Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-15
HEARD ANSWERED.
His Objections to the Warehouse Plan
Shown to Ee FIimsy.

His Objections to the Warehouse Plan
Shown to re FIimsy.
John w. Thompson, of Slater, Mo,
writes to the Journal of Agriculture as
follows:
Please allow me space to reply to a part of
j. I. Heard'S letter written to the Executive
Committee of the county. Mr.. Heard saws:
For myself do not believe that our Gov
ernment was ordained for any such purpose
as taking by taxation from all the people,
money to be loaned to some of the people
for any purpose on any security what
ever" What Mr.. Heard says In regard to
the Government tax ng the people to raise
money to loan part of the people Is true,
but the idea conveyed that the Sub Treasury
bill proposed to raise money to loan farmers
by taxing all the people is not true, and Mr..
Heard knows 1t. We are not asking a loan
from the Governms mt, we only ask it to do
for us In less ratio what it has always done
for the miner, that is. coin the value our a.
Dor has produced. The Governments declares
by law that all debts and all taxes must be
paid with legal tender, and reserves to IT.
self the power 10 create that legal tender.
Jnstice and equity demand that it fur
nlsh sufficient volume of legal ten
der to do the business of the
country The people of the United
States ere paying about $3.50, cor, ,OOJ each
year for the use of legal tender, the single
State of Ohio paying $50 0OOO00 and a large
Government refuses to perform its duty and
furnish its citizens with a legal tender suf-
ficient to do the business. Suppose this
country was invaded by foreign power
and that amount of tribute levied by force
of arms think you not our people WI nd rid
themselves of such tribute as soon as nos.
sible7 English money never could have
come here to purchase our mills, cur brew
cries. our s:ocky ards and largely our rail-
roads il our Government had furnished its
people with sufficient volume OF legal ten
der to do the bugins SIS. Yet, we read each
week Of gold going to Europe, and it goes
to pay interest on foreign money, and wi l
return no more until bough hit and paid for by
labor. The men who control and rkeiy
own our lawmakers care nothing for the
material of which money is made, SO long as
they can control its vCiilme anl levy tribute
from labor for its use. If gid were as
pI entifuI in our country as iron they woiiid
have Congress deLnonetize It before IL ad-
iourned. The Government CONTROLS the is
sue of money, as it does the issue OF
postage stsmps, and it should make
no distinction between Its citlzens,
Eith one more than the other, or, In other
Words it should furnish money at uniform
rate of interest to sll IT'S cit zens. The sub
treasury plan is the only plan so far that
has ever b. en- laid before Congress that
gives the wealth producer eoatrol OF his
medium of exchange. And right here com
up the question: Is there any class of our
citizens that would be In ured by that bill II
enacted into law? 1 ansEer that there is
II so. who are they? / answer the interest
Esthere- End pro luce gambler, becaus 9
their iabortous occupation of robbing the
wealth producer would be gone for ever.
1t Will as efectusliy close the boards OF
trade as the resumption of specie payin mt
by the Governments in 1873 osed the gold
/ Board of Wall tF eft. In regard to the ware
houses, he SAYS. illinois would get 43. Iowa
IL, Kansas s2, ArkEnsas s6 AMI Missouri only
/ 22, and that is one of his reaso s for oppos-
ing the measure Now in that plea he APP
! peals TO oas Of the wort human passions,
that of selfshness; lie does not seem to rea.-
/ ize that we are ali par' of one government
I and that q benefit conferred on one pro-
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