Judge — August 15, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Grand Sary of Pubic Opinion : Your jury should from time to time ins vestigate closely the many—of industrial and commercial depres- sion. In your inquiry as to the influence of the bulk or quality reulating medium you will need to op ino mind that all money, whether coin or paper, is only a tool with which the producer, handler and con- sumer of valuable products can make their purch, and settlements, ‘That if th fi for st enough of these agents of traffic a trade will be active; if there is too much trade may be too active, feverish, and pr go up. If there is too little, of modities will be interrupted and diflicult,j as traflic is when railroads wash out or tele- graph lines break, ‘Then trade is slow; bu- siness depressed, work uncertain and irregu- lar. Men can’t get the means of carrying on business; or, if they can, it costs them so much (interest) that the profits of business. ure wiped out, and men rather lie still than do business, ‘This last your jury will ascertain isand been the general state of affairs for two or three years. In deciding whether it is due to lack of money you will be aided by the statement of amount of money in circulation, The estin the Curren es of the U.S. Comptroller of will be in evidence, in which the total of coin and paper money authorized is put at 500,000. You will deduct from this the amount held in reserve by the S$. ‘Treasury and bank reserves, $48: 000,000; also that locked up in banks, trust companies. and stocking-legs, circulating abroad, lost, destroyed, and otherwise out of culation, which expert witnesses will cal- late for you to amount to 300,000,000 more. — The deductions will show an estimated circulation of 10,000,000 actual- ly in use. ~ You will be furnished a comparison which will ago averaged ov tion, while you ; F than 13 a head is now out and free. You can € more than Britain. If your jury shall find that this contra tion is one of the prime causes of business lethargy, it will be your duty to consider what remedies, if any, can be devi In t ‘onnection this court calls your atten- tion to the illegal hoarding of coin money by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the trea- sonable refusal of the banks of New York to accept legal tender money of the United States Government. The finding of your jury of Public Opinion may alone be enough uy to compel these modern nullifiers of United 8 to desist from their unlawful and conspiracy to prevent lawful s coming out relieve, so far, the tion and depression. injurious If your jury’s direct influence on those law enemies of public prosperity be un- iling, then you should consider what ures the oflicers of this court, the Con- of the United States, should take to suppress the evil. The repeal of the charters of the banks, criminal proceedings nst their oftic und impeachment of the Secretary of the Treasury and the ‘Treasurer of the United States are among the extreme measures that are open to your court. Other causes of hard times will also be considered by your jury in subsequent sit- tings. GB. Bs OFF THE BENCH. of the surface road em- Ir ts said the oldest record in the consular service is that of the man who was at Vic- toria, B. ¢ “Yes,” s\1p THE OLD Lapy, “ My boy, | Johnnie, is jest a-duffin in at his books, git- tin’ ready for college. He's bound to mat- terate in the fall, he says.” A MonUMENT has been erected to one of the Salem witches. Modern witches erect their own monuments of the hearts they have skewered and ured. “DECEIVED BY A BOOK-AG 7 ting to be rather a frequent newspaper head- ing. Our knowlege of these lady canvassers leads us to anticipate increased frequency of the title. 1,” is get- 14 | | Jay Goutp’s yacht ran well on the Sound, but it is the only thing he runs thus, It is the W. U. operators who do business on the ‘sound,’ but that does not count to J. || G.’s credit. “CHARGES PROVEN, NO ONE GUILTY,” is the verdict of the jury of divines and philanthropists drawn to inquire into the | | Mall Gazette's charges against British aristocracy of abduction, Facts worth KNOWING "—How Gor- » who wrote * The Bread-winners,” the circulation of al) several the New York dailies, how much gold there actually ‘is in New York banks. don di¢ and Ir costs five thousand dollars to take the Order of the Garter, in E nd. It’s like their aristocratic extravagance to order such exp) of listing is good enough for a democratic | Yankee girl. nsive garters. 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