Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-08-06
HENDRIX'S
WITTY SPEECH.
b4E MAKES A HUMOROUS SPEECH
ON MONEY TO MOROCCO
MANUFACTURERS.
0iad They Are Not Asking to Have Leather
Rsmooctt,sd-Tslh why Clam Shells
We're Observation-Disclosures and Evo-
iukaoa Advaneing Toward = Single Stand
ard In Everything-P.ish In Americas
Intslllgssos.

m In Everything-Faish In Americas
EIassalissses.
The 5noe and Leather Reporter pub
pi1hes the following speech made By tbs
Hon Joseph @ Hendrix at the dinner
II the National Morocco Manufacturers
hasociation Of the United States at Man
haitian Beach early this month:
Dir. PRESIDENT AHD GENTIRMEN-I
am glad to see you, men OF small
brains and large capital" lam glad al
ways TO face successful men in an Amer
joan industry. You represent a trade
which years ago furnished material for
the money instrument. There was
leather money onoe and plenty Of it.
You have new set mp any cry because
of the decentralization Of leather, never
asked redress for the crime Of the
abandonment of the use of leather as
money. You do not now ask for its re-
monetization.
Mr.. Stein-Eor for free tannage.
Mr.. Hendrix-Noi Therefore, / have
great respect for two people, the North
American Indian and the morocco man.
ufacturer. Along these sand dunes from
Manhattan to Montauk point, the anti
quarian can point to great heaps Of
shells where the old squaws used to sit
and practice the free coinage of wan.
pun. After awhile a smart Yankee in
vented q turning lathe which trans
formed the clam shells into money too
fast. This led to the decentralization Of
'the Long Island clam. [Laughter. The
poor Indian has passed of to the plains
and we hear no more of the free coinage
of CLAIMS.
These are simply evolutionary steps.
You look back IL the beginnings of
your industry and marvel at the changes.
The world advances. Civilization re-
fines. Commerce requires exact terms
and measures. 1t insists upon certainty,
fixity in the standard of values. 1t must
have something upon which it can de-
pend. 1t has found ont that it must de-
pend upon some one thing. That is why
dt has veered to the single standard. 1t
has quit stepping from one standard to
the other. 1t makes its election. 1t votes
for gold because OF its great value in
Sliaai compass anu Decauss oi tne nAlty
of that value. So it is that one great
nation after another, under the com
mand of its best intelligence, has come
to the gold standard. 1t is because they
have found it the cheapest, best and
most effective standard by which to
measure al values.
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Nhat does q meanf -
us primary slgnlhcanceF lt comes from
an old latin word meaning something
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tlon OK nance ia Y oIHerent lights.
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w standard OF value. 1hat standard
must nave Vaiue. We choose for the
the Aletal when Aactuates the
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me goa sIahaaIa' tCneers.
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thas ne gola STANDARD ~ british pol
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us couhlIy. b1a 2 ever near any
enins apoaS bIatlsh poIlcy IA oo1nectlon
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