Why were the "Original 13 Colonies" so successful using debt free colonial script?

"- Gov't printing money with no interest is far better than letting the Feds control interest rates and who gets loans."

Actually, there is no such thing as a government printing money, fiat money, without creating a system of liabilities associated with such systems. Fiat money is liability money, there is no asset value nor can there be an asset value imparted to such currencies. There must therefore be a mechanism, that mechanism, whether directly or indirectly is the securitization of debt to support the structure of a government issued fiat currency. Whether single-tier or dual-tier fiat, each will require correlation between the currency and debt accumulation. Fiat currency is not self-liquidating because it has no asset value, it is a debt obligation whether interest is directly associated with its creation or not.

Perhaps, instead of reading Bill Still you should actually read the words of those who were actually there, living during that period. I think you will find that the historical concoctions of Bill Still will pale in comparison to the words of those who witnessed the events of the period first hand.

I know that Bill Still, like other pro-fiat pro-state infiltrators, tend to point out some quotes attributed to Benjamin Franklin that "show" a favorable attitude of Franklin toward the fiat regimes of the times however, once you actually read the writings of Franklin you will get a totally different picture of both Franklin's evolving attitude as well as the actual history that Bill Still distorts, perhaps intentionally, because there is no way to arrive at his conclusions while reading the writings of those such as Franklin without willful intent. The question is why would anyone, like Bill Still, intentionally distort that history?

I strongly suggest you read the writings of Benjamin Franklin for a first-hand account of that history. You have, time and again, used very questionable sources, quotes out of context and a revision of history that simply doesn't add up. For instance, you were quick to use the FEDERAL RESERVE DIRECTORS: A STUDY OF CORPORATE AND BANKING INFLUENCE to support your assertions of the private ownership of the FED however, when it was pointed out to you that you were using copies that had been altered and not the original Report, you simply ignored that fact and continued to use such falsehoods, but the question is: TO WHAT END? Why would you do that? Why do you use the falsehoods propagated by Bill Still?

For instance, you will never hear Bill Still use this quote from Franklin:

"That the Merchants trading to America have suffered and lost by it. That the Restriction has had a beneficial Effect in New-England. That every Medium of Trade should have an intrinsic Value, which Paper Money has not. Gold and Silver are therefore the fittest for this Medium, as they are an Equivalent, which Paper never can be. That Debtors, in the Assemblies, make Paper Money with fraudulent Views. That in the Middle Colonies, where the Credit of the Paper Money has been best supported, the Bills have never kept to the nominal Value in Circulation, but have constantly depreciated to a certain Degree whenever the Quantity has been increased. To consider these Reasons in their Order. The first is, That Paper Money carries the Gold and Silver out of the Province, and so ruins the Country, as Experience has shewn in every Colony where it has been practised in any great Degree. --Remarks and Facts Relative to the American Paper Money Wed, Mar 11, 1767, Benjamin Franklin

I dare say that you will not hear Bill Still, who, like you is eager to use any quote as long as it confirms your particular belief system, but cowers when the actual facts contradict such fraudulent assertions intentionally used to deceive, use this Franklin quote:

"While they have Paper Money in Plenty, the Gold and Silver they obtain by Commerce with Spain, &c. is continually remitted hither. The Want of Paper Money, if the restraining Act is not repeal’d, will naturally oblige them to think of every Means by which the Gold and Silver may be here after retained. The Middle Way, and what is best for the whole Empire on both Sides the Water, ...
... be in the Repealing Act, the Colonists can then hurt only themselves by a depreciating Currency, and will generally be well on their Guard. But as there are some new Colonies that are as yet little acquainted with the Nature of Paper Money, it may, perhaps, be well for Government here to act as their Guardians and prevent their doing themselves a Mischief. ..." --The Legal Tender of Paper Money in America Fri, Feb 13, 1767--Benjamin Franklin

Interesting that there are those like Bill Still and yourself DrKrbyLuv, who fail to understand that while colonial paper scrip was seemingly "debt-free" money that was simply not the case, as exhibited in Franklin's own words about paper money:

"That in the Year 1723, the first Experiment of Paper Money was made in Pennsylvania, by striking and emitting on Loan, upon real Securities, the Sum of Fifteen Thousand Pounds.

