Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-01
IT BEATS COXEYISM.
WRITE A LETTER TO THE PRES
IDENr AND SECRETARY.
They Should BE Kept Informed As to
the Feeling of the Common People
They Are Listening Too Much to
Bankers.

some Judge may get out an injunction
to stop 1t, but there Is no deception
about It.
It may not do any good but there
Is nothing like trying.
Secretary Carlisle rs:
THAT the amount of money in the
country is greater than is required for
the transaction of business is conclus-
lively shown By the fact that 1t has ac-
cumulated and is still accommodating in
the financial centsrs to such an extent
as to constitute serious emDarrass-
ment to the banks in which 1t is de-
posted, many Of which are holding
large sums at a loss. This excessive
accumulation o; currency at particular
points is caused by the foot that there
is no such demand for 1t elsewhere as
will enable the banks and other instt-
tutions to which ii belongs to loan
it to the people at remunorative rates"
Now what I want is to have the
farmers and laborers throughout the
country write and tell President Cleve-
land that his secretary Of the treasury
don't know what he is talking about
or II he does know better, he is liar.
Tell him that you and your neigh
Dor haven't half enough money to
transact your business.
Tell him that the great accumulation
in the banks and money centers is the
reason farmers and laborers have none
In their pockets.
Tell him your condition, and II you
have only one cent to buy a postal
card, tell him that you have spent
your last cent that he might not re-
main In ignorance Of the true condition
Of some of the American "sovereigns"
who have him hired at salary of $780,
900 a year to serve his country. Tell
him of little Teddy who is sick, and
little Mary who can't go to school be-
cause you are unable to buy clothes
and bookshelf him Of your poor, tired
over worked wife-tell him what wages
you receive, or II you are out OF en-
ployment ask him il he knows where
you can ind Job.
Tell him that 1t Is a mistake that
there is no demand for money, that
people are talking about the scarcity OF
money in every community OF this
great and rich nation.
Tell him that the bankers are not
the only people in the United States.
Tell him that better citizens starve
to death every day than the bank
cashiers who exile themselves in Can
ada.
Tell him that all the money does not
belong to the banks-and that the peo-
pie want what belongs to them.
Tell him that greenbacks are good
enough for the people and that they
would as leave have new ones as old
ones.
Tell him that the people don't want
what few greenbacks there are now
destroyed-unless the bankers and
money loaners are destroyed at the
same time.
Tell him that in that case the people
would consent to the destruction OF
the present currency, knowing that
they, themselves, the government,
could get along very we'll without the
paternalism that makes congress father
of the banks and enemy Of the people.
Tell him that you are tired Of living
on national dignity, and would like
a little corn bread and SOW belly" for
a change.
Tell him that the people are not wor-
rying much whether the money sharks
get per cent. month or 80 days In
Jail.
Tell him that the people want gov
eminent banking.
Tell him that the money spent for
warships. torpedo boats, fortresses
and military barbsrism would keep
the peace better II Il were expended for
food, clothes and shelter for the poor,
helpless and unemployed in this coun-
try.
Tell him about. the charity" soup
house In your Northumberland tell
him about tia men who commit crimes
10 get into Jail.
Tell him 1t is not charity" but JUS
tice and chance to earn living that
the common people want.
mean all this seriously.
This article will appear In about 900
papers this week, and will be read by
nearly a million people.
hope that every reader will at once
write letter to the President. II you
can AFFORD It, write every week regu-
larly.
Write whatever appears best to you.
It will only cost you two cents for
a stamp and that is cheaper than
walking to Washington to be dubbed
of the grass or sent to Jail.
II you don't feel like wasting two
cents on him, buy postal card and
send that.
We can have a car load of such mail
there in two weeks.
Tell the President that the people
would rather have things remain as
they are than to have a special ses-
sion of a gold-bug congress.
This should be copied by every re-
form paper in the country, and their
readers urged to write at once. No
more bonds forever.
Yours for God, humanity and Amer
lea. GEO. A. PICKETT.
Hardy, Arkansas.
Hard Lines.