The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-06
Por The Hickman Courier.
NATIONAL BAyas.
Turner Hpd Rooms Positions
COu{TnSted.

Il IS unnecessary to inform the reader
. that our nationAl banks are uorhiug more
or less than tree banking on National
bonds like the free 6snSs on State
bonds before the Wsr. 81 AL the nice
ways 10 swindle the laborer our Of his
hire. this free bsn&iug : the best The
money Is go0i because the bonds sire good.
sad the state or Government i bound Tor
them, says oae Well. wha, Of that?
Can poor man ,yait until the bonds are
sold for gold or "greeubacS and the note
redeemed, when has family IS starving p
He is compelled 10 take wha; a rich man
viii give-say half. Il i N this way
that thesa banks make the rich richer.
and the p sor poorer: or. as old Tom Ben
ton expressed l., deepening and widen
ing the gulf between Dives aud Lazarus -
This Is the reason that Col. Turner, like
''Tssnanian Tiger. would suck their
hearts blood Every POOR laboriug man
should rene Der this. The operations Of
- na'icnal banks cannot be described
better tae1 by telling how PromethiUs
was chained to ~ rocs. the Vultures eat
ing his liver. which VS. continually re-
newed. The farmers and lCl0Vcrs make
me crops every year and the natl0n~i
banks get all the profits. II Is useless
for farmers TO work In the summers sun
aud winters wind TO make 'better times"
while these national banks are in exist
ence. The bes, days work a farmer could
do next November is 20 20 10 the polls
and vote for Turner. who has fought them
sui their '.little brcthers'-thc free
6au ks-for twenty years Judge Boon is
= nice, clever gentleman, who has attaiu-
ed has personal position 81 much from his
dePortmerc as lis talent, and twenty
years frorh now viii doubtless be a good
old Democrat; and for the present we
would advise him 20 initiate the good ex-
ample Of the Young man in scri pture who
'',arriel at Jericho until his beard grew.
that is learned old Democratic ryinci-
pies; for he has simply made blunder
IN condouing and sOrreuderinS 70 these
national banks.
To show what great curse free banks
can become in aH instant, aud hos, deli
cately they Are poised. we viii state that
on the eth day OF April, 1851 the writer
was guest Of the Adams House. Chicago.
Abnut L clock the clerk posted up
long strip 81 paper IN ,Ae Office Ne
asked:
whist does ;lat mean 60
He replied; This is list OF a. the
free banks in the North that are banking
on the bonds OF southern States, and their
notes have been thrown out by the OLD
banks IL the city.
s"Why did they DO ;hat % VIC as-eJ.
Well, The telegraph this morning tells
Us that Mr- Lincoln intends 70 reinforce
Fort Sumpter, aud that means war; and
Southern bonds are counted Worthless.
ana We cannot take the notes OF these
banks for board This statement Is
strictly true).
Reader We want yoa 10 L.ink
When the sun rose that morning these
notes were good As gold, they would
have been taken for all the property in
the great Northwest; at u O clock on that
same dsy you could not have bought q
dinner with them in Chicago. The great
ere in that city, the fires that spread over
the prairies, never destroyed property as
quickly as the ''clioa" Of the telegraph
that morning.
The people OF the Northwest were near
is as destitute OF money at the commence
ment Of the war As the people Of the
South ST its close. Il must have been
trouble to the poor men who worked FOR
that money. and then when they went TO
buy necessaries for their families, found
it worthless. The remedy is in our hands
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