Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-06-15
To My Democratic Friends.

| Worshlpped any name: i was never tied
to any machine, and never sold myself
TO any clique of leaders.
If by democracy you mean certain
undying principles, then am demo-
crat as sincerely as ever was before.
believe In the democracy of Jeffer-
son, when he said: Bank paper must
be suppressed, and the circulation re-
stored to the goYernment-to the peO-
pie, to whom it belongs. Paper money
possesses many advantages over gold
and silver"
Or when he said: 1.-THE right to land
| is in usufruct."
Or when he said: "The wealthy class
es are the traitorous classes.
Or when he said: 1.-The poor is our
dependence for liberty"
Funding is simply robbing the peo-
pie on grand SCALE"
Banks are far more dangerous than
standing armies. Let bank paper be
suppressed"
Our only recourse, and an ample one
for any emergency - treasury notes,
DOttomed on taxes"
believe in the democracy of Jack
son, when be said, in his veto message.
| that the constitution intended that con-
Gress should regulate the money Of the
country and that the delegation of such
power to the national banks was I'M
constitutional.
believe in the democracy of Calhoun,
when he said: mo man can doubt but
that the credit of the government is
better than that of any bank-more sta
BILE and safe. l now undertake to
affirm, and without the least fear that 1
can be answered, that paper money, is-
sued by the government, with the sim
pie promise of the government to re-
ceive it for all dues, would form per-
feet circulation, which would not be
abused by the government; that il
would be uniform with the metals them
selves"
Or when he said: "Why compel the
people to pay interest on government
credit through the bank, when said
credit could be extended direct to the
people without interest ?''
1.-The bank is a union of the govern.
ment and the money power-a union
far more dangerous than the union OF
church and state"
l believe in the democracy Of Thomas
Benton, when he said: 1.-The bank ii
in the field, enlisted for the war; bat
tering ram-not to beat down hostile
cities, but to beat down the citadel o.
American Liberty; to command the
; elections and elect bank president b!
, dint of bank power. The bank is in TIT
/ field, combatant, and fearful ant
> tremendous one in the presidential cleo
/ ton. If she succeeds there is an enc
of American Liberty-an end OF the re
. public. The president of the bank ant
: the president of the United States will
t be cousins in the royal sense of thu
. word. They will elect each other-the.
will transmit their thrones to their de
scendants."
1.-THE government ought not to dele
+ gate this power issuing money! if i
b could. 1t is too great power to b
! trusted to any banking company what
ever, or to any authority but the high
< est and most responsible, the govern
o ment'
1 believe in the democracy of '6s
y which stood for paper money and OK
Q banded circulation.
believe in the democracy Of Jane
II A. Reagin, when he says: "HistOr
will write it down that the policy of tn
government from 1859 to now, 30 far a
= the executive Is concerned, and so ia
- as the laws were concerned up to 1875
- has been distinctly policy IN the inter
"a est of the money power of this countr
a and of Europe-a policy distlnctively a
war with the best interests of the coun
70 try. know that the present admins
- tratlon (Cieveland's) has taken up an
"a maintained the policy of its republica
:. predecessors.
mo set of institutions that hav
:. such power 10 expand or contract tn
~ volume of the currency and that hav
? displayed such purpose as they 9TH
=. national banks) have shown here i
N Washington, and in their annual regu
x lar meetings to promote their selfish il
~ terests, ought to be encouraged or su:
Is t.,.~ led by the government"
le we are al Al perhaps, sometimes lie
to forbear action By tnc chances of p'
70 litical success, which may depen,. Q
N our yielding to the money power. If
4 had to acquire success by that means,
e think it would be my duty to retir
.r from my present position"
r But how does this compare with th
d democracy of Cleveland, Hill, Bric'
l. German, Bayard, Mills, Crisp. Springs
!: Palmer, and the likep Is not the nam'
A. democrat, applied to such men, like til
Il cloak of religion on the DEVILS shou
: ders.
v Do We owe our allegiance to theT
y merely because OF name they usurp
4 Is our allegiance due to democrati
, name-a democratic leader-a demo
ratio machIne-or to the eternal priE
!. lples of true democracy?
II If the name is wrongly applied; if tn
: machine is manipulated by plutocrats
s if the leaders have gone astray, Is it no
i our duty as democrats, 70 relinquis
them all and cling to our eternal prin