Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-16
TT is LIKE FORGERY.
THE INFAMOUS ACTS OF FiNAN-
GAL LEGISLATION.
A Crime of Far Greater Magnitude Than
Changing Figures on n Checks There
Submit?
Increasing the Debt.

Intentionally, change the face OF their
own notes? If not, then great crime
has been committed by their represent
| stives. The crime of raising note"
has always been considered a states
prison offense when committed by the
sharper. What is it, or what ought 1T
to be when committed by the law
| maker? Did the people of any nation
ever consent to such a thing in adj
vance of legislation OF course, never.
Would either political party in this
country ever have dared to hint such
a purpose In carrying an election? OF
| course not. Is it possible then for our
legislators to escape the charge of I'M
authorized and criminal legislation
See what pains the bankers clerk
takes to render the check unalterable
| Have the people no means of perforat-
ing their notes and protecting the
! debtor? Is it allowable for the legis-
lator, on his own mo ion. to do what
the individual is forbidden to do, in
the matter of debt and credit?
To reduce the volume OF money in
circulation is to raise" the face of the
peoples notes. To make the dollar
mentioned in the bond worth twice
the value intended and existing at the
| time the note is drawn is to multiply
the face of the note by two.
Dug something worse than domestic
criminality is chargable upon our
| Legislators. They have sold the coun-
| try out to foreign creditors, and made
alliance with the historic enemies of
our Republic. To submit to England's
dictates in this altering the debtor
notes of the world is to surrender the
| Democracy of the world to the meanest
of all despotisms--lhe despotism of a
false dollar, contracted currency,
and it's cOncomitant curse-usury.
| | do most heartily wish for peace
| able solution of the problem that is to
be laid upon the shoulders of our
grown-up children. But if the pulpit
| L am a preacher) and the people are
afraid of the reviling of the press and
the devil, and would rather sleep on
than be called calamity howlers," the
! Almighty will thunder in their ears
the anthem of a new emancipation. If
the present distress continues under
the pretext of military necessity"
the right of the people to- bear arms
| will be denied, or it will avail them
nothing when they have no arms to
bear and mercenary army of Hes
SLAMS lands again on our shores to assist
the anarchy of wealth created at our
national capital.
We should not sell bonds to nom
residents. Better yet, as a nation we
should not sell bonds to anybody.
Borrowing money by the nation should
be prohibited by an amendment to
the constination of every nation that
presumes to be independent and self
secured.
| When the adequacy of justice of ma
tional money is understood the people
of the earth will enter the year of their
Jubilee The silver issue" serves to
educate; but it is not the ultimate.
When the people get thoroughly at
work coming ideas, all the gingling
dollars will become relics. But at
present the silver battle is our battle.
| On with it
The new dollar will be the end of
war. All hail the day when the
Christian" nations of the earth shall
cease to cut up the territory of the
weaker powers with bloody knives
ground on the grindstones of the
Rothschilds and their blood relations.
Either the new dollar or Worldwide
Reputation. Gentlemen, take your
choice. We advise you to take the
former; you would suffer no injus-
tice; and other people could live and
move and have a being on the earth.
Oye Pharaohs, mad and mighty
| There mightirr than ye
| Who hath sounded forth the order
| That the nations shall be free,
| He is heaping up the waters
| For the cross ny OF the sea;
| Then forward men, march on.
The time has come to call our leg
islators to account. If they have be-
come fat and stupid and Indifferent to
their responsibilities, let it be known.
The people are the high court: and
they are able to make their repre-
sentatives do their duty. They have
not required it. There has been no
mode of compelling it. save by retir-
ing them from office. But what cares
a man for that when he can carry
home Ill-gOtten gains and retire into a
lucrative retainers Office in the SER
vice of the corporations? What does
President care for the peoples in
dignation when he is fortified by the
practice of the average legislator and
can retire with twice $4,000 multi
piled by two through his own per-
sonal and official influence?
What else, of any great Importance,
has been done during the last twenty
five or thirty years by the Congress OF
the United States but to clandestinely
alter the obligations of the people to
their creditors? 1t ought to be called
the thirty years of crime. Now the
danger is this: If the people proceed
to make their private and national
bonds redeemable by restoring the
money that belongs to them, the
wealth of the country will cry, Law
lessness!' Anarchy" Communism! y
Criminal legislation"
A. j. CHTTTENDEN.
| Modern Buccaneers.
The system of banking proposed 10y
the recent meeting of the Bankers
National Association at Baltimore is
attracting general attention. Ii
| aboul1 ha cfudiad will, cora for a most