The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-10-18


proDertg, and of an products, and insmedate
satoa BIZ States and individual g nearly ereLy aeork
ofpgSsate snterprise and public improvement Tie
country woutd be fagolred q one Nairersat oa'ls-
yVDtc1. and near he Craze Of The nations property
Mould perhaps rep0se De sacred fragment q those
great and gforOus iasttttios leieh gre hagpiaess
b millions here and hopes 10 DIi0s more q dis
crsttral,ncat from despotic posccr.n
Not word jot or title Of the above
language, it win be recoIIected, does Mr..
Walker attempt to deny in his "vindica-
ton" In 1894 Bank must be created "to
supply a general currency for state banks
cannot do it. In 1886 the aHnihiIalion Of
paper money, as sought for BY Mr.. Benton
Of Missouri, would be the very presence Of
destruction and bankrup:cy--an evil thai
would 6eggGr the people and reduce the
price of property to nothing. In 1899 he
says,-( lin his letter Of "a June)'I an agaiHsf
the WHOLE PAPER SYSTEM, against i. as desirBc-
ttve Of the gaOrals, dangerous 10 ne liberties
and ruinous to the true interest Of the Ameri
can people," And yetin his 'vindication" R.
J. Walker has the face to rise up before the
people and ask;-"whe1e then Is my incon-
sistsnny.'' He says that he thinks now on
the currency question precisely as he did
when he wrote Judge Black on the ist March
1884. His own words are 81 have no opin-
ions to change on that subject" and yet
he nOtO says II am against THE WHOLE PAPER
SYSTEM" And then he was in favor Of 1.-THE
CREATING A Rank TO sUPPLY GENERAL cUR-
RENcY." And long after he had DOTTED his
wing mantle and was regularly installed
democrat, nothing beneath the heavens was
so greatly and certainly avail as the exclu-
sion of bank paper and me establishment of
a hard money currency. Now he is as We
hemintly opposed to the whole paper sys-
tenn In 1891 he says he wrote book in
Natchez, urging the restriction Of state
banks to sour state bank only in each State,
Nth auxiliary branches, livery good wing
doctrine.'') Now he is "opposed to the Sohole
paper SYSTEM" and has the modesty to state
while receiving these matters in his :'vindi-
cation" 81 claim then the MERIT Of ALSO
Lutte CONSISTENCY on THIS question ~"
Do not laugh, reader, at what we are aware
would be very natural supposition under
burlesque. We assure you we are in sober
earnest and quoting the same Robert ].
Walker correctly.
He was in favor of ''creGIiRg bank 10
supply general currency" In favor of
some state bank in each STATE Nth auxiliary
Judge Black on the DePO-
site Question: He prayed that the country
might be saUed from Benton's ''ruinOns and
visionary scheme of gold and silver curren-
cy." Heis "OPpOsed to the WhOle paper sys-
tenp,'' for 'sthe Very foundation of BANKING M
sTTTUTIoNs is based upon FRAUD and .fe-
tom He wrote the letter above quoted, TO
Judge Black-''sustained eUery measure of
General Jackson's administration, except
the state bank deposite question" He is in
favor Of the sub-treasury bill which is s'strip-
ped of every feature Of 5ank'' and claims
'Fhe MERIT of ABSOLUTE CONSISTENCY" on the
currency question!M! Read that, we bescech
you, citizens of Mississippi!
When Mr.. Walker can make honest men
believe that ga BANK to supply general cur
rency," which he advocated in 1884, was the
embryo that has come forth the sub-treasury
scheme, 'stripped of every feature Of
banks then he may haze "the merit Of abb
solute consistency in advocating every side
of the currency question.
We had laid up for our readers some sport
in looking over the Senator's great pigmy
attempt to make out that ''the banks are
opposing his election, and his brave chal-
lenge of them to the stump and the canvass.
But we have already heightened out this ar
ticle much longer than we Intended; and in
excuse for which, we can only remind our
readers that we are not exactly writing
against RobertJ J. Walker, but against the OPP
position Of S, S. PRENT1ss, the upright strait
torlOard and cOusistant statesman and orator,
for the Senate of the United States.
GOVERNOR McNUTT