West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-09-17
GOLDEN GEMS
From Patriotic Plutocrat.
BY A. W. FREDERICK.

BY A. ". FREDERICK.
Special Contribution 10 THE ARous.
1.-The common people OF coun-
try are no more capable OF deciding
what kind of money they should
have than a hog is capable of de-
Gliding what kind of man should
feed him. Prom an editorial in
the Corner Stone, the Plutocratic
Prohibition organ Of West Virginia.
An analysis of this golden gem
dlscloses other people IN the back
ground - uncommon people - as
well as common people. The IN
ferential uncommon man is the
"kind OF man" smart enough to
feed the most stupid of animals the
hog. The common man is the hog.
Who are these uncommon people
of high hats and kid gloves who
design to feed the common hogs (?
They are plutocrats who never Gre
ated cents worth of property.
Who are these common swine, the
vulgar herd ? They are the bare
handed toilers who have created the
wealth that the uncommon people
appropriate and enjoy. These com
mon people must not presume to
think for themselves. 1t is not
proper for hog to think. They
must drink from the "sound mon
ey' swill tub without a grunt Of
protest, otherwise they sink to the
dead level of the wild boar OF an
archy, and anarchy belongs to the
free silver shoats that besmirched
themselves with populism in the
Chicago convention.
"Free, unlimited aud independ-
ent coinage at 16 to l would mean
dollars worth only SO cents. The
wage Garner and the man on salary
would be paid IN these, thus cut
ting his income down nearly one
half, and every debtor could pay
his creditors with these deprecated
dollars. From circular Of Sound
Money campaign slush.
There can be no such thing as
SO cent silver dollar on the ancient
and constitutional silver dollar
unit. A silver dollar in purchas-
ing power might be reduced to So
hundredths of what its purchasing
power now is, but in that event
there would likely be two dollars
In circulation then to one now.
Granted the 53-hundredths of the
present purchasing power of the
silver dollar what extent, though
prices rise, are the wage Garner and
the salaried man out and injured !?
Oh, but the debtor is favored and
the creditor is paid in deprecated
money Just herein the money
loaner, poor fellow, insinuates
the awful sense he feels of outraged
justice. But somewhere in Golfer,
till, and vault lie locked up mil
lions of dollars unjust acquisition
on the part os money loaners while
the purchasing power of the dollar
since the grand larceny of. 1873,
was being doubled and twisted
through debts and mortgage loans.
If to right wrong the benefcis-
ries Of the wrong suffer in some
measure, shall for that reason, the
ends Of justice fail and restitut ton
Of the stolen goods never be made?
McKin(g)ley says "the preserva-
ton Of the national honor constr
tutes the great aim and purpose Of
all patriotic American citizens"
National honor works only in one
direction, to the aggrandizemont
Of the money lender. The same
fellows that bought two dollars or
more Of green backs for one dollar
in gold the gold basis bankers
and public plunderers-and invest
ed the greenbacks in gold interest
bearing bonds upon which to build
future loauing and usurious insti-
tutions called national banks, these
same fellows are very "techy"
about "national honor" what
has national honor to do with the
man who steals a dollar by law or
repudiates the payment Of dollar
by law ? Which is the worse Of tho
two menY The man who holds the
bond stole the dollar by operation
Of law from the fellow who earned
it by hard labor; and now when
the fellow who earned that dollar
filehed from him, owes the man Of
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