Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-14
"ANARCHY" MOST INTERNAL.
lust Few of the Noted Men who OPP
posed Banks and a Gold Standard.

Banks are more dangerous to the lib
critics OF the people than standing
armies.--Jetferson.
If the whole volume of money in cir
culaton were doubled, prices would be
| doubled.-J. S. Mill.
If the Americans adopt our banking
and funding systems, their liberties are
gone.-Sir William Pitt.
Our only resource, and an ample one
Tor any emergency, is treasury notes
oottomed on taXes.-,JeiferSon.
Gold is the most useless metal in the
world. Fit only for plugging teeth and
ornamenting fools.-Dr. Franklin.
have met and conquered the allied
armies of Europe, but England's paper
money sent me to Saint Helena.-Napo-
| leon l.
The theory OF the intrinsic value Of
money has been abandoned by the best
writers and speakers. rs.-Encyclopedia
Britannica.
Whatever the government agrees to
receive in payment of the public dues is
money, no matter what its form may be.
Henry Clay.
Metallic money, while acting as coin,
is Identical with paper money in respect
to being destitute of intrinsic Value
North American Review.
An article is determined to be money
by reason OF the performance by it OF
certain functions, without regard to its
form or neutrality-suspicious. Encyclo-
peda.
1t will prove the surest method of fer
tilizing the rich mans field with the
sweat OF the poor mans brow, when all
our currency is based on coin.--Daniel
Webster
Why compel the people to pay interest
on government credit through the bank,
when said credit should be extended
directly to the people without interest?
Jefferson.
The present system of finance robs
labor, gorges capital, makes the rt
richer and the poor poorer, and turns a
republic into an aristocracy of capital.
Wendell Phillips.
Anything upon which the govern
ment places its stamp and declares it
full legal tender in payment of debts
and taxes, is money; no matter what the
material may be.-Henry Clay.
Treasury bills, bottomed on taxes,
would form the most perfect currency
that could be devised. 1t is the only
fund on which the people can rely for
loans, and it is an abundant one for all
emergencies.
am of the opinion that gold and sill
yer at rates fixed by congress constitute
the legal standard in this country, and
that neither congress nor any state has
authority to establish any other stan
dard or dsplace this standard. Daniel
Webster.
There is gathered about this capital
gang OF pirates who have successfully
thundered at the doors until they have
driven congress to the most prepostcrous
acts of bad faith and legalized robbery
that ever robbed nation or oppressed
free peOple.-Olivcr p. Morton.
am for the largest use of silver in
tho currency of the country. | would
not dishonor it; | would give it equal
credit and honor with gold. | would
make no discrimination. ! would utilize
| both metals as money and discrcdit nei-
ther. | want the double Standard
William Mckinley.
We need both gold and silver, and
we can have both only by making each
| the equal of the other. 1t would not
be difficult to show that, in the
| nations where both have been fully
recognized and most widely diifused,
the stcadicst and most continuous
prosperity has been enjoyed-that true
form of prosperity which reaches all
classes, but which begins with the day
aborer whose toll lays the foundation
of the whole superstructurc of wealth.
james &. Blaine.
1t (tho demoneti2ation Of silver was
anact which has positively blackened the
honor of the American republic. 1t
was an act which, though subsequently,
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the purchased ability of the world, is
nevertheless condemned by the CON
science and common sense of mankind
as the most cod-blooded, unjust. un-
called for, unmitigated and damnable
| outrage ever done in this century to the
rights and interests of Il great people.
John Clark Ridpath.
Place the money power in the hands
of combination of u few individuals,
and they, by expanding or contracting
the 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 of the community.
The banking system concentrates and
places this power in the hands of those
who control that system. Never was an
engine better calculated to place the
destinies of the many in the hands of
the few.-John c. Calhoun.
The demonetization of silver was in