Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-10-22
INGERsOLLIAN O RAT0RY.
Definitions and Humors of His Chi,
cago Speech. :

cago Speech.
Is this government of law, or is
there an appeal from the supreme court
to a mob.
Money is something that does not
have to be redeemed. Money is the
redeemer.
When the government issued green
backs it was not creating money: it was
getting in debt.
A nation can no more create money
by law than it can create corn and
wheat and barley by law.
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You do not add to the value OF gold
by coming it any more than you add to
the value of wheat by measuring it.
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Who we're the bondholders of the
government? Every man who bought
bond during the war added to the cred
it of the great republic.
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Why is gold valuable? l don't know.
Why do people. love oysters? ! don't
know. For some reason people give a
value to gold and that value is recog-
nized by the law making power.
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"No government can afford to be
clipper of coins. A great republic can
not afford to stamp lie on silver or
gold or paper. Honest money for an
honest people, issued by an honest ma
tion."
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eff the government can make money
bv law-and | would like to have some
good Bryan man answer the question
If the governme II can make money
by law, why should the government
collect taxes?n
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| admit that Bryan is honest. If he
was not his intellectual pride would
no, allow him to say what he does. He
is a populist, a socialist and new
democrat. His head is filled with va
carries and his brain is kind OF po-
litical insane avslum without keeper.
Bondholders are the people who paid
every man that dug a shovel full OF
dirt; they are the people that paid
every man that cut down tie in the
forest; paid every man that dug the ore
paid every man that melted it in the
works and cast it into form. These are
the holders of our railroad bonds DO
those payments make them wretches?
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Good money is always at par, never
at premium and never at discount,
and vet we have a man running for the
presidency on three platforms. with
two vice. presidents. who say money is
creature of law. Law is often the
creature of money, but money never
was, and never will be the creature OF
law. Law is inexhaustable, and it you
can turn law into money no nation has
al excuse for being poor.
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Government does not support the
people; government creates nothing.
The people support the government:
the government is a pauper. 1t raises
no corn, no wheat, digs no gold. The
idea that the government can create
money is just as absurd as the doctrine
of perpetual motion in mechanics; just
as absurd as the fountain Of perpetual
youth, and any man capable OF believ-
ing that money can be created by law
is-incapable of reasoning on any sub
ject whatever.
1--WE want little more sense. There
was time when this government is
ssued greenbacks, and people called
them money, and still we were getting
in debt. We had magnificent times.
But when the time came for payment
then people said: DO not let US pay:
let US issue more greenbacks; we had
good times then: let US keep it up.
But whenever you issue your promise
to pay the day of payment comes, and
when that comes hard times comes
along with it.
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st dpes not make any difference who
issues good money. 1t is just as good
when Lazarus issues it as when Dives
issues it. No matter whether the GOV.
ernmeGtis bankrupt that coins it, the
noney.is just as good. A piece of gold
coined.bY the Romans $500, years ago
is just ,as good today as when Julius
Caesss gGde at the head OF his legions.
Since that time darkness has fallen
over the Eoman empire, aad the en-
pire has passed into obliyion. but the
gold coined shines as brightly now as