The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-27
OUR BANKER FRIEND.
He Speaks From Experience and Strikes
IIFrom che ShOuldsr,n

your paper OF September 70, you object
to my saying that q party must be
formed on one issue-that of using all
the metal money that our mines will sf-
ford. / have been trying to make out
how my letter came to have it stated in
that way, and do notyet understand how
it was, whether q mistake in the Copyist
or some one else. believe with Benton
that political party can not be formed
on one idea alone, nor one issue alone.
That was his criticism of the old anti
Masonic party, if I remember rightly.
But will elaborate the idea that did
wish tO convey. OF the old parties one
has served it's purpose and has been put
out of service. The other got into service
by promises that it has bGsely betrayed.
Neither Of these parties is the party Of
the people, and for the preservation Of
their liberties the people must look to
another. In this third great party that
will get it's votes out Of the old parties,
and did get over 100000 Of them in the
last election, there ought to be this is
sue, this plank, il you please, separate,
clear and distinct from any other Of it's
issues or plsnks, to-wit: The right Of
the people to use gold and silver without
limit by any government. Other issues,
other planks, there will be, but the right
to use these metals Is the same as the
right to use coal for fuel, or wheat for
bread, or iron for tools. The people have
all rights; the government has no powers
except what the people confer on it. l do
not think we are apart on this question.
An agreement about the details of the
right kind Of paper money can be easily
reached among those who do not wish to
plunder any one under cover Of money
system. But separate and alone as one
plank or issue we ought to let the swing
ers Of the pick and shovel in the noun
tains know that we are coming to their
rescue, and that we will consent to NO
limit to pick-Gnd-ShOVsl money.
wish to say q word personal. I am
not 9 national banker, though l own q
few shares of national bank stock tenn
porarily. And 1 repeat that / would
gladly see it all become worthless for the
sake of getting rid of the system, because
l dread the power and unscrupulOuS
tyranny Of the leaders Of the national
bank ring, knowing them better than
most farmers do. We can never be sure
that our liberties are safe while q great
banking system like that exists, bound
up as it is with the money tyrants Of
Europe who would rejoice at our de-
struction, and whose only use for the
American farmer is to rob him. 1t is
useless to expect either Of the old parties
to attack this power. They are both
controlled by it / have long been dis
satisfied with the democratic party, eepec-
tally for such things as making Roths-
childs's New York agent their national
chairman. At the election last fall l
made up my mind never to vote for q
demonetizsr and 30 voted the Peoples
party ticket from top to bottom, and l
find many a democrat who chaffed me
for it now wishing he had done the same.
No doubt there are some Of your read
ers who remember my name in the
Journal Of Agriculture Of st. Louis. l
wrote for that paper for ten years al