Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-16
A MISTAKEN CANINE
How al Honest Rctolmer May Use
Free Passes and Oppose Their
Issuance to Others.
The Government Cannot Create Good
Money Ont of Nothing and Eli
rich the People.
Coon Hunting and Spending Cold
Night Earnestly Hacking at
the Wrong Tree.

To the Edatcr: ! hav never been meen
emf to pass myself off as annther man
without his consent. To git onto car.
taik,the empty sect jest behind a snoring
PASSENGER, defy occashun his soft hat to
drop at my fete, pick up the white check
that fell out of it, replace the hat. slip
out into the smoking car and set on
copy Of DonlyS last public work on bacon
with view Of having it crepe into my
hat split down pockit. and ride 100 miles
on that tickct-that is too mulch for my
nerve. wood be getting nuthing direct
out of the rae rode. and the snoring man
mite be ajent for the n. u. Irvine combi-
naStun.
But, of coarse, if Good negoshate. on
ely terms. with a man who had surplus
of miagc ticket. for a lone tharof. wood
see a difference. A shrude diSkriminashun
is most wizo. See report on Hale Assoc
Or if waz Il staff legislator and Good
proodcntly hay fire pas sent me and one
to my wife mite hav the honest cheke to
aNcept them. and then return the faver
by bringing in a bill forbiding ralerodeS to
grant Sutch passes to all men and wimcn.
Don't the ralcrodcS game by that law? Is
it not Il rcleaf to the Gen. Pass. Agt. who
is disposed to pen polly? Then u,hcrs
to hav foarsed on us. 1T Gums maturity.
When sum of our men denounsc favertism
and induljc in faverS. they say nthcrs do
If emmy of us lone mummy and talk intrest
utherS do. If they found banks. uthers do
If they form trusts. utherS do. We must
talk the world as it is till we can maik it
as il izzent.
These waz my reticxuns IN a raerode
car I'll the curncl (our legislator and lilly
orjinal SpclerJ set down beside me. When
the conductor had returned his fire pas
and was puntching my round trip ticket
to Pixey he sed to me. Il thot you had a
pas: lost it,
swell, sur, if ever had one of my oan
wood still talk pride in paying my way
spose my ticket is all rite"
Good as gold for all it calls for. Better
than mileage ticket or FIRE pas, for you
can put it on the market
Good | sell the return hat of it?''
Certainly, for Sl.50. if Dyer is at
hand
'.Aint it fiat money then? Wish had
sum to sci, sed | playfully. He nu me
vel
1T wood be fiat if this rode ended rite
here and yet iShood tckits for all dis
tances beyond. with no service TO give for
them. That is, if it was unable to fulfil
its promises on this card paper. or even to
pay you back the cash for the ticket" He
went on.
The curncl had parsel of old papers
(the OFT. OrgD to doc mishunary work
with as our editcr urged. He handed me
one saying, II Amt hi up in this fiat biz
mes. hav to talk it on poltkle fathe
mixed up with party zeel. But heer this:
Money is not wealth; money is fiat.
Wealth is created by labor. Money is
made by law. All money is fiat. There
can be no money only by fiat of the gov
eminent. a promise to pay is not mon
ey.'"
What doc we say to that, conductors"
asst him on his return
He picked evry fraze to shreds, as if it
waz a milk weed pod, and sed, 'Unfarely
stated trooths, half trooths and kuning
falcehoods mixed together make chcpe
surrup for sour cakes And he moved
on.
SIT doz seam ruthcr MKT sed l, for
remembered the wind bags. ut appears
sumhow, as if gold and silver quoins had
inheering valew in themselvs. They is
not promises to pay in luther similar
quoines. But q paper bill must be diffrent.
1t promises to the holder its Ease valew.''
''In what? gold and silver Quoins?'
Perhaps not always; but it so pre-
sooms. And If it cant pay thus it has
more fiat look than the ishoos of quoin or
of noats redeemable in quoin. NY mind
amt cleer-Oh, how are we, Gentlemen;
talk setes with us"
Capt. lonely and Paine set Ease to Ease
with us. WANTED to talk about the nuze
and not the ishoos of the day. They told
how Tungey and Jensen had bot Bangs
biggest farm for sheep rantch and how
lonely wood go into that biznes if wul
" az i'hSiy W hoPo VII iioNliS pioteAuu. Il
waz Shy of that topick. Wcmust draw in
the wul razers.]
Then the curnel had the amazing I'M
proodense to rezume the fiat mixture, by
ealing attention to the Hatch bill, witch
ment to forbid selling wot man hasn't got
and he sed, ut hits at fiat products"
"What are they!" asst lonely.
"Why pretended wheel, Crane, beat, etc.
that don't egsist, and yet is sold by the
projuce gamblers, or sertifkets is ishood
on them falce, fictishus, fiat produx and
the producers is dooplisitly robed.'
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