The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-29
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Subsidized, Partisan Press.

! Ah"V OhO hOhSJ IN WllOn INC SUI |
der was paid would have lived its
life out at par with gold needs no
proof had it not been for the exception
clause, John Sherman explained 1t
all when he satd 1T was necessary
to depreciate the greenbacks to create
a market for the bonds" (These are
his words as near as l can remember
not having time to look them up now
No one knows better than Demoinse
Howell that hireling congress de-
preciated this money and was at the
same time robbing the soldier aud all
the other people making free gift
to those who bought the bonds, termed
yearf before by Thomas Jefferson as
our TRAITOR class" This exception
clause laid the foundation for the ma
tlonal banking act which followed
close on its heels and all the other In
famous funding acts the results OF
which we shall see before this cam.
paign ends.
This money in which the union SOL
der was paid was the credit OF all the
people. writes c. H. johnson in the
Advocate
1t circulated freely among them. 1t
added to the taxable property OF the
nation. But little II any of it bore
interest While debt OF the nation
it had become the capital of the clti-
zen. This property OF the people was
deprecated and sold for less than half
its value and then funded into interest
bearing bonds which amounted to de-
stroying half of this property OF the
people and placing on them bonded
indebtedness.
We have an indebtedness OF over
$40, 600, 900, 900 saddled upon us and
God knows negro rule couldn't DO worse
than the present rule Our present
financial system was designed on pur-
pose to contlscate the property Of the
citizen without his knowledge or con-
sent Under present laws farmers
will become more and more in debt
, until their very necessities drive them
TO desperation Necessity knows no
law. They will become socialists,
anarchists or whatever it pleases the
bosses to call them, The law makers
, only are to blame and tho press, but
the poor fellow who can't help him
self but was compelled to strike even
for third party" gets tho blame.
, | wish every farmer in this whole
+ country would inform himself on this
, currency and bold and back ration
!, question, They should learn That the
goVernm mt has other means OF ge, ting
= money than by taxing it from the PEG
- pie. This rule or ruin policy has al.
, ready ruined the greatest industry Of
a this creation, and Lincoln's prediction
, 'the republic will be lost, will be d
= reality in less than ten years. unless
the financial system OF to-day is sup.
planted by better one, What would
: it require to comply with tho twelfth
section OF the ST. Louis PLATFORM
7, Less than one billion dollurs Less
than the Fifty-arst congress cost No
half what is stolen from the producer.
every year.
Making and issuing these treasur,
4 notes would be the only cost This
- would in little or no time DO oIset
by the increased price of products o
the people north AMI south. The
4 south would get her share indirectly
- in short whiIo. This would be {
n return to original Democracy Of
" founded by jefferson. Allowing the
Il people TO use their own credit instead
|, of paying usury on tho credit OF bunk
n ers But this true democracy is what
p bankers hire the press TO oppose II
4 makes my blood boil TO think that we
;. are compelled to pay l6 per cent
usury to those who never earn one
4 cent Of it, on all the money we car
n get from the hunks in the south, be-
. sides having our products discrimin
a ated against to from 10 TO 30 per cent
q If anyone else wishes to call thil
- anarchy and despotism, well and good
present cond on5 force it upon us
No civilization can long exist nom
ever has failed to 60 down when con
h traction was its policy There vi
p have tho sublime spectacle OF TN
plutocratic press iavoring an expan
sion Of the currency a further grand
0 err civilization by iayorng man whit
+. favors only specie payments and tina
d single standard specie, that with oul
\ increas ng demand for money. viii
halt vil2ation plunge us into revo
lutiOns and on failure OF our mines,
+ land us back in the dark ages. Thii
+. policy will surely out-satan satan.
a comm tee Of congress reported IL
q 1877 that without money civilization
could not have had beginning. Wit
q a dim nishing supply it mustlanguish,
4 and unless relieved, finally perish.
p Farmers assert your manhood. Strike
for liberty. Save yourselves and you
country from ruin, II we fail TO FACE
the fight now we arc towards; oul
children W II curse us. We have rlghI
on our de against wrong on tn,
r other. Then let US be true men.
4 Here's TO boycott on tho old partisan
, press, here's ono vote for the new
p born party, here's till the war 4
!. ended.
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