The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-09-06
.eREeNeAcks AND PROSPERITY
Our Best Times of Plenty and Prosperity
Were When We Had No Gold or Silver

ind his travels, on page 195, volume 1,
.ays:
SIN this year Gs.O) was completed
The ninth census of the United States
It was a work of great importance,
md the result presented was most en-
:ouraginG, inasmuch as many econo-
nists had prophesied that, owing to the
disturbance of general trade and de-
struction of property during the civil
war, the result would show decrease
IN general increase. Notwithstanding
the ravages of war, the last decade had
been a period of remarkable growth
and progress The population had in
creased over seven millions. Agricul-
ture and manufactures had grown to
an enormous aggregate, and were sue
eessfully competing with the markets
of the world ;"
In spite of the ravages of the most
colossal and destructive war of modern
times, lasting through nearly five
years of the decade referred to, popu-
lation had increased over seven mil
lions. 1t was a period of remarka BILE
growth and prosperity. Agriculture
and manufactures had grown to an
enormous aggregate; and we were
successfully competing with the mar
kets of the world!
More than two million men. the
flower of our industrial manhood
north and south), taken for nearly
half the decade, out of the ranks of in
dustrial and commercial enterprises;
billions of dollars worth of property
absolutely destroyed, wiped out of ex-
istence-and yet no such growth
and prosperity had ever before been
known!
Wonderful to tell! Why was it?
Because there was plenty of money in
circulation! Cheap money, which
means good money!
to 1870 not a gold or silver dollar could
be found! Are you catching on? Does
your dull and stupid brain compre-
bend? There was plenty of cheap
money-the best we ever had. Better
than any other country ever used. And
it was all in circulation; all out among
the people; paying for labor: paying
debts; buying homes; canceling mort
cages; building up gigantic enterprises;
developing the resources of the grand
est country that Gods sun ever shone
upon.
Are you listening? Is your thinking
machine in working order? And this
marvellous growth and progress, in
spite of the ravages of war, was ac-
complished by the use of greenbacks
were a legal tender and others of which
were not.
Not dollar of gold! Not a dollar of
silver! Both had skunk away, like the
twin towards that they are. They hid
themselves in holes in the ground; in
bank vaults; sneaked across the At
lantic.
And now, mind you, listen with both
ears: Without dollar of either gold
or silver; without dollar of that
money of the world;" without dol
lar of that money which our wise
inanciers" tell us must be arranged
by international treaty." 1--WE were
successfully competing with the mar
kets of the world"
Do you see the point? Does your
dull wit comprehend the simple truth
SO plainly stated?
With our little green backs; with our
despised flat trash;" with our 5O-cent,
fully competing with the markets of
the world; with the markets OF gold
bug England; with silver-bug Ger
many; with bimetallic France; with
every nation on the face of the earth
nine out of ten of which were using
gold and silver money!
We are sick unto nausea with all this
clap-trap about the relative merits of
gold and silver-we need not either.
We are weary and tired with all this
hair-splitting discussion about ''16 to
II or ''15 to L. with all this farce and
burlesque about the money of the
world; with all this intermina BILE war
of words about the yellow metal
and the white metal;'' with all this
intolerable nonsense bout bimetallism
and monometallism; with all the dis
honest quibbling about international
standards" with the fake contest
that is being waged between gold-bugs
and silver-bugs-carried on for the
sole purpose of diverting the minds of
the people from the one vital issue of
eenbacks instead of either gold or
silver.
1t is a trick of the Shylocks to side.
track the question of paper money
full legal tender, issued direct by the
government without the intervention
of banking institutions The money
mongers care not whether it be gold
or silver, or both. They can control
either or both. What they fear is the
greenback. And the plenticr they are
the greater their fear. 1t is conspir-
acy-and one that is ensnaring some
Of our brightest and best co-workers-
to sidetrack the supreme issue of the
:entury-the question of scientific
money of civilization against the twin
-elics of a barbaric age.
In this dog fight over the so-called
'elative merits of gold and silver. when
he attention of the people is distract
ID thereby, they will covertly deal a
ieath blow to the greenback! 1t will
hen be gold and silver money-with
oank currency based thereon.
Gold and silver have been Shylock's
money since the days that Judas be-
erayed his Master for thirty pieces OF
silver. Government paper money has
been the one thing money-mongers
aave hated from time immemorial.
Let the government coin all gold
and silver that is brought to the minis
and let it be done free. Let it be
lone for the benefit Of the benighted
heathens and barbarians of this and
all other lands Let the government
stamp attest the weight and fneness
Of the coin: and let them both stand