Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-04-13


will be YOURS. HOODS PILLS are |
sold by all medicine dealers. 25 cts.
to John Jenkins old home in Bara.
boo. Now it is probable that if
John, or any other congressman was
made to walk from one end of that
train to the other, which would take
him seven days to accomplish, and
saw each wagon loaded with a ton
Of gold, he would never have voted
to lay such an enormous sum on the
shoulders Of the people of the Uni
ted States at one time Or that If
the people Of the United States
could each walk along that train and
view the amount Of gold they were
ordered to supply for the extraya-
gance of our present government,
they would never allow Mr.. Jenkins
or any other member Of congress to
meet at Washington, until the ques-
tons of national expenditure and ex-
trayagance were settled for all time.
Just think of it, fellow citlzensl You
are asked to give for the support of
foolish and unjust wars and reckless
expenditures at Washington $4,000
tons or wagon loads of gold, when
statistics show that all the gold IN
the world would not fill a room II
feet square and Il feet deep, or that
all the gold produced in the world
during the last 500 years would bare
ly pay five times the amount of mon
ey appropriated by the last congress.
Where, therefore, is the money to
come from to pay this tax, for the
government will not take sheep or
cows?
But suppose we were permitted to
pay this immense levy with silver.
Then since 1t takes thirty ounces of
silver to pay for one ounce of gold,
there would be thirty times as many
tons or wagon loads required as OF
gold or 100000 wagon loads of sill,
= yer. These wagons placed in line
would reach 4,700 miles or more
than the distance from Chicago tC
San Francisco or Portland! And il
r would take one of our spry, Clio
tongued congressman 1870 days OF
over six months to walk from one
end to the other of this tribute train
which our people are called upon tt
feed the extravaganza of the presen
government. Moreover, ali the sill
yer produced during the last 5D(
years would not pay over six times
this awful levy upon the industry o
the nation. But suppose congress
agreed to take wheat instead of gol,
and silver how would the matte
stand?
A bushel of wheat is about equa
to an ounce Of silver at present rat
i on the farm. But a bushel of whea
d, weighs 900 ounces. 1t would there
" fore take go times as many tons c
wheat as Of silver to raise the sum
called for by congress. That
e 75O,OOOx980 is 720 100000 tons q
n wheat. This loaded in wagon
IS placedin line would require 10000
900 wagons and the line would eA
tend 900 times 4700 miles, Or 4,4l3
900 miles, or nineteen times the di,
= lance OF the earth to the moon, {
$50 times around the earth. St
more wonderful if we reduce tb
b. amount to bushels we find it wi
,r take 2,5OO,O0O,O00 billions of bust
,e els of wheat to cancel this outral
X eous call on the industry of the ns
as tion.* The number of bushels
/ SO vast, that all the wheat grown i
m all the countries of the world, for til
ID past year, would not suffice to SUI
If ply the amount. And If all tn
o wheat, corn and oats grown in I'll
\ United States last year were take
Of in toto and sold, the money realize
.g would not pay mere than half Ii
$. appropriations demanded by our la
A cougress.-Chippewa Falls, Wis
h Sentinel.