Or how about this DrKrbyLuv:

Effect intended or not, Experience and Time must discover. The general Effect of the Depreciation among the Inhabitants of the States, has been this, that it has operated as a gradual Tax upon them. Their Business has been done and paid for by the Paper Money, and every Man has paid his Share of Tax according to the Time he retain’d any of the Money in his Hands, and to the Depreciation within that Time. Thus it has proved a Tax on Money, a kind of Property very difficult to be taxed in any other Mode; and it has fallen more equally than many other Taxes, as those People paid most who being richest had most Money passing thro’ their Hands. With regard to the Paper Money or Bills borrowed by the Congress it appears by the above Account to be under two different Descriptions. First, The Quantity of Bills borrowed before the Depreciation, the Interest of which in Silver was to be and is paid in France. Of the Paper Money of America Sat, Jul 3, 1784--Benjamin Franklin

"Thus those Lenders have their Property secured from the Loss by Depreciation subsequent to the Time of their Loan. All the Inhabitants are satisfied and pleas’d with this Arrangement, their Public Debt being by this Means reduced to a small Sum. And the new Paper Money which bears Interest, and for the Payment of which solid Funds are provided, is actually in Credit equal to real Silver. If any Person living in distant Countries have thro’ their Absence from their Property in America suffered Loss
... they will meet with Redress. The real Money us’d in the United States is French, Spanish, Portuguese and English Coins, Gold and Silver. The most common is Spanish mill’d Dollars, worth 5 livres 5 sols tournois. The nominal Money is generally Paper, reckoned in Pounds, Shillings, and Pence, of different Value in the different States when compar’d with real Money, and that Value often changing, so that nothing certain can be said of it. But every where the Accounts are kept in the nominal Pounds" Of the Paper Money of America Sat, Jul 3, 1784--Benjamin Franklin

Debt-Free DrKrbyLuv??? Read this:
"On the provincial authority a certain sum, for example £50,000 local currency, is issued in paper money, and it is proclaimed that whoever in the colony needs a loan, can get it in paper from the government as a loan at 5 percent annual interest on good security. So many who need money are assisted. Generally there is included a condition that the new debtor shall repay one tenth of the capital annually."-Gottfried Achenwall: Some Observations on North America from Oral Information by Dr. Franklin

"A Paper Currency not convertible at pleasure into Money can never become the Medium of a Commerce intended much beyond the Power of the Legislature that creates it. Every Accession therefore to its Quantity must be immediatly felt, and cannot be made without Injustice to those, who must use it."Richard Jackson Sun, Mar 17, 1754--Benjamin Franklin

"Perhaps this consequence would attend our making no Paper-money at all of any Sort, that being thus by a want of Cash driven to Industry and Frugality, we should gradually become more rich without their Trade than we can possibly be with it; and by keeping in the Country the real Cash" Sat, Aug 8, 1767 --Benjamin Franklin

"My greatest apprehensions arise from the depreciation of our paper money. If we emit more bills of credit, they will fall to nothing; we cannot tax to the amount of the charges of the war, and of our civil establishments; we must then raise money by lotteries, and by borrowing."Tue, Aug 12, 1777--Benjamin Franklin

"How the new Bank will find itself in the Situation of Middle man, and the Danger Inherent to this Situation I had in view, when I left room for the Objection that it would be too great an undertaking to Change all the Paper Money for notes at once. Whether this be ventured on or not, it will be necessary to borrow a Sum of money in England, greater or Less in proportion to the Extent of the design, on the Public Security of the Province, a part of which I believe it would be proper ." --Benjamin Franklin

"Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. It is no more so than compelling a man by law to take his own note. But it is unjust to pay strangers with such money against their will. The making of paper money with such a sanction is however a folly, since, although you may by law oblige a citizen to take it for his goods, you cannot fix his prices; and his liberty of rating them as he pleases, which is the same thing as setting what value he pleases on your money."Sun, Feb 17, 1788--Benjamin Franklin

