The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-09-22
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GEN. =. #. CARK'S SPEECH.

Canton, Sept 21, 1869.
Mr.. EDITOR: You will pardon NV
presumption in asking the indulgence of q
small space in your columns for a few
random thoughts in connection with GEN,
CARY's speech last night. That it was a
large and appreciative audience of the
bone and sinew of this community needs no
proof to those present.
That the effort of the speaker to show
up the "great sWindle'' now inflicted
upon the laboring people of our country,
in the shape of National Banks, no one
will deny, was most signally telling and
effective.
The logical conclusion could not be 9TH
erwise. AS GENERAL CARY has said, the
fact exists that we, the people, are getting
hurt and it behoOVes just such truth~telling
and fearless men as the General, to tell
where the hurt comes from. Why should
it be that amidst all the resources of our
capaciOus country, so much hard and
wearing labor is performed by the toilers
without their getting the adequate re-
ward. In short, why do they but keep
body and soul together while those in the
''ring" get enormously rich.
To detail all the workings of the present
banking system in q manner to be under
stood by the people, would require large
book; but the principles on which it is
based, and.its effects on the industry of the
country, is within the comprehension of q
school boy. CObbett tells that the banking
system began in England with loan of q
million pounds in the reign of William the
Sd, 1892, for carrying on q war with
France. and that this million of pounds
debt became in 1910, at the time he wrote,
over eight hundred millions, or eight hun
dred times as much I; and the peoples ca
pacity for paying it off vas getting no
better.
If any one will read "Cobbett's Paper
against Gold" he cannot fail to see that
this very thing of debt and its offspring
banks, and their offspring ,irredeemable pa
per money, is the very vital point on which
our destiny, as to whether we can boast to
be freemen or not, depends. In other
words, just in proportion as our circula
ting medium is healthy and safe in the
same ratio will be found our ability to ac-
quire the comforts and decencies of life.
Paper money is the representative of debt,
gold and silver that Of value and wealth,
and only by the proper adjustment of
these media can the workman expect to
get the amount of his labor exchanged for
- 1SAN-eS AAhAA oAO oAPBOANs ~ - N--N
law of an unrestricted paper currency that
it propagatcs and multiplies itself beyond
limit so that sometime or other il works
its own ruin and falls not however without
first having inflicted deadly blow upon
the labor and resources of the country.
The subject of finance is made intricate
only when 1t attains that corruption in the
hands of its ministers which is shameless
and internal. and when the confidence OF
the people may so far be imposed on as to
tempt the exercise of the very ingredients
of our nature. 1t then gets to be legal
lied robbery for the time, and until the
people administer the remedy there can be
no health for the sick body polite.
The signs of the times indicate that the
''swindle" perpetrated on the people Of
the United States is about to reap as il
most deservedly merits the full fruition OF
its crimes, and sincerely hope that thG
soVereigns in their might this fall may SC
far Vindicate their rights as to hurl from
Office all those miserable offenders impli
Gated in the outrage .........-.
A WORRTNHNAN