The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-18

| believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. Already they
have raised up money aristOcracy
that has set the government at def
ance. The issuing pOwer should be
taken from the banks and restored to
the government and the people, to
whom it properly belongs.-ThOs. JEFF
fersOn.
"You 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 all the time."-
Abraham Lincoln.
The power that controls the issue
and volume of the currency is absolute
dictator of the business and finance of
the cOuntry.-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 SO
frequently.-Daniel Webster.
Place the money power in the hands
of a combination of few individuals
and they, by expanding or contract
ing the currency, may raise or sink
prices at pleasure, and by purchasing
when at the greatest depression, and
S.At1 h..v, h. fnS ala
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 ap-
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 rndeavOr to prOlOng
its reign by working upon the preju.
dice of the people until all wealth j:
aggregated in 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 il
the midst of Abraham Lincoln
"Monarchy is sometimes limited al
as a possible refuge from the power.
of the people. | would be scarcely
justified were l to omit exercising I
warning voice against returning tI
despotism. 1t is the effort to plac.
capital above labor in the structure o.
the government. | bid the labOrins
people beware of surrendering power
which they now possess and when sur
rendered, their power will be LOST
Abraham Lincoln.
Any person holding any office o.
any stock in any institution in thu
nature of a bank for issuing or dis
counting bills or notes payable t,
bearer or order, cannot be a membe
of the House whilst he holds such of
flee or STANDARDIZATION of Thirt
Congress, Dec. %, 1898.
The cause of our depression is none,
famine, and nothing else.-John.
Liberty cannot long endure in an!
country where the tendency is to con
v |
!. Daniel Webster.
The present system of finance rob
labor, gorges capital, makes the ricl
: richer and the poor poorer, and turn
a republic into an aristOcracy of CAPT
tal.-Wendell Phillips, in 1870,
, | know that the bondholders an,
monopolists of this country are seek
ing to destroy all the industries of thi
people in their greed to enhance tn
: value of their gold. l know that tn
act of 1873 did more than all else t.
accomplish that result, and the demo
netization act of the revised statute
was an illegal and unconstitutlona
: contamination of the fraud. l wan
o to restore that money to where it wa
before, and thus aid in preventing tn
contamination of their designs.-Sen
t ator Beck.
|. If a government contracted a deb
with certain amount of money il
circulation, and then contracted tn
= money volume before the debt wa
paid, it is the most heinous crime tina
government could commit agains
the peOple.-Abraham Lincoln.
My friends, unless our children hav
:. more patience and courage than save
: this country from slavery, republican
institutions will 60 down before mon
D eyed corporations. Rich men die, bu
I banks and corporations are immorta
They are never afflicted with disease
In the long run they are bound to wi
; with egislatures.-Wendell Phillips.