The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-08-24

issued Is goldi hence the money. II requires
labor to produce it from mother earth; we
exchange 1t for food, clothing n things ne
cessary to sustain life, health and happiness.
And 70 produce these necessary things il re-
quires labor. SO We exchange labor for la
Dor, a fair even trade, for both have per
formed work. Now on the other hand we
nust have diversity Of work. II we all pro-
duee9 wheat we would have too much flour,
or cattle too much beef, or hogs too much
pork, or sheep too much wool, etc. The
human family has increased rapidly i'm nun
beers, in intellect and ability, to perform la.
Dor with rapidity. SO we must increase the
diversity of our labor that all may find work
TO perform. On the other hand we must not
contract any one of the products of our Ia
tor, because we have a surplus OF labor and
it must be stored in some way or lost. How
best to store it to the benefit of all the
human race. is question that is agitating
the minds of many good thinking men to-
day in the United States.
Stored labor, or in other words money, the
congress Of the United States has the sole
power TO coin or issue in the United States.
At the close of the rebellion the United
States owed a debt of nearly three billions
Of dollars which congress said was payable
in the lawful money Of the land or coin,
either gold or silver. The people of the
United states produced gold and silver in
abundance sufficient to pay their debt with
ease. Then comes shylock with his sly and
cunning way and ready cash and wins over
congress for himself, and congress in 1873
agree to pay in gold, thereby not only in
c~reasing the debt of the United Stats by
taking away two-thirds of our ability to pay
as per agreement. but increased every pri
waite debtowed by individuals, one to anoth-
or. The act of 1873 increased the ratio of
money to all other commodities to a danger
ons degree. As we can not afford TO reduce
any one Of the products of our labor there
by enforcing ia to money; so we must
have more money and plenty OF money in
order to keep comm ODDITIES and money at
u I ir ratio. It is not necessary to accumu.
late debt in order to get more money we
have actually produced in abundance.
Have not the debtor class (who are in a
large majority in the United states) as good
a right to say that not only shall you coin
gold and silver, but lead as wei, so that We
can pay you and pay YOU quickly and plen-
titully and stop this interest. We (the debtor
class have as good a right to one extreme as
you had to the other. We must watch now
and sleep no longerlest shylock should dis
cover that we are producing too much gold
and should demand that wepay our debt in
platinutn-this country produced seventy
i've ounces last year. They have as good a
right to say so as they had to say that we
should pay it ia gold. We must disabuse
ourselves of the idea that if we had free and
unlimited coinage of silver that we would be
loaded down with silver dollars, we could
have our silver certificates and if one wished
could get silver, and then the United States
would not be paying interest on a fictitious
debt to day,
Men of reason and thought (who love
their followman) have studied a lifetime to
find the limit Of space or cure for diseases of
suffering humanity and they have overlook
ed the most vital point and let the million.
aire shylock with Ids six months business
education cause more distress with his ours
ca methods than couid be cured with nos
trums in Il thousand years.
How long can these parasites expect to
draw six per cent compound interest on
their stolen railroad bonds and farm mort
gaRes, with gold as a standard? che Van
derbilt estate alone, should it exist 500 years,
now estimated at S200 eco. OeO, at six per cent
compound interest, would amount to the
sum Of S3s,544, 49,, 000, eco; the assessed yalu-
alton Of the earth would not amount to one
tenth Of that sum. They VIII undoubtedly
build vessels to travel through space and
absorb the moon and q few stars.
IN 1890 when congress was thinking of
passing u tree coinage bill silver went up to
81 10 per ounce, and yet these gold bugs tell
us that England controls the price OF silverl
Then why did the action of congress in 1890
effect the price OF silver? And why did Eng
land pay Sl.15 per ounce for over 100, OOO GUN.
of silver? If the people. on that paltry
island across the sea, should refuse to eat
bread, should we? How the English govern.
ment can make prices for anything We pro-
duce is a problem that l have never been
able to solve / suppose they would stop
consuming and boycott us by quit eating.
We, the people Of the United States, have
hierlings in congress and paid them
literally to rob us; by fostering railroads
md gigantic trusts. and legislating for the
Ninety nine out Of every one hundred
railroads built in our fair land have been
for wholesale robbery from tile
the first shovel Of dirt was moved to its
ompletion, and they have been protected
y their congress, theirs because they have
and paid for them), and l think these
aue congressmen are trying to ease their
oascience by reading snch passages in the
ible as "Te taSeth from him that hath one
dent and giyenth unto him that hath ten
d. b.