The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-09-27
THE QUITE YANKEE.

annually, enhanced price of manufac-
lures, which goes into the pockets of
the capitalists, for which the consumer
Is not benefited q dollar, and which
does not increase wages one five cent
piece.
This is a low estimate. This Is prin-
cipally a stream of money which flows
from the west to the east,
Very we'll. Now mark, this stream
is IN addition to the honest profit Of the
manufacturer. 1t is, consequently =,
weallh-accrued wealth savings. Does
the owner allow 1t to lie idle2 Not at
all. He is not a fool. Prestol No
sooner is il In his till, than he starts 1t
ont west again to earn interest through
the various channels of insurance COM
pany surpluses, investment and mort
gage companies, or simple loan
agencies.
EASTERN MONEY TO LOAN"
You know the sign; you see H. every
where; there is not a village anywhere
out west, SO Insignificant as not to have
one or more of them.
Have You eve been in New EnglandP
MOI Well, we have, and not very long
ago, either. Are there any signs there,
in big towns or little-"Western Money
To Loanp" Not much. Not one. Why?
The Yankee can give you a dozen rea-
sons, as glibly as he can white a
shaving, but not IN OF them will be the
true one.Jim Blaine Is a typical Yankee
where a dollar is in sight, aud he has
the Machiavellian talent of using Ian
guage to conceal his thoughts. "You
can't fool a Yankee on q horse trade
No; nor any other kind of a trade; and
when the Yankee ceases to trade he ia
dead. The Yankee is sharp; yes, and
he ia sly. Not content with dev.sing u
"heads l win and tails you lose" tax
gathering system, the has so managed
the finances of the nation as to bleed
the balance of the country more
thoroughly than could a country doc
tor OF the 18th century bleed a patient.
First, he stole himself rich In thieving
contracts during the war, and invested
his money in bonds at 80 cents on the
dollar. These bonds, principal and
interest, were payable In greenbacks,so
when fat pickings from contracts
ceased, lie made a little dicker with his
republican tools in congress, and they
made the bonds payable in gold. The
shrewd Yankee bond holder made a
clear $500. OOO,O o 90 In this, little
transaction, but he wasn't satisfied with
that. o, 40. He then took advantage
of his national banking law which
practically extends a right to corpora
tons which is denied to the states, to
issue money, o. bank notes, to 80
manipulate these notes as to control
the money market of the country. As
everything else was naturally shrinking
in value from war prices, the loan rate
of money began to shrink, but that did
not suit the plutocrat, so he got John
Sherman, In 1878. 10 surreptitiousIy
| demonetize silver. BY that time he had
things pretty much his W way. With
a tariff whose robber feature exceeded
twice It's ven feature; with his
national banks and monometalism
drawing from the veins of western
agriculture and commerce 500 ,OOO,.
600 90 q year more In interest than
should have been paid, there was
| erected In this country q bloodsucking
machine of such proportions as could
hardly have been dreamed of in the
good old democratic days of Andrew
Jackson.
And yet there be western cIanks and
| idiots, who are not rascals, but simply
| blind, who think all OF this has been
righteous,an that the republican party
has been a patriotic organization since
the war.
The great majority Of the American
people do not think SO. A majority OF
the voters of the country cast their
ballots against the republican party for
years, but by its immense wealth and
by It's gerrymanders and political
jngglery, 1t has managed to keep in
power.
To-day there is a revolt against the
high handed robber system of the
party all over the land. For q long time
the democratic party has cried aloud
and spared not, but now there comes TO
its aid a new force-the aroused o
science and Indignation of the farming
class everywhere. Its members see that
their God given heritage is being lesis'
lated away from them. That from lords
of the coil they are threatened with
being but tenants OF the soil. They see
their own avocation going down In the
scale, relatively, while in the eastern
states there 10 growing up q class of
plutocrats, b%ondholders, factory kings,
money magnates. We cay in the east,
rather shonld we say roaming abroad
among the beauties of Europe, animate
and inanimate, contemmng American
politics, crossing on the eflete nobility,
turning up pink tinted noses at the
masses, the democracy at home, but
all the same cutting coupons from the
sw eat of the brow of American men
and women.
o, 1t is q fine thing TO have been born
la New England, an heir of q nOuUeaur
rtche, and to have Mr.. Mulligan Blaine
and Mr.N National Bank Sherman retain
ed to perpetuate the regime OF high
tariff taxes and high rates of interest.
1t Is a picnic for the plutocrst, but
what is it tor the western farmer who
keeps the plutocrat In extra spending
money.
Mrs. John G. Fremont, who now
lives In Los Angeles. is In great want.
For some time past she has supported
herself with her pen bat her advanced