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Show REDEMPTION MONEY. continued from PAGE I. he check on the b,ir.k, the money, or the FROM MR CAHOON. WHY CONFIDENCE IS NEEDED. redeemed all oouutli-S'Mini's these Were 1iiliiiiurimtlo not malum mail by lliuunamln ,roceriej? In the report of the niimru. - Hum. Comptroller of Curhe groceries? Had there been no groceries rency for IS96 the total deposits in all banks Because man one knows is more or smarter men do not work for money, but for tht obtainable, could he not have lived just as than another is no reason why he should op- are given as lollows: things which can be bought with money. 1' well on the time check as he could on the press his fellow men. If all men are created Deposits in national banks . $1,613 000 000 he can obtain these articles of necessity di same amount in gold, silver or legal tender equal; if the doctrine is true that one man Deports in Stale b inks . . 695659.914 rect from his labor, money plays no part in paper money? Is it not a fact that the value has as good a right to life, liberty and the Deposits in trust companies . 586 468,156 the transactions. The farmer who raises his of the whole transaction in its last analysis pursuit of happiness as another, then all op Deposits in savings banks . 1,907,156.277 in private banks . presMon of the weak by the strong is an un- Depo.-it-s 28310,181 own potatoes, eats them and they sustain life rested in the flour, potatoes, and so on? Is pardonable sin; and all schemes laid by the just the same as though he had paid money that not true of all money, no matter of crafty to take advantage of the ignorant is at Total $4,889 810.916 for them. If he raises wheat and trades it what it is made? But now to the point at war with the economy of G "d. The . It is also shown official report same the by in his cruelty that the total excuses himself for potatoes, the potatoes again sustain life issue: Is it person held of kind one redeem money by all banks was necessary to aud oppression by pointing down to the ani as follows: in for same the he as had if them paid just money with mother? We say, no. Let us mals. He says: I am justified by Nature's Cash in national banks . . . $343,143,462 gold coin of the realm. Money is not pota- look for another definition for money. The laws; see how the animals devour one anothCash in State banks 101,038,641 toes, nor is it wheat, or clothing, or coal, or greenback is a government promise to pay. er. See how the big fish eat up the little Cash in trust companies . . . 26.800.871 ones. other needful What human the existence. to little fish made for but Cash in are thing any What is the government? The people. When banks . . . 35.201,257 to be devoured by the big ones?" This man Cash in sayings who that is shown is what it banks note . . . not let us Having briefly private signed by the government, 6,157,561 should be made to get down on all fours and now consider what it is: It is a system of Is it that signs it? The people. Then money go down among the other animals and take Total cash in all banks . $512,341,663 keeping accounts. Frequently men keep is a note signed by all the people of the gov- his chances of devouring or being devoured; Only about $500 0000 000 with which to book accounts with each other. An employee ernment that issues it True, our names do he is simply trying to practice here (among pay nearly $5,000,000,000 of deosits! Is it ' men laws the of a lower plane of existence of a grocery store keeps an account of the not all appear on the note, but they are is necessary any wonder that "confidence He belongs with the anim ils. work he does in a book. He buys from time there just the same. Every greenback issued to keep the rotten, baseless, skinning strucAndrew Cahoon. ture from toppling over? Suppose all the to time articles of food from his employer. by the government is a mortgage on every should take a notin n to demand depositors This the employer keeps in a book. At the dollars worth of property in the Nation, POPULIST SOCIALS. their the same day, what would ? money end of the month, the laborer's book shows both real aud personal, and that includes all bank in the country would close August Stein has from that active brain of Every that he has done $40 worth of worth of the gold and silver as well. So when you his evolved a new system for the promulga- doors and keep the $5,000,000 of the peowork. The grocery mans account shows that hold a twecty-dolla- r goldpiece in your hand, tion of Populist principles. It is nothing ples monev. The depositors are absolutely he has sold him $40 worth of goods. The there is a mortgrge on it The only thing more nor less thm a system of soriil meet- without protection and at the mercy of the The first of the banks. How different it would be were they ings at private accounts are even; each credits the other there is not' a mortgage on is the greenback series was hell list Friday at the government depositories.; then no one would with $40 and the account is closed. No itself. Did you ever think of that? So if the rooms of the Misses Gbasnn even'ng in the Consti be in daiq.er of losing a cent. It will also he money has passed between them. It would whole is greater than a part, then greenb teks tutton Building Their ozv apartiivnts were from the above that the banks owe not have changed the status of things one are greater than gold, for the gold is includ- beautifully lighled and decorated. By cihl their depositors $3,276,700,000 more money whit had the groceryman paid the employee ed in ita mammoth grasp. Money represents oclock the room was comfortably fibed. The than is claimed by the government statistics entertainment of music (piano) by to 'be in circulation, which is prima facie $40 in cash for his work, and he in turn have a contract into which every man his entered, Miss Florence dramatic Smith; readings by evidence that there is not enough money in paid his groceryman $40 for the goods. In and no one man or set of men can ignore or Dr Ravliu. and speech bv the editor of this exisience to do the business of the nation on this case, the changing of money from the annul it. Even Wall Street itself does not paper. I he meeting was