The Red Cloud chief., 1896-09-04

tllV lNdl ahOlHIhg WIN lU' HvN'lNHl'h
stamp on j., good money" | care not
t. enter into argument of grecuback
ISM with anybody rs that IS adcad issue.
Gone 10 these masy gears. ! will ad-
nit, though, that the populist idea OF
flee silver is that il Is one step nearer
to their cherished hope. will quote
Mr.. Robt. Ingersoll on this question rs
he spoke in old %greenback days:
"YOu cannot make money by resolv.
ing, and you cannot make money by
law, any more than you can make oats
aud corn by resolution in a political
meeting. Lord, Lord, ! wish you
could. ] wish this government could
make money. What rich nation we
would be. II the government can
make money why does it collect taxesY
Why should the sun borrow u candle'
Why is a poor man working upon his
farm a whole year through rain and
shine and storm, day and night, and at
the end Of the year people come to him
and want sl25 taxesY II the govern
ment can make thousand dollar bill
in a second, why should it follow up
that poor man? I wish this govern.
ment could make money, and that |
could get my share Of it. regret that
the Aladdin place made by the green.
back party consisted only Of g!Orified
mist. | am sorry that its dome was
only "a RAINBOW Of hope, ] wish it had
been u reality. wish the government
could make money out Of paper, 50
that the Injuries of tho world would DO
Mt Americas feet. | wish we could
make money so that We could put
every poor man in q palace. wish we
could make money SO that our life
would be a continual and perpetual
feast. But the trouble is, we cannot.
That is the trouble"
Mr.. Carpenter asks me to cite him TO
some instances whore poor money
have made hard times. might go on
and call his attention to u number OF
them both in our country and in
other countries but | will only recall
one at present and then il he wants
more I will send him a list OF them.
Something over four hundred years
ago IN England the king was harrassed
by debts and in oider to make it easy
for him to pay them the ratio of coin
age was changed from II To 81 to one,
that is 80 cent dollars II half pound
pounds.
Here is what great English historian
says in relation To this matter. Vol. D,
p. ll3, chap. %, Froude's History OF
Grca, Britain: Meantime the money
theorists, three centuries before thci,
time, distracted him (the Protector,
Edward VII with their tempting
speculation. Why should money
cause the dcarth?" men said. "Why
should not it be taken rs it is proclaim
eds" What il it were copper? VIVA
if it were lead? What il it wer,
leather'" as it not all enc, seeing i
$ for M other than exchange? 81
money was plenty all things would b'
plenty the greater the abundance q
money the greater abundance Of every
thing. Three parts Of the realm ont o
four were better for the multiplied
ton" And in chap. %, page 267, vii
liam Lane said to Lord Cecil cuncer
ing new coin t. be issued: And tn,
= ike Of the mischief happened here il
England in the months of June, Jul,
= and August last, in the which tire,
months men carried cut If Englan,
not Sc litlle ~ tlOO, 900 nf gold tan,
yet silver lNl come into England a
n fast, and all frr iii. private gain |,
~ coming the silver for that the p"uu,
Of gold is richer than The pound u
white money, that shortly we shall b
quit Of all II rich money for II has
coin and then shall follow a create
fall Of the exchange, which is tn
n father of all dearth of almost all thing
" that maj occupieth. II we in Englan
shall coin six years tn come 81 niue
white metal as we have done in 81
: years past of the value that nov goet
the plentifulness of the money and I'll
q baseness thereof together shall brin
4 our commonwealth To that pass that
10 you should give a poor man ,hr,
= shillings for his days labor, yet yo
" should scarce pay him such a hire as /
might live thereof which God defer
= shall come to pass
do not know what Mr.. Carpent,
Il, means by saying that | have ney,
n. seen any poor money or nc 81 cent Il,
ne lar. | have seen it not longer az
be than last week. was offered IL
~ Mexican dollars for ~, 10. | have Sc,
u. our W money, trade dollars, pass I
to 90 cents many aud many a time.
have seen although ! was too young
cr remember much about i) l.. :. gree
er backs pass for less than 30 cents on /