The Washington times., 1894-05-13
THE WASHINGTON TIMES. SUNDAY, MAY 49, 1894.

are still more men who can never think OF
money without hearing the chink OF metal
+! gold, silver, copper. It would be well II We
| could once and for all demonetize or rather
dethrone this idea. Any kind OF metal is a
commodity, and gold and silver, like corn
and wheat are valuable only in accord with
the great law OF supply ana demand. When
you consent to make all commodities wait on
one, Is 1t strange that commerce languishes?
The people Of this country want supply OF
| money-tokens Of exchange to do business
with. Our paternal government declares very
| properly that it alone has the power to create
money-any infringement upon this vested
right is a felony-and then refuses to create
| enough to keep the wheels OF commerce in
| motion, but on the contrary goes a suppliant
to Wall street to borrow for its own pressing
needs and makes certain promises there like
| doubtful creditor. Well, SO long as man or
nation hesitates .between the law of right,
and that of expediency there will be times,
while the smoke of the coming confiagration
| Is rising, while the chickens are coming home
to roost In uncomfortable numbers, that they
will play the old tunes, with variations, to
the sacrifice of their own self-respect and Of
their friends.
A young officer just from West Point took
| station at post on the thin arid plains OF
western Nebraska. AS Spring came on he
made little flower and vegetable garden for
his own special benefit. He tended and
watered 1t with care. 1t promised well, and
his heart was glad. One fine day in Summer
the advance guard of locusts began to ar
rive. He would defend his garden; he worked
manfully at the construction of fence Of
stakes and gauze about two feet high. The
fence was good idea. but before he had it
completed the air was full Of locusts. Up in
the air, hundreds of feet above him, they
glistened like snowfiakes. He was quite in
terested in this new phenomena. When he
again thought Of his garden the ground was
there still, but the garden had taken TO itself
wings and moved East.
Congress has looked on complacently while
our municipal magnates have put their heads
together to fence out Coxey and his band OF
walking affidayits as to the general condi-
ton OF things. The air in the mean time
grows thick with other evidences. The i'm
ported boards OF the coal and coke barons
have swarmed. Soft coal is being imported
into New York, and new dupes into domestic
fields-wheat S. cents a bushel and no
buyers
Gold is so high that the farmer can't buy
1t, and nothing else being money. what will
he do about it?
The Russian thistle is doubtless a great evil,
but 1t will require industry that has nope be-
hind 1t to eradicate it. And before this hope
will come back to abide in the hearts of men
some radical measures will have been inaugu-
rated. The Russian Jew is said to be rather
a malodorous neighbor, but worse than the
thistle or the filth is the sweet-scented and
bedizened London and continental Jew that
has put up his god of gold in the market places
and. like NebuchadnezZar, "bids all the kings,
governors and captains to fall down and wor-
ship it."
Under the permitted shadow of this false
god the artisan has disappeared in the work
man. Law is a convenience for those who
can afford to pay for it. Justice has torn the
bandage from her eyes. and discriminates
cautiously among her suppliants. But ''the
mills of the gods' still grind. VETERAN.