Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-08
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OIilcu CtdlcS. 4HeTo are LnOSo yet Nv
ing who have some recollection of the
terrible war waged by the old Bank OF
the United States against the admins
tratlon of Andrew Jackson. The pres
ent attitude of the national banks of
the United States presents an exact
parallel to the controversy then between
Andrew Jackson and the money mon
ster Of that day. The old institution
was cold-blooded, selfish, insolent, in
tolerant and reckless. 1t sought not
only to control the financial operations
of the United States. but endeavored to
establish a mastership in every depart
ment OF the government. 1t even i'll
vaded the executive mansion, and
threatened the very life of the presi-
dent himself. 1t demanded servile
obedience from cabinets, and insnlently
stalked into the very senate chamber
and boldly and arrogantly made its de-
mands.
This is precisely what the same pow
Ell is noing today. Its object is to tnrn
the Executive mansion into temple of
the money-changers and TO convert the
treasury department into an annex of
Wall street. And it demands that the
senate of the United States shall be its
craven agency in the accomplishment of
its ends. The question, Mr.. President,
is whether the senate of the United
States shall be the refuge and shield of
the people from wrong, injustice and
tyranny, as it has often been in times
past, or whether it shall yield and alb
dictate its functions for the benefit of
relentless and selfish class. It's not so
much question whether the purchas-
Ing clause of the Sherman law shall be
repealed, or whether 1t shall not be-
however momentOus the issues in
volved therein. A greater issue is be-
yOnd that, and it is whether govern
meDt by the people of the United States
shall continue, or whether the govern
ment shall be delivered over TO the
dominance and control of an unscrupu-
lous, arrogant and selfish class. For
one, 50 far as am concerned, L intend
to stand by the people and against
classes Of every name and nature.
Mr.. President, l am not very old
man, but am old enough to remember
that there was time in the history of
this government when we heard a great
deal from certain men north of Mason
and Dixon's line about the slave
drivers whip. Times have changed,
sir. If 1t be true that at one period of
the country's history we had a slave
oligarchy in the south, it no longer
exist.
Now we are afflicted and threatened
with an infinitely more dangerous oil
garchy-a money oligarchy-and the
crack of the slaye-driter's whip is 10
longer heard in the cotton fields of the
south. 1t has been transferred to New
York and Boston and Philadelphia,
and other seats of the money power.
And its crack Is now heard from the
temples of your ney-changers and
where fortunes are gambled for on your
boards of tlade, and like idle palaces of
robbery and shame. Those are the
places where it is heard nowadays, and
as a rule 1t is not in the hands of as
brave, manly, generous, unsellish peo-
pie as in the days gone by; but it is
welded by the hands of cold blooded
Shylocks, whose prototype and ances-
tor Shakespeare found and immortal
lied by his genius.
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Mr.. President, in conclusion, permit
me to say that the passage OF the pend
ing bill will not produce the gratifying
results claimed by It's friends. 1t NAV
restore for the time being a certain de-
gree of confidence amongst bankers,
stock gamblers and other classes of this
description. 1t may increase the price
Of stocks. 1t may stimulate stock
gambling, but 1T will not increase the
value of the produce of the field and the
farm and the factory to the extent of a
single farthing. 1t may open few
furnaces and FORCES and start the
wheels of few manufacturing indus
tries, but it will bring no general or
permanent prosperity.
The trouble lies deeper than the
Sherman law. Pam and suffering will
continue until the cause of the disease
is removed. We shall have no perma-
nent or general prosperity until all the
national banks are wiped out and we
have sound currency composed of
gold, silver and treasury notes. In ad-
dition to this, your trade and tariff laws
must be remedIed, and the unlawful
and unconstitutional and unnatural re-
strictions placed upon our trade and
commerce must be removed in order
that the markets of the world may be
open to our agricultural and other pro
ducts. Equality and justice must be
the standard upon which all this legis-
lation is based. And our tradA laws
must be corrected so that our commerce
shall have an equal footing in the mar
kets of the world with all the nations
of the earth. The sails of our merchant
marine should girdle the globe; and the
flag of our country should be daily and
hourly welcomed IN every harbor and
port in the world; but these happy re-
suits can not be attained so long as our
present false, isapEudent and unpatri-
otto policies prevail.
An Adopted Mink.
On farm near Lewiston, Me-, is a
curious pet and strange adoption.
One day one of the dogs around the