The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-19
Letter from Texas.

Correspondence Of the Democratic Advocated
FLoREsyIILE. TEXAS, May 4, 1894.
Dear ADVOCATE and Readers
This part of the country has been blessed
with bountiful showers lately, and | never
saw crops more prosperous at this season.
Early corn is tassehng and vegetables are
plentiful. March frosts injured the fruit
crop.
This country is in a prosperous condition,
really; plenty of horses, cattle, hogs, corn,
butter, lard, chickens, eggs, vegetables,
farms, lots, cheap lands, &c, for sale, and
the stores and shops are crowded with wares,
merchandise and appliances for mans com
fort, convenience and happiness, to sell for
money; but the dear, very dear stuff, illegal
TENDER" the golden calf of modern times,
seems to have got alarmed at us erring Israel
ties and made itself scarce and becoming de-
cidedly more ditto.
Business is progressing about like a sleigh.
ing party two days after thaw set in drag
ging. We, collectively, have got surplus of
the products of the farm, forest, prairie, fac
tory, shop and labour for sale, and all are
anxious to exchange values on fair terms, but
we lack money, and business is at stand
still.
Now, Uncle Samuel, if the ADVOCATE
pleases, / snail offer you few gratuitous
SUI gestions; but since you have become old
and childish, / doubt if it will be needed.
You forbid us manufacturing money, (eoun-
ierfeiting) that's fiat, notice, and claim for
yourself the exclusive monopoly Of money
making, and then refuse to issue enough even
for "home consumption"
Make enough paper or silver or aluminium
or gold money to pay at least your own obli-
cations. Oh you tell us, s'bnt cheap money
fat
the Senate, and big one in the executive
mansion, it is strange that your fiat is power
less, Uncle Samuel. We notice some very
able bodied fat on our mail, our tobacco,
whiskey, &c. Internal revenue is not fiat,
Ell? Maybe it was not Stat that took a
million men from their homes and placed
them on the road and in the woods, like
homeless dogs, TO dance four years to the un
haIlowed lullaby of whistling bullets and
bowling cannon balls. Oh, give us rest on
this won't fat business-all law is fat.
Uncle, you are near-sighted and hold your
"honest intrinsic value" dollar so close to
your eyes, it hides mountains of equally in
trinsic value.
Jehovah makes metals, governments make
money, commerce and the people arranges
values of commodities. Don't get things
jumbled up like the Populsts, who would
mix money, farm products, railroads, tele-
graph lines, commerce, legislation, &C., into
one conglomerate mass and call it govern
ment
What is the commercial or intrinsic value
of silver dollar of the United States :?
about sixty cents" What is the intrinsic
value of gold dollar? ga hundred cents"
What kind of cents, please? 30, gold cents"
All, ha. Well, tell US the value of a gold
cent. "Well, sir, 25 $40 grains of gold of
standard fneness is worth a dollar. Oh !
you measure value by weight, then. Well
thought since you could not ''coin a vacuum
(silver one of several tons weight you would
not attempt to sell gravitation by the grain.
Really, venerable uncle, lot of this fiat
and intrinsic value racket is much like the
hat we choose TO wear. Much depends on
personal choice, pride, and popular opinion.
An old half decayed log lying by the road
side possesses very little intrinsic value, as
you reckon values, Uncle Sam, but put it
within reach Of a man who cannot swim in
water over his head aud its intrinsic value
becomes immense. See2
Maybe your financial govt is hurting you
by this; but hold on, | am not done with you
yet Paper "6at'' put million of men in
arms to defend the fiat of our star spangled
banner, paid their wages, bought their rations,
equipage, powder and shot, and successfully
terminated in their favor four years ofinter
nal war. Maybe paper fiat Tor silverl still
possesses some of its former power in this
time Of profound peace, plenty and natural
prosperity. Perhaps some honest" money
deyotee, with sly twinkle of his northeast
eye, will mildly refer me to the worthlessness
Of Confederate money. Pshaw, the fiat (law1
of government cannot be stronger than the
government declaring it; hence, its money
Eat must end when all its other fats, man-
dates and commands end. Confederate paper
money would have retained a reasonable pur-
chasing power, had its government been per
petuated. PETE.