The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-15
LIBERTY. LAW AND MONEY.

| LIBERTY. LAW AND MONEY.
The War of Independence and Uncon-
trollable F'ihanciers.
In the journal of Agriculture read
some extracts from the Century Maya
Zine on cheap money" that does such
violence to my conception Of what the
United States republic ought to &C
complish for the human family. that
have yielded to the moving of the
spirit to reply says a writer in the
Alliance Tribune
The writer says that the economic
administration of a nation the regu-
lation of its currency and finances.
calls for expert ability of rare kind.
THAT a few have the requisite intel
lectual equipment for the task" etc.
That the control of our finances shall
be put into the hands of few tried
and trained fnanciers who shall be re-
moved absolutely beyond the influence
of popular clamor" etc.
The tories of 1776, believed that it
took expert ability of rare kind"
to exercise any of the rights of sover-
eighty; it took seven years of war to
teach the rich. the '.well born'' and
the 'pedigreed families" of that day,
that all men are created equal" that
they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights. that
among these are life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
1t took the colonial experience the
seven years war and the confedera-
ton experience for our wise and far
seeing forefathers to hand down a
constitution whose preamble read
1--WE. the people of the United States.
in order to secure
the blessing of liberty to ourselves
and posterity." etc.
Now was not this liberty which
they so priced and which they want
to hand down inviolate to their chill
dren, freedom from the control of
our finances in the hands of few
tried and trained financiers who shall
be removed absolutely beyond the in
tluence of popular clamor."
The economic administration of
our nation, the regulation of it's cur
rency and finances for the past twenty
five years will certainly fill the wishes
of the writer. We have had con-
crosses composed of millionaires,
secretaries of the treasury who pos
sessed the requisite intellectual equip
ments for the task" and presidents
who followed as they led. All were
removed from and uninfuenced by
popular clamor. as shown by the man
ner in which they turned their deaf
ear to all appeals fora greater volume
of currency a flexible currency a
currency with which no party thinkers
could meddle which could not be
controlled by private corporations. Is
it not true that the people at large
the great common herd'' have been
crowded to one side, that they have
endured the laws and financiering of
the intellectually equipped prodigies''
of this age until thousands of their
numbers have become tramps; until
nine millions of their homes have been
mortgaged; until every week the ques.
ton is How many does Dunn & Co.
say failed this week?'
Many. many of these people at
large" went to the polls year after
year. voting for these intellectual"
prodigies thinking their intellectually
was wisdom that when they saw the
effects of their methods, that their
love for the land of the free their
loyalty to the principals that made
the stars and stripes a cherished en-
blcm. they would change. they would
~ the needed reforms, but have
=, done so?
The writer says it is harmful de.
fusion that government has the power
to create money" Pray who did cre-
ate money? God said nothing about
money in the ten laws he gave on Mt.
Sinai. The eleventh law, given by
his Son was Love We one another. "
DO unto others as We would they
should do unto you" was his rule of
action. and once when the tax-gath-
erer was around, Jesus took the
money and looked at the stamp and
said: Render unto Caesar the things
that are Casars."
find in Smiths bible dictionary
that by public authority the metals
used in traffic were given certain
mark Il certain weight a certain de-
gree OF alloy, to fix it's value and save
buyers and sellers the trouble of
weighing" as has been the custom.
DR.. Worcester in his unabridged die
tionary says that money is applied
to whatever serves as a circulating
medium including bank notes and
drafts" Wright says money is any
current token or representative of
value" Loche said. 1.-The value of
money is ascertained by the stamp.
which is public voucher AS these
photographers finished their life work
before the passage of the legal ten
der act of '62. P" they surely could not
have been deluded by it Does it
not seem great pity that the SUI
preme court of the United States
should have been so '.uninstructed"
as to render decision 'upholding the
right of congress to make such issue, :"