Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-10
l get a detailed official financia

statement from the Treasury De.
partment at Washington each
month and most of the months
show a decrease of money in circu-
lation. All the details for the past
year are not now at hand, so l will
take Bradstreet's October report,
which shows that the money in cir
culation has decreased over sixty
nine millions of dollars in the past
year. Money is the blood of CON-
MERGE, and this is young and
growing country; but the policy
now in vogue is to reduce the cir
culating medium. Would you bleed
growing boy and expect him to
thrive on il? This policy is pursued
in Difference to the mOneyed inter-
ests, and the reason is easy to see.
To diminish the number of dollars
enhances the value of the dollars
that remain; and the man that has
the dollars il better off, at the ex-
pense of the producer, who must
1--WE up a progressively increasing
amount of his produce for the dol
lar. This process has been going
on for long time. We need in
this country a patriotism that will
place the general good Of the coun.
try above the interests of self OF
party. Doctors find that the get
ting of dollars is becoming more
and more difficult. and the above is
the cau-e-Or one of the causes.
Have you raised your voice against
it?
1t is whispered that there is
quiet resolve in banking circles TO
induce congress this winter to
withdraw all government paper
money and substitute bank-notes.
Government paper money saved the
Union, fought the Revolution,
the Napoleonic wars and the French
revolution. Can we spare so good
friend? And why need we? We
saw above that the circulating med
ium is being manipulated in r Ter
euce to he interests OF the money
ed classes. What can we expect
when the entire volume OF paper
money is issued by private institu.
tions and withdrawn at their pleas
ure?
The heart may beat ever SO per-
fectly, but if 1t were not for the
sympathetic system Of nerves, in
Guiding the vase. motors. reaching
every part of the body, the circu.
lation would be Imperfect. Our
neighbor on the north, Canada, is
progressing very nicely with its
postal saving bank system. 1t was
begun in 1858 with eighty.one post
Office banks the following year
there were 23l pOstofice banks,
and the number has now grown
to 1871, carrying l2O,62S accounts,
averaging 1929 20 each The in
terest paid is 3 IL per cent, and
the cost of running averaged last
year only sos per bank have
mentioned to You several times
the many advantages Of postal
savings bank system to The MASSES
of the peopie-and consequently to
you. Have you raised your v, ice
in favor of them ? The montyed
classes will, as y rule, oppose them:
but WHICH do you care most for, the
mOneyed Glasses Dr the masses of
the people-tbe people who, by
their labor, create the vast wealth
of this great country? Don't you
think that it is time that the money
ed classes were taking care of
themselves, aud that our legislati N
SHOULD te directed toward the
greatest good to ibe masses of the
people ? A man with q bank &C.
eoynt of 1922 in Unit ted States
bank is qpjte sure to be good cit
izen aud desirable patron. Let
hie kind multiply Let W. 30 legis-
late that his kind may multiply
DR.. @. +. Taylor In The Medical