The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-15
FOUND READY MADE
COLONEL INGBRsOLL POINTS oUI
THE ORIGIN OF MONEY.

THE ORIGIN OF MONEY.
Money Is tho Creature of Law-Lav
Recognizes What it Finds Already II
Use as Money-Pronises to Pay are No
Money-Bryan's Dollar, Cheap for ~
Debtor and Dear for the Creditor-Th'
Foor-Foot Dollar--Free Coinage "Pros
perity."
Colonel Ingersoli's Chicago speech
which ne is practically repeating
throughout Illinois, deals with the mon
ey question in a thoroughly orlsina
manner. He devotes about one-uniTe
of his speech to the money question: anc
q. third to the tariff, concluding with
revsev of the proposition in the Chicago
n,atAor.n tn substitute the mob for thE
ITnited States supreme court. the Ioi
lowing is that portjos, Of his address De
voted to the money question just as Il
was delivered in Chicago, interruptions
and ali. He said:
MONEY FOUND. NOT MADE.
..,d 1et me first take Jp the money
question. And let us begin at the DEG
rock am going to give you the IDEAS
md facts THAT have influenced me- Ds-
Eeving that what VIII influence tffe VIZ
Influence an average American cltlZsn
/Anpfause). and the first thing 10 pe
right about, if you are Repuon caOi.
and the first thing to be wrong apou
IF YOU are a Democrat, is the oelllIiua y
of money. What is MONEY? IN LIZ
e-sn MAGE money is the product OF ma
ture; money is a part OF nature ~
-oar ever made or created money. II
= he1,oc,5 fire. mower of legislatures and
c,nenessss. It is beyond the power
Of the human race Money 40 'iO] iii''"e
II has to be found
.oEovr -ernern7psr that money is come
thing That man cannot create. 1t is
scnetlIfrrg that man must find 1T rs
"a part of nature. And what else
Money IS something that does not nave
m he redeemed Money is the .redeemer
(Aupnausse.) Anything that has TO be
boistered UP with She promise of an in
ffividuaI OF nation Is not money. They
ar. promises to pay money. Morning
that a, government can print. no matt
ter what picture it may put on 1t, no
matter what words. '1n God We Trust
it is no, money, 1T IS simply a. prom
lse 70 pay.
And vet there are Thousands and
thousands of people who believe THAT
nation can create money. A nation can
no more create money bay law than II
can create corn and wheat and barley
by law. (Applause-) And promise
TO nay money is no nearer money than
a bin of fare is a dinner. Continued
laughter and applause.)
WHAT rs A DOLLAR?
Now, the next question is, what is
a. dollar? There are many statesmen
ogsng over tt1ts country making speech
es from the tafN.eHld OF cars Caughter),
and not one of them knows what q DOL
Tar is: not one OF them knows what
money is.
.rWFsat ss a dollar? I can tell you.
NAughter) Twenty-tflree and twenty
two one-humdredfhs grains Of pure gold
make a, dollar. That is the money 10
day Of the United States. That is the
money today of rthe civilized world.
Twentythree and twenty-five onelhun-
dreiths grains OF pure gold make pure
and honest Dollar. (ApplaCse-) All,
but they say that you can make dol
lars out Of SILVER? I say, Vest, but
when you maize a dollar out of silver
you have got to put a dollars worth OF
silver in silver dollar. (Appla1lse-)
'Tf you make money out of something
else you have got TO put a dollars
worth of something else into the dol
lar II takes q dollars worth Of paper
to make good paper ddIlor. daughter
n S>fs Sr liz,
an iron dollar. and It takes dollar
worth OF silver 20 make a silver dollar.
And lest me ten you another thing
You do not add to the value ofgold by
coming II, amy more than you add to
the value OF wsleat by measuring II, any
more than you add to the value Of
coal by weighing il. Why do you coin
gold? Because every man cannot take
q chemistss outfit with him. daughter
He cannot carry a croible and netort,
scales and acids, end 80 the government
coins II, simply to certify now much
gdld there is IN the piece
GOLD GOOD ALWAYS
'-Thene Is another firing about st. Il
does not make any difference who Is
sues good money. It is just as good
when lazarus issues 1t az when Dives
issues tt. No matter whether the gov
>eIufmezrt is bankrupt that coins it. rhs
money is Just as good. A piece Of GOLD
,oined by the Romans $500 years ago is
, vi az good today as when JULIUS Cae
il rode at the head Of his legions
sal ythSt tine darkness has fallen ovel
sint imam empire, and the empire has
ohe X into crfivioai, But the gold coanet
passed q brightly now as IN Ror1e'f
sNne Gays (Applause.) That /:
palnniest
eooo I Syou issue a bill or not ycG
bu' WIZ sood person behind 10
want sonns money needs no g71aran
.Sioisey c,NA' ,ker; RI is always good
toF, hesos ~ IS NY nations goes dow
no Traocer 90" ma 'reunains forever tn.
90 dust good money ,,o,, l-,,,-,r --S,.4
same Now, then, - - ss.sS<<.
dollar Is; 3 % grains W Se
dollar, no less. H
MONEY A COM. VII
What else Is money! on see TN
is quite a question. VIVA, hs'h , >,
Money Is commodity. Y N5neaS q :
corn are commodities. So S :
the pecusfarity about money be Ns IL
II IL e,uahanseabIe zor al comm ius
But Il So a Commodity; nUtiang
nothing less. When a man giys y
tulshes Of wheat for a dollar IN W
he buys a dollar n gold and the DOH
In gold buys the wheat. Both are ooJn
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