The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-05-07

| believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties
THAN standing armies. Already they
nave raised mp money aristOcracy
That has set the government at def
ance. The issuing rOwer should be
taken from the banks and restored to
the government and the people, to
WHOM it properly belongs.-ThOs. JEFF
| fersop.
"fou can fool part of the people all
the time; you can fool all of the peO-
pie part of the time, but you can never
fool all of the people ali the time."-
Abraham Lincoln.
The power that controls the issue
ana volume Of the currency is absolute
dictator of the business and finance of
the cOuntl-y.-Jas. A. Garfield.
There never has been devised by
man plan more speciOus by which
labor could be robbed of the fruits OF
toll, than the banking system. The
people not only take bank paper as
money, paying interest on it at enOr-
nous rates, but when the banks sus-
pend the people lose the discount.
while the bankers gain it. The people
wonder why financial panics occur sa
frequently.-Daniel Webster.
tiace he money power in the hands
4oi IA combination of few individuals
and they, by expanding or contract
IN Ihe currency, may raise or sink
Prices at pleasure, and by purchasing
when at the greatest depression and
selling when at the greatest elevation,
may command the whole property and
industry of the community. The
banking system concentrates and
places this power in the hands of those
who control it. Never was an engine
invented better calculated to place the
destinies of the many in the hands of
the few.-JOhn g. Calhoun.
81 see in the near future a crisis an
preaching that unnerves me and
! causes me to tremble for the safety of
my country. AS a result of the war.
corporations have been enthrOned and
an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of
the country will endeatOr to prolong
its reign by working upon the preju-
Dice OF the people until all wealth is
aggregated in a few hands and the re-
public is destroyed. | feel at this mo-
ment more anxiety for the safety of
the country than ever before, even i'm
the midst of war."-Abraham Lincoln.
"MOnarchy is sometimes limited at.
"a Il possible refuge from the powers
OF the people. | would be scarcely
JUSTIFIED were / to omit exercising a.
warning voice against returning to-
despOtlsm. 1t is the effort to place.
capital above labor in the structure of
the government. bid the laboring
people beware Of surrendering a power
which they now possess and when sur
rendered, their power will be LOST.
Abraham Lincoln.
Any person holding any Office or
any stock in any institution in tn,
nature of bank for issuing or dis
counting bills or notes payable to.
bearer or order, cannot be member
or the House whilst he holds such Of
ice or stOck.-ResOlutiOn of Third
Congress, Dec. 23, 1893.
The cause of our depression is money
famine, and nothing else.-,John.
Liberty cannot long endure i'm ,apv
country where the tendency is to con-
centrate wealth in the hands of A. few
Daniel Webster.
The present system of finaner robs
LABOR, gOrges capital, makes sisp rich
richer and the poor poorer, and ia .rns
republic into an aristOcracy Of AMI
tsl-Wendell Phillips, in 1s5ni
L know that the bOndholders and
monopOlists of this country are seaL-
ing to destroy all the industries of tbis
people In their greed to enhance the
Vaiue OF their gold. l know that the
act or 1873 did more than all else to
accomplish that result, and the demo-
net'zatiOn act of the revised statutes
was an illegal and uncOnsti RATIONAL
contamination of the fraud. want
10 restore that money to where il was
before, and thus aid in preventing the
c0nsulnmatiOn of their desipus.SSen-
atOr Beck.
III government contracted q deht
with a certain amount of money in
circulation, and then contracted the
money volume before the debt was
paid, 1T is the most heinOGs crime that
a government could commit against
the Professionalism Lincoln.
My friends, unless our children have
more patience and courage than saved
!hIs country from slavery, republican
institutions will go down before mon
eyed corporations. Rich men die. hut
banks and corporations are immortal
Ihey are never afflicted with disease.
In the long run they are bound to win
with Northumberland Phillips.