Western Kansas world., 1888-09-15

utility Of banking system under IA. -,
q convenient, useful and essential inst,r- =
ment in the prosecution of the fiscal oners.
tions, isnot now a subject of controyer.v
All those who have been co:,
cerned In the administration of IN,
finances, have concurred in representino
its Importance and necessity. And so
strongly have they been felt, that statesmen
of the first class, whose opinions against r
have been confirmed by every circumstance
which can fix the human judgment. have
yielded their opinions to the exigencies OF
The time has passed away when it can
be necessary to enter into any discussion in
order to prove the importance of this ipstru-
ment as means to effect the Legislative OBJ
jects OF the government"
In later case the same eminent iuf1oe
said: "A tax ON government stock is a tax
on the contract, tax on power to borrow
money on credit of the United States. and
consequently repugnant to the constitu-
tion." And "any law obstructing the oper-
atoms of the government is void" fSee
| Weston ct al. VS.. Charlston 2 Peters).
Again say that although this system, like
all human institutions, may have its imper
fect1ons. Yet it is the best system-the
best for trade, the best for Commerce. the
bsst for the people of this great progressive
nation that has yet been devised.
VI course when party plants itself broad
| ly against all banking, as this party does,
| ell systems are to them robbery. I belive
| their notion is that "all property is robbery
| if they would but honestly avow their com
| munistic principles. But to all this have
to say that it is the judgment of band of
| political adventurers, against the better
Judgment of five centuries of progressive
government, advancing commerce and
fraternizing trade.
THE OTHER FIVE LAWS.
The remaining five laws discussed in this
little book, each mark gigantic stride in
that brilliant, unrivalled and world amaz-
ing system of finance, by which the repub-
lican party at the close of the war, picked
up the PROSTATE form of American credit,
and placed in its hands the millions of
treasure necessary to pay and secure its
debts, made every dollar of its then depre-
ciated currency worth its face in gold, and
set it upon throne, from whence it looks
forth upon sixty millions of people, that are
to-day, the best clothed, best fed, best
housed, richest and most prosperous nation
on the face of the globe.
This great party found this country rent
in twain. 1t spoke and millions of loyal
men lifted up her PROSTATE flag. It found
the mailed hand of tyranny resting heavily
on 100000 of people. It spoke again and
they went free. It found this government
bankrupt. With prophetic hands it
'.smote the rock of national resources, and
abundant streams Of revenue gushed FORTH"
1t touched the dead corpse of public credit
and it sprang upon its feet" Its marvellous
policy has overleaped the walls, and broken
all the chains that hard necessity had riveted
upon this country, and that exception, that
these intellectual coroners are now bowling
about, has been obsolete for more
than ten years. Greenbacks though
not necessarily receivable for the
excepted purposes, have yet been re-
ceived for all purposes. Ever since John
Sherman on
RESUMPTION DAY,
presided at the final surrender of all de-
fsmers of this great republican money, not
less grandly than the great Ulysses did at
treason's Appomatox.
That there may have been mistakes oc-
curing here and there, in the legislation
that attended this procession of mighty
events, do not deny. But when pestifer-
GUS litter of ignorant and communistic
demagagues, like the leaders of that party,
come forward at this late day, and charge
that these great enactments, which received
the support and approval of Lincoln and
Grant and Garfield, and the hosts of i'm
mortal names that were associated with them
we're consplracles to rob, enslave, and MUIR
der the American people and the American
republic, l denounce them as perjured
scoundrels, ready alike to defame their
country's honor, and to desecrate the graves
of her most illustrious dead. There is no
middle gr0und-either this book is a lie, or
these lLustrlous man, whose memory we
have been taught to re veer as the first duty
q Of Cato Tn
dases, conspirators, brigands and traitors,
who sold their country's liberty for so many
pieces of silver. Choose-you-th -this-day- (which
you-will-believe.
Of course, to pass muster as conspiracy
thing must be planned and mapped out
beforehand. The foundation stones of this
lars. One, called ''the Hazard circular"
purports to have been written in England
about the beginning of the war. The other
is called ''the Bankers circular" You will
Gnd them referred to in this book, and pub
lished side by side in union labor journals
throughout the state. Now the singular
points about these two waits are, that they
are dated at nowhere, and at no time, are
directed to nobody. and are signed by nobody
else. Rhodes Journal of Banking for tine
month of August has this to say about them;
"The absurd forgeries above referred to
may do some injury. The information we
can oDuan about the true origin of these |
alleged circulars, which were first published
as campaign documents, some years ago is |
very meager. We will be glad to have the |
readers of the Journal, who know anything |
about them, inform Us, both as to their en- |
terpriang authors, and where and when, |
they first entered on their merry existence |
as campaign lies"
Some gentleman at our town. believing |
in the maxim, 'slet the truth be told though |
the heavens fall" authorized me to offer |
reward of 800 in gold, for proof
of their genuineness, which &C
cordingly did at great public |
meeting at Newton two weeks ago.
That offer is still good and will remain 90 for |
forty days and forty nights" that's as long |
as it took to drown "every living thing"
and ought to be sufficient time for the man, |
woman or child that knows these things to |
be genuine to say so. Now. boys, here is a |
chance to increase your portion of the circu- |
lating medium.
Any human being who will publish docu- |
ments, 80 intended to set man against man, |
and to revile the memory of our most illus |
trious dead, as these are, without being able |
to prove that they are genuine, ought to