Corves, May 16, 1879.
8REENBACKERS' DEPARTMENT.
Can tl Goternuent Create
Money
If the Government cannot create
money, who can? After peace was
ratified between the United States
and Great Britain, this country was
about as independent of ail the other
governments as if it had been the
only country in tTi world. It was
bound by no laws except those of its
own creation. Absolute power and
sovereignty was diffused among the
the people. They adopted a consti
tution, created a government, and
delegated to it the use of sovereign
powers, among which was the power
t6 coin money. Whatever rights the
people collectively possssed to create,
devise, adopt or agree upon as a me
dium of exchange, they delegated to
congress. If they possessed a right
to agree among themselves that any
receipt, " check, token or other de
vice," executed, stamp'ed, or sealed
by such authority as they might des
ignate, should pass current atribng
themselves as a medium of exchange
and a tender of debt, that right was
delegated to congress by that clause
of the constitution which reads:
M Congress shall have power to coin
moriey and regulate the value there
of." By virtue of this authority, con
gress, in 1792, authorized the coinage
of eagles, half eagles, quarter eagles,
durable eagles and fractions thereof,
cents and half cents. Gold, silver
and copper were selected as the ma
terial out of which these moneys
were to be coined but was congress
obliged to adopt these materials ?
Certainly not, for the authority to
coin money, gave to congress the
same discretion to choose materials
that the people in their sovereignty
possessed before they conferred it to
congress. " If the people have a
right to so amend the constitution as
to declare specially that greenbacks,
or United States notes shall be full
legal tender money at their face val
ue, then congress possesses that right,
for if it has not the power to exercise
all the monetary rights of absolute
sovereignty by what authority does
it decree that gold, silver, copper,
zinc, nickle and other metals shall
enter into coinage?" The fact that
the constitution is silent in regard to
the material of which money shall be
coined, and the further fact that con
gress has from the beginning exercis
ed ha own discretion in regard to the
material, quantity and quality of
money, is proof that the intention of
the framers of that instrument was
not to restrict the government to any
particular kind or money. The only
way greenbacks can be rendered un
constitutional is by an amendment to
that instrument, denying the right of
Congress to authorize them, "for in
the absence of specific prohibition its
general authority to' coin money is
sufficient to justify it in adopting
shells, wampum, iron, leather or pa
per, so they bear the denomination
of value, and the stamp of genuine
ness and authority."
The Supreme Court has decided
Whatever power there is over the
currency is vested in- Congress. If
the power to declare what is money
is not vested in congress, it is anni
hilated. And generally when one of
such powers was expressly denied to
the States it was for the purpose of
rendering the federal power more
complete and exclusive; how sensible,
then, its framers must have been that
emergencies might arise when the
precious metals might prove inade
quate to the necessities of the govern
ment and the demands of the people.
By the obligation of acontract, to pay
money is to pay that which law
Shall recognize as money when the
payment is to be made." In speak
ing of the standard of value, the
Court says, " It is hardly correct to
speak of a standard of value. The
constitution does not speak of it. It
contemplates a standard for that
which has gravity or extension, but
Value is an ideal thing. The coinage
acts fix its unit as a dollar,' but" the
gold or silver thing we call a dollar,
is in no sense the standard of a dol
lar, it is a representative of it. It
will be seen that we hold' 'these acts
of congress constitutional as applied
to contracts made before or after
their passage.1'
The bullionists are now endeavor
ing to bring before the Supreme
Court a case testing the legality of a
legal tender paper money issued in
time of peace. They admit that con
gress can issue a legal tender paper
money in time of war, bnt they de
ny that right to congress in time of
peace. We defy any person to find
a single clause in-the constitution
which gives to congress 6ne' power
over our currency in time of war and
denies that power in time of peace.
The substance of the decision of the
court bearing on this point was that
the mode or manner of providing the
means for the maintenance of the
government was, a legislative and
not a judicial question, and as it' is as
much the duty of congress to pro
vide the means for maintaining the
government in time of peace as in
time of war, its power must be the
same in both cases. This is common
sense as well as common justice. The
whole gist of this test ease lies right
here, to get the finance question from
the people, if possible, and to make
a more substantial foundation for the
the Credit Strengthening Act; for
they know that, by the decision of
the Supreme Court, the bonds, al
though they call for coin, can be paid
in greenbacks With the millions of
dollars the bondholders have to back
them, there is scarlely a doubt that
they will get a decision in their fa
vor. " Men of America, how long will
you submit to the yoke ot bondage ?
how long are you going to crouch
beneath the bondholders' blow, un
der the party lash ot Democracy or
Republicanism ? You were once free
men, would you be free again ? If so,
rise in your strength and smite the
monster which is now crushing the
industries of your country and the
life out of your sons and daughters.''
