Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-09-27

Stop this senseless twaddle about fitty-Cen
dollar There is 10 such thing.
A dollar is dollar.
A hfty-cent coin is half dollar, fifty cents
of good money, and it would be honest money
were it in the aggregate full legal tender just a.
it was when Democrats, Wings, Republican.
and others were declaring that gold and silve
were alike money, and that nothing else coult
be money!
Were there such thing ffty-cent dol
lar it would be preferable to 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 you are born,
though there is less than one-sixteenth of a
cents worth of nickel or metal in the coin? p?
But it is five cents, and stops a 6ve-cent debt
hole as quick as a president stops talking for
the people as soon as he reaches the White
House.
What about your postage stamps, all sizes and
yet of many different values as the law has
spoken through them?
A lady takes ten cents worth of strings and
and wires and in an hour makes ffteen-dollar
hat. Why not talk about that little?
A saoon-keeper sells you ffteen-cent drink
which costs him three cents. Why not kick at
that few times?
The president of the United States receives
fifty thousand dollars year as salary from
law firm, in the city of New York, he steers
into the pudding patches he has his hands on,
and fifty thousand dollars year more as his
salary as president What kind of 6fty-cent
dollar is that?
A lawyer goes to Washington and sells lot
Of talk for SIoo,o as did Choate who was
paid the latter SUM fol his argument i'll the In
come Tax Law case, and surely there was diff
ference 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 receive it, so long
as it will pay one dollar of the debt we owe.
Therefore there is no such thing as fifty-cent
dollar, unless man will deliberately sell us
debt-paying dollar for half dollar in which
case he is foolish and we are financially wise to
buy it, even if we hold it a few moments before
some creditor comes in and beckons it away.
Why do not the people of this country get
down to talking business little while, and if
they have government that can create money
good enough to pay its debts ct little or no
direct cost, in Gods name let lis have it, as the
government has cost the people more than they
bargained for, and it is time it was returning to
those who have footed the bills at least a trihe
of the expenses of the past.
If our government cannot, after all that has
been done for it, and all it has cost it the way
of blood, treasure, life and suffering, return some
profit to people, it should be set aside for a
better one or knocked i'll the head and handed
over to the Rothschild family If the govern
ment should create every dollar of money to
meet all its needs, and use but ten dollars worth
of paper and all the rest fat having nothing
bat a substance that can carry the money de-
claration, it would still be billions of dollars in
debt to the people who borned and brought it
up-Pomeroy' Advance Thought.
Don't forget that system of government