Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — Blaming the Dentists. [ARTICLE]

Blaming the Dentists.

“Talk about the exports of gold upsetting our financial system," said the economic reformer, as he bit a orescent out of a doughnut in a Park row lunch bazaar. “It isn’t the exporting that is driving our gold out of our treasury. No, sir. The trouble is with the pluggers. They are ramming a cool $1,000,000 worth <j T gold away into the back, teeth of the American people every year. That means just so much of the yellow metal lost to trade and commerce every twelve months—lost completely and irretrievably. This must be stopped. Let Congress pass a law prohibiting the us» of gold in filling teeth, and the monetary pressure will begin to ease up in no time. When our gold is drawn away from us by business transactions with foreign nations, we can get it back in due tim» through the natural processes of trade, but when it is plugged away in the cavernous molars of our purse-proud dudes and millionaires it is locked up so tight that a writ of foreign attachment couldn’t reach it. This business must stop, or the government will slump before the next season opens,—]New York Herald.