Do not say that the money question
is too hard to understand ; that is the
plea the bondholder presents to keep
you in ignorance and his abject slave.
"It is a question of life and death
whether liberty shall live or die;
whether labor shall be sovereign or
slave, whether the work of the found
ers of the Republic shall be lost by
the cowardice of the sovereign citi
zens of America, or shall endure
through the bravery of patriotic
men. '
"Who dare defend their rights?
Let him who dare speak, and he who
dare not, go lick the hand that feeds
him crumbs, when, it he is an honest
toiler, he is entitled to all he earns."
W. A. Wells.
Corvallis, May 8, 1879.
HEJIBRAIVOIJS CROUP.
The frightful and incurable disease,
membranous croup, was ravaging the
town and driving all mothers mad
with terror. I called Mrs. McWil
liams' attention'' to little Penelope
and said :
"Darling, I wouldn't let that child
be chewing that pine stick if I were
you."
" Precious, where is the harm in
it?" said she, but at that same time
preparing to take away the stick
for women' cannot receive even the
most palpably judicious suggestion
without arguiug it ; that is, married
women.
"Love, it is notorious that pine is
the least nulritous wood that a child
can eat."
My wife's hand paused, in the act
of taking the stick, and returned it-
selt to her lap. She bridled percep
tibly, and said :
"Hubby, you know better than
that. You know you do. Doctors
all say that turpentine in pine wood
is good for weak back and the kid
neys." "Ah ! I was under a misapprehen
sion. I did not know that the child's
kidneys and spine were affected, and
that the family physician had recom
mended "
" Who said that the child's spine
and kidneys were affected?"
" My love,-you intimated it."
" The idea ! I never intimated anv
thinii of the kind."
" Why, my dear, it hasn't been two
minutes since you said "
Brother what I said ! I didn't
care what I did say. There isn't anv
harm in the child's chewing a bit of
pine suck it she wants to, and you
know it perfectly well. And she shall
cnew it, too ! So there, now."
U C? -i t
oiy no more, my aear. l now
see the force of your reasoning, and
I will go and Order two or three cords
of the best pine wood to-day. No
child of mine shall want while I
" O, please go along to your office,
and let me have some peace. A body
can never make the simplest remark
but you must take it up and go to
arguing and arguing, till you don't
know what you are talking about,
and von never do."
" Very well, it shall be as vott sav.
Bnt there is a want of logic in your
last remarK wnicu '
However, she was eone with
flourish before I eould finish, and had
taken the child with her. That night
j: i e- i . .B
ai uiiuier sue uoiuroniea me witn a
face as white as a sheet.
"O, Mortimer, there's anotfcerl
Liittle tieorgia Gordon is taken."
- " Membranous croup?"
"Membranous croup."
" Is there any hope for him?"
" None in the wide world. O, what
is to Decome ol us r '
By and by our nurse brought in
our Penelope to say erood-nieht and
offer the customary prayer at the
motnere knee. In the midst of "Now
I lay me down to sleep," she gave a
slight cough. My wife fell back like
one stricken with death. But the
next moment she was up and run
ning away with the activeness whfVh
terror inspires.
She commanded that the child's
trib be removed from the nursery to
our bed-room, and she went along to
see the order executed. She took me
with her, of course. We got the mat
ter arranged with speed. A cot bed
was put in my wife's dressing-room
for the nurse. But now Mrs. Mc
Williams said we were too far away
from the other baby, and what if he
were to have the symptoms in the
night and she blanched again, poor
thing.
We then restored the crib and the
nurse to the nursery, and put up a
bed for onaaJves in a room adjoining.
Prpsentlyiowever. Mrs, McWil
lims said, suppose the baby should
catch it from Penelope? This thought
struck a new panic to her heart, and
the tribe of us could not get the crib
out of the nursery again fast enough
to satisfy my wife, though she assist
ed in her own person, and well nigh
pulled the crib to pieces in her fran
tic hurry.
We moved down stairs, but there
was no place to stow the nurse, and
Mrs. McWilliams said the nurse's ex
perience would be an inestimable
help. So we returned, bag and bag
gage, to our own bed-room once
more, and felt a great gladness, like
storm-buffeted oirds that have found
their nest again.
