Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-20
OBSERVATIONS By A PRINT
ON THE TALKED-To-DEATH SUBJECT
OF MONEY
some Facts About Money at Home and
Abroad that May Help the Early Seeker
After Truth and Light

Abroad that May Help the Early Seeker
After Truth and Light
Every transaction of life is so in
fluenced by money-the money one
has is so influenced by every transac-
ton OF life, that we are prone to bring
every fortune and every misfortune
of oar lives and lay them at the door
of the god of money, crying out that
he irresponsible for his children, and
he alone.
Is there an i'll that you now have
that could not have been successfully
averted or removed if you only had
the money? None, probably. that you
can think Of True, the rich have
some Heterogeneous and not little
trouble; but you have notion that
their sufferings are purely imagin-
airy. How we pant for money! and
grumble because it eludes our grasp:
not because we are misery, but be-
cause we need it to buy our way out
OF troublous bondage. Poverty brings
derision upon the wise, weakness
upon the giant, melancholy upon the
lioht of heart, whitening death upon
the ambitions of all men. And so,
we want money; and so, somebody or
something is to be blamed if we do
not get it.
The farmer receives a low price for
his oats and is naturally looking for
the cause. An individual, who is
either ignorant of what he asserts or
who designedlv misrepresents, is close
at hand to tell him that his misfortune
is caused by lack of circulating money;
that there is little silver in circulation
and that there is so little gold in the
world that bankers hoard it up to pro-
duce condition of misery and want
so that they may reap harvest by
loaning it out at full rate OF lawful IN
terest with 10 or 20 per cent. bonus
attached Easy it is for the farmer
70 believe this statement. In want of
money himself, it requires little effort
to imagine this scarcity in the pockets
of every one else.
A few moments thought on the part
of our farmer friend will cause him to
lop away from the money-tree the
creepers of low oats, low horses and
bankers golden hoardings. A banker
deals in money just as butcher deals
in meat. He trusts out his money
as the grocer trusts out his sugar.
If YOU fail to pay, the banker has to
appear in court to foreclose the mort
gage and procure judgment as the
grocer must appear to sue you to OBJ
tain Judgment, and both are required
by law to give you ample notice so
that you may appear in court, when
if the banker has taken unlawful adj
vantage of you and you can prove it
YOU can make him suffer for it. 1t is
to the interest of bankers as well as
butchers to have their customers pros
per so that they may be able to pay
the money thew owe without having
to 90 to court. because in lawsuit of
that kind both the man who loans
and the man who borrows loses money
and the banker also loses his custom
err. so that the banker virtually kills
golden goose every time he closes on
a man.
Within circle of one-half mile
from and around the HERALD office
there are one hundred bicycles. CThe
writer has counted them They
represent one hundred horses-per-
haps more, as not all OF our bicycle
riders would be willing to drive just
a single horse, but to keep within
bounds we will say one hundred hors-
es. If this is true, then that number
of horses have been retired from use,
and consequently life. These dead
horses would eat $4,000 quarts or
6,s433 bushels of oats year, feeding
6quarts day to each horse. This
one little item alone causes a loss to
farmers around Lancaster of $4,000.
Being town horses their owners would
be forced to buy of farmers 800 tons
Of hay at cost of s. ton-$2, 400.
Then there would be straw for bed
ding which would cost 800 more.
$4,000. 90 is a low estimate on this one
item. Formerly hundreds of thou
sands OF horses have been shipped
into larger cities every year to draw