Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-04-30
The Monetary Bugaboo.

| Inc MOuetdIy DhbabCSs
The gold bugs endeaYor TO frighten
the people from due and proper con-
slderatlon and study Of the financial
lquestion, by depicting IT as one so
deep and mysterious, 50 knotty and
complex, that IL takes years and years
OF poring over the midnight oil before
one can comprehend it Ii would
need more than lifetime for anyone
to understand the vast volumes of YER
boslty that have been written upon
the proposition, and that have sue
ceeded only in still further muddling
it.. But the fundamental principles
of right and of justice In this matter.
of what is best for the Nation and for
the people, of what is honest, and fair
and for the welfare Of the masses--a
man need not pore over those long es-
Gays and wade through monuments OF
figures in order to grasp these. Ex-
perience will teach the citizen more
than all the theories Of books-and by
experience has he been dearly taught
that the financial system of this cOun-
try has been a gigantic swindle upon
the 1axpayers for over a quarter of a
century; that, as greenbacks were
iuggled for the aggrandizement of the
few and the robbery of the many, so
is silver being juggled now for the
Same purpose and to the same end:
and that, as the gold gamblers were
forced at last to do justice to the |
greenbacks, so they must be compelled
to restore silver to its rightful hertz
age If this 1Tation would prosper as it
should. Experience and common sense
lre certainly sufficient TO prove to any
ordinary citizen that financial policy
which sweats out the gold for the
and keeps silver back from
lhe mintS In order to give gold iicti-
.ious value, and thereby enhance the
already marvellous profits of the Shy
ocks. is certainly policy which
,ught to be discarded as soon as
,an possibly be done. 1t needs moth
ng more than the light Of history
Ind the torch of experience to prove
hat the gold gamblers are now Jug
ling with silver as they juggled with
-reenbacks and to convince the peO-
lie that a stop should be put TO these
and swindling schemes now
nd forever.
Theoretical essays by college profess
Ors would teach the people that a
carcity of money Is a blessing to the
Masses, but experience and common
ense combine to show them other
rise. You can pile up books on top of 4
Ooks, weave theory after theory, but '
othing can escape the hard facts that
his country needs more money in,
REGULATIONS; that every dollar OF that
loney, no matter Of what material
should be acknowledged
y law as equivalent to every other
Ollar; and that any man within the
lrlsdlctiOm OF the United States
,und guilty of depreciating the face
llue Of any United States money r.
lould be sent TO jail for at least five
ears.
Let this government do business in
business way. There is nothing so :
'mplex about an honest financial
stem that would help the people
I'd throttle the gold gamblers. 1t is
lly the UNANIMOUSLY swindling system
Wall street which needs wealth
sophistries and the abracadabra of
lancial mysteries, TO make IL as
sacred in the eyes of those
no are so awed thereby that they
incapable of stripping the veil
I'm the idol and exposing the -
arlatanism and deception that lie
neath.-SacramentO Bee.