The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-04-28

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AsPIRITUAL sEAHCE.
The Spirit Of q Former Pawnbroksz
and Bondholdsr Interviewed
Controlling spirit-Ws are ready Mr.
Chairman to consider any question which
you may ask.
Chairman-Call up the spirit Of Uncle
Harris, the great pawnbroker and bond :
holder.
spirit-Uncle Harris is present and 1t
Chairman-How do you do Uncle Har
ris. l Am very happy to meet You again.
I presume you are still in the pawnbrok.
ing business on the other ndef
Uncle Harrs-Pawnsbops on this side
of the river are unknown; in fact ell form
Or pswnbrokers when they reach this side
are Immediately consigned to the bottom
less pit, AID IRE boiled In the lake Of
molten birthstone until they are purified.
Some have to stay in the lake much
longer than others, owing to the amount
of suffering that they haYe caused on
earth.
A voice from the audience-Does the
fact that you charged me five per cent
per month compound interest and col I
lected it yearly in advance, cause you any
extra inconvenience in the boiling caul-
droni 90
Uncle Harris-Most assuredly it does.
I have most vivid recollection Of all my
former loans, but the things that cause
me ths-most suffering and add several
years to my brlmstone bath, were the parts
I took in having the currency destroyed
at the close of the war, and in assisting
of the demonstration of silver. These
two acts have caused. one hundred times
as much suffering and crime as all other
causes combined.
Z! Another voice from the audience-I
bought farm and borrowed one.third of
the purchase money, giving mortgage
on the farm for security. l put in three
years of hard labor to improve it, then
the mortgage was foreclosed and 1t took
tho whole farm to pay the debt. What
made the farm depreciate so in valuei
Uncle Harr;s-Thc farm did not de.
crease in value. You had no security for
the two thirds Of purchase money which
you put in the farm and you played right
into the lenders hand when you gave him
the mortgage. A little legislation at
Washington and a little locking up of
money by the bondholders and sudden
demand for money to pay debts will in
crease the purchasing power of q dollar
two or three hundred per cent, but it
does not increase the debt-paying quality
one cent. Hence by legislation at Wash
ington and little locking up of money,
you have been feeced out of your hard
earned property.
Chairman-What is the cause of the
present tough time. The Democrats and
Republicans keep fighting over the tariff
and say that is the cause, but great
many people are beginning to doubt it.
l would like for you to give Us some light
on the subject.
Uncle Harris-The scheme of the mon.
ey power is to keep the producers quar-
reling among themselves over the tariff,
in this way they are enabled to shape f.
nancial Legislation so as to fleece the PEG
pie out of their property. But the Pop
ulists are on to their game and are caus-
ing the bondholders an immense amount |
of trouble. They fear that the brass
bands and fiery orators will not be able
to engage the people in another sham
battle over the tariff. As l said before,
the destruction of over half of the curren-
cy at the close of the war, the demoneti-
cation of silver in 1878 and the locking
up of money by the goldbugs together
with an enormous demand for money to
pay debts has tleeced the people ont of
their property, and this property, which |
has been produced by the labor of all, is
now (through this goldbug bond system
Of confiscation) concentrated in the hands
Of bond holding aristocracy. I know
that this is the true situation for was en-
gagged in helping to bring it about while
On earth, but the bondholders when they |
reach this side of the river will suffer the
torments of the damned. His Satanic
Majesty is calling me and will have to
return to the lake. Oh, this 10 terrible.
Good night.-Nevad State Journal.
Guarding the Bank.
The Bank of Ep1Iand 70 watched night