Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-08
THE DOLLAR OF THE DADDIES.

| lie Is going 10 sell more IMAM he Uuys
and thus get ahead of the world by the
use of deprecated and fiuctuating
currency, we commend to him the fol-
lowing words of Daniel Webster:
"Sir, pronounce the author of such
sentiments to be guilty of attempting a
detestable fraud on the community; a
double fraud; fraud which is to cheat
men out of their property and out of
the earnings of their labor by first
cheating them out of their understand
ings.
THE natural hatred Of the poor to
the rich.' Sir, it shall not be till the
last moment of my existence; it shall
only be when l am drawn to the verge
of oblivion, when shall cease to have
respect or affection for anything on
earth, that / will believe the people of
the United States capable of being
effectually deluded, cajoled, and driven
about in herds by such abominal frauds
as this. If they shall sink to that
point, if they so far cease to be men as
to yield to such pretences and such
clamor, they will be slaves already;
slaves to their own passions, slaves to
the fraud and knavery of pretended
friends.
"'The natural hatred of the poor
against the rich The danger of a
moneyed aristocracy.' Sir, admonish
every intelligent laborer in the country
to be on his guard against such delu-
sions. tell him the attempt is to play
off his passions against his interest,
and to prevail on him in the name of
liberty to destroy all the fruits of liber-
ty, in the name of patriotism to injure
and affiict his country, in the name of
his own independence to destroy that
very independence, and make him a
beggar and slave.
HAS he dollar? He is advised to
do that which will destroy half its
value. Has he hands to labor? Let
him rather fold them and sit still than
be pushed on by fraud and artifice to
support measures which will render his
labor useless and hopeless.
"Sir, the very man of all others who
has the deepest interest in sound cur
rency, who suffers most by mischievous
legislation in money matters, is the
man who earns his daily bread by his
daily toll. A deprecated currency,
sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling between morning and noon,
and falling still lower between noon
and night-these things constitute the
very harvest time ofspeculators, and of
the whole race of those who are at once
idle and crafty, and of that other race,
too, the Catilines of all times, marked
so as to be known forever, by one
stroke of the historians pen, those
greedy of other mems property and
prodical of their own
Capitalists, too, may outlive such
times; they may either prey on the
earnings of labor, by their cent. per
cent, or they may hoard. But the
laboring man, what can they hoard?
Preying on nobody he becomes the
prey of all. His property is in his
hands. His reliance, his productive
freehold, his all, his labor. Whether
he work on his own small capital or
another's, his living is still earned by
his industry; and when the money of
the country becomes deprecated and
debased, whether it be adulterated coin
or paper without credit, that industry
is robbed of it's reward. He then
labors for country whose laws cheat
him out of his bread.
~ would say to every owner of every
quarter section of land i'm the West, 1
would say to every man in the East
who follows his own plough, and to
every mechanic, artisan, and laborer
in every city in the country-I would
say to every man, everywhere, who
wishes by honest means to gain an
honest living, Beware of wolves in
sleeps clothing Whoever attempts
under whatever popular cry, to shake
the stability of the public currency,
bring on distress inlmOney matters, and
drive the country into the use of de-
preciated money, stabs your interest
and your happiness to the heart"
THE American girl is rich as far as
ideas are concerned, is quick-witted,
and ought to be sufficiently eager, be-
cause she is an American girl, to speak
correctly" writes Ruth Ashmore in
September Ladies' Home Journal in
an article to girls on speaking correctly
and avoiding the use of slang. "She
need not be prig, she need not sug-
gest the schoolroOm, but she should
speak intelligently and correctly.
There are two books to which my girls
may always turn for English undefield:
first, the Bible; second, the works of
Shakespeare. Vulgar language sug-
gests a vulgar mind, therefore, my
Dorothy, be careful about your speech.
Let your words mirror beautiful
thoughts, and when Prince Charming
is strolling through that wood in which
the grammar tree grows he will know
that you surely are the princess, for in
your answer to him there will be
diamonds and pearls, in the form of
pure English, coming from YOUR lips,