The Archive · 1922

The Currency Question

The present incumbent of the office wil] no doubt take means to change this, however, for the people that always suffer in such istes as this are the very poor. The man that has always been paid in cash for his day's labour is still paid in the same medium, but' the intolerable difference is that now the same amount of cash buys so much less, and his wage does not increase accordingly. The price of commodities stays normal, or perhaps raises a little, in terms of the dollar, whereas the poor are always paid in cash or copper. There is much need for a stable, central government to standardize the minting of the coins of the country.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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