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Show Til E IIAlll(. (OMMH II i:. More greenbacks is the order of the day. 'When ministers are asked questions upon theology, which they cannot answer, they call the interrogator, inter-rogator, a sinner; when a citizen asks a politician a connundnim in regard to the public- money which he cannot answer, he replies "You are a fool;" and when the people of the country ask the brilliant treasury guardians at Washington what arc their financial plans, they reply "Printing presses." pres-ses." The Anu.s has been saying, ever since September 10th, that the panic would be met by an issue of greenbacks green-backs and expansion, the cost of which would be; lirrt, wild speculation; second sec-ond the postponement of a return to specie; and third, another panic. Now we see an increase of public debt in October amounting to $y,000,-000, $y,000,-000, an increaso in November of 000,000, an increase of the legal tenders to $370,000,000, and still going go-ing on at the rate of a million per day; the Secretary of the Navy calling for an extra $-5,0"Xt.000; gold has" advanced ad-vanced 3 per cent. ; commerce is nearly near-ly destroyed; manufacturing lias been seriously crippled; and money is piling pil-ing up in Wall street with little legit-mate legit-mate demand, and is already loaning at o and 4 per cent. The Banking and currency Committee Com-mittee of Congress have patriotically I agreed to meet daily in order to devise de-vise means how currency may be more rapidly manufactured! And there is no man there to turn this tide of future destruction. Our country has too much currency. curren-cy. Financial laws are as fixed ad those of the planetary svsteni. With $700,000,000 of circulating medium, the average premium upon gold is, nay, 10 to 15 per cent. When the circnlatins medium in IS60 was $900,000,000, gold would rise to 400 per cent., and ifitwere increased to $1,500,000,000, it wnidd be worth nominally nothing. We have shown that if wo increase currency "to the small Amount of 5 per cent, of the property value of a country, its currency cur-rency is more valuable to sell for pnper rags than to pay debts with. ' Have these inflationists ever heard of the Continental money aud the French ansipnufs, of which a market basketful would not purchase a break-feast? break-feast? Brooklyn Aijut. j |