Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-03
WHERE WILL 1T END ?


the fact that the power of money was
never greater in the United States than
sselit is today. Since the day the eastern
snks met Secretary Chase's overture
money with which to carry on the
81 war. with the counter proposition that
all the funds needed would be provided
= ifthe government surrendered the bank
p ing laws of the country to the eastern
banks. the selfish hold of this national
5hylock has steadily been tightening
and his influence for evil constantly
IL Broadening. The war fund was abso-
iately necessary and Secretary Chase
either had to surrender to the European
q powers or TO the Shylocks of his own
people. He chose between two evils
and very naturally took the latter and
probably by So doing averted caiam
1ty even greater in intensity than the
one Incurred.
Never since that day has the money
"a power failed to assert itself in all mat
81 tiers of legislation on finance before
81 congress- The national banking act
eeRtralized the laws of banking and
e currency in the general government and
81 conferred in the hands of the money
&monopolv a power which had been
s. sgrested from it ia one of the most mem
orabie contests ever known in the coun
try, when Andrew Jackson, as presi-
dent of the United States. stood for
the people By the national bank act
the states we're left absolutely without
over TO Iegislate on banking and cur
/ 2
= aiming to banking and currency were
7endered obsolete.
: Since the day this national banking
aet was debating, ontla wing land. linn
1tiag leans TO ninety days, thereby de
81 Driving the farmers of any advantage
whatever to be derived from these
Vanks. and fortaing for itself an abso-
ante copartnership with the government
sin the monopoly of circulation. the
2nDney plwer has controlled all legisla
<ion on financial questions. All parties
a Seem powertess and the wheels of this
ElsipowerfHl Jnggernaut now roll in tri
hiaph over the prostrate form of the
kTepublic. 1t nomnates and elects
n presidents tn do its bidding, it controls
eongress; aud it even lays it's violent
+ hands on the courts Of the country by
I debating where it can the appointment
OF judges whose first duty is to guard
! It's interest. There are members of
congress WHO before the people will
nissA Anything and yet in Washing
Ttil prostrate before the money
worship it with a devotion
f'd since the days the Hebrews
I'd of waiting for Moses and
n in the wilderness before the
calf. The same mysterious
dictates the appointment of
1ongressional committees whose duty is
10 smother all kinds of legislation that
viii interfere with it's royal preroga
HIVES. 1t ho1dooS the president and
the secretary of the treasuary TO issne
bonds tha5 the money power may grow
richer aud tue burden of the people
heavier. 1t has been reported time
and time again that the syndicate en-
gagged in the recent bond outrage has
ssnade millions of dollars in the pur
chase and sale Of these bonds, and the
fact is fouted in the face of the people;
yet no man in congress raises his
voice against this robbery and no pro
"a test comes from the peoples represen-
tatives.
Silver is demonitized in spite of the
fact that every honest man knows and
admits that the chief results has been
the enhancement of the value of gold;
the reduction of wages, business disas-
ter and commercial collapse; yet con-
gress refuses to act for the people or
meet their demands for the recogni-
of silver. The pledge of the demo-
pic party is ignored and the prom
the dominant party made to the
lie are trampled under the feet of
ssentatives, senators. and officials
shigher, who have proven false to
trusts and whose betrayal of the
70 is the eliminating atrocity of
Century.
&hy is all this? 1t is because the
Eney power ''has the country by the