The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-20

may appear rs n staitli statement but
just SO long as government makes'noney.
clrculates It indiscriminately through
banks anu channels of trade to purchase
the wealth of people, inst so long will
inc wealth be at the mercy of the pur-
chasing agent: and just so long as the
government draws upon gold for its needs
instead.of upon the people, Just SO long
will gold or any other commodity he nt
premium, and to.that extent will the
products of the people be at IL discount.
Under the leg,l tender act gold is made
the great object of desire-is made king
Oh all products. while as matter of com
mon sense, wealth should be the object
and as a II after of fact the people who
make the wealth should make the money.
because money should only he the repre-.
sentative of wealth aud simply n method
LOT the interchange of wealth, of no value
Oh ITSELF anu yet by the law money is
MADE the purchaser of wealth. The two
are made to separate and become antng
onistic. their Interests directly opposite
the business of one being to get all it.
possibly can for rs little, the other to
give as little. AS said, the man who
creates the wealth should he the one to
make his money, whereas the govern
ment who makes nothing. who creates
no wealth within itself, is the power that
makes the money to bay the toll of the
iaoorer and for its expenses draws upon
Rold,a scarce article that can be produced
by no labor, that cannot ever be com
mon wealth, instead OF drawing upon the
bone and muscle, wealth that every citi-
zen unuer its government has, and bv
means oil which they can pay their own
debts and that of their government. and
by means of which they do paw every
thing Yet they are made 20 do so at n
great loss in order that the legal Gender
owners may get their sweat and toll in
the shape Of interest and by this means
own eventually all of the wealth. Labor
is forced to give hundreds Of pounds of
sweat for an ounce OF gold: but more
anon.
will close with one mora idea and
possibly mt some future time outline Il
plan whereby labor would receive the full
benefits of its effort aud build up wealth
tor itself instead of for drones During
the late war the Government drew upon
its people for it's expenses, ".and paid its
armies in the field. This money circul.
ated, paid for blood back through the
channels OF. trade; and regardless of the
statements of capitalists. although this
country was engaged in bloody war
with one million of men in the field en-.
gaged in destruction, yet the remarkable
fact stands that when the government
drew upon its people the section through
which this money circulated grew enor-
mously wealthy; but the capitalists OF
this country were not satisfied for the
country to get along without them. They
saw that if the country did their work
without their aid then they would be
compelled to toll, and then it was that
our Government was made to draw upon
gold and silver for its expenses 1t was
induced TO issue bonds to place every
man, woman and child under BONDAGE, in
slavery. to lot of bondnolders It. sold
those bonds at 30 cents OF the dollar-iu
other words, it paid ten cents upnn every
dollar to go in debt, to pay Il debt to stay
in Debt, in order that certain holders of
gold night mai o other men sweat and
toll for them. You say that greenhacks
had deprecated. Certainly they had, rs
they ought to have done. After having
discharged the functions for which they
were issued they were worthless, but
still allowed to circulate. when they
ought to have been cancelled the moment
they had performed their duty. And
here was the mistake. Having been based
upon the wealth of the people and having
purchased that wealth they had perform
ed t. cir duty. and when returned to the
government in the shape of taxes and so
forth they should have been cancelled,
and when the government needed more,
again should they have drawn upon the
people for their support, giving the peo-
pie protection IN return for their wealth.
instead of going to n foreign source and
forcing the people to pay their taxes with
an article that none had and could not
produce.
Bat enough for the present. My letter
is already too long and the subject too
extensive to develope in one effort, SO l
will simply throw out these ideas for the
consideration of thinkers With the prom
ise Of fuller ideas in the near future.