Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03

$3.50 That Il large amount o.
money. | would Ike some way to
get YOU 10 think of this. Suppose
YOU had that in silver dollars, where
would you have room 10 pot it? sup
pose you had IL in silver dollars and
selected ten of your best account
lants In the country do you sup
pose they would get it all counted
| before they would go to a better
country? Ii is such as TO give me
fear, fear. The government credit
is good. They have just borrowed
about sl69, 600, 900, it has good cred
| it and if they would stop wasting
the money, stop squandering, stop
using the money in any but iegit-
mate way ii would be all right. III
ought To be stopped right there.
They ought to pay all the revenues
on this except as much as is neces-
sary as to actually pay the necessary
eopense5. This Is the doctrine. The
truth il when you come to the prac-
tice you know what men mean gen
orally. Take it to practice. Think
Of the interest upon this. il is enor-
NOUS. 1t would take a very large
income to pay it alone, and as | said
there don't seem to be any DISPOSE
ton TO stop that or liquidate any part
of that debt. ! have not time TO
talk long, but ] will show you right
here what the expenses OF the gov
eminent are. There isanother thing
connected with this that i don't UNI
derstand. that / never did. Al
thouh my friend being here, j am
going to be as brief as possible. But
we havn't money enough In circuia-
ton. Here j wish to speak OF the
Banking Law.
i had a conversation with Judge
Wright the other day i'm whose man
asement I take great deal OF stock
for have watched him very closely,
and made up my mind that he was
a better financier than / was. The
bankers don't want a circulating me-
dunn i'm our country and consequent
~ ] had thought to counsel with MN
and have him make the figures Tor
me for wasn't banker enough to sec
how it was. / have the figures here
TO show you. It amounts to over
million dollars Of contraction at that
time. That's consequently the
thing that brings down the prices OF
the produce from this great Iowa. II
reaches to our pockets. For that reas-
on the present administration Is not
good. They take their power to
steal the money. For they have
locked up currency to the amount OF
sI4, 576, OiO.72. They have locked up
the coin to the amount OF sl4, 00o,0Oo
i'm round numbers. They have re-
served $58, 100000, making a total
OF $147, 900 900, and the people are
paying interest on that sum OF mon
ey because they owe 1t, and II it was
paid on the Indebtedness IL would
stop the interest. IL would alter the
: That's only one feature Of this adj
rs practised on us. i
have given you figures here, figures
/ defy any contradiction. This ad-
ought SO discharge their
duties as TODD the best possible thing
for the country. If you hire man
to work for you you expect him 10
do your duties and interest. III IS
his duty to do for you. 1t Is Just SO
with the President Of the United
States and all the departments H the
administration. There IL Is with the
money locked up there, upon which
the people for whom he is doing that
work Is pay Ing the interest, and the
people denied the use OF the money,
and the spectators are taking advan-
tage Of the people by the scarcity oil
tho money. This il more than the
people can bear. DO you wonder at
nj the people rising up In opposition
to the tllchings of the ofiice.holders?
Is it a wonder? In most cases our
parties can agree as far az facts are
concerned. am here as a reformer
In the interest of reform and reform
and retrenchment. Consequently /
have nothing to say against any
member OF either party. The great
question we have before us Is how to
pay off the enormous debt and see to
IL that we have the best possible gov
eminent. What else is it? Is there
any other question before the people?
1t seems not.
You can ransack the platforms OF
all parties Of politicians. l never
UhNG BDuHIlt OliiCcy but uih HWpb
about this matter just as / would
my own business, common sense
view.
| came to Iowa in an early day
and have never been such slave
in all my life as have in having to
get the crop started. There Is no
stopping place. The turner first
must ptoW The ground and pct in his
corn, tben so,c his oats, and it's from
one thing TO another The year round.
The man who earns his dollar i'm
that way don't look at these large
figures, these millions rs men do
who live in idleness all his life.
These men holding their Offices puts
their money into their pockets and
draws their checks. lie ish't hur-
ried much and he doesn't value the
dollar like the man that gets it out
Of the ground. That's why the peo-
Pile are going to have reform, for
when boy is raised in idleness and
has all he desires, when he becomes
TO be twenty-five years Of age, he be-
comes reckless. That's because the
father did not teach the son the val