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Show YES, IT MUST GO. "The Bland dollar must go!" Thus saith the Omaha Herald. And it doubtless doubt-less will go but not in the way the Herald Her-ald intimates. The Bland dollar is the dollar of the daddies over again ; it was good enough for our fathers it is good enough for us. It contained a dollar's worth of silver at the time of its demone- ; - tizalion in 1S73; it contains" the same amount to-day. The act of 73 which surreptitiously dropped it from the list of ?; coinage, where it had stood since 1792 as I" ' the only coin standard of money in this country, was one of the boldest acts of the j gold and bond r'mz ever perpetrated in ! , j America, and sufficient to brand its authors I j and abettors with infamous fraud. What : j tne Herald is pleased to term the ! ; "eighty-cent dollar" is this same old coin j returned to the list, and whatever may ' I 1)8 tQe value which the gold men place ; j upon their hoarded yellow metal, the j (: ... .- . - - ; . Bland dollar is an honest, 100-cent dollar, and as such the American people want it and demand its coinage until the monetary mon-etary circulation shall be increased sufficiently suf-ficiently to give the per capita of money necessary to perform the exchanges of the country. Yes, "the Bland dollar must go," but when it does go it will be in the direction pointed out by the country's necessities into the channels of trade and commerce, into the poor man's pocket in exchange for his labor, into the tradesman's till in exchange for his goods, back into the national treasury in payment of revenues, into general use a3 a good, square, honest dollar should go not into the "innocuous desuetude" which the Herald and the gold men have marked out for it. |