People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-29
FREE SILVER.


demands full and fair consideration.
This can best be had by division of
the subject under the following
heads:
|. What is meant by Demonetiza-
ton?
2. What is meant by Free Coin
age?
3. How did Demonstration hurt
the Debtor and the Producer
4. How would Free Silver help
the Debtor and the Producer
To answer the first question we
must understand what purpose mon
ey was established for. There are
numbers of mildly insane people
who seem to think that God made
money at the time and in the sense
that He made light, air, and water.
Immense confusion of thought has
grown out Of this silly notion. Men
have accustomed themselves to re-
gard money as having the same di-
vine origin as the tides and the sea-
sons. Greater nonsense never exist
ed. OF course the Creator made
gold, and silver, and copper, just as
he made COWS, and roc ks, and pearls,
and potatoes. But money He did
not make any more than He made
brogans, Belgian blocks, necklaces
or buildings, These are purely hu-
man creations. Man takes the hide
of the cow and makes for himself
pair Of shoes. He take the potatoes
and makes for himself a pudding.
This is somewhat homely way of
getting as it, but being a homely
man | can afford it. OF all things,
want to be understood.
Now, just as the Creator gave us
the cow out of whose hide we fash
ion shoes, so he gave us gold, silver,
copper and iron, out which we can
make various useful articles. One
Of these articles which man has been
in the constant habit Of making from
each of the materials | have named,
is MONEY.
Why did he want to do so? Sim
ply because he got tired of bartering
one substance for another and need
ed q MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE. In order |
to avoid the trouble Of carrying his
horse to the factory and swapping it
for goods, he economies time and |
labor by agreeing that Money should
represent the value of his horse,
The man who owns the factory
agrees that his goods shall likewise
be represented by "money." Thus
the horse is exchanged for "cash -
and, by means of this cash, the goods
are bought and the man who sells
them uses the money to exchange for
such commodities as he may desire,
whether they be lands, houses or
chattels.
Hence money should never have
any power beyond that for which it
was created to facilitate ex-
changes.
Now, to make these exchanges the
amount of money in use becomes
very important. There should be
enough of it to do the work it was
intended to do SO that products
may exchange in the markets at their
prices. Natural price is the
labor cost, the use to which it can be
put, the demand and the supply.
When there is not enough money to
do this, then products are hampered
in their exchanges and do not fetch
their natural prices.
In other words, Money becomes
necessary to transact bust
ness on natural basis. This being
50, it becomes quite clear that shrewd
by obtaining control of
the money, can get control Of the
markets. This has been done so
VIGOROUSLY in so many instances of
late years that no argument is needed.
Now how do the spectators get
control of the money? Either by
'cornering' the issues as they are
put forth, or by having laws enacted
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