text: " We are induced to dwell the more strongly upon these facts because we have strong suspicions that our opponents will endeavour to get at our monetary system by raising the senseless cry of over-issue--senseless at any time as a political maxim it being the grossest fallacy to maintain that an increased issue is the cause of national distress unless indeed it were possible to suppose that bankers were madmen enough to dispense their paper without receiving a proper equivalent--not only senseless but positively nefarious when the clear broad fact stares them in the face that Scotland has in fifteen years thrown double the amount of capital into its banking establishments increased its productions in a threefold and in some cases a sevenfold ratio augmented its population by nearly half a million (one-fifth part of the whole ) and yet kept its circulation so low as to exhibit an actual decrease