The Louisiana populist., 1895-03-29
Caught Mapping.

editorial from the Picayune writ
ten by that paper in answer to Il
query from Hon. Il. w. Bailey OF
Winfield, La
The Picayune has been a gold
bug paper all along and thinks it
is yet. 1t has never let an oppOr-
tunity pass without from ono to
two articles written with the sole
purpose of mystifying and misrep-
resenting the money question.
A man with no other source OF
information save that of the Picay-
une for the last six months, would
find himself SO densely ignorant on
the money question that he could
uot tell whether it money was an
article OF diet, an ornament of So
ciety. a factor in politics OF the
handspring OfHeaven.
Mr.. Bailey, however, caught the
clumsy old lady mapping, and with
a snarl she blurted out, awe don't
have to answer your question:" or
words to that effect. Then, as she
rubbed her eyes in a dreamy sort
of way, she admitted the truth for
the first time in year, by agreeing
that il gold was not used as money
by any great nation it would sink
in value to almost nothing.
1t is very unfortunate for the
Pic. that she admitted this fact,
for 1t follows that the great Gin.
trinsic" value ofgeld so much dot
ed on by its worshippers, is only
law-made after all, and our god
(gOld) would be almost worthless if
we were to take away from ii the
despised "fiat" of governments.
BY the Pics own admission then,
gold is only base metal like sill.
yer, and both placed Oh an equality
with cotton, wheat, corn, etc.) be-
fore the law would be on q perfect
"parity" not only with each other
but with those coarser articles of
common necessity, cotton, wheat
etc., with the advantages decided
ly in favor of the latter.
Then, dear Pic, "what fools we
mortals be" to create a god of gold
confer upon it by statute all the
powers it possesses and then tax
ourselves with untold millions of
debt to get it,
If there was enough gold IN the
world to do the business thereof,
its use as money would not appear
so foolish, bat there is not enough
ofthe yellow stuff in the Whole
world to do the business of New
York city, and to crowd the values
of the whole worlds property into
that little lump OF gold by legisla-
ton, simply enables a few schem-
crs to corner said gold and price the
property and the labor of the rest
of mankind and take it at said
price.
Dodge the issue or mystify 1t as
you may, dear Pic; but that is the
inevitable result, and the people
are Catching on to 1.-THE Moe
little game Of your goldbug friends
who want the earth.
In trying to crawl out of the hole
in which it's strange admission
placed it, the Pic. says this gov
ernment finds the greatest difficult
ty in getting q little gold to keep
up its reserve, which is being con.
stantly drawn out and sent to Eu.
rope to satisfy their greed fer the
yellow stuff.
Now if Europe has any greed for
the yellow metal it is only for it's
law made power to draw honda and
interest and mortgages ont OF this
country. But 1t is not Europe that
is depicting our useless treasury
reserve; elsewhere in this paper it
Is shown that the ordinary govern.
ment officials are being paid OF in
gold without any such request on
their paIt; while some of the gold
that came into the U. 3. Treasury
the other day, came ia the identi-