The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-04-15

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a yad-pat circulation Of PCT t1pn Sfqt
] INJURED millions Of don ny 81
redrsf one handrsd and Ait{i'a1 -
but call il the former figure. Ever1 6o[a1
bar of this trseh creude e44 t9@1Qs1fi
grsenhaoka The people of IL WeeA arb
lending one huntred nilliole ~ Geir|
property e Easfsrp s6IaplaateE veedsis,
instead Of Ieu1ing i - 49, eotesnhout.
that needs 4. And la are payiae thsl
Eastern wildcat ssoanko'' at least ten
per cent II Interest IND <xcbAsgs, 81. TN
miunns annnany, On tho Hundred nilll
ioul ct their stud. Why should vapf IN
Wss4 pay the privase corporations 81 fAe4
East. called thanks, |" ten nillions of,dol-'
hsssuu their own Dig bin Wstxas-
their irredeemsh3s spk6miss6 I'd pay'' and
pay them interest thersoae and thea suf-
fer shave Or quarter TO three-Quarter6
pes cent vixen We want to purchase bill
OF exchange With il. And while We are
uslnk and holding thia hundred nillioaS
OF Eastern wild-oak SaesVe1ry Chase 10
obliged to borrow oae hundred millions
OF dollars, on which he pays i've Per ceat
interest in gold Of eight per eentin pa
per. To make up this interest, eight
millions i've hundred thousand delhsal
extra taxes must be added to the burden
OF the West. e.
~ expelling this hundred millions Of
unconstitutional Wild cat from circulation,
Secr1tary Chase win BE- enabled 10 On il
plsce With an equal amount Of green
backs.
Wbats the result First, the Govern
ment obtains free loan from the people
of the West OF elO0, GOO O0Oy Secdnd,
eight and a-half milliona less tdres need
bescoAected on the West to par interest,"
onsthe AAtiosal debt. Third, zen rAillioas
of dollars that nov 20 into the, ,pocksts Of
those who utter and vend this Wild cat
stuff, will be- saved 10 vths people Of the
West, which makes clear gain per an
NUN, to the laborera and tax.payers, Of
eighteen millions I've hundred thousand
dollars in the ten WBstUM States, and
furnishes the Government besides with q
freq loan Of one hundred millions.
AuusAsr@ good efEscs viii be 70 bxnish
all the counterfeits, and there are millions
of dollars Of them in circulation. When
the wild-cass are driven home, the cosn-
terfeits viii be caught like the lixsards,
allipators, terrapins, snakes, ffuKs, and
other amphibious vermin in the bottom q
mill dam when. the NAser y dnWn,o&s
It is clearly beyond human power L
quart against the existence of counter
feits in such : currency ~ Ne nov have
There are at least 500 Estate banks,
as they are called, each one iesuine bill
of at least seven denomina tions. Eacl
"bank" has different plate for each O.
its notes from all the others. Is
Here then are 10, 500 different varietie,
of bills, sud no two Of them exactl,
alike. How can any man distinguish
this endless variety from the counteTfsit
that are on nearly all Of them. o,
some of the bills there are dozen differ
entki~dss Of couuterfeits, snd new osel
coming out almost daily. Genuine blk
of one denomination are. raised to hiphe,
denominations. Ones are converted int.
threes Of tives, and twos or threes int,
tens and twenties. 80
But with the creenbacks there il n,
trouble. All the ones, twos, threes, yves
tens, DC !, are slihe,s and the same is tn
case with the National bank notes In
stead Of 1900 different bank. there Nj
be but rwo-she Legal Tender and tn
National Every man soon becomes !,
expert detecter Of the genuine from n,
spurious, and the counterfe;tino bu.ins,
now 50 immense and alarming. Win y
entirely broken up and practically sboI
ished. in consequence of the certainty o