Demoine courier., 1854-07-27

money! it's said let them borrow o. the
money lender and broker. They charge
20, 80 and even 40 per cent. interest ard
no man can afford 10 pay ~interes, a, these
rates. Let us take on instance A far
mer has 500 head Of hogs or beet cat
tie; he has not the money TO prepare and
take them TO market. and but few of the
merchants have the money 10 spare FROM
their business to buy them; SO The farmer
has to force them INTO market a. home,
where money is scarce and but one or
TWO buyers. and get jus, what he can for
| hem. 1, wont do for him to 90 and
pay 90 or 80 per cen, for The money
II would be worse than 10 sacrifice them.
10 this way thousands. yes tens Of thou
sands, Of dollars are yearly lost to our
enterprising farmers and business men.
Now if we had, in our midst, sound,
specie paying banks the farmer or bust.
ness man could 60 to the bank. put in
his note with one or twO OF his neigh
bors as endorsers, draw the money for
ninety days at 6 to Z per cent. per an
mum, and ship off his products, no mat.
ter what kind, get a return al good wi,,
ces, pay up his note and save, for the use
OF himself and family, quite a handsome
sum every year. Or here is a young
mechanic, he wishes TO 90 into the man.
ufaciure of ploTs, wheat fans. reapers5
&c. All know him to be an honest, in
dustrious man, and he has the wood out
TO make a nuu.b Der Of reapers, and if he
had the money for 20 or 80 days, say 2
or 3 hundred dollars, he could buy the
rest of the materials, hire hahds and turn
gu, and sell these reapers and pay his
note in the bank and have a handsome
prof, for his labor. In this way indus
trious and thrifty mechanics would fill
up our towns, give employment. TO M.
merous hands at fair wages. and our
farmers would be supplied a, home with
these necessary implements. The in
teresi, too, that we now pay TO Illinois,
Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and the olher
States. for the use OF their paper, will
90 into the pockets of our W citizens.
But the anti bank hards cry out in hor-
ror, "these monster banks are rich mems
Inslilutions-io make the rich richer and
the poor poorer" This is a grand en-
ror. The rich money shaver, the brok-
ers and money jobbers, don't want snv
banks. They are a terror to them. for
when banks come in they see their hope
Of gain is gone. They Sc, on their
counters, little nabobs in our towns aud
villages, and loan the poor man, perhaps
the widow. a few hundred dollars to save
a home, or keep a dependen. househo!A
from want, at the rate Of 25 or 40 per
cent and in one or two years the man
dies and his poor widow is thrown OUT
of house anu home, with her poor or.
phan children, and lha, home. perhaps
worth $500 or $1,000, all for some S2Oa
with use for one or two years. Now
no wonder that these tyran,s aud Shy
locks do not want banks. They are EN-
phatically against him and The poor mans
friends.
But. oh! banks. those horrid banks,
are anti democratic" and Democrats in
Iowa must moi touch or handle the IN.
clean .'mons,ers' on pain of political ex.
communication They are perfectly
democratic in Virginia, South Carroll.
ma, Mississippi. Indiana, Ohio. Illinois,
even in the Gibraller of Democracy,
New Hampshire. Oh! yes, in those
States, sound and orthodox democrats
vote for and charter them BY scores
bu, the leaders of Democracy in Iowa.
lift up their hands in holy horror. anF
turn up their arisIocratic noses IN disgu
at the mention of a free banking system.
A good Democrat, ! mean a sDun2 re!ia-
bic Democrat-non of your half fledg =
ed Shanghe banillngs, who croak about
the spoils-from Indiana, and who has
been deceived to vote for a while for this
prosperity killing, man worship Iowa
Democracy, said TO me the other day
that he was perfectly astorished when he
found OF, what Iowa Democracy was.
"Why, sir" said he, "it is nothing like
Democracy in Indiana, for in that State
banks is the leading plank in our plat.
FORM"
In conclusion, fellow citizens Of Wap
clio, le, me say the question OF an amend.
msnt Of the constitution is 10 you and
your posterity a question OF immense
moment. The question is brought homo
10 every one Of you. Will you vote for
men who will not :tnsi yon to say what
you want, or who are so almighty wise
that they know what yen want better
than you do, anG usurp the high and
God given %prerogaiive 10 think for you.
las did your las. two members of the
lower house.) and who, by depriving
you Of a sound CURRENCY of your own.
keep you in poverty and distress, or will
you rather repudiate such men and vote
for men who stand pledged to submit. the
question to you and le.you say whether
you will come up with the enlightened
spirit of the age, flourish and prosper in
homes adorned ard beautifed by your
creator, SO tina. everything can bloom
and blossom around you-so that you
can enlarge your houses, build commos
dious barns, extend and beauiify your
farms, aid to your flocks and herds,
build up towns and cities. churches and
school houses, refine and educate your
children and embellish your homes wi b
all the taste and refinement Of art.