such a success that a cash basis. Every dollar we have is borone to the other was obviated by the keeping contain a man powerful enough to repudiate Mrs. Pierson, who lives in the same block, rowed and loaned over and over again and is of the accounts in books. We are told that or depreciate one cent of the governments requested that a similar meeting le held in made to do the work of at least ten dollars. her rooms on Fridy evening of this week. And why? Simply to give the financier, the the bank of Venice was sustained for six legal tender money. Then if no man or set usurer and the speculator an opportunity to hundred years and that through this bank all of men can depreciate Uncle Sams money, HENRY GEORGES WORKS. rob and loot the masses. Our financial systhe business of the realm was transacted who can? Congress alone can Money is ere Have you read Menry Georges works? If tem is quite satisfactory to the money shark, without money. Credit at the bank was all ated by law, and only those who can make you havent, you should do ro at once. II but how in the world the average citizen can the money the people had. Whether it was or unmake laws can make or unmake money. you have, you should read them again. We make up his mind to be content to' longer done or not is immaterial. Certain it is that The old greenbacks would not depreciate, are arranging to supply the people with his endure it is a problem for the soothsayers to works in short time There are seven solve. Exchange. it could have been done, and can be done even with all the powers of Wall Street books in a and all, any one of them is worth now, and is being done every day, as in- against them; and the only way it could be its weight in gold to anyone who really has a The poor man who feeds, clothes and stanced above by ihe groceryman and his done, and the way it was done, was by hav- desire to follow this profound thinker. We provides for six children and keeps them in employee. Then may we not with safety say ing Congress repudiate the governments own furnish the whole set for $1 85. Send along school (although he may not have a tax receipt to his name) really and truly pays that money at most is but a system'of book- paper by placing on it the two exception orders as soon as ym like more taxes than any millionaire in the city. keeping? That instead of carrying about clauses. FOR SALE OR TRADE. It is also true that six young The government owes a man a debt for with us a ledger to show how we stand with men and women are of greater importance with well Weekly piper equipped office, society, we have small convenient pieces of service rendered. It pays him a situated in growing Oklahoma town. Will to society than all the taxes paid by any rich man in the city. This eternal clamor about paper or coin on which is stamped the goldpiece. That piece of money goes through sell cheap for cash, or will trade for small for school purposes makes one amount that is due us from society; certifi- the avenues of trade, possibly in all the tract of good land. Value of plant, $600 00 paying taxes Reasons for selling given on ap;.l:.oinon. very, very weary. cates, as it were, of services rendered? Now, States in the Union. It pays ten dollers H S. Fostkr, the idea that one of these certificates must worth of debt every time it changes hands. 125 Eighth West. Hutchinson, Kan. The time is fast approaching when the be redeemed in some other certificate is too Finally, the last man who Holds it owes the pictures of Grover Cleveland. John Sherman, THE CHURCH OF HUMANITY. ridiculous to contemplate. John G. Carlisle, Jim Eckels, Lyman Gage government ten dollars. He pays it, and the Dr. Ravlin spoke to a large crowd at the and a few others that we can name, will be Again: The kind of paper out of which government accepts it It has served its A. O. U..W. Hall last Sunday evening, and hung alongside that of Benedict Arnold; and been convenience has a an account book is made has no effect upon purpose as money. It was pleased. Next Sunday his the people doing so will apologize to Arnold everybody the value of the account. The paper of the to the people. Nobody is hurt. Nobody has will be "Amusements. He promises for surrounding him with company far subject book may be white, yellow, green or any gained anything except the convenience it to tell how a Baptist minister went to the his own grade. Arnold is really beginning other color. It may be thick or thin, without afforded in the exchange of business. Sup- circus. It will be a great treat. Go and hear to appear respectable by comparison. govern- him. aflecting the accounts in the least. The book pose instead it had been a Land is opportunity to labor. There is no may be bound in paper, cloth or leather, or ment note, and had taken the same route; WILL SPEAK AT NEWTON. natural scarcity of land, but private property not bound at all. The fact that it is em- would it not have done the work just as The editor has accepted an invitation from in land makes an artificial scarcity of it well? But it is argued that unless the gov- Mr. d bossed with gold and the leaves Arthur E. Christiansen of Newton which amounts to the same thing. Private would not increase or decrease the value of ernment had agreed to redeem it, it would (Cache county) to speak at that place on property in land takes away the elsewhere" to which the striker is advised to go when the accounts kept upon its pages. So with not have been good. That brings us back Monday evening. November 22. he is not satisfied with his wages. Contoo-coc- k is the government? Is it what is it made. to of what ask, not matters it again money; The Lake Salt Issues seems to Living (N. H.) Independent. The only thing needful is that the amount not the people? Is not every individual mem- have discovered a to. way compel exchanges in the bound contract for which it stands is plainly set forth on its ber of the government to give credit. The other day we received a Eight hundred Chinese miners have been value? its face Then if the note at to lace. accept bill for $200 from that paper for editorials imported into Northern Illinois to take the of the strikers. How do you like this, Money is a convenience, and is used only