The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
CALAMITY
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Not to be a slave is to dare and do
Victor Hugo.
Cursed be the man who first loved
gold. Harper.
The poor are our dependence for lib
erty. -Jefferson.
Funding is simply robbing the PEG
pie on a grand scale, -Jefferson.
The cause of over depression is money
famine and nothing else.-J. A. Logan.
This country, with it's institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it -
A. Lincoln.
Banks r far O dangerous than
standing armies. Let bank paper be
suppressed. Jefferson.
Our only resource, and an ample one
for any emergency-treasury notes
bottonled on taxes. Jefferson.
You have made one kind of money
for the people and another for the
bondholders .-Thaddeus Stevens.
The bank is a union of the govern
ment and the money power-a union
far more dangerous than that of church
and S5ate.-Calhoun.
Prices will rise or fall as the volume
of money is increased or diminished is
a law that is as unalterable as any law
of nature. Prof. Walker.
The liberties of the people are more
in danger from the a~ggressions of the
courts than from mobs and riots.-Jef-
ferson's Second Inaugural Address.
Liberty cannot long endure in any
country where the tendency of legisla-
ton is to concentrate wealth in the
hands of the few.-Daniel Webster.
Anything that the government will
receive in the payment of public dues
is money, and good money, no matter
what its form may be.-Henry Clay.
If the whole volume of money in cir
culation we're doubled prices would be
doubled. If it was increased one fourth,
prices would rise one fourth.-J. s.
Mill.
Why compel the people to pay inter
est on government credit through the
bank, when said credit should be ex-
tended direct to the people without
interest. jefferson.
Wendell Phillips said years ago:
"Here, on the soil enriched by the blood
of the patriotic dead, is to be erected
an a%ristocratic monarchy, with wealth
as it's god"
The present system of finance robs
labor, gorges capital, makes the rich
richer and the poor poorer, and turns
a republic into an aristocracy of CAPT
tai. -Wendell Phillips in 1870.
The power nov possessed by national
banks of throwing up their circulation
at will, is wrong in principle, unneces-
sary and dangerous.-Report of United
States Treasurer Gillfllin, in 1881,
page 80.
A day will come when a cannon will
be exhibited in public museums, just
as instruments of tortue are now, and
the people will be astonished that such
a thing could have been.-Victor Hugo.
lam not among those who ever fear
the people. They and not the rich, are
our dependence for continued freedom.
And to preserve their independence we
must not let our leaders load us with
perpetual debt. Jefferson.
am certainly Of opinion that gold
and silver, at rates fixed by congress,
constitute the legal standard of values
in this country, and that neither con-
gress nor any State has authority to
establish any other standard or to dis
place this standard.-Daniel Webster.
The right of issuing paper money,
like that of ssuingg gold and silver coins,
belongs exclusively to the nation, and
cannot be claimed by individuals. -
Writings of Albert Gallatin for twelve
Secretary of the Treasury, Vol. |
III, page 42O.
No reform, moral or intellectual, ever
came from the upper class of society.
Each and all came from the protest of
martyr and victim. The emancipation
of the working people must be achieved
by the working people Themselves
Wendell Phillips.