The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-03-11

sN-Ea.hIl WIFI NE.V NFfN. ..At.-t u ~
world. 1t remains still the measure of
the man, still weighs h scales that
apprRise hurnanlty's worth.
England's sovereign, the franc OF
France, Russia's rouhle, GeTnany's
mark, he dinar Of SerTiaEai are but
other names for the American dollar,
varied in their values yet essentially
the same. from the German thaler TO
the British pound. And their nature is
OF neither silver nor of gold, but or
men.
Fer no coin, of no realm, is in itself
wealth. And no thing which coins can
u IS intrinsic riches The coin IS but
the guinea stamp; the man the gold
fer all that.
Mtnts may pour forth dollars: miners
may toll for ore. q congress may fiat
white silver into parity, and another
congress may dehaSe It; the dollars
form ma change into rupees, n
tusks Of ivory, Into the cowTie shells Of
Afr.cs or the watnpunl Of the 0ltawot-
talnieS-5t Is ever n always COM
passed solely. wholly. Of The blood and
D bone, the strength n the nerves
unit, man The Indians patient labor.
the negro's ~grCbblng search, the hunt
eTS fearless courage hat deSpoilS the
lord Of the jungle the willy boarding or
CalcuttaS Bhagwan DaSs in his 2hSu-
hence n daily self denial the plan
t1-a-S ~ l&SE merchant ALG ~ NIaS " Liz
operative who makes the silks he sells,
the genius 81 The designer who swathes
them into robes for beauty these are
the values that mankind pours, seeta-
Ing hot from the fiery crUcib}e Of life,
INTO the mould which makes mere
money; these are its wealth lncaTnate,
ats burden of precious metal, together
with Its trace of 6-oss,
Dollars remain TO fix something of
Mans genius.
The dollar is a dollar last Of all; and
krst OF ali II is that OF that num-
aer OF men, or that fraction of & man,
whom its dollars worth can purchase
And not for this day only. Within
tray dollars. coined more than 100
fears ago. held fast vet even active like
he powers within q grain or
'adium, CLOVIS the daring Of some sailor
IF Paul Jones Bon HoTnme Richard,
he craft OF some rrapper IN the T1lds
oeyond Fort Pitt. the enterprise Of
some cotton spinner OF New England.
he blood money Of a slave IN Mis-
sissippL the paw Of 8 soldier in the civil
war, the pension OF the widow his death
eft helpless. the powder a sank
i>eryera's squadron, the corsage which
ashton places next to the heart of the
m we adore. And II can go on
and on, ever creating anew h strength
that moves mountains, giving life - "a
people yet unborn.
A man must die and rot. But the
dollar he leaves behind him is not lost
10 him. Fools may say in their hearts:
" perish. and our richie with us"
But no false word Ia been spoken
which is SO false as that. In the her
itage a man leaves behind him is en-
bodied the sum and substance OF his
usefulness TO his world-the safeguard
Of his wife, the stepping tones for his
Children, the concrete, permanent
asset he contributes to his species, gar
nered and kept as his o in the
saving fund of his energies. AS he lives
IN mis- children, 50 he lives in his hoard,
Ter IL is that mos useful part OF him
which survives, able to play his role
ms a creator by virtue of the strength
II contains.
The dollar. for ali the shame it bears
and for all the crimes imputed TO it.
is SO guiitless that it needs no condona-
lion. In itself. as the embodiment of
~ha3Inanity's constructive forces. 1t is
sheer good. Man MAJ curse it in his
ases; blood guilt may stain it with sins,
from assassination TO war. Yet the dol
lar is never anything but the mobile
concentration Of ~hUuanity's dynamic
force: and il can be of value only While
Il lis hurting its er%1eraations, radium like,
upon the one substance in the uni
verse hat is a~menable to its effects
humanity Except for a baby, a dollar
Is the most intimately human thing
E@1SA AiA9 pm NAGA ~ <t1ELlis4-t
The Dollars Might.
If NE wouid behold this mighty dol
Jar playing a Horneric part in the Had
of orr times. we need only glance at
the German Hector in his chariot of
war against the shrewd Ulysses from
beyond the YEA, and recall the candid
boast of Brftain's treasurer.
gold has decided other wars; and Eng
iish gold VIII decide this one" For it
is English gold that drives the ships
and the gum which hold the modern
Troy besieged: English gold, which.
with oatstratched arms, reaches into
the fonr quarters of the globe and
draws TO England's shores the fruits of
the t0ii OF nations; English goid-the
concentrated essence of mil
ltary and mercantile, from the year of
the sinking of the Armada-which
hacks the living soldiers in the field
with the accumulated forces of her bur-
ied generations. who went before.
CIR ptae may observe Belgium. ruined
and waste. saved from utter annihila-
ton Of its people by that ~once-despised
american dollar. given eagerly In ship
loads OF aid by the nation hat has
almost been ebuked into being
OF 1T. When Sparta's king was
asked, where were the walls of Sparta.
he pointed to his warriors and replied:
There they are; and every man a
IT was true. When BeIgium's
s7%iEh tis WE'LL UP, the answer was
as swift: There they are; ana every
dollar q life And that also was true.
It is no hyperbole: it comes. literally.
from the appeals of the Belgium Aid
commission.
Mar Is Ever a Matter of Dollars.
But. indeed. this war, like all wars,
Is one OF dolIars-Austria, for the. rich
provinces she would retain: Russia, for
the people that are her wealth; Ger
many, for her place IN the sun; France
for that which is her own; Britain Tor
her seats on the cas- Add Aus
trials honor and pride. Germany.s
fidelity to her ally, Russia's firm Loyalty
70 race. Frances sworn fealty to the
Car. and Britain's high championship
or the Beigians; and still the strife
marks back 10 those contracts Detween
peoples which aim to preserve man
Kind IN its present properties, and
the inevitable dollar mark. A
great philosopher, questing over land
y sea through the wide turmoil OF
rivalry and wars, sought the cause of
those incessant conflicts until, at last.
he found the center and the source. 1t
VIZ an infant In It's eraale. And both.
ars~a go. a@I