Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-12-27
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NAME BILL.
Hon. John VI Har rksr. of Hexica. Mo.
Expresses His EieWsOn the Scheme
In the Following Special Letter
To the WeniZvilIe Union
He Condemns II.
From the Wentzville NO. Union,

| Is oeing fusneu through committee,
as a preparatory move to rushing it
through Congress for the purpose of
meeting business" demands, it is
time for the people to begin to pre-.
pare for another long siege of rob.
berry.
The national banking system has
always been a system of favoritism,
organized for the purpose of bringing
usurous interest into the pocket OF
any private corporation who could
raise a few government bonds to
start bank and thus draw double
interest-interest on the bonds and
the issue ;but it has been reasonably
good money and would expire in a
few more years if it is not possible
that Congress will allow any condi.
tions to cease which oppresses the
sixty-nine millions of people in the
United States for the benefit of the
one million but with all of its faults
it is as far ahead of the Cleveland.
Carlisle scheme as day is ahead OF
night.
Cleveland and Carlisle and their
willing servitors in Congress frankly
inform the people that if they are
not allowed to flood the states with
millions of their semi Wildcat paper
money that they will continue to
deliver bonds by the fifty millions to
the gold holder, and Immediately
deliver back the gold by the fifty
millions to the same bond holders.
They say their main object is to get
rid of the pernicious greenback.
There is over $300,OOO.OOO of this
detestable money which has stood
against the hate and persecution of
the gold grabber so long that it has
become a red flag in the eyes of the
bond holding gold bug, and it can
not be tolerated any longer.
The only real objection of the
enemies of the small treasury notes
have is that they are not drawing
interest TO the business" men of
Lombard and Wall Street, where
Sherman, Cleveland and Carlisle get
all their" business" inspiration. The
Bill now proposed is designed to
flood the country with paper cur.
rency based on 80 per cent of circu.
lation security, and the balance in
"capital," or wind, as the ingenuity
of the corporation chartered may
suggest; but do not forget for a mo-
ment that these gentlemen, who are
to furnish you money are to have
just as much interest for its use as
can be gotten out of you. Its ini-
guilty consists mostly in the fact, that
the people are to be compelled to
take the paper promises of private
corporations, as money, at large
profit to the corporations, when it is
not money, and when the profits on
such a currency ought to go to the
general government instead of to the
few who own the banks.
The Cleveland Carlisle plan is to
continue to pay the small treasury
notes, and even the silver certificates
calling expressly for silver, in gold,
and they threaten to continue this,
and to issue gold bonds in order to
do it (although expressly forbidden
by Congress in SO doing as against
the spirit and letter of law unless
Congress shall bow to his outrageous
money schemes. Their main argu-
ment for it, is that it is "fexible. :"
Those fellows have always got a
word ready-it has been "parity"
until that word stinks among all
honest financiers.
Their plan is to furnishall the in
flexible gold dollars they can get
hold of for the infiexible bond hold
ers, and all of the inflexible interest
bearing bonds they can print, against
the welfare and prosperity of an
outraged people, for the inflexible
gold holders.
In short they want the gold dollar
alone for the bond holder, and the
bonds alone for the gold holder,
while the million who really conduct
all the commerce of the nation, and
its vast enterprises, shall be com.
pelled to use the Objectionable paper
money.
They propose 4 "divorce" be-
tween the Treasury and Wall Street,
but in its stead they offer a NOR
ganatic marriage between the two,
which will leave its whitening curses
behind for a hundred years if not now
defeated by the honest and patriotic,
| Wicked and farcical as it may be
to have the right of unlimited debate
in the Senate, it is to be hoped tina,
the funds of honest money and hon.
est commerce OF the nation will kold
that club in their hands until they
have downed the wildcat money
scheme, and they will secure the
thanks Of a grateful people-the
millions who have scarcely any de.
fence in subsidized press-from
schemes of avarice originality in
trusts and combines and supported
in the Congress of the United States
J. Nj. BARKER.
4 Repairing Neatly Done.