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Plenty Of Money Prosperity

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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When you make a demahd for the producís oí a factory, then you can glve men employment to meet the demand. No money, no demand for goods, nothing to buy wlth. Plenty of money, plenty of purchasers. Free coinage means plenty of money. Legal tender laws make it as good as gold. Plenty of money, plenty of buying. Plenty of buying makes a demand, and calis for labor. Plenty of labor, with good pay, means plenty of prosperity. Vote for free coinage and plenty of honest money. This means business. The enemy of silver is the enemy of his country, and of all factories and wage-earnei-s. - Adrián Press. In 1873-4, as it was two years and more later discovered, the coinage of this silver dollar was forbidden, and silver dollars were demonetized by law. This act, which was done secretly and stealthily, to the profound Ignorance of those who voted for it, and of the president, who approved it, had, without the knowledge of the country, removed one of the landmarks of the government; and, under cover of darkness, abolished the constitutional dollar, and had arbitrarily, and to the immense injury of the people, added heavily to every form of indebtedness, public and private.- Chicago Tribune, Feb. 23, 1878. A oorrespondent asks us why we give so marked a prefence to the silver dollar of 371% grains of pure silver, and reject the proposed "Christiancy dollar," or the "Blaine dollar," or thetrade dollar. We shall not undertake now to repeat or réstate all of them. But the first reason is that the dollar of 371% grains of pure silver has been the monetary standard or unit of value in this country from 1792 until 1873, a period of eighty-one years. It is the ancient, unchangeable, dollar of that country. - Chicago Tribune, Feb. 11, 1878. The prime object of remonetizing silver is to add to the solid, substantial, intrinsic money stock of the country. There cati't be too much hard money - ready money - in circulation. Such an inflation is stimulatins and invigorating. It is at once a sign and prop of national and commercial prrsperity. The simple remonetization of the Bilver dollar, wlth proper provisions for lta coinage, will contribute a steady stream to the money resources of the

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Ann Arbor Argus
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