Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-16

never nero OF them.
Like fiat mummy, over ishoos of lcglc
tender noats?"
No: for the CONVENT don't ishoo them.
They is more like watterd ralcrode stox--
| fiat, falce. tictishus shares, wich foarsed
| the people to pay cXtorshunate prises for
frate and tickets, becaws the fiat shares
hav no rcle mummy back of them and yet
draw intrest or ushnry.''
Hold, my friend, you ruffly dcnounsc
fiat shares and produx, and so will L. But
Why be so tender to fiat MUMMY
"Al mummy is fiat. but the guvment is
behind it,
mo, not all. in the saim sencc. Coin may
be fiat in the sense that it must be shood
by the govmcnt, but it don't cum back
emmy day to hav the govment pay quoin
on it. Paper noats do return for that
very thing, and if the CONVENT can pay
| the Ease of them in quoin to the holders
you may call them fiat if you wish. but
the fiat is not iictislius and false, as it is
with the produX and shares you denounSe.
The quoin is behind them
80 you partly admit my statement
sed the curnel as If victry waz beginning
to perch on his flag pole.
"And you admit mine so far scd Tone
ly in good ynmer. Now, what if lot of
noats be ishood with no coin behind and
beneeth them: they are like falcc sur,f-
kits of wheel that don't cg>ist. When
they return for payment and the gov
aent cant pay them they are proved to be
face. iictishus tiatz; oyer ishoos unredem-
able. Nobudy wants them at their Ease
or fut, If they run down as low as the old
Contincntle bills. or the confederate noats
wich fell so flat that friend of mine "a
curnel primer padc 800 for three cgS. and
two of them waz bad" There waz a
purity big laf Jest then.
But what must the noats he returned
to the CONVENT for?'' asst the sober curnel.
"lSepe them out among the producers.
Let them be helping an oppreSt people to
meet thare diets to bye their goods and to
supply there neSescitics, at the rate of $50
per capity. Don't let the Shilox gcthcr
emiup and demand gold on en- and so
maik mummy more and more Scarccr. Blu,
We'll hav a law for that. If the noats are
stamped 'unrcdeemable' the shark will let
them alone"
'Of course, aud so will everybody else.
Butjho!d: you wont dare to have them so.
The people take those notes bleveing that
there are reel honist dollars behind of
them. They will retern them when thew
tineSthat they were mistaken, deloosive!y
desaved; that the noats ore falling in val
CIV by their Dan hctishus caracllter and
becuming worthless: and you cant maik Il
law wich will compel people to talk a bad
fiat paper mummy at its Ease stamped
never to be redeemed emmy more than
the ShiloX can forsc you to talk those fiat
snrtitikits OF fiat stox in pament of Diet
to you. Law wont change human recon"
We'll. sur Sed the curncl, Il bleve in
giving the guvmcnt full powr to If. up a
gold robbed nashun. We popoSc to do i
and create mummy by law
The govment will then have the tabled
tiosoferS stoan, that turned whatever it
tutched into gold sed Paine. the coledge
bred and sive enjineer. Its fiat mite
turn vat of linen pulp in paper mill to
a gold mine, then the quartz rock miners
| wood be out of wurk.'
I'VE don't meen that nonscnce,' sed the
curncl. sum riled up. I'VE propose not to
nadc emmy gold at all Let the metal ma :
shuns draw all our gold away We will
be a paper nashun. This nifty COMMENTS
| trcmenju> fiat will maik its legle tender
good at hoam, respektcd abrod and oncrd
| turnout the world without emmy Sncekin
| fujetive gold. The people will give the
CONVENT the power to declair that fiat.
The people will be behind them noats.
You don't reelize the power of we, the
people of the U. s.
You cant give power to create sum.
thing out of nuthing,' Scd lonely. "Only
the Almighty can do that, and as YOU
don't want Him to turn those fiat produx
into reel wheel. you needn. expect Him to
give your fiat noatS the wurth of gold.
Don't want g metal standard? AS vel try
to maik a paste bord AK or paper razer y
had to put in my ore and broke forth
in plee for the majestick people. What
is they to do? Why cant they rize to fire.
DUN, to sekurity, to pese, to opplense and
even to welth? Who kepes them down?'
Paine sed he didn't quite kno. The cur
mel lade the blame on the printers of his
bill, who cawsed it to fae, and thus left
the salaries of the staff and county offs
ers too hi. lonely sed sum laws, espesh-
ally sum of the latest, mite not bo the
best. He faverd sum reforms, but that
law Good not do so mulch as many people
| hoaped.
'Let me tell you, jentlemen,'' sed I,
purity lowd. The conductor lingerd Sum
commershal travlers drawd around. Uth-
or wafarers came neer The nuze boy
| with peanuts waz on hand. The Pullman
porter sed he stopt to see the SIRIUS. A
flu wimen, likely scool techers, waz grant
ed adjasent seets and l went on lowder:
''The supreem crushers [counsil, WHISPERED
the sharpest looking commershul mani
and grinders of the majestik people is the
undooly ritch. They is consoomers, we is
perjucers. They want more and more
and more and that kepes perductiye prises
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