Mrs. McWilliams sped to the nurse
ry to see how things were going on
there. She was back in a moment
with a new dread. She said :
" What can make the babysleep so?"
I said-
" Why, my darling, baby always
sleeps like a graven image."
" I know, I know; but there's some
thing peculiar about his sleep now.
He seems to breathe so regularly.
Oh, this is dreadful!''
" But, my dear, he always breathes
regularly."
" Oh, I know it ; but there is some
thing dreadful about it now. His
nurse is too young and inexperienced.
Maria shnll stay there with her, and
be on hand if anything happens."
"That is a good idea; but who will
help you i
" Yon can help me all I want. I
wouldn't allow anybody to do any
thing but myself, anyhow, at such a
time as this. '
I said I would teel mean to lie abed
and sleep, and leave her to watch and
toil over our little patient all the
weary night. But she reconciled
me to it. So old Maria departed and
took up her ancient quarters in the
nursery.
Penelope coughed twice in her
sleep.
"Oh, why don't the doctor come?
Mortimer, this room is too warm
this room is certainly too warm. Turn
off the register quick !"
I shut it off, glancing at the ther
mometer at the same time, and won
dering to myself if seventy degrees
was too warm for a sick child
The coachman arrived from down
town, now, with the news that our
physician was ill and confined to his
bed. Mrs. Mc VV llliams turned a dead
eye upon me, and said in a dead voice:
" mere is rroviotuce in it. it is
foreordained. He never was sick
before never 1 We have not been
living as we ought to live. Morti
mer, time and again I have told you
so. Now see the result. Our child
will never get well. Be thankful if
you can forgive yourself. I never
can forgive mysell."
I said without intent to hurt, but
with heedless choice of words, that I
could not see that we had beeu living
such an abandoned life.
"Mortimer! Do you want to bring
the judgment on baby, too!
rni i. t . i .
I nen sue oegan to cry, dm sne
suddenly exclaimed :
"The doctor must have sent medi
cines !"
I said :
Uertainiy; they are here. 1 was
only waitiug for you to give me a
chance."
" Well, do you give them to me !
Don't you know that every moment
is precious now ! But what was the
use in sending medicines, when he
knows the disease is incurable ?"
I said that while there was life
there was hope
" Hope ! Mortimer, you know no
more what you are talking about
than the child unborn. If you would
As I live, the directions sav give
one teaspoonful once an hour! Onco
an hour ! as if we had a whole year
nerore ns to save the child in ! Mor
timer, please hurry. Give the poor,
perisning ining a tablespoontul, and
try to oe quick I
" Why, my dear, a tablespoonful
misnt,
"Don't drive me frantic f-
There, there, there, my precious, my
own ; it s nasty, outer stun, but it's
good for Nelly good for mother's
precious darling, and it will make her
well. Ihere, there, there, put the
little hand on mamma's breast and
go to sleep, and pretty soon Oh, I
know she can t live till morning !
Mortimer, a tablespoonful every haTt-
hour will Uh, the child needs bella
donna, too ; I know she does and
aconite. Get them, Mortimer. Now
do let me have my way. Yon know
nothing about these things."
We now went to bed, placing the
cno close to my wite s pillow. All
this turmoil had worn uton me. and
within two minutes I was something
more than half asleep. Mrs. McWiF-
nams roused me :
" Darling
on ?"
"No."
"I thought as much. Please turn
it on at once. This room is cold."
I turned it on, and presently fell
asleep again. I was roused once
more :
" Dearie, would you mind moving
the crib to your side of the bed ? It
is nearer the register."
I moved it, but bad a collision with
the rug and woke up the child. I
dozed off once more, while my wife
quieted the sufferer; But in a little
is that register turned
wbile these words came murmuring
remotely through the fog of my
drowsiness :
"Mortimer, if we only had some
goose-grease will you ring?"
1 climbed drearly out, and stepped
on a cat, which responded with a pro
test, and would have got a convinc
ing kick for it if a chair had not got it
instead.
"Now, Mortimer, why do you
want to turn up the gas and wake up
the child again ?"
" Because I want to see how much
I am hurt, Caroline."
6 Well, look at the chair, too. I
have no doubt it is ruined. Poor cat !
Suppose you bad "
"isow, I am not going to suppose
anything about the cat. It never
would have occurred it Maria had
been allowed to remain here and at
tend to those duties, which are in her
line and not in mine."
