The Jersey City news., 1906-06-07
CLEAN NONE Y BILL
Wiley Measure Proposes to
Have Government Pay for
the Transportation of
Notes to and From the
Treasury
DANGERS or soILED NOTES
DISEASES OF THE SKIN. EYE
AND EAR ARE COMMUNICATED
THROUGH THEM-U. S. TREAS
URER TREATS WORK

WASHlNGION. June b, 19O6.-The
fight for clean money in which the treas
urer and good many other people are
just now deeply interested has nothing
whatever to do with the money of Rock
efeller, Morgan andothers, whose wealth
may bear finger prints of uneean meth
DDS in obtaining it, ut is aimed at get
ting rid of the dirty paper money, the lit
orally filthy lucre of circulation and fire.
quently substituting clean notes for it.
The fight for clean paper money has
been on for several years. 1t has never
become political issue, not stirred the
industrial or economic interests fo the
country very deeply, maybe because of
the fact that for so many people the
little money they are able to get sinks
into significance beside the bare and inn
portant fact that it is money. There are
obcervant and cleanly people, though,
who have taken a very live interest in
this question of clean money.
just how much disease and suffering
is caused by the exchange of eoiled green
backs, banknotes and silver certificates it
is impossible to say A glance through
a microscope at one of the greasy, grimy
paper notes that has been in circulation
for years, however, will make any intelli-
gent person a convert to the cause of
clean, money, if it's effect is not so nau-
seating as to cause him to lose interest
in all monetary subjects.
1t is really strange how little attention
is given by really intelligent. cleanly and
decent peope, to say nothing of the fas-
tidious ones, to this matter Of the papre
notes they carry uneoncernedly in then
clothing Peoplt who would demand dis
infection after visiting an unsanitary
tenement, who shrink from the contact
of secondhand clothing, calmly wad up
and cart about in purses, pockets or other
places near their ptrson paper bills upon
which disease germs of dozen kinds
cluster and grow in colonies and cities.
Thtre is probably no more common o.
revolving sight in stores and markets
than that of respectable. nett persc.s
moistening thumb or finger with the
tongue or lips while counting over paper
notts that reek with filth gathered from
being carried or boarded in old stockings,
shoes or pinned to clothing next the per-
SON of all kinds of people Our sanitary
clothing and bedding that has been sub
ieeted to contact with infectious or con-
tagious diseases of few prominent va
rieties, while the money carried by per-
sons afflicted with all kinds of loathsome
diseases of the skin and other ailments
passes carelessly on from hand to hand,
carrying with it and scattering broadcast
the seeds Of disease and suffering. There
are no statistics obtainable of the num-
ber of diseases spread in this way. The
! only certain evidence OF the way in
which the tainted money does its work
| is to be found in the microscopic exam
| ination revealing on the soiled ills the
| colonies of bacteria, and in the wide
| spread advertising and sale of remedies
| for the care of skin. for which there is
no excuse in an age of sanitary bath
rooms, barber shops and popular person
al cleanliness.
| Can a fastidious person conceive any
of marketman with unwashed hands,
cutting meat, weighing butter or hand
| ling other food products over the same
counter or block ON which he counts out
| flth-laden notes?
These are some of the horrors and
menances of filthy money which have
kept up the fight for clean paper notes.
This fight now promises to be productive
of good results in the near future. In
bringing about these results much of the
credit belongs to three Jerseymen. Two
Congressman from New Jersey, Major
William H. Wiley and Charles f.
Fowler, have been amongst the foremost
official advocates of system for more
frequent redemption Of the paper money
of the country. 1t was not until Jer
seyman became United States Treasurer
few month sago, however, that their
fight began to promise definite results.
Officially, Treasurer Treat is not resi-
dent Of New Jersey. His appointment
is credited to the State Of New York, but