Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — FINANCIAL FACTS. [ARTICLE]

FINANCIAL FACTS.

ffILVEB COINAGE. *fhough n hate been stated several times, it may not bfe out of place to peat, Mys - the Chicago TV-towne, thatthe dollar of 4121 grates of mixer was a legal tender from 1798 to 1874; and that jhe statement so often made that carte $8,000,000 Of legal-tender silver dtdltars were opined is not true te foot. . The silver dollar was not only a legal tender itself, but all its fractional parts were legal temder for w amount whatever, and Qf , legal-tender silver (enehuhng the-.subsidiary silver) there were coined to the amounts and of the denominationft following: DoUara $ 8,045,838.00 Half-dollars 66,249,183.<80 Quaxteraiollara.. ' 3,999,0*0,00 -qtotaL^.,...’ WK)7,39X90 < .Al PUBLIC DJWT A £UEhIO CURSE. The debts of the civilized nations ameunt to more than eight times the total of all the gold ajjd silver money in Europe and A<neriea.*j tional debts amount to s2&4oo,oo|jQ®r railroad debts, $5,000,000, COO, and ofatff and municipal debts, $4,250,000,000. The aggregate of this vast sum is $32,650,000,000, Tlw principal is never be paid, It is designed to constitute a yoke of perpetual bondage upon workingmen. Tt is te be the, means of supporting an aristocracy for fill time. It is the foundation upon‘which an oligarchy may stand within the halls of legislation, the temples of justice, the chambers es the .Executive, and dictate as effectually as depots to ’ those who obey, the Almighty’s first canon to man and earn their living by the sweat oi their brow.—fiveAanpe.