The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-11
SOUND MONEY.

dustry like blood through the arteries
OF the human body. II the government
Is healthy and progressive the currency
moves rapidly all through the ramiflca-
lions OF its system, giving life and
quickening every industrial pulse into
energetic movement.
Sound money" Is that currency
that will move rapidly along the COM
mercial and industrial activities, pass
ing in and out OF the moving enter
prises, through the shops and in the
fields, restless yet unwearied, always
meeting and making pleasant associ.
ates, whispering smiles to every touch
and flushing roseate health TO every
cheek. Hence, sound money must be
current money. II Ii becomes too rich
to circulate It must be shinned, 80 to
speak. or the body polite must suffer.
Ii will become sluggish, slow to move,
and finally endanger life. The none
tarY blood OF the nation has grown too
thick to circulate and the body polite
is suffering. 1t is becoming sluggish,
slow to move and unless the blood can
be thinned ous by the use of "silver
threads among the gold" the life blood,
the current money OF this country, will
cease to fow.
Gold alone has never even been suffi-
cient redemption money for this pro-
gressive country. Not In it's earliest
commercial activities. Gold Is not now
and never was current money in the
sense that 1t circulstes freely through
out the vast marts Of trade. It is too
rich; 1t don't circulate, and hence can
not be denominated sound currency.
Silver, nickel, brass, copper and paper
money constitute our circulating
medium. The idea of frightening gold
out OF circulation by the RECOMMENDATION
Of silver and thereby contract ting the
volumesof currency six hundred million
dollars. My. N.Y. My! That nur-
sery tale is too silly to brighten child
rem. Scare gold out of circulation; go
to your merchants, farmers and laborers
and ask them how much gold they have
handled during the past year.
They tell US we must have gold to
deal with foreign nations. Well, let
ua use 1t for that purpose,if need be, the
six hundred millions which is too rich
to circulate here and for our people,
open up the silver mines and have free
and independent coinage of silver.
We need money that is not too
precious to be seen and handled by all
men. Silver is that money. it Is the
only circulating redemption money.
The silver dollar should be restored and
made again the unit OF value. Yes, it
is sound money and makes every fellow
who has 1t feel sound, healthy, wealthy
and wise.
They tell us that If the silver dollar
is again made the unit of value, as 1t
was prior to 1873, we would have cheap
money, fifty cents dollars; but when
| the bill passed congress demonitizing
silver, II is said. 1t went through with
out the knowledge of the congressman,
that they would not have voted for it
IL they had known it.
Now, then, let US be fair; the Populist
party simply asks that the bill they all
are ashamed Of, which slipped through
Congress, says Senator John w. Daniel,
as soft as the cats tread, be now re-
pealed. But they say silver has de-
preciated dn value 80 much under that
act that it would not now be lust to
restore 1t to it's then relative value, II
the government uninten,ionally and
without Its knowledge takes away one
half OF the peoples property, should it
not be restored when the governments
learns Of it's error and mad vertent
wrong? The government has bought up
g vast deal of silver bullion, its minis
are filled with seigniorage silver; 1t, too,
would share in the advantage derived
from the restoration OF silver to its
original monetary status.
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drawn the cord about the body polite
and stopped the monetary blood from
howing out through the puissant arm
TILL 1t has withered away, should 1t re-
| fuse to loosen the obstruction and
restore Its health and vigor because
forsooth this arm is not of original
strength?
Silver has been struck down by the
government, unconsoiously however;
now let amends be made by remoneti-
cation, says the Populist party IL there
anything wrong in this demand?
The most amusing thing of all ia that
great. wing OF the Democratic party
favorinR free silver trying to fight the
money question out under ,hst name.
The Cleveland gold standard wing
claims TO be the Democratic party.
There cannot be two Democratic
parties standing on different platforms
One must yield; which one? But they
say they must stsy in the party and
there remedy its wrong. Not SO. 1t
has become too foul. You can't cleanse
the fleece by washing IL in the dirty pool;
1t must be removed from the stagnant,
murkey waters to the pure placid lake
where the fresh invigoratinR fountain
bubbles and sparkles perenislly. There
Is another reason why the true silver
advocates cannot hope to fight this bat
tie under the Democratic flag. 1t is
this: A host of Republicans are free
silver men, too, and could with equal
propriety, claim that their party name
must prevail in the battle for free sill
yer 1t is patent to all true advocates
OF free silver that the records of the
two old parties on the question OF
money will not commend them to the
free silver policy, therefore, honesty