Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-04
rom time to time, for a hundred years

money.
Were they sincere there would be an ad-
lustlucnt of the laws i'll our cities and
STATE. preventing licenses and tax eXtor-
lion on occupations in restraint of the freer
trade and reciprocity Of exchanges among
The people At the very threshold of their
homes.
one per cent exchange on dollar be-
tween two points gives the dollar wholly to
,ilc banker when its debit ana credit has
been recorded for that exchange for GUS
toners between those two points 100 times,
although in fact the money does not pass
perhaps not more than once between these
places. Banking on bonds or the quick
sands Of silver or gold should be in the in
tereSt Of the whole people. instead of Il few
thousand out of the O. 900, 900 of Americans.
The Sub-treasury financial measure is
proposed by the Cincinnati platform, now
THE TERROR OF WALL STREET,
and its miuious of the old parties. would
1--WE the debtor class of the United States
who are cnSlaycd TO less than 10000 usurers
10 the amount Of over SO 900, 00O0 inter
Est bearing indebtedness would give the
debt-riddcu tOI!ing masses an opportunity
~ Dor 'pW money at per cent, and have
She power Of the government Intervene 10
prevent The coniistatioI Of their property
1ud nome under the red flag 10 satisfy the
freed and rapaclty of the mOnopOlists and
usurcrs.
The people who by the creative energy Of
heir toll produce the wealth of the nation.
vii never rescue that wealth from The
rp1ljdtiun of the mOnODOliStS and ''lnnd-
lords" until the medium Of exchange is
based upon labor as its measuring power
ANA upon the billions of wealth labor IS con-
tdHtly producing and replacing, instead of
upon The WrctchcG!y sCant basis of the
eyer decreasing c0wardly gold, owned
thoUsauI times over through bonds and
IL = - Il
World
The laborcr must control the medium
which exchanges his services and. com
WOdiuleS il ne would enrich himself and
mpoycri-h Wall street. The old parties
oppose these aspirations. right and justice
demanded De- the Alliance and all kindred
organizations Of our time.
I.mOcratic and Republican leaders are
masqucrading in 4 spurious Alliance,
" TIE INTEREST OF MONOPOLY,
claiming that these Alliances repudiate the
treat reforms as TO land. transportation,
taxation and money, for which they were
wisely founded. Democratic campaign
funds has started paper of the anti-Alli-
Ince reform stripe IN Texas.
Who believe, Jhat the Democratic party
ayev would have abolished negro slavery.
or that the Republican party had ever really
Intended on principles 10 abolish that inSti-
utiun'
They are In their boss-ship united to
prevent The toiling people from throwing
Of their degrading V,lSSa&gc to the money
power, and viii we fear in the future as in
he past. lake ON the livery OF heaven if
possible 70 betray The masses INTO slavery
for themselves and their children, aud their
children $ children forever. Manhood suf-
I"age l. still. our Inheritance; let it not be
misdrccted 10 keep the old partisan ma
rhine III force, but used III the Peoples
a n ha
that Iust government
MAY NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH.
and that true republic of the brotherhood
of man be established. for which the needs
of man and progressive world have long
been waiting.
have been earnestly requested TO pre-
cent TO You som" ideas as 10 a circulating
medium which iahorers in all branches
of industry, trade and commerce could /
command through an industrial system OF |
banking upon ii safer and broader basis |
Imam mere banking upon the Scaut volume /
of money IN the world can possibly give.s
Tie weaith of our nation is So 600. 900 900 |
ouI Indebtedness 81 600 600, 600, annual |
volume OF business about SG0,O0O,OOO 600, |
while the whole volume of money IS only |
fLJOO, 100000, ouc-half of which is locked |
> in The United States treasury SO that /
The landlords can make priuccly fortunes |
ru The balance which is i'll circulation under |
rhs ltbor and lis products in American soil !
y get even little of this scarce money .
'geu must cuslave themselves and thousands |
fl men and women now sell their very souls |
tor the glitter of gold whcrewith to pay for !
The right TO stand upon the earth and live |
within
THE PALE OF CIVILIZATION
\ circulation Of certified checks through
banks, the same 10 be debjted and credited
IN the mutual banks in going out and CON-
lug in, and would take the place of money !
nd honestly measure the exchange of |
billions of labor and wealth without ell
forcing millions of wealth-makeTs to stand
idle or make the exchange of commodities
Wait until money lords should choose
20 lend the filthy iucre to allow the peoples
products TO 90 10 feed, clothe, shelter and
bless the families OF the earth
/ need hardly say for your information
Inst bank patrons holding books of certified !
.hecks, having numbers ana even Geuom-
iuatioI- have TO place in The bank securi-
lies for long or short time as they may de-
sire on labor agreements, improved lands
or warehouse receipts. and even current !
money, and all forms of securities based on
ue products flowing from the agricultural !
ma mechanical industries of the country; |
he exchange of which are so iuadequateiy
provided for on anything like fair basis i
on the short loan conditions of the present
national banking monopoly.
II the money power remains intrenched
within governmental rings from Wall street
trough national and state capitals, towns
,,::,} corporations, in spite of the uprising
II the masses through the peoples party,
believe that the money power in the fields
Of commerce can be met
OVERCOME AND DEFEATED
ly system of industrial banking without
money, 4 system that can be safely and
lonestlg extended and grow stronger and q
better in reaching to every part of the
world, Z system which would give proGuc-
srS and consumers the power TO provide
safe and equitable medium of exchange al
most in the presence of each transaction, a
medium which, in my humble Judgment,
'ould not rob, wrong or oyer-reach any man,
g he rich or poor, bond or free, in the sim
Die presentation of my ideas of mental
lankiug in the interest of the whole people.
am not speaking for any party or any or
yauiZation whatever.
In the Seventh congressional district. !
of1ning part of the city of New York, |
rad the honor in 1855 of receiving the nom
g3tion for congress from the largest con- -
'ontion held in the district
But for The pertidy of some of the Repub-
lean bosses in that district, where their
sction would only help the Bourbon can
lidate, | would have continued in the race j.
lnd represented the reform element of that !
district in congress.