Show WHAT IS MONEY what Is money is a question quite frequently appearing in the columns of newspapers and suppose that those who read it here without proceeding proceed dg any further at present try to frame a correct and comprehensive answer to it first and then pronounce it a foolish one the dictionaries have food gooi booi definitions in a general way so they have hare of such words as aa metaphysical metempsychosis psychological ch and so go on but without exhaustive research and an Q analytical mind how very few have even a slight comprehension of what such words are meant mann E to stand for and convey upon reading the terse descriptions of them contained in the lex lexicon icom john stuart mill defines money as a timers mere contrivance for facilitating exchanges chan gesN a definition followed by another british writer javous in his book money and the mechanism of Ez exchange change A oo temporary gives given the customary newspaper answer that money is defined usually as a mea sure ure of value it is something by the possession or surrender of which we measure sure the value to us of other arti olef else it need not beghold be geld or silver in homers time oxen were money the abe used salt the natives of the west coast of africa used sea the north american in diane diana used the early settlers in virginia used tobacco marco polo says ay that the chinese used paper not paper redeemable in coin but paper made ads valuable by the great khan khanin in orders or dere da ba really money meney Is i anything that in ia generally accepted ai of value which serves to do away with trading in kind or barter it maken no difference what its iti nature in ii so 0 o long as it li in something which in ie of value to the people at large lt it would thus thua appear that what mankind is ift disposed to recognize as money depends largely if not altogether upon our necessities circumstances and our eur round being gregarious coin communicative munica tive and diversified divern ined an aa to his hia bab itil occupations and desires deB irea man la in by the force of such characteristics disposed to sell bell purchase barter and tradel tra band anything representative of values if convenient to handle if it acquires acquire currency in a given place be comes amei money so far as a custom can establish anything tn order to prevent confusion and the clashing of interests inte reste civilized people give to their respective governments government the power of declaring what shall ball and what shall not be money as well as regulate the amount thereof and its proportion our constitution ution provides provide that nothing but gold cold and silver liver shall ball be legal tender in this country and yet during the war we found it not only convenient but necessary to confer that function upon the governments government s promises to pay this was declared u acon whereupon the supreme court was rearranged with the special view of a decision the other way which we got and finally the green backs came to par without the assistance of the statute law and very good goad and handy mousy money it he has always been congress is prone to experimenting at times and it does doea not always seem to have the best beet good or of the people in view either having overridden the constitution by making something money which was forbidden it soon after proceeded to undo somi some of that material mit erial which was allowed allowe dand and in 1873 the infamous measure which struck down more than halt of the count rys circulating medium making it simply so BO much merchandise whose value was wag to be regulated by gold was enacted there have been tau subsequent acts designed to curtail the evil inflicted to some extent but none yet has proposed to do the proper thing of placing the two metals side by side at a fair an and l legal ratio making either convertible into the other at the will of the holder and neither regulated as to value by that of the other it is claimed in places atiat we have not much to look forward to in this respect from the incoming but perhaps it would be just juat as well to lot let that speak peek for itself it can cardely scarcely car oely b be said bald of mr cleveland that he be fadore or will tolerate the circulation of dollars dollar of any cot gage that are not net receivable for a hundred cents centi worth of but lot let the ratio be once established and all silver coined correspond with that ratio and we be lieve he will be found just juet as ai friendly to it idaa as any of us caare are in other words nil his opposition to silver ailder is ia not because it is silver liver but bemuse because in his hi judgment iver giver coinage Is ie greatly treating g the country very much a as coal dealers do the people of salt lake by giving short auert weight |