Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-27

could ever occur, because the people
could always get money in reasonab bio
amounts upon their property. There
would be no suspensions, no breaking,
no lock ups, as there is now when
money IS wanted worse. Thousands
of humble homes would be saved to
their owners who by our present bar
barous system will go into the hands
of usurers.
1t would be the best money the
world ever saw. Absolute money
created by law. Our courts have de-
cided that the money is in the law and
not in the material the law is stamped
on, and that congress has the power
to create money.
The profits of national banks from
Sept. /, 1892, to Sept /, 1893, was
1851, 694. GIL. OF the private banks we
have no record, but an estimate oil
$500, 900, 600 would be low Here we
have not less than S35l 900, 900 as
profits on banking alone. National
banks do not loan money on real es.
tate, and private banks and trust com
panies only report SOL, 900, 900 a.
loans secured by realty, showing that
the vast mortgage indebtedness OF
farm property is held in individual
rames, coming through firms or
agencies. Excessive interest con
sunes nations. The great life insur
ance companies calcu ate per cent
as rate Of interest large enough to
meet their lapses and pay their ex.
penses. The immediate result of the
adoption of the Peoples party plan
would be the reduction of interest by
all money loaners TO the government
maximum rate of per cent. Mort.
cages would be paid off or re
newed at the per cent
rate, holders would gladly take
per cent above the government rate
rather than be paid off and have idle
money on their hands. The reduc
ton of interest on the $50, 900, 600, 600
of debt in this country now averaging
s per cent would save to the people
who work and create wealth the i'm.
mense sum of 81, 200, 900, 900 annually.
Our government was made for the
greatest good to the greatest number.
The old parties have made it money
machine for the $4,000 bankers and
money loaners. Neither proposes tc
stop their plundering of the laborers,
farmers, mechanics and producers of
wealth, and resist every effort made
for the relief of the people,
by this plan the profits would in
crease yearly and in few years the
government would be the banker Of
the people, thus fulfilling the desire
OF Jefferson, Jackson and Calhoun.
Is there any man who can give a
good reason why this should not be
done?
This would carry out the doctrine
of equal rights to all and exclusive
privileges to none, and those that
oppose it are not in favor of equal
rights to all men.
The government as now admins
tered acts the part of cruel step.
father to the masses, and of a kind,
indulgent, affectionate parent to the
bankers and corporations and trusts
that plumber the people at will, and
they are assisted to do so by the gov
eminent Shame.
Americans, all of you who by your
daily toll create wealth, sowing for
others to gather, can you in justice to
your families, many of you in want
of the necessaries that family should
have and that you are deprived of.
can you longer support political
parties whom all acknowledge are
corrupt, and who administer the gov
eminent as machine to gather riches
for the already rich? Will you longer
be party slaves and wear the yoke of
oppression and degradation? If so,
liberty is lost and you are only fit for
slavery. do not believe you are
Join the Peoples party, the only
party that is truly democratic, the
only party that is really republican.
and assist it in it's efforts to redeem
our common country from the rule of
plutocracy and the power of money to
Cypress. Help us make the govern
ment the servant of the people instead
of their master
K. b. CARL, Secretary.