Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — MARCH OF THE PAPER DOLLAR [ARTICLE]

MARCH OF THE PAPER DOLLAR

In the old days when we didn’t have milch money, but had muscular shoulders and wore stout jeans, we had no quarrel with the silver dollar, says the St. Paul Dispatch. When we possessed money it was a comfort to hear it. jingle, ,to feel .it weighing on our galluses. But since we have become prosperous we have put away our desire for the physical evidence of money. We want something that does not wear holes in our modern effete pockets. We want something which does not make us round-shouldered to carry about. And so has spread the custom of the one-dollar bill. The cartwheel was first banished from tbe East. Nq,w it is possible to trade almost anywhere in St. Paul and get your five-dollar bill changed with paper ones. In the smaller towns, the towns of the frontier and the West, the ponderous coin, supported by the muscular shoulders, the stout jeans and the galluses. Is still tolerated. \ , • . But the demand for paper dollars is

gradually carrying all before It That is why the treasury department has decided to circulate a, new issue of one-dollar and two-dollar greenbacks similar to those of Civil war days. And the day is coming when even the small boy will look with contempt upon the money that jingles - but doesn’t burn, the money that weighs on the shoulders and tests the fiber of the galluses.