A Dishonest Silver Dollar Cheats the Laboring Man And Enriches Speculators
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Debt is not money. He himself knows that it is not. He cannot stand on that ground to restore assured prosperity to this country any more than he can build a rail- way on the ice of a deep river in winter time and hope to operate it securely through the heats of summer. I admit that I speak as a capitalist. Yes, I am a " robber, " if the gentleman's doctrine is sound. I worked two full days, twenty-four hours, in my thirteenth year for the first dollar I ever called my own, and I have been a ro...bber, on the gentleman's theory, from that time to this. Nevertheless, I assert my brotherhood with every man in the land who owns an honest hoe, horse, house, farm, bond, bank, railroad, or steamship, provided their capital, great or small, is the fruit of honest work and savings. Every industrious and temperate man in this country makes money ; but it requires common sense and tact to save something and be a capitalist. Congress does not and cannot properly make capitalists or bank- rupts. The father of a family who teaches his sons to come late to breakfast, to study and work short hours, to spend habitually more money than they earn, to buy land and build houses and mortgage the same for more than they are worth in honest money, to run in debt without sense and without reflection, to take flyers at the stock exchange, to bet at the races and keep company with harlots, will raise a family of dead-beats who will need and clamor for fiat money, as the old feudal lords did, to conceal laziness, foolhardiness, and ras- cality.
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