Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-18
A SUPREME HUMBUG.
THAT is WHAT THE CRY OF
SOUND MONEY is.
It is scheme of the Money Gamblers
Only and Designed to Bunko the Peo-
ple-The TreasonabIs Sentiment. n,
Wall street Exposed.

Southern Mercury: The supreme
humbug Of the age is the cry for
Sound money"
IL Is the offspring of infamy--the
child of the gold gamblers and usury
grabbers.
NO money can be sound unless tho
government issuing it is sound.
No sound government can issue an
unsound currency.
Those who now cry sound money"
DO not want currency that is sound.
They want a system OF finances that
Will enable them to grow fat off of a
plundered people.
The idea of a demand for sound and
honest dealing coming up from the
Wall street den Of thieves is ridicu-
lous.
The sound money hypocrites claim
that no currency is sound unless the
lace value of it, at market rates, in
heres in the money.
To maintain this condition is an ut
Ter impossiblity, TO matter il the
money is composed of gold, because
no power on earth can prevent a fluc-
tuation in the price of any metal.
Mr.. Cariislo's claim is that govern
ments cannot make money, that it is
the province of commerce and trade,
and that nothing is money unless the
material out Of which it is composed
possesses commercial value.
Then, it is claimed by the same class
OF subsidized thinkers that no money is
sound unless it is clothed with the pow
er to circulate as such internationally.
This calls into question variety OF
money that never did exist.
One nation may clotEe the currency
of another nation with monetary func-
tions and legal tender qualities, but
that result Is wholly accomplished by
law. Without the law, it would only
be commodity outside of the country
issuing it.
The money gamblers would have the
people believe the falsehood that Amer
lean gold currency circulates as money
in France or England. This is abb
solutely untrue
American gold currency cannot cir.
culate in England as money because
1t lacks the fneness of English gold
currency. American gold currency is
nine-tenths fine. and English gold
money is eleven-twelfths fine.
Hence American gold money only
circulates in England by weight, abb
solutely regardless of the money
stamp il may bear. Our money is
commodity as soon as it reaches a
foreign shore.
Gold and silver currency passes in
this country at it's face value because
the law is behind it just the same as
1t Is behind the greenbacks. and pro-
duces a dollar out of a piece of almost
valueless paper
AS matter of fact nothing is money.
no matter Of what substance it is COM
posed, without the fiat OF the govern
ment to back it. The law is absolutely
necessary to make money. This is
as true as gospel, no matter what bank
ers or money gamblers may say to the
contrary.
There is about one-tenth less silver
I'm two hale dollars than in dollar.
but two half dollars make dollar.
simpy because the law says they shall
be a dollar.
Twenty nicl>les are a dollar, yet they
contain only about - cents worth OF
metal at the market valuation. The
law. says twenty rickles shall be equal
in debt-paying power to a dollar, and
hence they have this power.
A careful study of the money ques-
tion will show that this claim for
''sound money is n demand of the
money gamblers and that there is no
consistency or honesty in it, 1t ia
only designed to buneo the people.