People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — WHY FRANCE IS SOUND. [ARTICLE]

WHY FRANCE IS SOUND.

To Discriminate Against Her Money Is Treason. A great many people wonder why France is financially so prosperous. One of the reasons is that she is patriotic —and stands up for France. In a late case before a French court a creditor had sued on a note payable in gold, and the court held the provision void, on the ground that one sort of money issued by France was as good as another, and to discriminate in favor of either one was a conspiracy to injure the government and its credit, and that the debtor has the right to pay in anything issued by law as money. That doctrine —a sound and patriotic one—if enforced in this country, would bring Secretary Carlisle up with a round turn. There are no “fifty-cent” depredators allowed in France —a •fivefranc piece being as much money as a napoleon. France makes her own money and makes any attempt to discredit it even in contracts a conspiracy at law. No wonder France is prosperous, as her lawmakers and her courts are as patriotic as her people. No high officers of state are there engaged in depreciating the money issued for the use of her people, It is morally a crime in the United States and ought to be held an offense at law by our own courts—possibly will be some day.— Kansas City Journal.