Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-12-01
issERsoLL's GOSPEL.


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| said would say one or tv
words on such vulgar things as gol
and silver. / am satisfied as / al
that | live that the few who contre
the debts, currency, the money Of tn
world-have combined, either con
scientiously or unconscientiously, I
make the debtor pay more than tn
creditor has right to ask.
The tendency has always been il
this world to put the burdens OH thos'
least able to bear them. In barbarian
countries the women have to do thu
work, simply because they are the
weaker r--t that is all. And others, be.
ing the stronger, do not expend their
strength in doing their work, but in
making the weaker ones do it for
them.
This is precisely the same in our
civilized society today. Between the
rich and the poor, il the burden is to
be borne in this country, 1t is borne
by the poor--always.
They are the first TO suffer. Let
the blast Of war blow over this coun-
try, who goes to the front? The
millionaires? Not much. Who
goes? The great presidents OF the
corporations? Not one. The bank
ers? No. The men who preside
over great vaults of gold? Not much.
The poor go because nine times out
OF ten the poor man is the most pa
triotic. The poor man bears the
burdens Of this country and this
world.
Only a few years ago our money
was gold and silver--money that was
the money Of men for thousands OF
years. Our silver was demonetized
and gold was made the standard.
There is no man in the United
States with ingenuity enough to ac-
count for tho demonstration Of silver
in 1873. We need altogether more
money than we have. How much
have we got? -Four or FIVE hundred
millions in silver, four to six in gold
six hundred millions altogether, may |
be. Let me show you.
Last years the farmers of America
raised corn, wheat and oats, $1,60O,-
100000 worth, and got money. Six
teen hundred millions OF dollars in
just corn, oats and wheat-oyer $780,
100000 in corn, over 100000, 900 in
wheat. just think of IT! Sixteen
hundred million dollars, not count.
ing the beef. or pork, or petroleum,
or cotton, or any Of the manufactured
articles Of this country.
sixty-fvs millions OF people, the
most active, the most energetic, the
most progressive Of the world
the face of the globe.
We need twice the money per cap
ita to do the business OF this country
that is needed to do the business of
any other country. There is always
somebody crazy for fear there will
be too mnch currency. want Just
all the money we oan get
Silver is good enough for me. All
want of money is to pay my debts.
fos, sir, and | want the law to make
the other fellow take what / take.
That is good enough for me.
Now they talk about hard times.
Well, we never had enough as {
matter of fact. But in prosperous
lines every prosperous man initiates
be currency We goes to the grocer 4
md says: al want $5 worth of tea
md sugar; charge it." He buys a
'orse OF neighbor aud gives him a
tote for 800. He has established a !.
ettcr OF credit and has inflated the ;.
currency that much,
When prosperous every mans
mouth is a mint just coming money. n
Then we have good times. Then &
hese bankers get together, aud the
honey you deposit, they loan it
our money not theirs. They never =,
'an their own. Then comes a panic. B
hen yeu go to the grocer and say - -
charge it," and be says II WON'T c,
hen there comes what is called hard y
mes, There is as much money as cs
here was before but there never was a.
nough money; and do think the b,
'ss money the more misery. In this n
ountry as in every other it is the
'edium OF exchange.
| believe that every ounce Of silver
lat is dug under the American flag Oh
'ould be coined free under the af,
merican flag. In my country they an
. mostly on the other side. They be
q with the bankers. tho rich faIlo,,s