Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-07-26
The TIME TO ACT.
Now Is the Time for a Combined
slaught Upon the Citadel of MetaIIisl

Now Is the Time for a Combined On
slaught Upon the Citadel of Metallism.
An outraged and robbed people are
getting their eyes open all over the
land insisting upon the demonetization
and repudiation of the gold standard of
value and of substituting for it legal
tender government notes.
Gold gormandizers can now disgorge
at their leisure and discharge the sal
aried statesmen" subsidized editors
and newspaper correspondents that
have been drawing their nourishment
from the udder of the Rothschilds' gold
headed kline, as they will not much
longer be of use either to their thieving
masters in Wall street or to the people
who are at last finding them out
predict that before the close of the
nineteenth century, gold in the United
States will be entirely cut loose from the
control of currency. The American peo-
pie are beginning to demand basis
that shall not tremble at the touch of
avarice and turn traitor in the hour of
need.
Every bank that fails or suspends,
and robs its depositors, becomes of
practical use as a recruiting station for
the gathering army of financial reform.
Only yesterday l met an old Oregon
friend who came to Riverside year
ago and placed $4,000 on deposit in a
Riverside bank that failed last week.
1t was all the cash he had saved
through years of honest trade in gro
ceries.
He, with tens of thousands of other
victims, knows that he has been coolly
and deliberately fooled and robbed by
an institution that is trading on the
government name while the govern
ment itself shirks all responsibility for
the crime, and he also knows-if he has
not lost his common sense-that such a
swindle never could have been perpe-
trated under system of government
loan and deposit any more than money
order can be repudiated by the national
post Office department
Our ancestors did not wait for the
sanction of the old world despotism be-
fore drafting and signing the Declara-
tion of Independence.
Why should we wait for the consent
of European usury tyrants and inter
national bimetallic commissions before
asserting our independence of a finan-
eial system, a thousandfold more op-
pressive and arrogant than the ills
against which our forefathers rebelled?
Why? Simply because in the place
of these true men and patriots that
composed the continental congress we
are now, and have been for the past
twenty years, misrepreSented and hui
inflated in senate, in congress and
courts, by cowardly traitors, moral
idiots and official jumping-jac who
bow low and turn somersaultS in re-
sponse to yellow string in the hands
of Wall street and London showmen.
How long, Oh Lord, how long must
the free American people be compelled
to put their trust in so-called honest
dollar" which in turn is compelled to
be forever wandering and nosing
around in search of ''redeemer," that
when most needed is hiding away out
of sight and hearing in the den of some
oily loan sneak thief and robber of de-
luded depositors?
We shall never be free and indepen-
dent republic till we have an American
money system and currency resting
solely upon the honor and dignity of
the nation.
Other nations will be glad to take
such money at par. If not, so much
the worse for them-not us. In the
meantime we can take their gold or
silver simply and solely as money, but
not because of the material containing
the government stamp. We, as a ma
ton, must do one thing or the other
We must either surrender, be tortured
awhile longer and then die in the
clutches of usury, or we must accept
of the legal tender right and defy the
old world.
To accept of a compromise between
the two is like getting into water and
trying to walk with one leg and swim
with the other, thing which cannot
be successfully done.
We must either continue to walk and
splash in the shadows, at the mercy of
every rising and falling financial storm
and tide, or we must launch out into
the deep and swim.-James G.. Clark,
in National Spectator.