The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-02-20
and avaricious ones who are bent on

There is onl y one ultimate source for
the gold coin held today in the bank
vaults subject to statistical enumera-
ton, and in the scores of deposit COM
panies and private vaults out of all
numerical ken. That source IS the
United States government vaults, and
survey of the several deals shows
how profitable has been the process OF
taking the gold out and putting 1t
back again. It is a standing joke the
country. over about the silly granary
keeper who bought at the front door
the grain, which the clever chitfoniers
had drawn from leak in the rear of
his grain bins The laugh on the buyer
smothers the blame on the tricksters,
but the trickery is there, whether the
gram be gold dollars, the granary the
United States treasury. and the ma
nlpulators tinanciers of the first water.
1t IS business to lend mony. 1t is busi-
Eess to lend a man his own money. if
he has not the wit to see through the
transaction and strength enough to
stop it.
The three gold loans from those
who will always be ready to loan the
coin as long as the government is ready
to borrow it, have been so crowded to-
gether that no citizen, however short
his memory, can fail to grasp their
whole bearing. The acts follow so fast
on each other that there is no time to
go out between them if one wishes to
watch the whole farce through. In
the summer of 1898 the government
had its coveted $l00, 600, 600 and more.
Then came the STRAIT of the game and
the climax Of the first ronner when
$57, 900, coo Of new" gold poured into
the sleve-like vaults. Ten months
later more new gold, this time $5S.-
900, ,OOC, poured from ditto to ditto.
Now, two months later. and the ie-
ures change to S65, 900, 600 and the
same act is gone through with. The
tom-tom beat different tune as each
act in the Chinese drama is gone
through, and this last act upon which
the curtain is going down has an ele-
ment of delicious uncertainty IN the
promise that it is to be new cold this
time and that It is not to be drawn
from the treasury by any subterfuge.
There IS an implied charge in this that
Uncle Sam has been sadly buncoed in
giving something for nothing, and the
facts OF history in the case prove it be-
yond doubt But the natural query IS.
has the bunco game stopped! # so.
why so? There have been eminent
tinanciers as Uncle Sam in every one
of the other deals. In fact, some of
the names run through from act to
act. To the lay mind with memory
a year long there is something iucredi-
bic that the government should have
promised to pay out 500. 100000 for
the use of few millions of gold
for few days. The two loans
already practically closed out show that
for the use of S57. .000,0 of gold from
February 1 to about October l last
year the government must pay the
money lenders over SIS, 900, 600. For
the use of another S5S, S,000,O for less
than TWO months the government is
under obligations to pay another SIS
100000. so that for the permission to
hold little over a hundred million of
their gold for less than year the lead
ing bankers or finaEciers or fools or
syndicate have exacted over $50, co.,
900 in interest, or about 80 per cent.
for the use of the gold. and this same
new gold still waits in the vaults other
than Uncle Sans fora repetition Of the
sad farce an inGuitum.