Show FIAT OF gott the gold standard advocates seo in ail ver the deliriums of the fiat money cranks they talk of the 50 cent dollar and the 50 cents in fiat which would go to make up the silver dollar under free coinage but are perfectly oblivious of any fiat being assoni abed with their most sacred cause they have just borrowed which was for the purpose of redeeming green backs let us take them at their word the governments bond which was in fact the redeemer of the greenback was ha to pay the fiat of the united states there is something over of deposits in the banks of the united states and only in the country that could possible be obtained to pay the depositors back their amounts in cold the bankers tell the depositors aliey will oay them goldburt gold but the public simply trust to the flat of the banks if the gold bankers want a gold oasis solidly established why do they not redeem their national notes and issue only gold certificates why because they are firmer believers in fiat than any class only they have resolved to control the issue of paper money and drive the government from the right to circulate its paper when the american people relinquish the power to coin or manufacture money into the hands of the bankers all legislation will be subject to their likes or dislikes the people have already been treated to several exhibitions ot their power to influence legislation by bringing on panics and the moment that they become more firmly and securely in trenched behind the ramparts ot cold the common class will be but vassals subject to their and ca prices the very foundations of our american form of government will crumble and fall and an oligarchy sway the multitude they ill rule by the fiat of gold and rejoice over the downfall of liberty of conscience THE of the name of col trumbo throws the editor of the tribune into a most disordered state of mind some eastern paper lately paid col trumbo a high compliment and it seems that a prankish fellow who delights in bringing on a fit of distemper in the salt lake scribe bent him a marked copy the joke bad the desired eject and those who were parties to it ae having a quiet laugh such jokes should be suppressed while innocent of harm to all intents and purposes the close friends of the judge say the reported attacks of mental derangement ran gement which follow the perpetration of these pranks are making the old man peevish petulant and morose and some day he will pass away in nn epileptic fit super induced by these aggravating notices being forced to bis attention boys you should not annoy I 1 the old man remember ho Is in bis dotage |