People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1898-01-21
Continued fro m last week.


Anomalies of Money.
First-To redeem a gold piece, erase
the stamp; to redeem a greenbsck,
pay it. which can only be done by the
sovereign.
Second-While bearing the seal of
the sovereign money can never be made
the personal property of an individual.
Debts of the Sovereign the Best Money.
Third have shown that the debts
OF the sovereign serve equally as we'll
as his wealth for the purposes of mon
ey. Why not use his debts alone for
money, and forever free us from the
blasting, blighting, whitening curse of
gold and her full sister in infamy, sill
yer?
Money Never Pays Debt In Full
Fourth-It is full legal tender for
al debts, and while the person pay ing
it over has paid his indie btedness in full,
and is relieved of all future respon ST.
bility, the person receiving it is not
paid, in the full sense of the word, and
never will be till he parts with the
money for some commodity having
worth or value, no matter what. The
only exception to this is when money
is paid by the subject to the sovereign,
ARD then it is a full and final payment.
All Trade is Barter.
Fifth-All home trade is a barter
transaction in which money can be
used, but all foreign traffic is entirely
barter transaction where values or
worths have been given over and
values or worths must be retu rned,
money being of no force or use.
Money an Instrum emit of Utility.
Slxth-A trade where money has
been promised and paid differs in no
sense from simple barter, except that
TIE utility of money has been called in
to effect the exchange of values or
ySrths. In the end it is simple barter
TMe Sovereign Did Not Give b Value for
His Wheat.
Seventh-When the sovereign in the
exercise of his autocratic powers arbi-
trarily forced a twenty-dollar green
back upon B in full payment for TWEEN
ty bushels of wheat he in no sense ten
dered value, but he really did ap-
point B an officer of his own, and en-
powered him, equally with himself, to
exercise one of the highest attributes
of sovereignty. BIS warrant of Office
was the greenback; the power delega-
ted to him was to cancel or execute
debt whenever found in the realm of
the sovereign, without other process of
law, to the amount of twenty dollars,
So long as he held that greenback so
long could he exercise that power, but
when he forced it on D in payment for
the sugar he parted with his warrant
of office, and, by receiving that war
rant, D became an officer of the SOW
ereign, invested with all the powers
originally conferred npon B. At the
moment B transferred the green back
to D, that moment he paid D in full for
the sugar and received his pay for the
wheat Here, through the instrument
tality or utility of money, B has bar
tered his wheat that he did not want
for an equal value of sugar that he did
want The transaction would have
been the same had gold been used,
although the conditions would have
been somewhat changed. 1t will be
here observed that every person in the
possession of money is an officer of the
sovereign, the money in his possession,
whether of gold, silver or paper, being
his warrant of Office, and when he
tenders and forces money in the pay
ment of Indebtedness he exercises a
power more arbitrary and autocratic
than can be done in any other manner
by any person in the State, the chief
executive not excepted. How quickly
is the Sheriff disarmed and his process
of execution against property rendered
null and void by tender of money,
without other process of law, to the
amount of the Indebtedness.
Money in Use a Process at Law.
Eighth-While money in realty is an
engine, instrument or implement Of
utility in use it is undoubtedly a pro.
cess at or in law
The Debts OF the Sovereign, Whe n Used for
Money, Cannot be Hoarded.
Ninth-The sovereign who circulates
his wealth for money places himself
and his subjects at the mercy of bad
and constituencies men who have ii
in their power to rob his subjects to
almost any extent they may choose by
defacing, deporting or locking up in
their vaults, as they did on the 18th
day of March, 1898, the most of the
money belonging to the sover eign, by
which foul deed they have already
robbed the people out of thousands OF
millions of dollars, and God only knows
when their greed will be satiated,
while the sovereign who would circu-
late only his debts for money would
place it beyond the power of any body
of men, however vile, to inaugurate a
panic and rob his subjects, as his mon
ey could only be destroyed or locked
up at direct loss to those who might
undertake it.
The Use of Gold and Silver for Money a
Relic of Barbarity.
Tenth-The automatic system of
money, of which we have heard so
much in the past year or two, is not
worthy of one moments consideration.
The aut ocracy on piece of paper
making it money differs in no sense or