The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-06

The scrip was issued, the materials pro-
cured, the men put to work, the build
ing erected, and the stalls rented. The
scrip circulated in the island at par.
Every months rent reduced their guam
tity, and in less than ten years all were
back in the public treasury and marked
cancelled and thus ended the life of
the Guernsey Market House scrip. The
house had been built, the contributions
of materials and work We're now all
paid with the goods they had purchased
at the market house, or indirectly else
where, and not one cent lost to the peo-
pie in discounting bonds nor interest.
Governor Brock appointed a special
day to celebrate the anniversary of the
building of the market house and give
burial to the scrip that had performed
the exchanges with equity, and now had
ceased circulating. When thes day ar
rived the crowd began early to gather
on the public square an front of the
market house, which was festooned
with garlands and streamers, and on
whose cupola, waved a large flag bear
ing, in broad gilt letters, the motto:
AS Good as If Built With Borrowed
Gold
cat 10 a. m. the procession formed
and, preceded by bands, began to file
off through the streets of the little burg.
Along the line were carried standards
on which were inscribed notices like
the following: Down With Bonds and
Borrowing Labor and Capital
United!' Interest Nevermore!' etc.
The procession made a round of the
Z p IL.
on horseback arranged the crowd in a
grand circle on the square in the center
of which was erected a speakers stand,
and by the stand vestal fire was
kindled. When all was ready, the band
struck a national song of liberty,while
the governor, accompanied by two at
tendants who carried each a package of
cancelled scrip, advanced majestically
to the fire and halted. Suddenly the
band stopped; the governor took the
bundles of scrip from his attendants
and, holding them up to the gaze of
the multitude, pronounced over them
the following impressive tribute: We'll
done good and faithful servants. When
living you performed your work with
equity, and now, departing, you leave
the world better for having been in it.
May the toilers learn wisdom from this
example,
HE then sprinlxIed the packages with
perfume, and while the band was play
ing a 5dirge, he laid them on the fire
where they were quickly consumed in
the presence of a silent, solemn, think
ing mass of people.
AFTER the cremation of the scrip, the
governor, though not public speaker,
assembled the stand and delivered the
most impressive financial speech ever
delivered on earth before or after. 1t
was in the following words:
Fellow Citizens: For the first time
in the history of this island if not of
the world, you have learned to make
your own money. You have built your
own market house without borrowing,
and now, when all who have contributed
materials to the work have been paid,
as attested by the return of the scrip
through the rent, the house is yet your
own property. Henceforth the rent of
the same will be appropriated to the eX-
penSeS of the government and thus
lessen your taxes Turning, then, to
flag floating on it's cupola, he exclaimed
in loud tones: Behold, d monument of