The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29
Tillman at Concord.
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am such q rock throWer I am not
satisfied unless I have some one to
throw at. am half inclined TO shy
few rocks 1t your Senator, ito Butler.
lCheers.)
What are the functions OF money.
Money Is simply . medium Of rx-
change. 1t took the place Of barter.
Man invent i money As convenience.
They took gold and silver because they
were scarce and indestructible For
long time they snapped them without
coming by simply weighing them.
Coinage was merely intended TO faciii-
tate exchange. Formerly the ratio
was determined by common consent of
mankind and necessities of trade
without any Legislation at ali. 1t is
only since '73 that We have had a new
order of Statesmen and prophets who
say you only want one for standard.
of fixed value. Gold and silver have
| intrinsic value; paper has value given
to it only by the governments PROM
| Use TO pay In metal: it rests Oh all act
of legislation. Carlisle declares leg
| islatiOn cannot affect value of either
gold or silver. That is absurd because
| legislation has changed the places of
the two metals and made it impossible
to get silver coined at all because it is
forbidden by law.
LAW MADE THE GOLD DOLLAR
worth 100 cts. and silver worth 80 cts
Carlisle's statement is school boy talk
They talk about fiat money. Gold is
as much fiat money as silver or paper.
Gold is money merely because the law
says SO. Silver bullion can not be
money because law says not. That is
where the wrong lies. There is a law
OF political economy that supply and
demand govern prices of commodity.
Carlisle and other rascals take advant-
age OF 1t to rob the masses who merely
wink at thenr When ANYTHING is
abundant prices fall; when rare prices
rise. Money is now too scarce and you
PAY TOO MUCH COTTON
or corn for dollar. The world was
prosperous so long as it had two stan
dards to measure with. When the
change was made to one, prices began
to fall and have been going down ever
since. They have ground our lemon
In the new financial mill until the last
drop of juice is squeezed out of it. Any
man voting for such scheme should
be put in the lunatic asylum.
The silver law of '73 was sneaked
through Congress by John Sherman
AID Wall street and English bond hold
ers to double their wealth by DESTROY
ing half OF the purchasing medium.
People did not find out until '7S what
was wrong; then they sent men to
| Congress who pledged themselves to
restore silver, but there was too
much money on the other side
Tor the virtue of Congressman.
They passed compromise and
instead OF coming silver went to work
to buy it up under the Allison act. The
gold bugs said you are running ex-
change; you are bankrupting govern
ment, but on the contrary they refund
ed the national debt.
In spite of the Allison act prices
nave gone down continually. Silver
has fallen from 81 to Sc cents on the
dollar. They say we want to pay
debts with 56c dollars.
| THEY ARE LIARS;
they want us to pay bond holders in
2OOc dollars. In India their silver dol
lar is worth 1OOcts. 1t is only worth SOC
in London, but the India cotton grow
er takes &c Id. for his cotton in gold.
goes home and exchanges it for silver
and SO gets 1Oc. Americans can't do it.
But Carlisle says restoring silver will
drive out gold. Will you stay in any
party with man who puts his hand
In your pocket and says just stand
right still while l get the other dollar?
ihey say government must go out of
the banking business; that with 225
millions in silver bullion lnthe treasury
| no more silver certificates must be is
sued. Greenbacks and silver must be
| retired amounting to over 500 mil
lions and gold bonds issued in their
place. Let national banks issue paper
What will they base paper on?
All silver must be retired. Notice
the barefaced effrontery of the propo-
sition. Paper money they say is not
stable. Yet all our bonds are at
premium. If bonds are good,
WHY NOT PAPER MONEY?
Bonds are fat; why is one promise not
as good as another? They are not de-
slrable as Investments, that is where
the shoe pinches. These men who
live higher than Roman lords must
have investments. My heart bleeds to
see their luxury, but more for the fools
who vote for their interests. CHEERS
The Constitution provides that both
gold and silver shall be money, but the
man who comes with paper for redemp-
ton is paid in gold only, by the Pres
ldent and his cuckOOs. Yet they saw
If the gold reserve shrinks gold will be
at premium. They have driven sill
yer down but held gold up as an angel
OF light. Cleveland and Carlisle have
allowed men to steal out of one pocket
and put it in another; they have
shown downright treachery enough
TO SHAME ANY DEMOCRAT.
Cleveland says that we are powerless-
that bonds must be issued at a high
rate OF interest to protect the govern
ment.
Andrew Jackson would have said to
these demanding gold, "get out or I
Will take my boot to you;" but Cleve-
land and Carlisle are licking John
Bulls boots. (Cheers.)
One argument the gold bugs make is
II we remOnetize silver our dollars will |
De worth only SOC, They say to the
Worklngman you want your wages in |
good dollars, so that they will buy as |
much as possible. That means the
farmers must pay the piper; rObs him
OF one-half his values that others NAV
buy cheap; you are hewers of wood |
and drawers of water. But you vote
it on yourselves. Yet the wage Garner
is fool because the farmer is made |
unable to buy the products of his |
labor. Thousands are thus thrown out |
OF employment and they in turn cut
the working mans wages by COMPETE
ton and put him at the mercy of the
employer. ALL classes
ARE HALF STARVED
because the farmer can't pay them.
We have too little money and nothing
TO base more on until we get silver.
There is only one side to this question
the right side. All men on the other
side are either fools or hypocrites, The
democrats raised the tariff howl, but /
when they got in did Mr.. Cleveland
call Congress to adopt the tvriff? he
called special session to repeal the