Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
MENTAL SCIENCE.

well and he Will be we'll. L am JOld
there are many brainy people who
accept this teaching as true. There
can be no great objection for the indul
gence of this fad, for it is impossible.
Their diseases are really, us they think,
mere creations of the brain. An imag
mary sickness, is sometimes as hard to
handle as real one. and if the new
doctor can get his patients to think
their sickness is imaginary, he will
be doing his patient IL real service.
But the most of men know that pain
is a real thing, and that sickness is a
real thing, and that no amount of brain
can make q realty into n nonentity or Il
sick body into well one. Along side
of this new philosophy of doctoriug aud
akin to it is the new science of tinan
ceering which proposes TO make values
by similar process of thinking, think
dollar is dollar and it is dollar.
| But as creditors are very apt to be
governed by practical sort of philoso-
ply that requires REAL not IDEAL dol
lars to satisfy their claims, the new
| fnanceers want the government to put
legal compulsion on the realists to be
satisfied with unreal or fiat dollars.
So all this unreal money is stamped
Legal Tender"-culled money made
by law. During the late war the neces-
stiles of Government compelled it to
iSsua NnTrC nrnmiSipu to pay ,11Onav
at some future day and stamped them
Legal Tender. 1t was necessity of
war and nobody was deceived into
thinking they were money, as on their
face they promises to pay IDOL
lars" But being Legal Tender, the
creditor was compelled to take them in
lieu of money, which was his due.
Some hard hearted creditors in Texas,
money, would not take them in payment
of his debt. Probably because he was
not brainy enough, and sued his debtor
for money" as money" which his
debt called for was more than the value
of green back Legal Tender with which
the debtor had proposed TO pay the
debt. If the creditor had waited he
could have got his Legal Tender,
green backs in dollars, real money
as the government had promised on
their fnce to do. This method of rails
ing means with which to carry on the
war is considered usually as Il forced
loan, and by the Supreme Court pro-
longed legally, only, as war measure.
But there was no imagination about it.
The people did not take the Legal Ten
der green backs, thinking the govern
ment made MONEY, or created values,
but took them as PROMISES TO PAY
MONEY when the war was over.
This successful experiment in bor-
rowing from the people Is to be cred
,, tied as the possible source of the scheme
of the new tinanceers to make in time
of peace a new issue of Legal tenders in
ordei' to raise the price of silver from
80 to 129 cents per ounce. In other
words, 10 make forced loan from the
people of about AZ cents on the dollar.
The silver is to be coined, CALLED A
DOLLAR, made legal tender for the
payment of all debJs, without any prom
ise of redemption by real money of
Standard value. 1t does not say that
Government will redeem this silver
dollar which cannot pass in the pay
ment OF debts, without the compuslon
OF law which is coined by the legal ten
der clause of the law creating the so
called dollar. Only think you arc
cured and you are cured; says the doc
tor OF the new mental science. Aud
the doctors in finance, knowing there
always will be hard headed men who
know what real values are and who
can't be made to think coin dollar,
though it bears such declaration on
its face when they know that it has no
such real value, put on the Legal ten
der clause to compel the intelligent
creditor to take them for dollars. And
there are "brainy people," who think
such iinanceering lin times of peace)
will cure all the financial troubles of
the times. 1t was said of old, II hate
robbery for burnt Offering" and rob-
berry by law is not less hateful, than
robbery by stealth, and in such a case
as this, it is more hateful, as it makes
Il government that has gained II reputa-
tion for ability and willingness to pay
every dollar of It's Indebtedness in good
dollars, sort OF Stool Pigeon by which
to deceive the people into the idea,
that the FIRST SILVER DOLLAR is a