eveeybody is so bound up, who is there to clipped without credit. Having always in- place because of its convenience. Were it more refuse to redeem it? Not one. The facts are tended Republican protectionists? Dont you to do the fair thing by all exchanges you think the tarifT on coal ought to be raised a inconvenient than other methods of keeping that when you pass a ten dollar bill to an in that respect, we were nonplussed at first; little? Honest Injun, now, dont you feel accounts, it would not be used at all. This individual member of the government and he but three later an less more or like a blarsted fool? days came to explanation fact is shown by the action of banks, which redeems it with potatoes or onions or any- hand us that it was another Calinforming has redeemed it; use drafts and other methods of balancing thing else, the government ifornia paper to whom the bill should have It is an error to suppose that only the and are the the is because and convenient more it because government, people men accounts, who labor with their hands are probeen sent. Your idea is a good one, Brother could be no if there were no transand there the would be ducers. people than labor, physical or mental, the handling easy Foster. Is it copyrighted? Equity, Santa result of All which is beneficial to the human mission of large quantities of money. government. Barbara, Cal. race, is productive labor, The New Epoch. Let us see now when and in what way ARE YOU GOING EAST? money is redeemed. Webster gives a very If you are going East you want to see to it We are always glad to see our editorials old Arena gets better and betThe redeem. word the to definition elaborate that your ticket reads .via the Denver & Rio appear in the columns of our exchanges, ter each grand month. If you dont read it you Among other things he says to redeem Grande Railway, the grandest scenic route provided always, of course, due credit is can have but little idea what you are missing. means to purchase what has been sold; to in the world. Have you ever seen the is given; but there is nothing which torrid-ize- It costs only $2. 50 per annum. We will send Canon of the Grand? If you have, you us like seeing an editor who is too lazy, it with Living Issues one year for $2.75. purchase back; to regain possession of a want to see it again. If you have never seen it value of the to alienated or stupid, fill his paper from our by repaying thing it, you can have no idea what you have ignorant dolfor I hold a note ten The public school has always found its the possessor." If missed until you have actually seen. No columns and not say where they come from. bitterest and William can The word Jones most or of Smith, case this enemy in the rich of the land. A John give kind that lars against you picture aggravated photograph rich who has to pay taxes for anything man or idea its least of the refor is has the note grandeur. ever under come greatness dollars it, our notice comes from Is gives me ten an first class A a little sheet issued from The equipage of the road is really object of pity. the Oakland (Calf.) deemed so far as I am concerned. That lets in it. For No. I." There is nothing lacking me entirely out of it unless I endorse it. a trip that will make a pleasant and lasting postoffice, called Industry note that we say "Advance!" should be the command so called Industry. Its issue of three weeks New let us see how money is redeemed: A impression upon ybur mind, take the Denlong as we have reason to believe there is has a dollar with which he buys potatoes ver & Rio Grande. In one respect it is like ago contained seven uncredited editorials something better ahead. The best is none from B. A eats his potatoes and thinks the undertakers advertisement of his new from Living Issues and several others from too good for the people. hearse, when he declared that anyone using other papers. It does not appear to have any nothing more of the money. It has been it would never use any other." B is editor concerned. When all. at The A If government is not maintained to proredeemed, so far as managing" business, however, seems to consist largely of faking tect the weak against the strong, what is it IT COSTS MONEY obtains a dollars worth of wheat it is refor? Does this government do that? If not, on and other so is B concerned, papers ideas. Manager Buttner seems deemed so far as to go to Klondike; but this week you can why hot? ad infinitum. buy all kinds of furniture, stoves, carpets, to know a good thing when he sees it, and How long since you read the Declaration A man works a week for a company. The organs, pianos, chairs, tables, iron beds, he also stems to think it a good idea to hit wardrobes, of machines, his cupboards, readers sewing twice or oftener with the same Independence? We wish you to read it boss issues him a time check. The superinsteel safes very two steel hot stuff; did you know it? etc.; etc., ranges, tendent takes up the' time check and issues cheap; everything will be sold regardless of thing, for the next week he republished the again. Its him a check on the bank. The bank takes cost before I go to Klondike. I. X. L. whole batch of stolen matter without even The right of revolution is as sacred him legal tender Second Hand Store, 48 East Second South so much as taking down the type, but failed up the check and issues as it was when Washingtons men were today to give his readers any suggestions as to takes up the Street Telephone 448. P A. Sorensen. and starving at Valley Forge. money. The groceryman now freezing where he got it. Industry has been taken sack of flour, a refers the money and issues him a to State The Ogden Journal bushel of potatoes, and such other things as editor of this paper as one who was raised from our exchange list, so its management Economy at the expense of the schools is his family needs. Now, candidly, what did a Baptist, educated for the ministry, and is will have to look elsewhere when it decides not the sort of economy for which the people to get up something spicy. are seeking. the man work for? Was it the time check, no slouch of a theologian." evil-dispos- ed .... . hap-pen- ob-erve- well-educate- d ten-doll- ar bt-lo- ten-doll- ar gilt-edge- s |