" Now, Mortimer, I should think
vou would be ashamed to make a re
mark like that. It is a pity if you
cannot do the few little things that I
ask ot vou at such an awlui time as
this, when our child "
" There, there, I will do anything
yon want. But I can't raise any body
with this bell. They're all gone to
bed. Where is the goosi-grectse ?"
"On the mantlepiece in the nursery.
If vou II step there and speak to
Maria"
I fetched the goose grease and went
to sleep a;aiu. Unce more l was
called.
"Mortimer, I so hate to disturb
you, but the room is still too cold for
me to try to apply this stuff. Would
you mind lighting the fire? It is all
readv to touch a match to."
I dragged myself out and lit the
fire, and then sat down disconsolate.
"Mortimer, don't sit there and
catch your death of cold. Come to
bed."
As I was stepping in, she said :
"But wait a moment. Please give
the child same more of the medicine."
Which I did. It was a medicine
which made a child more or less live
ly; so my wife made use of its wak
ing interval to strip it and grease it
all over with goose oil. I was soon
asleep once more, but once I had to
get up.
" Mortimer, I feel a draft. I feel
it distinctly. There is nothing so bad
for this disease as a draft. Please
move the crib in front of the fire."
I did it, and collided with the rug
again, which I threw into the fire
Mrs. McWilliams sprang out of bed
and rescued it. and we had some
words. I had another trifling inter
val of sleep, and then got up, by re
quest, and constructed a flaxseed
poultice. This was placed upon the
child s breast and left there to do its
healing work.
A wood tire is not a permanent
thing. I got up every twenty mm
utes and renewed ours, and this gave
Mrs. McWilliams an opportunity to
shorten the times of giving the med
icines by ten minutes, which was
great satisfaction to her. Now and
then, between times, I recognized the
flaxseed poultices and applied sina
pisms and other blisters where unoc
cupied places could oc touna upon
the child. Well, toward morning the
wood gave out, and my wife wanted
me to go down in the cellar and get
some more. 1 said :
" My di'ar, it is a laborious job, and
the child must be nearly warm
enough with her extra clothing. Now,
mighn t we put on another layer of
poultices and "
I did not finish, because I was in
terrupted. I lugged wood up from
below for some little time, and then
turned in and fell to snoring as only
a man can whose strength is all gone
and whose soul is worn out. At
broad davlight I felt a grip on my
shoulder that brought me to my sen
ses suddenly. My wife was glaring
down on me and gasping. As soon
as she could command her tongue
she said:
"It is all over! All over! The
child s perspiring: What 6haii wc
do ?"
"Mercv how you terrify me!
don't know what we ought to do
Maybe if we scraped her and put her
in the draft again
KJa, idiot I mere is not a mo
ment to lose. Go for the doctor. Go
yourself. Tell him that he must
come, dead or alive."
I dragged that poor sick man from
his bed and brought him. He look
ed at the child and said she was not
dying. This was joy unspeakable to
me, but it made ni3r wife as mad as if
he had offered a personal affront.
i nen ne said the child s cough was
only caused by some trifling irrita
tion or other in the throat. At this
I thought my wife had a mind to
show him the door.' Now the doctor
said he would make the child's cough
harder and dislodge the trouble. So
he gave her something that sent her
into a spasm of coughing, and pres
ently up came a little wood splin
ter or so.
"This child has no membranous
croup," said he. "She has been
chewing a bit of pine shingle or
something of that kind, and got som
little slivers in her throat. They
won't do her any hurt."
" No," said L " I can well believe
that. Indeed, the turpentine that is
in them "is very good for certain sorts
of diseases that are peculiar to child
ren. My wife will tell you so."
But she did not. She turned away
in disdain, and left the rbom; and
since that time there is" one episode
in our life which we never refer to.
Hence the tide of our days flows in
dtep and untroubled serenity. Mauk
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torDear Sir: I feel that I
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been SUBSTANTIALLY CUR
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thirty year's standing, by one of your incomparable
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it can be adjusted, and the ease and perfect freedom
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without causing any irritation, are its chief merits,
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ENDORSED BY THE MEDICAL PROFES
SION, San Francisco, July 9, 1878.
California Elastic Truss Cot
After practicing medicine many years in this city,
during which time I have had an extensive experience
in the application of all kinds of Trusses, I can and
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Physician and Surgeon,
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