Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-11-09
CARLISLE AND THE BANKERS.

Presidant, yesterday when the senate went IN
to executive session / was presenting SONIC
facts in connection with the scheme organized
in the city of New York last spring for the pur-
pose of bringing aufhcient pressure on coll
gress to secure the repeal of the Sherman law
read all article from the San Francisco Exaln-
liner, which seems to have been practically tie
same as one published in the New York oun'
I have also an article from the New York Sun
of Anr;1 90 last. from which / will read an ex-
tract:
The conference Yesterday between Secretary
Carlisle and number of the bankers OF this
civ was of great value in that it resulted III a
definite understanding of the financial policy OF
the administration, as indicated i'll this column
last Tuesday. That policy is to interpose no
obstacle to the natural operations and Logical
results of the Sherman law. In word, the
administration proposes to allow the people TO
reap the rewards of their own folly.
The statement of Mr.. Carlisle to the New
York bankers makes it clear that, while MI.
Cleveland works in congress, the bankers VIII
be expected to work, not only Ill New YORK
CITY, but throughout the country, dong thelr
utmost to pinch business everywhere III the eX-
pectation of causing a money Crisis that Will
There is an explicitness i'll these declarations
and boldness in making them that would be
astounding were not the country too familiar
with Mr. Cleveland and his methods to be as
tonished at anything from him.
That is a quotation from the New York Sun
of April 49, In the same line find IN the
Empire of Finance and Trade, under date OF
August 26, the following:
Let us point to another fact and we are
done. Never before have the large banking IN
situations of Chicago and the west ordered their
gold in such large quantities direct from Europe,
and in this fact is found one reason why our
bankers are puzzled over the anomaly that, al
though all these millions are coming to the
country they experience little or no rehei there-
from. The other reason is, gentlemen III or
der to force the repeal of the Sherman act and
to quickly establish your power over this land,
Won first sent out of the country one hundred
and ten millions of the peoples currency in or
der to assist the Rothscilds to demonetize silver
in Austria and elsewhere, and then let it remain
there to teach the west and south an "ob]ect
lesson. ~ as the president called it, until you
found that it was necessary to recall 1t Ill order
TO save your own house from destruction. NOW,
Won have not only taught the west and south an
object lesson, but yourselves one as well, and
YOU can be sure OF 1t.
THE SCHEME OF THE BANKERS.
think. after what have read may safely
assume that the opinion is very general in this
country that scheme organized early in the
season in New York for the purpose OF creating
financial panic which would compel an extra
session of congress for the repeal of the Sher-
man purchasing act and think the well known
and undisputed utterances OF the executive COM
mittee and the conduct of the secretary OF the
treasury bear out the inference that 1t was not
TO be the act of the bankers alone, but that
when the New York Sun says that the bankers
were to work not only in New York but else
where with the administration, it spoke by au-
thority.
would not have anyone infer that the New
York bankers intended to create just the con-
dition of affairs that now exists. think they
undertook to create distrust and disturbance
in the country that would justify the president
in calling congress at an extraordinary time,
and thus secure action, first, on the purchase
bill; second, on the proposition suggested by
the senator from Ohio, and suggested by them
IL their conference of bankers with the secre-
tary last spring-the issuance of large amount
of government bonds, upon which they could
continue to do banking business.
But. as stated in the article that read from
the Chicago Inter Ocean yesterday, this panic
GOT away from them little. They rather over
did the business and frightened the people
bevoud even whatthey had intended. However,
as stated in the paper have just read, they are