| Show FIDDLING DURING THE FIRE the following hopeful paragraph is s filbin the jolliet news I 1 good enough the bankers of new york have voted to give the country how a taste of glod times they have been holding meetings mee ings all the week in the hank bank parlors devising means whereby they could extend credit as far as possible and at the last meeting of the clear teg ing house committee a measure was adopted to issue clearing house certificates and to urge the houses in other cities attles to do the same this will in effect increase the currency of the nation to the he amount issued the good times are now on the road but will not arrive anite as rapidly as did those other times I 1 oey ey sent us our namesake draws comfort through avery ery slender straw it seems to us the issuance of clearing house or any other paper I 1 is not dot increasing the volume ot of currency curr enoy why even greenback which are based on nothing but the national credit are a nearer ape roach to money there are but two inda of money which can actually add dd to the amount of our circulation gold and silver anything else being ejected into the financial system Auel kike so much inflation and nothing more if a man having a silver dollar teta gets it changed into small pieces he has more money in point of bulk than he e had before but no more in value and hd that would be our case with the nook binock remedy of paper currency foisted upon pon us silver to is qu ted at 81 and still falling ou it expect to fill up the vacuum thus created with gun wad ding I 1 |