"I believe the Congress have laid aside all Thoughts of them, having fallen upon means of borrowing at Home of their own People, by issuing Paper Money bearing Interest, which appears better and more advantageous to the Country than paying Interest abroad." Franklin

" Lately informed that the Congress Stopt the Proceeding in those Drafts soon after it commenc'd, having adopted the better Plan of borrowing at home by issuing new Paper Money bearing Interest; and calling in all the old by Taxes." Franklin

"In providing for the support of the widows and orphans of militia men who fell in the late war; this power in the opinion of Council ought to be lodged in more proper hands, and its decisions thereby rendered more uniform. The continual depreciation of our paper money merits the most serious attention of your Honorable House. This circumstance alone diffuses languor and embarrassment through the whole executive department of Government. Contracts cannot be compleated for the making of roads, or any other public business." Franklin --Feb 1788

"The depreciation of our paper money calls for the attention of the legislature. We wish for a conference with a committee of your honorable house on this important subject." Franklin-- 1788

"There has been a general Depreciation of the Value of Paper Money in America, not made by Order of Congress, as it seems you have been told, But growing naturally and gradually from its too great quantity. The Congress have advised the Several States to call in their proportions of it by Taxes; and tho' the Depreciation." Franklin--Sun, Aug 6, 1780

"United states for 1000 Dollars each for my Inspection, which I return inclos’d. I have not yet seen the resolution mentioned therein but by what I can recollect from the face of the Notes themselves, I judge that the Dollars for which the notes are given were of Paper Money borrowed, and that the interest will be payd and the principal repaid in the same paper which is now in state of great depreciation. If before the time of Payment it should fall still Lower, the possessor of the Notes will be so much a Loser, if on the Contrary they should rise in Value. Franklin -- Sun, Jun 13, 1779

"The influx of Money expected soon from Spanish America begins already to lessen the Depretiation on the paper money, which will probably be at par when The Specie arrives, as your Excellency knows that this paper bears an Interest of four per cent. Those who keep their cash in their Coffers will prefer it to Specie." Franklin-Thu, Jan 15, 1784

"The Necessity of keeping up the Credit of our Paper Currencey, and the variety of important Uses, that may be made of this Money, have induced Congress to go as far as 6 Per Cent, but the Interest is heavy, and it is hoped, you may be able to do the Business on much easier Terms. Franklin--Sat, Dec 21, 1776

"We have several subjects that we must lay before you. One, unfortunately, is money. The nature of the war has necessitated far more emissions of paper currency than would ordinarily have been wise; to limit them Congress has borrowed extensively, with interest to be paid in Europe, great sums of which are now due. Franklin --Fri, Aug 28, 1778

Now, while Franklin definitely favored paper money for a very specific and limited use, he was not, thankfully, blinded by it nor did he white-wash the obvious problems associated with paper money. Needless to say, it was not as rosy as it is made out to be by the likes of that infiltrator Bill Still.

Now, here's one of the comments made to Franklin about paper money:

"Too much paper & too little hard money has been an amazing damage to us. A loan must be obtained if possible, that so by drawing for the merchants at a high exchange we may sink a considerable part of our currency. " From William Gordon Thu, Feb 4, 1779

DrKrbyLuv, you make it a habit to use a very wide brush in your threads, usually to the detriment of a subject that should be considered far more finely then you seem to be willing to employ. For instance, there have been more than a few occasions when you have stated that the gold standard caused The Great Depression, as though that extremely diluted statement adequately described the events that preceded The Great Depression and those events that took place during that period. I dare say that you cannot adequately describe the events of that period any more than you have been able to use certain sources, such as Bill Still, to contradict actual history. Though you may try, your attempts as a pro-statist, pro-fiat advocator does little to enhance your reputation as a defender of Liberty and Voluntary Action. You would have the government impose yet another fiat regime, yet you cannot explain the monetary mechanics of such a single-tier fiat system.

I have made this suggestion several times before, perhaps you will eventually take such a suggestion to heart and actually read some of the most important economic and monetary works of the last 300 years.