in a
single generation in the matter of
thought science art invention and
mechanism. and yet cling like a
barnacle to the intrinsic value of
money which had it's origin when
merchant princes transported their
goods on camels' backs; when dug
out was a palace and a breech- clout
was a full dress suit and imagine
that you are making progress" in
monetary science! $50 --xzDa4
All, Mr.. Democrat, the world is
getting SO far in advance of your
Democratic ideas of progress in the
matter OF currency that you are like
one with his eyes turned to the West
looking for the sun to rise therefrom
simply because he saw it set there.
The world has been making pro-
gress-real genuine progress
corning this matter of money and it
has forever discarded your idea OF "a
sound currency based on COIN"
All the political parties in christen-
dom; all the glib. tongued orators in
the land: all the subsidized news
papers in existence; all the hireling
preachers this side the regions of the
blessed and the damned; all the in
Hu0uCc vi tAlc COmUluCQ money lOr0S
and fundhoiders of the wide world
can never again get the people of this
civilized age to adopt the idea of
coin money!
1t is relic of barbarism!
1t is a skeleton of the past!
It is ghost of an ancient grave
yard
It is a corpse. a carcass. mummy
which civilization laughs at and upon
which progress has. forever turned
her back.
The money Of the future. the money
of genuine progress the money of an
enlightened civilization. the money of
faith-in- mankind. the money of enter
prise and commerce. is fat paper
money based upon the credit of the
government which issues it
A Few More Tramps.
A few more tramps will walk out
from Buffalo as result of the black