Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-22
What God freely gives to man. Monopoly A ApproPriates.

holders and the remainder consisted q.
some bankers, some corporation law
yers, few business men, and some
'hangers-on.'
Senator Isham G.. Harris, of Tennes-
see, thinks that neither of the two old
parties will be able to organize the
United States senate in the Fiftyfourth
congress, but that the Populist sena-
tors will hold the balance of power.
Sneaking of the silver question, he
says:
The sentiment in favor of the utili-
cation and the rehabilitation of silver
to its position as a money metal and as
a money of ultimate redemption; and
in connection with gold as the regula-
tor of volume, or amount of that thing
called money, is overwhelmingly strong
in the South and West, and in my opin-
ion ought to be strong and conclusive
everywhere, if people would recognize
the undeniab1e fact that money is pure
ly the creature of law. 1t is now, al
ways was, and always must be, just
what the law of it's own country makes
it, and when it passes beyond the linz
y,
but Immediately becomes commodity,
which goes upon the market at it's mar
ket value just as your bale of cotton.
hogshead of tobacco or bushel of wheat
goes upon the foreign market at its
value.
ITO illustrate: Four hundred and
twelve and one-half grains of stand
ard silver, coined into dollar and 25.8
grains of gold coined into dollar, are
legal tender dollars anywhere and
everywhere in the United States. With
in the boundaries of the United States
each of these dollars performs precise
! ly the same functions, each pays exact
| ly the same amount of debt and buys
the same amount of property. Under
the laws of the United States, certain
| treasury notes have been made legal
! tender money, owing to which fact the
treasury note will perform every func-
tion as money that gold or silver coin
can perform; will buy as much or pay
as much, dollar for dollar, as any other
money in the United States.
Now here are three kinds of legal
tender money in the United States, and
under the laws of the United States
every dollar of either can and does
perform all the functions of legal tender
money, or, in other words, each dollar
of which, as money, is the exact equal
of any other dollar that the laws of the
United States have made legal tender;
and, therefore, the idea of talking about
the market value, commercial value OF
intrinsic value Of the material @,
which money is made is simply abb
surd, and a device-I will not say a
contemplate device Though 1 think
it is)-intended simply to complicate
the question and as far as possible tc
confuse the public mind"
The plutocrats seem to be getting
their eyes open. In the American
Banker of March 20, we find the follow.
ing significant paragraph:
"Of particular interest this week wa
the arguments made before the United
States supreme court in defense of tn.
constitutionality of the income tax
Aside from the purely legal problems
which are involved there were utter
ances made by lawyers Of eminence IL
IdNOr Oh the lax WHICH were INSPIRED
; by exaggerated conceptions of tn
growth and power of revolutionar.
: sentiment in this country. Attorne
General Olney intimated that unles
the court sustains congress in this cas-
there might come by and by revolu
tion which would sweep the court as a
present organized out of existence, an
Mr.. Carter of New York, argued to tn
effect that the rich men ought to b
!, made to pay a much larger share c
their possessions in the way of take
than the poor, and that dangerous SC
cial uprising might be avoided by er
forcing this principle"
? That is about the right view of tn
: situation, and coming from such me
as Olney and Carter ought to ha'
= much weight with those who seem
: think that il the law and the court
are on their side they constitute
!, perfect refuge of safety. The peop
= know that either the court or constitl
q tion is wrong and they have a stror
, suspicion that it is the court, hence, {;
= Mr.. Olney intimated, there is dang
: of the people wiping out the court. tt
J. court is made by and for the people ar
II the honorable Judges don't want to lo
o sight Of this fact.