The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-17
LAURENs $. O.. Dec. IL, 1895.

49,
dent Cleveland. It says: "The Presi,
dent does not care particularly about
what kinds OF money we have as cur
rency, but he is concerned that the
people handle such money as may be
redeemed at sight In coin equal Ia act
ual value to the nominal value OF the
currency" That sounds very fire, ut
1T won't hold water worth q cent. The
President demands the substitution of
national bank notes for g~reenbacks and
) Treasury notes. Does the Advertiser
believe for O moment that the national
bank notes will be "redeemed at sight"
In gold? III not, will it please explain
what it is talking about? This fact can
not be dodged-there is not enough
gold In this country or anywhere else
to serve as the sole primary money
Columbia Register.
The Register is safe in the PROPOSE
tion-!there is not enough gold in
this country or any where else to serve
as the sole primary money" Reduced
to Its final analysis, all governments
are insolvent-if ability to pay in cash
a. ohO SttoCEtOh. lu1S 1ONcTuLuenU,
backed by the wealthiest constituency
ON earth survives upon its credit. 1t
promises to pay its creditors in cur
rency as good as gold and so long as the
world has confidence in It's good ipten-
lions h demand will not be made. At
s2s<epts government upon safe fl
Aciples and practices
confidence can COM
AAs one party extracts
the front door friends
~ the back. So long
Eminent sustains it's credit,
oment is sound. But this
IL can't put it's fla upon an
tissue Of currency and make
annot endow all the silver of
with the virtue OF money by
1t with its superscription,-
I will sustain the credit of the
ent, the value of its currency
have his hands full. The AD-
Pr does not favor Cleve-
nancial theories particularly.
ADVERTISER believes the
nent National Banking sys-
q Yankee notion-a Federal
Ysing idea-an acknowledged
waS@Atasure and a monopoly. The AD-
vERTIsAR believes in free banking un-
der State Notwithstanding each
State to regulate the issue of currency
under safeguards as it may devise and
leaving the world to accept or reject
: 1T. Cleveland understands the silver
q craze and is right in seeing so far as in
z him lies that the Government does not
put a dollar on the country worth only
half dollar In cash or credit. And in
this the country will back him. The
Register a pay its employees ON Sat-
urday evening in silver or greenbacks,
but because they know they can ex-
change the stuff at the nearest bank
Tor gold. But these employees must
know the fact. 1t Is not that all the cur
rency in the world can be exchanged for
gold coin Tomorrow. on presentation;
1t Is, that the money you have in your
z pocket can be. AS matters now stand
Cleveland is right, 1t is theoretically
true that the King can do no wrong:
and t.'e majority being King in this
county, the majority can do no wrong,
according to the Register. Notwith-
standing, a King occasionally loses his
head, but Cleveland keeps his.
4 **
~ Cleveland went down the Chesapeake
scking after the labor of preparing
message. Horse Shoe Robinson,
hero of the novel of that name cap
Nd a horse from q cruel British
tain, which he named for that
per and when he digged into
ribs, the old sergeant imag-
he was goring the officer,
Measure in putting him to his
ed. Every time Cleveland
Athers fly from a duck he
ame narrow, bigoted or
ilistic denf3ya of the Don Liv-
ston or Crisp school.
Sk@
he entire State took a lively inter-
IN the municipal election in Char
bn. which occurred on last Tues
The regular democracy had to
ht O Observation-Disclosures COM
ation of reformers, anti Americans,
3wn as the A. P. A. midnight pelit-
organization, b epegroes and
Evans adrass ION. The @regu-
+. handsomely
bf Aldermen.
ne old city