The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-07-31

for cotton thread, and when tariff was
put on ii and the manufactures were
brought to this country, it has brought
it down to five cents spool, or six for a
quarter of a dollar. A good deal of
benefit in that, when the producer has
TO sell the cotton it is made of for lhir.
teen cents pound. An average family
will probably use three dollars worth a
year, still all his cash came through his
crop OF Sea Island cotton, at Is cents a
pound. He will hardly carry his family
10 any of the summer resorts this year.
Well, how do Democrats stand as to
their national banking system !? We
find many prominent Democrats favor
ing them; many bank presidents, cash.
iers and stockholders are democrats.
Let us note what jefferson, the father
of democracy, says about banks:
al sincerely believe with you that
banks are more dangerous than standing
armies. Put down the banks, and If
this country cannot be carried through
the longest war against her most power
ful enemy, without loading us with
perpetual debt, l know nothing Of my
countrymen."
Again, in letter dated December Is,
1908, Mr.. Jefferson says:
"This institution is one of the most
deadly hostility existing against the
principles and form of our Constitution.
That it is hostile we knew-irst, from a
knowledge of the principles of the per.
sons who compose the body of their di-
rectors and stockholders second, from
the sentiments of the newspapers they
support. Treasury bills or notes, bot
toned on taxes and thrown into circula-
ton, will take the place of so much gold
pressed and the circulation restored to
whom it belongs"
Listen at Andrew Jackson:
"The result of the ILL., advised legisla-
ton which established this great mo-
nopoly was to concentrate the whole
moneyed power of the Union, with
boundless means of corruption and its
numerous dependents, under the direc-
ton and command of one acknowledged
head thus organizing this particular in
terest as one body, and enabling it to
bring forward upon any occasion its en-
tire strength to support or defeat any
measure of government. In the hands
of this formidable power, thus perfectly
organized, was also placed unlimited do
minion over the amount of the circu-
lating medium, giving it the power to
regulate the value of property and the
fruits of labor"
From a special of John G. Calhoun, in
the United States Senate, we give the
following clipping:
Place the money power in the hands
of combination of few individuals,
and they, by expanding or contracting
the currency, may raise or sink prices at
pleasure, and by purchasing when at the
greatest depression, and selling when at
the greatest elevation, may command
the whole property and industry of the
community, and control its fiscal opera
tons. The banking system places this
power in the hands of those who control
1t. Never was any engine invented
better calculated to place the destiny of
the many in the hands of the few, or
less favorable to that equality and indie
pendence which lies at the bottom Of
our free institutions"
Democrats, leave it to the Republican
party to claim all the odium that at
taches to the pernicious system of legis-
lation that has reduced the condition Of
the farmers to that of surfs, and if these
are your ideas, come out and show your
hands like men.
The Alliance cannot go with you on
this protective system, and we would
ask you to come with us and help us to-
restore this government to one for the
people. B.