The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-08
OUR BRITISH BOSSES.
BEAUTIES OF OUR PRESENT
BOND SYSTEM.
Sapping the Existence Of the People
Through the Corrupt Rulings and
Practices OF Democratic Officials.

ing which the Rothschild bond-syndi
cate hired itself to the government
to keep our gold reserve in repair will
have expired.
Then what will we do?
Rotchschild and among 'em charg-
ed us only SO, 100000 to keep our
gold reserve in repair from February
to October.
The time will soon be out and our
gold reserve will need more carpen-
try. Win it take ten more millions
to repair 1t eight more months?
And will it take ten more millions
another eight months after that?
We had to borrow the money to pay
the first ten millions. We will have
to borrow the money to pay the next
ten millions, and SO on from term to
term.
What will the end be?
Sixty-seven million of people, worth
$50, 900, 900, 900, sold to a dozen or so
bankers, and bound hand and foot by
a written contract drawn up by the
presidents law partner. That's the
situation!
Are you proud of government
which thus sells its people?
Are you certain of your future lib
critics when you can thus be handed
over to the servitude of an insolent
syndicate of bankers?
1t needs no prophet to tell your fu-
ture.
On and after October 1st the Wall
streeters will begin to raid your gold
reserve once more.
The treasury notes Of 1890, issued
to pay for silver bullion which bullion
the law said should be coined 10 suffi-
cient quantities to redeem said treas
ury notes, will be carried to the treas.
ury by the raiders. They will de-
mand geld for said treasury notes.
The law says they can only demand
''coin." Cleveland says that .'coin"
means gold, only.
Therefore the men whom the law
contemplated as getting silver dollars
in exchange for the notes issued to
pay for the silver, will get all GOLD
and no silver. Then the government
having paid out gold where the law
contemplated silver, finds itself short
on gold.
The raiders have taken out the gold
with the silver purchase notes.
The government having paid out
the gold, must get it back again-else
our precious gold reserve would
shrink.
A "shrinkage'' of our precious
gold reserve cannot be thought of
without a shudder-a simultaneous,
unanimous and enthusiastic shudjer.
A shudder of this particular sort
can only be cured with bonds; nom
taxable, banking privilege. interest
bearing bonds.
The moment these bonds are issued
the shudder quits. In fact we never
knew of a shudder which was more
amenable to treatment than the Wall
street shudder about our gold re-
serve.
It's like thunder and lightning in a
play at the theatre-it'll stop when
ever 1t is properly requested so to do.
Bonds having been issued and the
Wall street shudder having been
cured, what next?
Another raid on the gold reserve,
and another well regulated shudder
in financial circles-duly chronicled
by the hireling editors of the old
party papers,.
This shudder. like the other, can
only be cured by issuing more bonds
to get the gold back once more from
the raiders.
The government having got the
gold back from the raiders, the raid
ers gather up another lot of silver
purchase notes and get the gold back
from the government again.
Every time this game is worked it
means bigger debt for you and your
children. 1t means higher taxes, and
darker homes. These bonds are your
debts, and the taxes you pay are the
profits the raiders have made by hid
ing away their wealth where it pays
no tax, draws interest from your
taxes, and forms basis for banking
by which another profit at your ex-
pense is reaped.
When will this monkeying with the
gold reserve stop?
When will the government and the
raiders quit playing into each others 8
hands?
Not until the bonds have been run
up to sum so enormous that your
taxas can no longer meet the interest
To this limit they are going to 60.
Beyound it they do not care to GO.
They are not such fools as to kill the
goose. 8.
The syndicate which would not ap-
preciate the ownership Of just such a
copiously idiotic goose as the Amer
icon taxpayer would be hard to
please.
Very hard.
The Law said that the principal and
interest on the bonds should be paid
in .'coin."
The law said that import duties