Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-15
WHAT is THE REMEDY?
THERE is BUT ONE AND THAT
IS THE BALLOT.
Opportunities to x st,a start In the World
Grow Less and LssS. The Coy nment
ls nor Performing itS trooper FnnG-
tiOns aud Bar. Arism Threatens Civii-
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quire the reason why there are not as
good opportunities for the Young peo-
pie to marry and live in comfortable
homes as there were when the old peo-
pie were young. There must be some
II reason for this Is it because the
/. young people have become worthless,
or ia it because times are harder than
+ they used to be? If~the former, the
Z. racs,is degenerating, which would be,
indeed, deplorable; il the latter, we
must inquire what has made times
hard, and what is the remedy? If
times are really hard, and there is no
remedy, and they must continue to
grow harder and harder, the dark ages
are again approaching. If there be a
remedy by which the prosperous times
of other days can be restored, is it not
the first duty of every good man and
woman to study the cause of hard times
and help to apply the remedy? If evcry
one would make it his special business
to inquire what is the difficulty in his
own case and find out what is lacking
to give him command of the necessaries
and comforts of life, the work would
be begun. If it should turn out that
nearly everybody should come to the
same conclusion, there would be gen.
eral understanding as to what is. the
matter.
Suppose they should come to the
conclusion that they found it difficult
to procure profitable employment and
to save enough money to provided good
living and make Roadway in the world,
1t would show that money is scarce
and hard to obtain. If they ascer-
tanned that they could not get as much
money for their labor and services as
they formerly did, it would prove that
there are too many laborers and too
much property or not enough money.
II the former, the remedy would be a
severe one. 1t would be necessary to
reduce the number of laborers aud di-
minish production. Such an operation
would be like cutting off boys legs
when they became too long for his pan
falcons, instead of lengthening the
garment
On the other hand, if there is not
money enough, what is the remedy for
that? Is it with the people or with
their government? The government of
every independent nation has the SOW
ereign power to create money. All
governments are so jealous of that
power that if private individuals at
tempt to interfere with it by creating
money, the government holds them
guilty of crime, and, on conviction,
sends them to the penitentiary. The
government makes laws for the collec-
ton of debts, and also makes laws de-
claring in what money debts shall be
paid. We are therefore compelled,
when there is not money enough, to
look to the government, and the govern
ment alone, for relief. Some people
contend that the government has no
right or power to make or create money
except out of the commodity gold.
The gold of the world is held by the
governments and banks of Europe and
New York, and they say we mus: look
TO Europe for relief, and that if Europe
will not let our government have gold
with which to make money the govern
ment is not to blame, because it cannot
make money out of anything else. If
that be so, and if the oddities are right,
there is no remedy and ruin is inevi-
table.
But is it true? Is gold the only
money which the government has
power to create and furnish the peo-
pie? If that be so. when did it become
true that the sovereign power of the
government to create money by law
was confined to the commodity gold?
1t was decided by all the judges OF
England three hundred years ago, in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, that
whatever the royal prerogatiye de-
clared to be money was real money
and would perform all the functions of
money, no matter upon what material
the sovereign stamp of the govern
ment was placed, signifying the SOW
eregin will that 1t should be money.
That decision has never been over
ruled. set aside, or modified in the
slightest degree, and is to this day the
law of England.
The supreme court of the United
States, in the legal tender cases, fol-
lowed that leading case in England,
which is known as the mixed money
case, " and decided that that the gov
eminent of the United States can issue
full legal tender money. printed on
paper, without either gold or silver.
The constitution expressly authorizes
Congress to coin silver into money, as
we'll as gold, and this was done until
1873, when the bill, demonetizing sill
yer, was Struggled through congress,
Is it possible that the act of Congress