The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-03-05

nanB you IOr mu'llaClng IL. NOW say you
take $40 gold coin and $50 note; each
must be used for nothing else but for
Imoney until worn out.
Well, the $50 note will last in acti We
use about as long as the $50 in coin, and
if it should not its cost was but one cent
and it can I've replaced at one cent This
makes two cents the cost of the $50 in
paper at the end of say fifty years, the
time allotted for the wear of coin, and do
not forget that this $50 note has answer
ed every purpose of the coin; has pur-
chased just as many clothes and just as
much grub and paid just as many debts
as the coin.
Now suffer us to figure how the coin
account stands. The original cost was
500; interest, at Florida rates, 10 per
cent. At the end of the first ten years
your coin stands you 1914; at the end
Of twenty years it stands you $135 "a !;
thirty years S34525; forty years 1888. a.;
at the end of fifty years the $50 in gold
NO'A oC"Ht'o va Juot Y~, I@O' IL, WuCu yOut
neighbor that used paper was out just
two cents
Now, dear reader, can you figure this
up and get it through your wool? If so
why longer Law PROSTATE at The shrine of
the false God? Why longer pay tribute
to monopoly?
no or oh nd
wise to have your stable forks made of
gold coin as to have your money coin.
The forks would look much nicer and
possess more intrinsic value, but they
would answer no better purpose than an
iron fork
l have known people to have their
horses shod with gold. I confess that
the horses foot looked neat upon the
pavement, but the owner possessed all
the ear-marks of a fool.
Oh! that we were men and that we
would act as men, and not suffer our
selves enslaved by the tricks of party
leaders who are always acting in the in
terest of Wall street.
We should elect men to office that can
not be lribed or purchased or brow-beat
en- by Wall street. Men who will see
that our financial system is lifted from
the ruts of ignorance and sup rstition,
and that we are furnished with cheap
money AID plenty of it.
Many will promise you anything while
seeking your votes, but when elected
they 60 to Washington and join in the
general smile and sheer at the duplicity
Of thu ignorant voters There are emf
nent statesmen to- day with millions who
a few yelrs ago purchased clothes upon
credit to electioneer in. How came they
by their millions? By making fools of
you. say fools, for you will yet hurrah
and vote for them. It is ''our party
that hides the sins of it's members and
forms rings to he reelected and "iry the
fat" from those seeking monopolistic
legislation.
Why is it that people will never learn? |
Because they have been ruled and TOOL d |
by King and priest for so many ages that
they always wait for some one to think
and act for them. And all the literature
upon the subjrct of finance comes from
the fat Golfers Of the wealthy, those in
teres ed in deceiving the p' ople.
Happiness is certainly MANS being.
end and aim" Thrn why should we not
50 legi>lae as to have as much happiness
IS we can obtain lom lif,9 Why longer
in painful anxiety anu povert, dwell when
such rich fields Of prosperity are within
our each? But all my lie I have heard
the same cry, "No money" cant raise
any M ney," Il would improve my
farm, 81 would build a NV barn. II
would pant All orchard, " 81 would re-
pair my DWELLING" Il would send my
children to school," Il would start a fac
tory Il would open a way to market,
bni | have not the money and l can't
aft 'rd to pay 10 per cent. interest; in TACT
| don't know where | could get it any
way" Everything at standstill, no
money to operate with, no progress, no
energy nor Ii among the people. Their
hands are tied for the want of capital and
they die lingering death of ennui and
desp il.
Here Puck whispers over my shoulder
"What fools We mrrtals be-" Would it
injure anyon" if every mans farm WAS
lawful collateral t. the government for
mon y to conduct his business? Ger
tai ly not, for it would enable the farmer
to employ all the idie labor in his neigh
DO hood, and would bring food ami
clothing to 'hepoor. But monopoly says
sit would be a crime for the government