The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08

alive. We are to have a state election
IN our state this year from constable to
governor. Would like to have MIR. Don
nelly with u.s.
With best wishes, l az. yours truly,
]. T. CONNELL.
Mayhew's Station, Miss, April q.
HON. JOHN R. BEASLEY'S BILL.
A NOVEL IDEA WORTH CONSIDER
ING.
TO AMEND OUR NATIONAL. CONSTR
TUITION = TO RE-ESTABLfsll THE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC CREATED BY
OUR ANCESTORS To BREATHE IN
TO TIE STATES or THIS UNION
THE BREATH OF LIFE-AND TO
GIVE THE STATE GOVERNMENTS
THE POWER TO Do SOMETHING
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE.
WHEREAS, No state can be sovereign
and no community Of people can be
state in the true sense of the term, to-
wit: be "self-suh.cient," without pos
sessing the power to issue and control
its own local currency; and
WHEREAS, No federal rejublic can
exist without compact or agreement
between two or more sovereign states
or nations; and
WHEREAS, The federal republic es-
tablished by our ancestors in 1777, un-
der constitution called the Articles of
Confederation, was, in Mr.. Jefferson's
opinion. "the best federal republic that
ever existed" only one amendment to
said constitution being necessary, in the
opinion of congress. after the Revoiu-
tionary War, to-wit: an amendment All
thorizing congress to levy duty on
imported goods to raise the money to
pay the public debt and expenses OF the
government; and
WHEREAS, Nothing in the history
OF the world was like the progress Of :he
British colonies in America, when they
assumed and exercised the power to
supply the people of each colony with
an adequate amount of legal tender
treasury notes for a circulating medium;
ana
WHEREAS, The right to issue and
control thejr local currency and the
right to manufature for themselves were
the greatest OF ali the rights for the
establishment OF which our forefathers
fought Great Britain for seven long and
weary years; and
WHEREAS, The thirteen American
states, which were recognized by Great
Britain as free, sovereign and 1nde-
pendent" were wrongfully and fraudu-
lentiy deprived Of the power to issue
and control their local currency by the
National Constitutional Convention OF
17S7--a convention which consisted OF
only fifty-five members, sixteen OF whom
refused to sign the new constitution for
various reasOnS;--a convention, SAID
Patrick Henry, which "transcended its
powers and effected a revolution more
radical than that which had separated
America from Britain; and
WHEREAS, Depriving the states OF the
power to issue and control their local
currency made the blood of the Revo-
luton of no effect" and substantially de-
stroyed the states, the state govern
ments, states sovereignty, and the fed
eral republic created in 1777 by the Ar
ticles of Confederation; and
WHEREAS, The success of England
in controlling said national convention
of 1887, enabled her to destroy the Amer
lean system of finances; to destroy the
legal tender state treasury note; and to
force upon America the metal money
systematic system demanded by the
trading interests of England-thus rob-
bling the American people of their finan-
cial and Industrial independence, in
comparison with which political indie
pendence amounted to nothing; and
WHEREAS, Our present national gov
eminent, which has a monopoly OF the
sovereignty power of the people, is like
a ship with all sail and no ballast" as
Macauley has truly said, and is just as
completely under the control of the plu-
tocrats of England, as was the national
convention of 1887 and
WHEREAS, The American people, as
Herbert Spencer has discovered, will
have to go back before they can go for
ward;" will have to go back to the feder-
al system of government and place the
crown of sovereignty on the brow of
each and every state before they can
secure the prosperity and happiness to
which they are entitled; and
WHEREAS, Our national government
can be converted into a federal govern
ment and state sovereignty reestsb-
lished by simply restoring to the states
the power to issue and control their
own local currency, which is the only
method of permanently holding the va
rious sections of the nation together;
and
WHEREAS, Like the ancient Grecian
federal republic of Achaia, we need local
as vel! as national currency, the bal
ance of trade being always against an
agricultural state under the metal mon
ey system, and legal tender state treas
ury notes being the only kind of money
that an agricultural state can keep at
home; and
WHEREAS, An adequate supply Of
national and state legal tender treasury
notes say about $40 per capita of the
former and about $40 per capita of the
latter--loaned to the people on produc-
tive real estate, or other good security,
at low rate of interest, not to exceed
2 per cent per apnuln, with complete
monopoly in the national and state gov
ernmenss Of the business of loanlng
money at interest, would create prosper
ity unparalleled in the history of the
world: aud
WHEREAS, This financial system
would make every state in the Union
financially and industrially independ-
ent of every other state, and would
make the nation financially and indus
trially Independent of the rest Of the
world, the legal tender treasury note
being the most powerful friend and pro-
tector that domestic manufacturers ever
had; and
WHEREAS "Monov oneworoth oil