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

fraction OF the man, for the toiIer gives
less of his life and receives more of
its returns, But the possessor of many
aoitars is the poSSeSsor OF many men.
here as wen as there; and he can WELD
them as he Yields his own right arm.
he can multiply himself in them until
ne assumes as many forms as the
.ehangefni Froteus of old. He can
seize with them more OF his desires
than could that ancient, mythical
RraaTeus Of the countless grasps. He
hurl armies upon his goal; he can
make multitudes his 1.-THE men.
Given but q little skill above his
the very coins, and make them breed
their kind Given only a little capacfty
for labor, ana they feed and clothe,
watch and ward him. They r Ills
friends. Let him have I0n friends
among his fellow men, and every one
may fail him in his direst hour Of
need, let i'm have but one dollar, and
that last friend viii slave for him, with
all of a r man stauuchness, deyo-
ton and strength, NATL it has cx-
hausted the last atom of human energy
humanity has put into it.
Today 1t Shau7es its Bold EAGLE.
Amid the chickering's of a world at
war, while each arraigns the others
Tor larceny and greed, the dollar Of
America shines r~esplendent, without
reQrQach; Yet not, like the Bayard IT
should be, without fear. While light
nlnEs of the battlefield are blastfng
the wealIhs and the futures Of Europe,
the American dollar stands secure. un-
shaken, upon a Golcouda of
such as no other nation knows. The
hour IS at hand, when the appointed
experts say, the dollar stands for the
combined confidence, industry, wisdom
enterprise OF 100000, zoe people-of
the people who put their faith upon
their money and passed them from
hand to hand the hopeful, heaTtening
creed: In God We Trust" With that
trust within us, with riches barely
scanned and harVests yet unSold. the
dollar which is we-which is the whole
100, 0h0,0 00 of us-stiIl ~tiuorously kulks
10 hiding and shaInes its bold eagle III
his flight.
What naaltsn destiny is it that stands
today between the American dollar
and the duty il owes us all? What
strange, ccult influence strikes it in
TO powerlessaess at the momen when
the world clings, hungry, at our
knees, imploring for our aid, whether
IN clothing. food OF the deadly means
of war?
In the vast cities. there are men who
stand from nightfal until dawn,
waiting for loaves of the bread which
is doled by charity's lean. uncertain
hand. Pr1soned in vaults of the hanks
lie The dollars that are blood brothers
of the h~ungered hordes. born. OF their
bodies sweat, strong with the strength
of their thews and Drawn. Released,
those dollars. in resistless cohorts of
rescue, would hasten to the factories.
the mills, and the halted marts of
trade, and sweep forward to every
eager home-in tenement, mansion,
cottage or POO shack-of the won
dering, waiting land. Fettered. buried,
under jealous bolt and guard, they are
captive armies, doomed to deadly idle
ness despite their splendid history and
the need that bids them come.
The men who own those serrfed. mo-
tionless phalanSes of trade may do
with them what they wiIl-may give
the command to stay. they shall
stay; or order that they go, and they
shall go. For these men. each in the
measure OF his minted minions. is a
captain in the field.
But let them only realize that it is
not mere money that halts there, that
those countless, potent dollars are men,
with the force and the skill of mankind
within them. dormant yet tense to be
at work. and the nation will be instant
to go on.
Those who live and breathe and eat
n strive today, are only of TODAY:
but these others are the toilers, the Gre
ators, of yesterday and ye~steryear. and
of the gigantically producing mast
They are the mighty human forces we
have treasured up, for use in our time
OF need.
BY our miracle of alchemy we have
preserved all that has survived of orr
forebears and ourselves in these dol
lars that we own. We can WELD them
k Gun arms, to clasp and hold all that
we desire. They wait only on the time
And who shall say but that the time
is now