The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-06
WORDS OF FRANKLIN.

Those who sup pose that tax on tea, o.
any other lax, wa S the principal grievance
for which our ancestors rebelled against
the Mother Country have studied history to
little purpose. The most grieyous perse-
cution of the colonies was robbing them OF
their circulating medium by cruel, arbitra-
~ laws and edlcts of Great Britain. The
genius of the colonies invented money for
circulation, and by colonial law and Gus
tom endowed it with the money function.
Cclonial-made money in nearly every one
of the colonies was followed by great colo
NAL prosperity This prosperity called
the attention of the servants of the Crown
to the means by which it WAS created.
Great Britain destroyed this prosperity by
nullifyins the laws of the colonies by which
their money was created. For the benefit
of those who imagine that the English
scheme TO make America, in -Sect, trlbn-
tary province is new. and tha. the a'm"ne
tizatlon Of silver which England etlec.ed,
and the retirement Of green backs which size
now demands, are not substantially the
same, as the arbitrary laws by which she
destroyed coloaial money, we call attention
to the testimony of Benjamin franklin. III
l77G, before committee Of the House OF
Commons when he was asked:
What was the temper of Amorica TO
Great Britain before l773? He answered:
The best in the world They submitted
willingly to the government Of the Crown.
and all their courts pnid obedience TO acts
of Parliament Numerous as the people
are in the Several old provinces. they cost
you nothing in forts, ci:adels. garrisnns. or
armies to keep them in subjestion. They
were governed by this country at the e1-
pense only of little pen. ink and paper.
Tkey were led by thread. They had not
only regard but affection for Crest Britain,
for its laws. its customs. its manners and
even fondness for its fashions, that great
y increased its commerce. Natives OF
Britain we're always treated with particular
regard; and to be an old England man was
Of itself character of some respect and
gave kind Of rank among US.
The British government took away from
America its representative money, com
manded that no more paper bills OF credit
should be issued, that they should cease to
be q legal tender, and collected the tax IN
silver. This was in IT'S. Now mark the
consequences. This contraction OF the
circulating medium paralyzed all the in
dussrial energies Of the people. Ruin
seized upon these once dourishing colonies;
the most severe distress was brought home
to every family; discomfort was urged on
to desperation, till at last human nature
aross and asserted its rightI'
If the destruction of colonial money by
the English government in 1773. which
compelled the psople to use nothing but
coin OF gold and silver as legal tender mon
ey. drove the colonies to desperation till
s:human nature arose and asserted Its night
why should the people Of the United
States tamslY submit to the demonetization
OF silver by English gold gamblers for the
benefit Of creditor England; aad why
should about seventy millions OF people
listen to the demands of an English gold
syndicate that greenbacks, treasury notes,
and all other govern nment issues Of money.
except gold, be retired by the issuance of
interest bearing gold obligations. Above
all, why should the American people be in
formed of the demands of English credit
o-s and gold gamblers through the mouth
OF al Executive who reeeivsd majority OF
the electoral votes with the understanding
that be was more favorable to the people Of
the United States than TO the money
changers of Great Britain? If anybody
doubts that every scheme of contraction
which so5s the people of the United States
Of the l:te-blood o. commerce has its origin
in the banking houses of London let him
read the English financial journals which
invariably indicate years in advance what
they will require the President and Con-
eress to do, and in what maune the money
Of the people shall be destroyed. The pa
triot fathers, only three million strong,
would not allow Great Britain to deprive
them of their money while their degener-
ate sons. seventy million strong, submit to
the intclerable assumption that English
gold gamblers, backed by English diplo-
macy, have right to place such Limitation
upon the circulating medium Of the United
States as will make the people Of this
country "hewers Of wood and drawers of
water" for the benefit of the favored sons Of
avarice. Who can say that the Chief Exec
utive who occupies the chair once filed by
Washington, Jefferson, jackson and Lin
coin and who surrenders to British greed
that which was rescued by the patriots OF
the Revolution, does not dishonor the
names of his great and patriotic predeces-
sorxo