Show FIAT MONEY AGAIN COL ROBERT G has recently made a goldbug speech in which he asserted that the government could no more make a dollar than it could make a bushel of wheat or a pound of pork this eloquent political apoe apostate tate is like a fiddle upon which one ene can play any sort of a tune he has doubtless forgotten many of his former utterances on the money question wherein he was waa a r rampant a howler for the free comage coinage of silver but passing by mr inger soll s P present resent tune of inconsistency let us for a moment see if the government really does or does not create money As a simple illustration which all can understand let us lay down on the counter otsui of bank sixty five cents worth of silver bullion and lay by its side a standard silver dollar of the exact same weight and fin fineness enen or of even a little less by reason of use and wear every banker will take the silver dollar and call it thirty five cents more valuable than the bullion because ot of the fiat or creative power again let us lay down one dollars worth of gold gola bullion which is said to be worth as much before coming coining as afterward B by v the ade of that gold bullion coined coiled or un an v one nickels containing hut a small imai frac fraction tipa of the commercial value of the gold every bank banker pr mech merchant aa t business man or every sensible child will the nickels because cause of the very small amount of fiat fial or of creative power given them by the government when it made them a legal tender to the amount of t twenty menty five cents in one payment awis fiat is merely the win of the people enacted into law A certain quantity of gold or silver is willed by the people to be a dollar and it becomes a dollar dolke can mr ingersoll wu or any ower mckinley ley goldbug U ff ou controvert this we va would jae pleased to receive a re reply to monr r Z |