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It is to be hoped that the question of the kind of money the people of the United States are going to use will be permanently settled by the next COL» grees. Two opposing forces are marshal ing for battle. One party is in favor of retiring all government paper money and substituting there for only national bank notes. But the old state rights feeling is still so strong in some parts of the country that any bill which should undertake to retire the govern ment notes could only be passed with an added chance permitting state banks to be revived in all the numerosity and inglorious worthlessness of the good old state dollar, which, being printed in Mississippi, was only a bit of paper in Massachusetts. Do the advo cates of the retirement of the national notes want to bring back those times again? Against the party desiring the banks to issue our paper money stands the party that desires the government to continue in circulation not only its pres ent notes, but to henceforward issue all the paper money used by the country, so that a dollar will be the same the country over. Between those two opposing forces the currency battle will be fought out. It may be remarked in a general way that those who desire the national banks as at present constituted to issue all the paper money are those who favor the exclusive gold standard. The Chinese Equal Rights league of America, which has been incorporated at Springfield, Tls., is worthy of con sideration. The object of the league is ultimately to obtain citizenship for the Chinese in America. The Chinese exclu sion laws are now so stiff as to prevent Mongolians from flooding the country in such numbers as they formerly did. The number of Chinese in the United States is not increasing much. Those already here show more and more dis position to rear families in accordance with the customs of Christian people. On your life never speak of a‘ ‘salary’ of so much per year. The word ‘‘sal ary’ itself expresses the fact of a given sum paid annnually. If you want to an nounce the fact that John Smith is paid 35,000 a year, say simply that John Smith has a salary of $5,000. Then stop unless you want to advertise your ignorance by telling people that he gets a salary of $5,000 a year. When a man is just dying to be ap pointed to an office, does he honestly say he wants it and would give any thing to get it? Oh, no! He merely re marks in a casual, weary sort of way that if the place were offered to him he “would not feel at liberty to decline it.”’ Of course not.
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Bristol Observer
Bristol, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Feb 13, 1897
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Christopher W.
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