The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-29
Thew issued them BIZ the bushel. Was

They issued them By the busbel. Was
the stuff that George Law issued,
known as the George Law bubble
good money in England? If you had
barrels Of cheap money what would
you do with it. They wouldn't take
it at the bank and | wouldn't take 1t
for L lee.
Johnson. I have been telling him
ali the tlme thut hc WAS all wrong;
that what he wanted was good money,
dear money, that will buy twice as
much this year rs it would last. That
is the kiud of money we want. lie
says he wants money OF the same
value all the time. What do you
think OF him? He says he don't want
to pay, When he pays his mortgage,
money that costs any more to set OF
either labor or property than the
money l:e borrowed. He don't see
the advantage OF the growing pur-
chasing power os money, nor can he
see how beneficial it is to have every
thing else cheap lie don't even ap-
preciate the lesson of economy which
our good President is teaching
Lawyer. johnson, your head is
level. you know that all we want Is the
quality Of money. It don't make
any difference about the quantity.
One dollar of the right quality is bet.
ter than a thousand dollars OF bad
money. Good money is What we
want. Unless money IS good money,
the more you have of it the worse OF
you are.
Farmer. But isn't the silver dol
lar good money? II not why did the
Constitution provide for coming it,
and why was it always used when l
was boy and when tunes were good?
Ne thought it mighty good money
then and we had good times when we
had plenty OF SILVER, aud they tell me
it was used for tLous lnds Of years.
Why do you pretend that it is aIl the
satuc as Confederate money? | thought
the difficulty about the Confederate
money WAS they issued 1t IN quan.
titles without rhyme or reason, and
sh@ government busted up and there
Was nobody to father it, 50 it was not
lucuey ut ali. | heard i. gentleman
making Il silver speech the other
night, and he talked very senslbly.
lie SAID that money was the creation
of law; that Aristotle said SO more
THAN two thousand years ago and
that silver was good money as long
as it could lie coined at the mint and
the law made it a legal tender. But
Wien ltscou!dnt be coined at the
mint then the silver itself wasn't
money at all In fact, silver itself
never was money. Gold bullion amt
money. You have got to have the
stamp of the government on it. When
you could take silver bullion to the
mint and have it coined it was just a.
souu as gold bullion. remember
That very we'll. You are talking very
ioollsniy wuen you compare good
silver money coined at the mint by
the great government of the United
States to the paper of a busted up
Cou1ederacy or the Geo. Law bubble
or the repudia;ed assignats of France.
Lawyer. 1t seems to me you talk
very loolishly. Don't you know that
silver is only worth 50 cents and the
silver dollar is 50 cent dollar?
Farmer. No, l don't know any
thing OF the kind. can get just as
much with silver dollar as can
With gold dollar, but the trouble is
the United States, after taking the
right to coin money away from the
States, won't coin 1t for the people,
and silver that cannot be coined oi
course ain worth as much as gold
that c&u be coined, because there
IS L great deul of silver aud great
deal OF gold that IS III use Ill the arts
auI What the arts don't consume there
Is no use for except for coin, and
when you stop coming it you make
it cheup. You open the mints as they
always We're to silver just the same as
gold, and silver bullion will be just
as good as gold bullion, just as it was
for four thousand years as they tell
me, just as it was as long as l can
remember.
LAWYER Tue silver dollars in cir
cuIation ure as good as gold dollars
because the government has agreed
TO pay gold dollars for them whenever
tLey are presented, just the same as
the government Las agreed to give
solI. dollars for greenbacks aud other
treasury notes. The silver dollars
wouldn't be worth anything unless
the government would pay gold dol
lars for them any more than the pa
per would.
Farmer. Squire, you are all wrong
or that man was the biggest liar on
earth who talked the other light
about silver. He said that the sill
yer dollar and the silver certificates
were not redeemuble in gold; that
the law made Ill The silver dollars
that are coined independent to stand
alone as silver dollars just the same
as gold dollars, and that the silver
certificates were by law redeemable
in tie silver dollars and not IL the
gold dollars, and that all the silver
dollars and all the silver certificates
stood on silver coin and stood alone
or that, and squire, he read the
statutes, saying that very thing. Now
did the statute lie, or are you trying
to hoodoo NE?