The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-09-11

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Huiuu- u hyhtii substitute True, Con.
frr.s iu iuDi. created the ru-rhllpd
"Up. uhapk money, ~ di-ruiIpi oi u par
III the attributes uf money, and rallied b.
"ltWml money" hut d WAS a mi-numori
md, alas, the supreme court, staining
the Judicial ermine, endorsed the tHl-u'
mood. This was much the same when
AARON set up the golden calf at the foot
~ Mount SINAI and called u God, but
not possessing the attributes and power
nf God, u was no God. And 80 the
falsely called "~greenhark money" moi
possessing all the attributes and power
uf money, II WAS not money Hut when
ia ls1s, after being made the instrument
of almost iTrepaTahlr evils Ia the soy
oreign people of the United States, AL
tho essential attributes Of money wa
conferred upon II by the notori'
oIs John sherman, forced there,
IL, To meet the ~eNigencns OF
the Infamous presumption aet,' nnd
WAS thus made money tor all the use,
aud purposes Of money, II immediately
rose In value ~ money Ia be- equal viii
tho sO-call"d ''prociouS metals and
still rides triumphantly owe them ~
money In the affections Of the people,
Aud, General, permit me 10 say that
am sick and tired Of h laudatiOns oi
the old groonbacks the progeny oi
I " NNIlNh NV Ftf WI W. kA'
nation" for, you know that all the bless
ingS, and none OF the curses, that fol
lowed its creation would have been
more than realized by comforting upon
IL full legal tender attributes at It's crca'
tion, and / am not satisfied with utter
anccs on this subject.
hut, General, shall We permit this
money, rs IL now il, To hc destroyed nj
the demand of Shylocksf VIII you con-
sent ar allow the sovereign power of the
people of the United States u lie again
prostituted 10y the usurpcd uutocratic
power Of Congress In the creation of
bank notes or any other hybrid substi
tute for money! All history Is lumin.
GUS with tho record that they ~ over
proved the most potent amt fruitful! ak
pcdiengs la plundoring the great mass
nf the people, through interest, usury
aud otherwise, for the benefit of the few
aud Of centralizing their wealth and
power in the hands of the fow.
General, YOU know hat the so called
Senate amendments Of lS2, robbing the
~groonbacks of n part of the attributes of
money-the power to pay import duties
aud the public debt-caused their depre-
Citations; more than doubled the
expenses of the war, and furnished the
pretext for the creation of our interest
bearing bonded debt by funding them
into bonds for the benefit of the few, To
whom we have already paid billions of
interest, besides the principal, with
billions more to he paid. You know
that the financial ruin that swept over
tho country from 1873 to ISIS, which the
pens of men nor angels can never esti-
mate, was caused by tho contraction
and destruction of this currency thus
funded into bonds for the benefit of shy
locks. You know that tho National
banks-a hydra-headed monster of OPP
pr~ession-have their existence and out
growth from this usurped power; with
out even u shadow of constitutional
authority; and that for the benefit of the
corporators, Congress has created and
given them hundreds of millions OF dol
lars Of these unconstitutional substi-
tutes for money (bank notes. with power
To issue and loan the same for interest
and usurv as for money, n to other
wise control the whole finan-
cial policy oft United States, with the
price of labor and all its productions.
These, General, are but n part Of the
evils well known to you, resulting from
the autocratic powers usnrped by Con-
gress, in abusing, perverting, alternating
and %inequally distributing the sovereign
properties Of the people. The half of
which is not told.
The assumption of these autocratic
powers by Congress was, rs it
were, a proclamation or advertise
the Congress of the United States, have
the power to sec and ALLEVIATE the SOW
ereign properties of the people at our
autocralic discretion. Ho! every one
who desires to monopolize the power
and properties of the people. We will
sell it to those who will bride us highest.
Who! Who will give most? just going.
g-o-i-n-g, gone! Hence has proceeded
a., u,aI ~ l,.iInru and .rr-rtfi,p 4 hnt
has swept over our country like n moral
leprosy, and disgraced u civilization
and Government; that has opened wide
the doors to avarice, cupidity and ambi-
ton, till even the deacons, elders and
higher orders in the Christian churches
are shamelessly dumb, or openly de
fend tho measures through which their
Hooks are plundered; and, even the
ravenous ghOuls OF European monarchy,
glutted with the spOils of Europe and
the isles of the sea. have thus been invi-
ted to, and become bidders in this mar
ket-place for the richer sp0ils of our
people. Alas! General, shall these cor
ruptions, usurpations and destruction of
the sovereign rights of the people longer
prevail?
But, General, you say in your address,
''The time has come when the green
back is sustained by the Supreme
court as a constitutional currency
against the paid attorneys of every
tinancier in the land" Are we to un- |
derstand from this, General, that you
endorse the false assumptions and pre-
reasoning through which
the court pretands to arrive at this con-
clusion, Wis: That Congress is invested
with supreme discretionary control
over the currency, las you and they call
it, and other sovereign properties Of the
like other absolute sovereigns?
Would it not be better, General, for the
people to take shelter under the pater-
government of the liking of h CAM
nibal Islands" than have so many auto
to sell or give their sovereign prop
critics at their august discretion; or, for
a bride, given on the plan of "division
and ~silence?" / submit ta!a, General, as
q problem in political science. And, are
to understand you to say, with the
court, that Congress is invested with the
to charter National banks, and to
,reate bank note substitutes for money,
md give or transfer them to the corpo-
-ators, for tneir especial benefit, at their
will and pleasure? Do you mean
% say, with the court, that Congress
nav, at its discretion, create other sub
for money, such AS the original
y%reenbacks deprived of a part of the at
for money? Are we to under
stand you as endorsing the opinion of
he court, that the power of Congress to
legal tender qualities on paper is
in some inc0mprehensive man.
ler from the power to ''borrow money!"
This, General, is the logic of the court;
,ut 1 would rather be a 'dog and bay
he moon'' from the rising to the going
thereof, than to have my name at
ached, as obscure as it is, to the utter
nee of such an absurdity, to be q wit
less against me to future generations.
You know, General, that money must
10 created before it can be borrowed,