The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-05-29


The most desirable aud necessary re-
form is one that will adjust the financial
system of the general Government, so
that its provisions cannot be utilized by
a class, which thereby becomes privileged
and in consequence contrary To the
genius of our Government, and which is
the principal cause of the depressed con-
dition of agriculture. The farmers have
have examined into the cause of their
condition, have decided at st. Louis and
Ocala what they need and made their de-
mands To grant these demands would
at once free them from the control of the
capitalists. But the politicians and the
subsidized press seemingly, working in
the interests of the capitalists, are now
making every effort to turn the people
aside from their Just demands, and con.
fine the issue to tariff reform-while tar
i'll reform is needed-yet the thing to
bring relief to the people, is reform in
financial legislation. This, the farmers
well know, and will no more be sacrificed
to engage in a contest, when tariffreform
is made the only issue-and nothing will
satisfy them, not coupled with an in
crease in the volume of currency, and a
free and unlimited coinage of silver. Be-
fore this great issue, all others sink into
insignificance.
Our whole financial system has been
framed in the interest of the men who
hold the money bags.
When rich and powerful government
like ours comes to the help of any one
class of men, it is an easy matter for that
class, that is the recipient of the favors
to get rich-SenatOr Beck in a speech
made in the United States Senate, 2lst
December, 1885, said: 1T seems as
though it was thought to be the duty of
Congress to see to it, that the rich be
made richer, and the poor poorer" He
further said, "The great American agri-
cultural industries, which give employ.
ment TO one-haf the workers for wages.
and whole products constitute at least so
per cent. of our exports, receives no real
consideration here, and are not even
ranked among the industries of the coun-
try, on which Congress is asked or ex-
pected to throw its protecting arm" In
1860 the farmers owned half the proper
ty in the nation; in 1880 they owned
onefourth the property. Before the war,
tramps were unknown in this country
now they are numbered by the millions.
Before the war, there were but two mil
liOnaries in the country; since the war
under class legislation, they have sprung
up like toad stools in the land. Congress,
by class legislation has caused the wealth
of the nation to concentrate in the hands
of few. 1t has been estimated that
three-fifths Of all the wealth of this ma.
ton, is owned by less than $4,000 men.
Can this state of things last? We answer
no. The people are waking up on the
subject of congressional legislation. They
have located the trouble, and intend to
bring about a change in our currency.
They see the folly of allowing a few
thousand national bankers to control the
currency, contracting and expanding at
their pleasure. They intend that the
Congress of the United States shall exer-
else this power-for it was to them alone,
the people transferred the sole power to
issue money and regulate volume, in or
der to enable it to regulate the commerce
of the country. Whoever controls the
volume of the currency of a country, con-
trolls its financial and the peoples SER
wants are responsible to them and chOs-
en- by the voice of majority of the peo-
pie, while national bankers are not SER
wants of the people, not chosen by them
and not responsible to them. To correct
these wrongs, the farmers and Alliance
men of the country met at st. Louis and
Ocala and put forward their demands"
but we are told by the would-be solons
that they are undemocratic, unconstitu-
tional and class legislation, etc, etc. JEFF
ferson the father of Democracy, in writ
ing to Mr.. Epps on the danger of bank
associations, says: Bank paper must be
suppressed, and the circulating medium
must be restored To the nation, to whom
it rightly belongs. 1t is the only resource
which can never fail them. Albert Gal.