The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-27

monds and sapphires, and until the
people realize this fact and profit by it,
they will continue to be victims of shy
lock greed and the Vaccinations of
those who corner and control these
metals. Of all the questions with which
legislation deals, of all that concerns
the welfare and prosperity of nations,
none is greater than the money ques-
tion. Money, which is the national
medium of exchange for property and
products, lies at the very foundation
or clviliz alton, and is most essential to
prosperity and progress. 1t is not only
the greatest aid to civilization, the
mightiest factor for good and evil in
the world, but is so simple and com
prehensible in it's nature, power and
proper purposes, that every person en-
dowed with common sense should find
it no difficult subject to understand.
But it is the business of bankers, shy
locks, and money manipulators to con
fuse the people with a multiplicity of
words, and so mix theories and twaddle
that ordinary minds give up trying to
comprehend financial problems, as
many do the "my 4teries of free trade
and protection. By holding the fact
continually before us, that money is
simply the creator of man made laws,
regardless of its material much con
fusion can he avoided. Let us next
reflect on the fact that all nations make
their own laws, and consequently each
creates and establishes its own money,
and nowhere in the wide world is there
such q thing as international money.
This last fact is a most important one
to consider when financial schemers
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the idea that an international confer
deals with the reconciliation of silver.
Silver and gold have a market value
In the world, regardless of any govern
ment stamp, and as the bullion value
of each is the basis on which nations
receive and exchange these metals in
commercial transactions, it is a matter
that concerns no other country when
domestic currency is under considera-
tion. What the United States sees fit
to use as its material for money is no
business or concern of any other ma
tiOn, and only the leading bankers and
shyIocks who through government
privl, ge manipulate the currency for
their own individual benefit, are inter
ested In knowing what Europe thinks
of our efforts to remonetize silver; and
still many people think we should as a
nation defer all action until foreign
representatives of other governments
sanction CT condemn the movement.
What nonsense, when we consider
that our money circulates only at
home and is a legal tender for debts
and dues In the United States alone.
Let us make our money OF that mate
rial which our national representatives
in Congress shall choose, and let gold
and silver as commodities find their
value in the markets of the world as
does wheat, iron, tin, copper, or any
other production from the store house
of nature AS gold and silver are never
money until 80 made by the stamp and
fat of some government, and there is
not gold and silver enough In the world
to supply all nations with currency
Of these metals, it is necessary to use
some other substance, and paper, when
endowed with the same legal quail
ficationg as money made of gold and
silver, is just as good and potent as
medium of exchange for property and
products.
Now, if paper money is good enough
to supply portion of a nations needs,
it is good enough to supply all, and
under an established government gold
and silver are absolutely needless
Every paper dollar which this govern
ment ever issued without a restriction
clause In its potentiality, had and exer-
cised the same power as the gold and
silver dollar, and the only opponents
found arrayed against the full legal
tender greenback, were bankers and
shylocks. Their reason for fighting it
was self interest and desire to rob the
people, and this fact is revealed In the
notorious Hazard circular issued in
1862, which stands without parallel
in the annals of scheming rascality.
Said this circular: 1T will not do to
allow the greenbacks to circulate as
money any length of time, for we the
bankerg) cannot control them, but we
can control the bonds, and through
them the bank issues"
And this is just what they have done,
until our nation has become so afflicted
with financial evils that revolution
stares us in the face, unless the people
rise up and break the bonds that en-
slave them. The tariff question, on
which both parties are harping to
divert attention from the more impor-
tant one of money, is of far less impor-
tance to our national welfare and
should no longer blind the people to
the real cause of our general and
deep seated depression throughout the
Union
The Hazard circular will ever stand
as evidence of the most damnable con-
spiracy against our nations welfare
and prosperity ever known, and the
evils which have followed its success
full scheme for thirty years can never
be computed or fully realized.
Poverty, crime, Wretchedness, insan-
ity and suicide are the legitimate re-
suits of conditions created by the
monopoly and manipulation of money,
and any government which permits a
privileged class to control its currency