Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-11-14

sugar, salt or soda as q gold dollar
will buy, but its metal value is less
than a nickel. Twenty nickels will
buy just as much bread, butter or
bacon as a gold dollar will buy,
and yet its intrinsic value is little
more than ten cents. Neither one
of the dollars can boast of a re-
deemer. Like the gold standard
city editors, they have none. But
the law makes these dollars hon
est, which is more than it could
do for our plutocratic editors.
You say we have suficiency of
money, when 80 per cent of our
business is done on credit, which
means at least ten per cent out of
the laboring mans dollar per day;
and if it is fact that we have
money enough, why is it that you
and both of the "grand old par
ties are so anxious to give ma
tional bankers an additional S20,
900, ,000l Your pretense is sham.
You must know that taxes and in
terest, with but small volume of
money in circulation, are eating
the life and soul out of the people,
and bankrupting the country.
Nine millions of our homes are
mortgaged, and wheat at so cents,
wool Is and cotton 5.
Notwithstanding all this, every
copy of your Tory paper howls
prosperity and good times on the
farm. We could excuse you this
great wrong if we didn't know
that you know better. And we
are still further onto your racket.
We know the present panic is the
bankers and money changers
panic, with Rothschilds in the
lead, yet it has cost labor more
dollars than did the late civil war,
and you who investigate it all
know it. Wouldn't it be better
to give the people chance to pay
their debts than to drive them into
bankruptcy and reputation! 1t
would be better even for England.
Our people are industrious and
honest, but they can'tpay without
something to pay with, and at pres
ent prices the farm is a failure.
Think of wheat at so cents bushel
and cotton at cents pound.
But why repeat this You are
not fools.
But how does it look to see you
great Democratic and Republican
leaders riding side by side in the
Lombard Wall Street gold stand
ard band wagon singing Yankee
Doodle to Great Britain $ favorite
tune, and with the Yankee left out,
the British flag unfurled to the
breeze, and the eagle in the lion S
mouth. Isn't that a sight for the
shades of Washington, jackson
and Lincoln?
No. sir, l can't work for paper
that wants to ask a British king
what kind of money we in a Re
publican government shall have.
A great international question
came up in 1915 and Washington
settled it at Yorktown. The same
international question with the
same pirate nation arose in 1912,
and jackson settled it at New Or
leans. And now, sir, you twins
would do well, in my judgment,
to learn wisdom if not imbibe a
little patriotism, by past expert
ence. If England don't keep her
nose out of our business, you may
see the time when the United
States will find method of wip-
ing out her entire robber holdings,
confiscate every foot of land she
holds in our calf pasture, and kick
the cold gal'' overheard. Right
now is a good time for you gold
standard chaps to do little hard
thinking.
l cannot respond to your call
for aid. My efforts must be for
the Progressive Farmer, and pa
pers like it that are our friends.
Respectfully yours,
S. |. DAVIS.