Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-03-18
Shall We Turn Back the Dial.

laborer displaced does not so readlly
flnd place. He tramps perhaps.
Machines produce. machines talk,
machines read, sing, whistle or play.
They seem to produce more than we
can buy. But is there over-product-
ion2 Look at the great hungry world,
wanting everything. We sing some
times, "My wants are treasure" Oh,
how wish they were ready cash. 1t
has been said, there is no over-pro-
duction of food as long as there is
hungry man, and no over-production
of wool or cotton as long us anyone
is without clothing.
Now where is the difficulty and
where lies the remedy? Not in going
back surely. We who have come over
the long rough road have no desire to
return to those days of incessant toll
for bare living. No we have seen
too much, and we want our fair share
of all the good that we have seen,and
that stands, and has stood in our way.
We are all producers of something.
About half the labor of the world is
in agriculture, the other half are
miners, mechanics and lnanufactnr
ers. Aud what stands between them
aud their wants? for they are oil con-
suners as we'll as producers. Money.
for money conserveth all things, and
money can only come by fair price
for what they sell. What makes price?
Supply and demand, for instance,
wheat is in small supply by reason of
famine, barley is good crop ana the
supply is large. What happen ? /
must give four or six bushels of harley
for one of wheat, or the reverse. Now
just the same thing happens If one
side of the exchange is money.
said all the world are producers. l
overlooked very important class
who produce scarcity. They deal in
money and clip coupons. They are
an abnormal creation of abnormal
times, and are fast be coming the
worlds owners. Why? They inherit
or steal millions, and we, the produc-
ers, make laws at their dietation, Civ
ing money, which is only a creation
of law, a greater accommodating power
than property. For instance, in the
| United States, property increases
about two per cent, money six. What
is the remedy? Make money plenty.
That gives higher prices for what the
world makes aud let's man and his
wants go together. Money plenty
will seek business-no interest. BUSH
ness men will accumulate and bankers
will be bankers-not BARRIERS. Money
will make and facilitate business in.
stead of interest. Money should not
be above its creator as now; but his
|servant. "God made man, man made
money" We are living in an age of
under-consumption. Why9 Why don't
get all that need? Answer now
honest. Why? Is there any one con-
dition which if filled, you could salts
fly your wants? what do you lack? Is
it money! Then why do you, the law
makers make money soarce9 You are
cutting the worlds money in half as
fast as you can do so by law. The
amount of money should be trippled
to be on a par with property and
should come out of hiding and seek
to do its part in subduing the earth.
4 But, says the objector. If the wealth
4 of the world was equally distributed
I it would accumulate again in same
| hands. We do not want re distribr.
} ton, but do away with class iegisla
ton. make it impossible for any man
to water stocks, don't give monopo
lies, don't especially favor one class
| OF men or products. With a large
/ supply Of good sound money it woulc
be Improbable to hoard it, 1t ii
) morally wrong to hoard moaey, an6
!, just as much SO as for man to hoard
, food when people are starving. There
is not the slightest difference. Blu
{ these bankers say money is so plenty
we can find no use for it. Try to Dor
{ row and see. But this is true just 81
| long as money is being made scarce
the rest will be made more valuable
in the same proportion, and to stoI
3 fhoarding and put it to use must ado
r to it instead of cutting it in half. AL
honest intelligent men favor GOOD
money. and the more intelligent elias
q say, we cannot have too much gooC
c money until money seeks bushes.
8 and until it can be borrowed at til,
4 same rate per cent as the yearly 10
a crease of property. Shall we turn the
, dial backt No let us be be men ant
S find our way out; find remedy fo
under-consumption. There is not en-
q ough food. clothing or money to G,
v around if the great, grand, good, hal
J. starved world could got at it. VIVA
i. wonderfully good old world it is
J. but how much better when all cal
come to the first table, when all ar,
J. clothed aud have money, good, sound
Y ringing legal tender in both pockets
The remedy is plain. Open tn
It mines. Let the government coin til
p gold and silver on equal terms an
u issue paper redeemable in all it's re
n sources, and remember it takes 81
T. times as much money to handle tn
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