The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-06-17
4 DIALOGUE BETWEEN \ BANK
Err AND A FARMER.

4 DIALOGUE BETWEEN \ BANK
Err AND \ FARMER.
Banker. Did YOU receive notice
That the interest on the mortgage on
your farm is overdue nearly a month,
and that tie banl; has strict orders
to foreclose the mortgage unless the
interest is promptly paid:
Farmer. I received notice, and i
have been trying Tor thc iast two
months to sell something 10 ge; lncn'
ey to i,;;I tbat interest. I lave some
good horses, which / could have sold
a year or two ago for a fair price:
bat now 1 can't give them away.
bad to sell my wheat crop TO pay tie
help / hired and to pay for fertilizers
used in raising the wheat. That took
all I could get for the wheat.
didn't have cent left for any othel
purpose. I had ten very line mi!cl
COWS. I sold five of them last fall tG
par my taxes, which were the o"!l
things I could sell, aad I had to lei
the buyers pick the best Of them
This deprived me OF the little money
nv Wife haa made by Sc ling butter
tie other ii:e l have been trying tt
sell to pay tie interest on the mort
gage, but it is impossible to find ;
purchaser.
Banker. Do yoa know what make:
nil this trouble?
Farmer. 10, I do not.
Banker. Well, I Will tell you
There are :: lot .? silver fanatics i,
this country who are trying TO De
stroy confidence and compel tie gov
ernment TO coin fifty cent dollars fol
the benefit OF silver miners. That *
what is The matter That is why the
bank has orders to forclose your
mortgage if YOU don't pay the inter
est I am told on good authority
that you went to silver meeting las
month and voted for a resolution il
favor of tie free and unlimited coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to l
II that is true, you ought to lie sole
out. Why, you ought to be sold ou
and sent 10 prison should you attemp
to defraud innocent and honest cred
itors who loan money on farms foi
tie sole benefit of the farmer.
Farmer. That is pretty hard.
was told by 4 man we all think ;
great dea! OF, Jadge Jones, that tho
United States and all the world made
money oat Of both gold and silver
until 1873, and when they made
money out Of both tLe metals MONEY
was plentier than it is now. I know
it was pleatier, because I bought IL,
farm on credit, and went i'll dc',t fol
the whole of it, and paid for it ii
eight years from what I raised on the
farm. Ny wife and myself Lad tc
work pretty hard, but We paid every.
thing up and were out of debt TWEEN
ty years ago. The money that 7 bad
to borrow was to pay taxes and tc
send my children TO school.
thought when | borrowed tba money
good times would come again, and ]
could pay eff the debt just as I paid
for rly flr.n, bat find that money is
getting scarcer all the time, and it is
impossible now for me to sell any
thing off my farm and pay this utter
est, much less to pay the principal.
Banker That is all your own
fault. Complaining about the jus;
laws Of Congress and the policy of q
just government. 1t destroys conf.
denca ana makes tines hard. Makes
the honest creditors want theil
money.
Farmer. But they seil me money
is growing dearer than it was.
Banker That is nonseuse. The
value Of money depends upon what
it IS made Of, no5 the quantity. Take
for example Il ercenback II is made
out of a particular kind OF paper. J;
you should make the slightest yaria-
ton of the paper the greeubacl;
wouldn't be worth , cent. It is the
paper that makes the greep5acL
good.
Farmer. Where does the govern
ment get the paper?
Banker The government buys it
of !. particular firm, which makes it
in particular kind of way, in par
ticnlarly shaped room. The slightest
variation in the shape OF the room
VIII destroy the money HE trouble
with yoa is You haven't stu.lied and
don't understand the benevolent de-
signs Of the government in making a
paper of that particular kind.
Farmer. Does the government
have to pay an extra price for the
paper?
Banker. Oh, yes. the parties who
make this paper have grown enor-
mous!y rich, because the outside
world don't know he secret Of max
ing the same sind of paper. They
don't know how inuvh depends upon
the size and shape Of the room, if
they did there would be comDeti-