Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-31

Stop this senseless twaddle about a
fifty-cent dollar. There is no such
thing.
A dollar is a dollar.
A fifty-cent coin is half dollar, nifty
cents of good money, and it would be
honest money were 1t in the aggregate
full legal tender just as 1t was when
democrats, wings, republicans and
others were declaring that gold and Sill
yer were alike money, and that nothing
else could be money!
Were there such thing as nfty-
cent dollar 1t would be preferable 10 a
twO-dollar dollar, as the gold dollar Is
one dollars worth Of gold and one
dollars worth of fiat.
Why not say something about the
nickel, which is FIVE cents as sure as
you are born, though there is less than
0ne-sixteenth of cents worth OF
nickel or metal in the coin. But 1t Is
nVe cents, and stops a five-cent DEBT
hole as quick as president stops tax
ing for the people as soon as he reaches
the White House.
What about your postage stamps, all
sizes and yet Of many different values
& the law has spoken through them!
~ "A lady takes ten cents worth Oh
strings and wires and in an hour makes
hfteen-dollar hat. Why not talk
about that little?
A saloonkeeper sells you a fifteen
cent drink which costs him three cents
Why not kick at that few times!
The president Of the United STATES
receives fifty thousand dollars a year
as salary from law firm in the city
OF New York, he steers into the puu-
ding-patches he has his hands on ana
nIty thousand dollars a year more as
MS salary as president. What KIM VI
fifty-cent dollar is that?
A lawyer goes to washington ana
sells a lot Of talk for 100000, as ala
Choate, who was paid the latter sum
for his argument in the income tax Ia"
case, and surely there was a difference
between the cost and the get OF the
thing sold.
1t makes no difference to us what a
dollar costs the man from whom we re-
ceive it, so long as 1t will pay one dol
lar of the debt we owe. Therefore
there is no such thing as ffty-cent
dollar, unless a man will deliberately
sell us a debt-paying dollar for hall
u dollar, In which case he is foolish and
we are financially wise to buy 1t, even
If we hold it a few moments before
some creditor comes in and beckons II
away.
Why do not the people Of this coun-
try get down to talking business lit
tie while, and If they have govern
ment that can create money good
enough to pay It's debts at little OF
no direct cost, in Gods name let us
have 1t, as the government has cost the
people more money than they bar
gained for, and ID is time it was return
ing to those who have footed the bills al
least trife of the expenses Of the past
II our government cannot, after al
that has been done for 1t, and all 1t has
cost in the way Of blood, treasure
life and suffering, return some prof.
to the people, it should be set aside
for better one or knocked in the head
and handed over to the Rothschild fam
lily. II the government should create
every dollar Of money to meet all it,
needs, and use but ten dollars worth
of paper and all the rest fiat, having
nothing but a substance that can carry
the money declaration, 1t would still b.
billions Of dollars in debt to the people
who horned and brought 1t up.-Pom'
eroy's Advance Thought.