The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-27
Charles Albert Long Has Become
a Famous Man.
INTERVIEWS SECRETARY OF TREASURY
IzE THE FINANCES OF THE
ENTIRE WORLD.

Charles Albert Long, whom man.
Walla Walla people will remembel
when he was here several years agt
making speeches on the streets abou
finance and putting forth a new
scheme of economics as a plan fol
the government to adopt, has returned
from Washington city to his home il
Spokane where he had been to inter
view the treasury officials relative t.
his great scheme of revolutionizine
the finances of the world
Mr.. Long achieved much distinction
there as result of his call upon Sec
rotary Shaw of the treasury, says the
Review. When the Spokane econo
mist started in to expound his new
theory, the secretary listened about
five minutes, and then interrupted
with a rude inquiry as to whether
Mr.. Long had ever been in an insane
asylum.
The visitor and the query both be.
came celebrated the next day when
the newspapers took up the matter
and treated it as a subject for ribald
jest.
Mr.. Long is bearing the notoriety
thus achieved with the good grace of
a nn hot ~
epoch-making idea, and is prepared
to receive jibes and SCOTS until the
sodden world is ready to take it up
Certainly there is nothing in Mr.
Longs appearance to justify the
Shaw inquiry.
He's a Clean Cut Man.
He is a clean cut, clean bodied, well
groomed man of quiet but very in
tense manner. Kindly and courteous
in his speech, and there is even diff
dence in his tone as he tells how crude
must be his method of expression. and
how hard he knows it must be for
folks to understand his project. with
no clew save his inadequate descrip-
ton. But all the time he is talking
there is the firm confidence of a man
who believes that he has solved the
riddle of the ages.
Mr.. Long believes primarily that
any metal suitable for credits" should
be used as money, and he suggests
gold as the standard, with silver and
platinum as subordinate metals.
These he would have the government
buy by paying certificates to the sell
Ter, and the metals, when minted in
coins of denominations ranging I'D to
$1,000 each, would be encased in lead
or foil and carefully cached away in
the government treasure box. Thus
the certificates issued against them
would form the ordinary medium of
exchange, except that some silver
coins of small denominations would
circulate
There are about 80 propositions in
his new financial panacea. and he has
embodied them in a voluminous bill
which he asked Mr.. Shaw to read.
The reading of that bill is a mighty
serious undertaking.
Said Mr.. Long Yesterday:
Day Before Christmas.
/ called upon Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw the day before Christ.
mas and presented him with a COW
of my measure and its explanation.
The secretary said that he would
never have time to read it, but asked
me to tell him about it. So I began
with a statement of what the meas
ure would do, what money means and
of what its fundamental principles
are, when he became complimentary
enough to ask if had ever been in an
insane asylum?
When l replied that it had beer
my fortune to be at different Ilaces
and at different times to nave met
with people who did not know an,
too much, but hardly knew whether I
ought to claim this distinction or not
he grew courteous enough to insist
that what he wanted to know was
whether or not 1 had ever been an in
mate of an insane asylum. and was
too hasty to understand even one of
the more than 80 principles involved
L am informed that he aspires to
the presidency. He may be entitled
TO the position, while 1 may belong in
an asylum or school for the infirm
but the measure 1 submitted to the
secretary will show how to provide
What Measure Provides.
"First-For the best money posi-
BILE to ever have.
Second-For the unlimited use o.
everything entitled to the credit of
mony. primary and subsidiary. This
is what tn world has looked for for
ages, but has never learned how tC