The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-06-07

dull times when there is little or
no business to be done, and COM
plain least, when the business to
be done is accumulating and act
i've. If our money is not suffi-
Gent to do our business, we NAV
be sure that it will make itself
! felt in flush, and not IN dull times;
it will show itself in high rates of
interest and not by depression in
business; and let it appear thus,
even in the wilds of Africa, and
the money of the world will rush
there to supply its needs. And,
as modern business has developed
Sc many resources for meeting
emergencies in demand for safe
currency, in this day and time it
is practically impossible for legiti-
mate business to stagnate long for
want of safe medium of ex-
change.
But as it is my purpose now to
deal with the vital function of
money as a measure of value, |
shall leave for some other occa-
sion the consideration of its func..
tons as medium Of exchange,
and the conditions of a sound cur.
rency.
The truth is our money machine
is now rusting for work. and beg
ging for more. And yet there be
silver barons who are urging you
to buy more machines to add to
youy idle ones. Beware OF the
suavity of the machine agent for
he will tell you that if his appli-
ance is not as good as yours, that
it can be made so by an act Of
Congress, or the stamp of the gov
eminent. | shall decline now to
discuss whether Congress can
make silver as good as gold. |
will merely suggest that 1t Con-
eress can make and fix values 1t
has wasted much time that it
ought to have put in at this good
work. One thing | do know, that
if Congress can impart value to a
thing, it can take It away.
A Young man once applied to a
Virginia judge for license to prac-
tice law. The old Judge asked
him what he had studied. He
said, the Virginia statutes. Well,
young man, replied the old Judge,
that is very good SO far as It goes,
but the trouble is voH will wake
up some fine morning and find
that the Virginia Legislature has
repealed all you know. And so it
viii be with our friends who put
their faith in values that Congress
may give. They will wake up
some fine morning and find that
some other John Sherman has re-
pealed all they've got, and their
guardians won't find it out for
twenty-five years. But it may be
said that gold might be treated the
same way. Well, Eere is one
thing sure. John Sherman can't do
II. Melt it. beat it, hammer it.
take it to Timbuctoo, and you've
GOT tive same thing still. Men
now exchange their products for
gold because they want to, and not
because they have to. Its use and
its value is fixed, not in laws, bat
in the common consent Of the bus
mess of tie world.
Fit he true that burnt child
breads the FIRE, it does seem
to me that orr southern people
would be the last to put faith in
the power of written laws to
stand in the way of great natural
and moral forces. We once trust
ed in a little written parchment in
. Washington, called a constitution,
to guarantee to us our rights "
property. And for 100 years W,
nut our sweat and toll into slaves
But when the mad rush of grea
moral force came. the little parch
ment Huttered in the breeze like ;
wounded bird before a storm, an,
left you and me cast down and for
saken.
+ The forces that have been mar
' shalirg for many years to settl,
this great question, in my judg
ment, are above the power Of law
and lawyers, banks and bankers
y politics and politicians, and if
, may e SO bold, even above tn
: power of votes and voters. If thts
, revolutionary forces that have beef