The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-22
a FIGHT TO The FINISH.
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Subsidized, Partisan Press

Let 10 AIIianceman Help to Support
Subsidized, Partisan Press.
; That the money in which the So
der was paid would have lived !;
} lie out at par with gold needs :
'e proof had it not been for the exceptic
y clause John Sherman explained
. all when he said: 1t was necessar
Y to depreciate the greenbacks to crea,
a market for the bonds" (These a,
his words as near as l can remembe,
not having time to look them I'M now
t NO one knows better than DEMONS
n Howell that hireling congress &c
Z preclated this money and was at tn
same time robbing the soldier and al
+ the other people. making a free Oil
10 those who bought the bonds, terme
Year, before by Thomas Jefferson a
our traitor Glass; This exceptio,
clause laid the foundation for the ma
: tlonal banking act which followe,
close on It's heels and all the other in
famous funding acts the results 0
winch we shall see before this cam
paign ends.
Ihls money in which the union sol.
der was paid was the credit of all the
people writes c. II. johnson in tho
Advocate
1t circulated freely among them u
aoaeo 10 the taxable property of the
natlon. But little if any of it bore
interest While debt of the nation
1t had become the capital OF the c,ti-
zen. Ihls property of the people was
deprecated and sold for less than half
LIS value and then funded into interest
bearing bonds. which amounted 70 do
stroying half of this property of the
| people and placing on them a bonded
| Indebtedness.
| we have an indebtedness of over
w. 0o0, 600. 900 saddled upon us and
God knows negro rule couldn't be worse
Gnan the present rule. Our present
financial system was designed on pur-
pose to confiscate the property of the
citizen without his KNOWLEDGE or con.
sent Under present laws farmers
Will become more and more in debit
until their very necessities drive them
70 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 the press, but
the poor fellow who can't help him.
self but was compelled to .strike even
Tor third party" gets the blame
l wish every farmer in this whole
country would inform himself on This
currency and bond and back ration
question. They should learn that the
government has other means of GETTING
money than by taxing it from the peo.
pie This rule or ruin policy has al
ready ruined the greatest industry Of
THIS creation, and Lincoln's prediction.
the republic will be lost" will be
reality in less than ten years unless
the financial system of TO-DAY is ann.
planted by better one. What womb
IL require to comply with the twelfth
section OF the St Louis platforms
Less than one billion dollars Less
Than the Fifty-f first congress cost Not
half what is stolen from the producers
every year.
Making and issuing these treasury
notes would be the only cost. This ..
would, in little Or no time, be Offset
~ the increased price of products Of ,
me people north and south. The
outh would get her share indirectly ,
n short while. This would be > :,
eturn to original Democracy as =
ounded by jefferson. Allowing the !
people to use their own credit instead
II paying usury on the credit of bank .
RS. But this true democracy is what
'ankers hire the press to oppose II
makes my blood boil to think that we
re compelled to pay Is per cent. S
sury to those who never earn one "
ent OF. it. on all the money we can t
.et from the banks in the south, be- t.
ldes having our products discrimin- o
tea against to from 10 to so per cent t
Ii anyone else wishes to call this
narchy and despotism well and good: n
resent cond tons force it upon MS "
10 civilization can long exist none d
yer has failed to go down when con- c
raction was its policy. There we fl
ave the sublime spectacle of the n
lutocratlc press favoring an expan- "
on OF the currency. a further grand v
civilization by favor.ng a man who "
'vors only specie payments and that G.
single standard specie, that with our Il
'creasing demand for money. will E
alt civilization. plunge US into reyo- g
tlons and on failure of our mines h
nd US back in the dark ages. This Y,
olicy will surely out-satan satan tt
'mmittee of congress reported in pl
81 that without money civilization m
'uld not have had a beginning With NJ
diminishing supply it must laneuisb.
3D. unless relieved. finally perish"
armers, assert your manhood. Strike :,
liberty Save yourselves and your ~ =,
untry from ruin. If we fail to face 10
e fight now we are towards: orr Sc
ildren will curse u.s. We have RIGHT &C
our SIDE against wrong on the !.
her. Then let us be true men. es
ere's to a boycott on the old partisan CO
ess. here's one vote for the new o.
rn party. here's till the war is sa
died. VI
The Farmers and Laborers Lioht. w
le American manufacturer of farm we
plements finds a large demand for Id
J implements in foreign countries re-