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of people. This u so -called" God's money is the same 

 that the Savior upset in the temple of Jerusalem and drove 

 its owners, whom he very strongly intimated were a set of 

 thieves, out of the house of God. "But if foreign coun- 

 tries will not receive this money how will we pay our 

 foreign debts, and buy foreign goods ? " In answer to the 

 first question we would say, that unless we go abroad and 

 negotiate loans, debts due to foreigners are payable in our 

 own country, in its lawful money, unless otherwise stipu- 

 lated in the contract. Does any one suppose that the 

 bonds of the United States, purchased by foreign capital- 

 ists during and after the war, were paid for in gold and 

 s-ilver coin? The foreign capitalist, like his American 

 "cousin," exchanged his coin for greenbacks at about fifty 

 cents on the dollar, and exchanged these for United States 

 bonds at their face value, and these bonds were payable at 

 the treasury of the United States. 



But suppose we agree to pay coin to foreign capitalists. 

 The use of paper money does not exclude gold and silver; 

 nor does it shut down our mines in the production of these 

 metals, which can be used, not only in paying our debts, 

 but in carrying on trade and commerce with foreign Nations. 

 We would produce as much gold and silver from our mines 

 if we had a paper circulating medium, as we should if we 

 had a mixed currency, or one exclusively of coin. "Plenty 

 as leaves on the trees. " u Give it to everybody that wants 

 it." "Back up your cart and get what you want. " "It 

 would be so cheap that you could not pack enough on a 

 mule to buy a farm. " "It would take $500 of it to buy 

 a breakfast." "Print the debts to death," and many 

 other wild expressions similar to the above are frequently 

 indulged in by the "shrewd politician," and the subsidized 

 press, for the purpose of alarming the people and to pre- 

 vent them from doing anything that will destroy the busi- 

 ness of those who have always had a monopoly on the 



