The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-19
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Gold In the Gnrden of Eden,

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 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER;
 You call my attention to the Garden of Eden and to the fact that there is no mention of silver there, but that gold is mentioned"
 The mischief which befel the inhabl- tants of that vicinity was very natural consequence of these identical facts Gold alone has raised the mischief" everywhere else and we Incline to the belief that 1t "begun business" then and there, and has kept it up ever since whenever 1t has been alone without the steadying influence of silver
 If it was not the original cause of "all our woe," in Milton's phrase, it has been the instrument of more of 1t than any other one thing.
 But then see how clear it all is as we remember that 8 time contract was in yolved, a contract that was good one when made and was construed into a very different thing afterwards-the very characteristic of all time contracts under the single gold standard, with bank credit money attachments. If l remember right, the contract which Eve made in the first place was for wisdom" that we are all taught to get as ''the principal thing" It was after wards construed into "disobedience," a very different thing; then came fore closure and final ejectment by order of the Supreme court, and the things" of the defendants were put out on the street, and they and their children have been in great trouble ever since. It all served change in the terms of "a contract after it was made. It was wisdom" first; it was "disohedience" afterwards for all the world just like a time con tract under the single gold standard, with bank credit money as a balloon attachment. It was a good contract as it was made, but became ruinous when changed. the same name being spread over two different things. Just so dollar comes to mean one thing to-day and a very different thing to- morrow-meandng 1-1O, 100000 to-day and LIDO tomorrow. And no outside trader can tell the moment when the subtle change takes or will take place. This is hid in bank parlors where the balloon attachment of the credit money can be alternately blown up and collapsed. as may seem best to those who work r., who make 1t aelastic" and who make" by its elasticity" and who tell us they are going to give us "swell times' now for dead certainty.
 Really, MT. Editor, your skill in ex- egesis is such as to suggest whether your true sphere of greatest infiuence would not be found in the Divinity school These subtle, unobserved dis- functions and similitudes, these new meanings in the sacred text when made to stand out clearly to the common eye as you see them, are useful in a very high degree to us toiling, busy bargain makers, acting by compulsion, driven into corners like hogs or buffaloes, our property made to shrink or swell as our rulers think such "object lessons will do us good" and make Us obedient and pa- tient while in time of peace they pile upon us new debts by the hundred mil lion year, and shrink the debt-paying capacity of our property by the thou sands of millions a year, and give their partners and clients profits" in our blood and sweat by tens of millions a year. From such state of things 1t is just now timely and we'll for you to at tract our attention to the first great re- corded transaction of this kind as we'll as to the placid serenity of the primitive garden" A course of lectures in this very vein would be an addition and an attraction unique in the Divinity school. JOSEPH SHELDON.