Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12
THE GREAT ISSUE.

The Bank of England and the National
Ranks of This Country-A Dangerous
Money Power.
The necessities of the people have
brought them face to face with the
greatest problem of the time-that of
finance. From the time when monev
was first used among men until the
present in all nations which did not
prohibit usury, few persons managed
to get control of the money and through
that the control of the peoples business
and their interests in general By get
ting the Government and the people in
debted to them, the money-changers
ruled the Nation. The Bank of En-
gland is good illustration OF this
thought The Government was at way
and needed money; few men offered
to supply the money on condition that
they should be Incorporated as a bank.
ing institution and permitted to use the
debt as basis on which to issue money
to the people, receiving interest from
them on the notes as we'll as from the;
Government on the debt. That bank is
now nearly two hundred years old and
is the most powerful single concern in
the world. The National banks of the
United States furnish another good illus.
tration of the text These banks now
serve as an agency through which the
finances OF the country are controlled,
and this money power is the most dan.
gerous OF all menacng influences We
have come to point where the Govern.
ment instead of consulting the people
concerning their interests, consults the
har nd
ready have the Nation by the throat
Instead of devisinR ways and means to
get money to the people directly and
cheaply its officers study how best
to secure the money-changers in their
power over the values of the peoples
property. The labor of the toilers is a
perpetual fountain from which flows
into the Golfers of the rich q continuous
stream of sury-taking from labor and
adding to wealth. The business Of the
country, and therefore all its interests,
are PROSTATE before the money god, and
there is no way of escape except through
rebellion of the working masses and
the establishment of rule of the PEG
pie.
The present monetary system and
financial methods encourage the spolia-
ton of the producers; they open drains
from the peoples substance; they en-
courage speculation and gambling in
the sweat and blood of the toilers Go
all over the country to-day aad the only
money you will find available for Dor
rowing on long time is in the hands OF
few persons who reside on limited
area in particular section of the couu-
try. A farmer in Kansas who wants to
borrow money on long time is compelled
to negotiate through loan agent whose
commission alone amounts to more. 90
interest than ayr culture can afford to
pay. The money, when 1t is secured,
comes from the East" There IL no
native" money to be had. and whyf
Hhy do we not have money here
instead OF Ia thu East?" IL
money made for the few and not
for the many? Is it business for the
people to supply money for them-
selves and then permit few persona "a
get possession of it and land It to the
rest OF US at usury? Is that either Just
or rightS let Us propose a case for
study: Brown and Smith ccsah have 4IO,-
goo to invest Brown invests his money
IN four per cent non-taxable bonds;
smith invests his in farm Brown,
without turning his hand, receives
regularly ever six months $500 and pays
no taxes; Smith is compelled to work
hard every day, as all farmers do, his
taxes amount to three or four per cent
on his property valuation, and with all
his work he does not have as much clear
money at the end of year as Brown
has and Brown has not done a stroke Of
work Think. dear reader. why money
should be endowed with this mysterious
function OF increase No other thing
which man makes has this wonderful
power And yet this very thing we call
money and which we have thus endowed
with the most danse<ous nays- 49,