The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-21

that would lie nec-ssnry would b.
e. put your money 70 coax. W.
should then have tho bushel of wheat 40
permaaent unit of value, vhieh all farm.
ers wosld appreciate, and ths currency o
tho country vould represent actual worti
and iabor performed. Both gold and 81
YER oosld then be dispensed With and tn
present bimstaliic problem soavsd. o..
currency, moreover, would b - good AZ
gold or silver IN foreign exchange, for our
wheat goes to all the countries Of thu
world"
The wheat dollar Why did not thu
wheat growing Northwest think Of that
befosei Who're is our Farmers Alliance.
with all it, brilliant monetary produe.
lions Of imagination, that il allowed PLAN
Tom Edison. 9 down.East operator, to get
the start Of them in their own exclusive
aeld The wheat dollar 10 the thing
the FREQ coinage of wheat dollars. Where
will Wall street and Lombard street be
then Tho Eastern money trust will be
without occupation. The wheat growing
Northwest will DO monarch Of tho money
market. There will be no money. famine
then. We will raise all tho money We
please. We will grow. money ON
every 4o-acre lot, at the rate of Is TO 20
wheat dollars per acre. We will pay o6
the. mortgaees. In wheat dollars, We will
have a circulation that will mako the eye
of the money contractionists Of the East
hung ont. The poorest farmer on . 20
aore prairie claim can produce for him.
self a monetary circulation of at least 200
wheat dollars q year, and not a dollar of
1t dependent upon tho shylocks of Wall
street and Europe. It will. DO = !%c,rcula:
tion which each farmer can increase for
himself by irrigation, improved @tillage,
fertilizers and rotation of crops N6thing
can contract it except Providence and.
drOuth.
There would of course be some draw
backs. Nothing earthly and human Is.
perfect. For example, there might be
those who would attempt to initiate the
currency by soaking and slicing it, and
restamping the inflated parts. But this
can readily be detected by the handy de-
vice OF an alcohol lamp and pocket oven.
There would doubtless be the contration-
lists who would insist ON the consumption
of the wheat dollars, and the i~nfationists'
who would demand the use of baking
powder. There might be the Ultra.Co
pressionists party of the cast and the Ba-
king Powder party of the west. But the
West would have the upper hand in the
contest for the West owns.the wheat:lands.
The only way in which the. East could
hold its own would be by such an increase
in population as to consume. :the currency
issue faster than the West could produce.
Their emiRht be a time contest between
the population resources Of the East and
the wheat resources Of the WPst. But it
is clear that the East could not compete
against the ultimate general adoption Of
scientific irrigation, ana would have to
succumb in the end. -.
Therefore, let the West throw away the
ideas of free silver coinage and the
sub treasury racket and enter upon the
crusade tor the wheat dollar-the: dollar
which can msiatsin its circulation not
only in oommer.e. hut in the human 'sys-
dollar which has intrinsic a. we'll
as exchange and coinage value-a dollar
which represents full value in labor and
dollar which fills q real and
pressing want in every human beings
dollar which even hunger and want can
from depreciation. and indation-a
dollar which would never he sequestered
from circulation by boarding, unless
there should be a free coinage of corn
Tribune.