The Louisiana populist., 1896-01-03
SCIENCE OF MONEY.
ONE OF THE ABLEST ARTICLES
YET WRITTEN.
"Money Is a Redeemer. Hence Needs no
Redemption"-As Legal Tender its
Legitimate Function and Business is to
Exchange Products and Pay Debts.

Money is only creation of law. a
device necessary to civilization, and
when understood by the people will re-
suit in it. Money is not unit of value
nor measure Of value. nor a stand
ard of value. Why? Because value
is only an estimate by the mind.
Hence there are just as many stand
ards of value as there are minds to
estimate. Money is standard o.
payment by virtue of law-the law OF
legal tender--it is a dcnominatOr of
price. AS legal tender its legiti-
mate function and business is to
exchange products and pay debts.
Money is u redeemer, hence needs no
redemption. 1t performs the work of
a redeemer in the case of a note of
hand, city, county or state bond. 1t
proceeds from national authority,
which is its creator, and when gov
crnment issues bond to be redeemed.
it abdicates its sovereignty and admits
what all traitors to God and man have
in all ages asserted, namely, divine
right; and right here is where fraud
and contrivance appears in gov
ernment. Divine writers have
always asserted that greenbacks are
a debt, and that by the act creating
them the government created a debt.
As well say that God got in debt to
himself when he made the universe.
Divine writer's will agree with us that
law governs atoms and atomspheres
and all things else: But they claim that
money is forever after the priesthood
of Melchisadec and above thrones.
dominous. principalities and powers,
and this worship of a fetch is the idol
itary that constitutes the crime of this
age and will end in national death.
Its babylon, the mystery of
inquiry, the mother of har-
lots, and the abomination of the
earth. This mystery is nothing but
Ignorance, and combined with it is
arrogance, which arrogance to-day
dominates the press, the pulpit, the
rostrum, the forum. In short, all
are PROSTATE before it save the DO
litical elect that cannot be deceived.
This elect is the only hope of the
race. 1t is the Peoples party and
Notwithstanding the enemy are trying
to divide and conquer it, its flag is
still there, and neither can goldbugs,
silverbugs, straddlebugs, nor humbugs
divert it from the infiexiblc pur-
pose-the elevation of the race. And
to you who have followed and are still
following blind leaders, and at same
time trying to lead the Populists into
the camp of the enemy, let me say, you
have for 10, these many years been in
the saddle, and your work is before us,
and the result is bankruptcy and debt,
privation, sorrow and suffering ma
tional decay and death; and the only
thing left you is Oblivion, and my ad-
vice to you would be to retire from
public life, and in sackcloth and ashes
repent and prepare to meet your God,
or make the best possible terms you
can with the devil, and get ready for
death and judgment.
To the Populists | have this 10 say:
Be firm, faulter not an instant. The
future with its great Possibilities, is in
your keeping. Let land, transporta-
tion and money be your battle cry in
1896, and so sure as man is capable of
if we have not already
committed the objectionable sin and
forfeited our right to national exist
ence, We will in time win the greatest
battle of the ages, the battle of arma-
gedden, the last great battle of proph-
ecy. We can neither avoid it or laugh |
it off. Let us meet it like men, and |
may the God of destiny speed the day
of observance and birth OF genuine |
Hindman, in
Southern Mercury.