The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27


Of dollar through the sherIns once ana
the purchasing power of dollar in The
open market.
Paid the GreenbncLS
In 1854 greenbocks. the solemn promise
OF the government, declared by law to be
worth loo cents in the dollar, were worth
IN tact rs cents in the dollar In 1853
Ihey were worth 70 cents and in 1865, The
year after the war had closed they were
worth t6 cents in the dollar. The United
States government finally succeeded IN
regulating their value and in fixing their
value al 100 cents in the dollar. but it
did all this not by reason of anything that
Congress said about their value but sim
ply by paying them This Il began doing
on the first day of January, 1879 and for
twenty years past the greeubacks have
been worth their face value simply be-
cause the creditor OF the government. who
holds them, can get his money by present.
ing them at the office of the treasurer
Congress, like Par lament found Itself
compelled to acknowledge the supremacy
OF commerce in the matter OF regulating
the value Of money Congress can rcgu-
Ia'e che value of money passing through
the sheriff 5 office and the tax collectors
office, but nowhere else on earth The
financial transactions of these offices are
not published the records of the worlds
business and progress
When We of the South take our stand
against our own and the experience of
other nations and join in an effort to up
mold this ancient ana exploded theory. we
assume burden that reduces our credit,
paraiyzes our resources and retards our
development.
Threatened on one hand with the ne
gro, and on the other hand with the party
lash, are we not, within these narrow lin
It's, losing The power 10 think or speak or
reason?
Tho Croo.. -. go,
IN our haste Iof remedial legislation,
we "I'eH see the wrong man hit A few
years pack the statesmen of the newer
sort We're ruch in evidence in Southern
isIslatufe. one or them was not pleased
WIN me iSal profession ana determined
lnat ne would SInlte the lawyers hip and
thlgh lie promptly introduced a biz
making void any obligation in note to
pay attorneys fees. His BIN, in a modified
FORM became the law, and Instead of in
Juring me lawyer, who Is sun
collecting his fees, the effect of
TINS law was TO take away from
thousands Of poor men the power TO Dor
row money. We are grooming to-day I'M
der the heavy burden of such statesman
snip. Let the people awake and scourge
such men from public Office. Let them
would teach that government can usurp
the functions of the Almighty and create
something out of nothing. Let them
awake ana quit leVylng public taxes for
tLlNaie prohI Let mem awake and learn
ria' i-"-p-o-I - Ihe creator cost marx.
LEI tlein awake ana silence the habbling
.oIleue Oh MN VINO "ou'd dlVlde the legiu-
maze earnings or invested capital among
ei1ose Wtlo ore not snaIenoiders Simply be
cause the one can outVote the other Let
49,, 80 w any pi'u s"eop lIUti 'ne'r statute
~ d.,a, ~, tt,S, g. a. ~ euoe''
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ha horost,, a,II gait},c,,,,.. H1'o, nnall
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re-, sbai1 '','.i ue v''oc'Sn, ana taa'
admnisfered Inv tbo n9rr CIV 't''p"i u IAN,
sal,., e,,1 49,, ~, ~, I'et V"eii
asu,, arterd e'''' a. non
- - f lulo' SAai De honest
awake and REQUIRE hat onIv inet and roa.
sonable laws shoI bo enacto1 ra ~,
| these shall he nromntlv and iYnnartta1I,
| administered nv the courts TX 49,,
awake and rise TO tho subIir,i,y 90 ,hl
ancient Hebrew maxIm "Dend,, 60 nc,,n
DELAY TO none sell 70 none rigbt o,d Az
tfce :" I,et the neon1o ID tboso th,n,. 49,
out burdens win he llfted The idie ban1
and the idle dollar viii moot undor tho
banner Of equal laws, and while giving
employment to each other will give pros
perity to our country.
The nominating COMMITTEES renortea the
following officers of the accumulation u,hc
will be elected to-morrovy. For nreeident
]. X. Orr. of Atlanta. for vice nraeIden
for Georgia willis p Reagan n Atianta.
for treasurer. D. O. Doughertv Of Allan.
| ia; for secretary, T. H. Martin, of Attain
Ia. u..
The committee recommended that zach
state represented in the convention sbol,Id
have a vice president. ana me daieeates
from each state VIII nominate their cboics
for vice president to represent them ,rbs
committee also recommended maj tho ev-