The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-14

!, manufactured and the products come
: back to us with two freights and biz
prOhts added. Just SO with our man
: ganese and Ochre and lumber and
h1des and most OF our cotton and wool
we have got to manufacture our own
materials or we will never catch M
But we are making good progress ia
iron and cotton and maybe the other
plants will come along in time. |
learn that 80 per cent. of that alumni.
ium clay is wasted and thrown away
IN the process of reduction. Just
think what saving of freight there
would be II we could reduce the metal
at the mines. We would soon be the
richest people on the earth if we could
manufacture our own materials. The
labor Is here, but it is idle. Our bows
are willing but they can't find employ
ment.
1t is astonishing how rapidly wealth
Increases whom labor liz rewarded.
Look ut u ruined State like Georgia
was In 1850 and now see what thirty
years have done. Look at the oxposi-
tion that has been planted with the
money from one city and is now tho
wonder of tho nation. Where does all
this money come from? Verify, it
looks like Aladins lamp has
come down to us--and yet almost
everybody is complaining of hard
times. Two been reading Josephus
again and don't understand how Sol
0mon got all his money, for David was
at war with somebody most all his life.
JO5ephus says that silvor was as plen-
tiful in Jerusalem as the stones in the
street. The temple was overlaid with
gold and cost millions of dollars.
Herod sent little present Of ten mil
| lions Of urachmn: to CAESAR. iIyrcanus
sent ten thousand talents Of gold. The
Pharaobs built the pyramids for
their own tombS and one Of these took
} 100, 900 men thirty-sevcn years to com
plete it and it cost five hundred mil
lions Of dollars and is not worth u cent
!, to anybody. The AZtccs of Mexico
built some ust us large. The ruins
Of them arc still there and historians
say they had idols on their tops that
were thirty feet high and made of
SOiiu RUiu. There Is Il cathedral now
in the c,ty Of NJ Xicr That cost sixty
millions Of dollars.
What vast amount of money has
been made irom the beginning down
tG the present time. Mankind began
early to hunt for gold for Moses says
in the second chaptur of Genesis that
the gold of that land around Eden was
good. and reckon old Adam dug for
| - H''N 'NN'"|t ~ stlii JItSlc IL IN his
pocket. lie never wore fig leaves long.
John Knox, in his Geneva edition of
inc h1oic, an edition that lasted liitv
years anu was very popular. says that
Aoam aud Eve, "ucn they knew that
they were nafcd, made for Them
selves brccches." AMI 50, OF course,
they had pockets to carry their
money in. Od Mothcr Eve wore
breechcs then, and her offspring, the
new woman, go: her fashion right
Stralght IRON the garden Of Eden
nat VIII DR.. Hawthorne say about
that?
Bat silver came along in du, time,
Abraham bought the cave Of Macnc-
iah and paid 400 sheltcls Of silver cur
rent money with the merchant. IL
Wa. not coined, for he weighed il, [
reckon II was granulntcd like we used
lo hny gold half century ago NV
lathcr WAS merchant. and bought
great deaf OF linc gold from the
miners, and most of it was in goose
quilts. The quill was transparent and
had Il little wooden stopper, and a
L good largo one held about $40 worth
Z Joscphue says that in his Iay cold and
Siivor were coined and stamped. |,
was roughly done. reckon, for | hav,
Il com that Is 600 years old, and i
mas COnstantln1 on one side and twt
kOhlan llctOrS on the OLhrr; and it l.; ;
rough JOB. Aluminium would mako :
beautiful coin. and with The govern
= mcnt stamp would be Il handler col,
= than silver, for ii is nOt half so heavy
u is tho stamp that fixes the value
: iron ana copper were used by tin,
= Greeks and Romans just us we ust
i nickle now.
:, What Il rumpus this question o
| currency has raised, and it came upon
4 MS this time 81 sudden and uncx oect
= "a. Where all the gold is | dom
! know, for never see any of il. No
c body hut the bankers and the Unite,
Il states treasury have any use for it, O,
i anything to do with it. 1t travel.
u back and forth across the water il
II bags and boxes and settles the balances
|, OF trade with the banks and the mo,
|. chant princes, and that is what it. i:
- Tor, | r"cKun. haven't seen but on,
II piece IN two years, and that wasn't
y mlnc. What good it is doing LOCKED
ii up IN vaults don't know, but | rccll III
Il It IL all right. Pope said whatever i:
It, Is right, and SO | don't worry. W.
still 1.-Two and are out Of Jail, and thcr,
l. Is peace and harmony in the house
St hold --and that is Il bigger thing tina,
gold on silver. BILL ARi
" SALUDA COUNTY.