Tombstone prospector., 1896-08-28

bonds; the national bank notes to he lent out to the people at s C IS per csss per Annum, for about thirty years, an average of about IF per osns. per annun,. or more than $320 for for each $50 6rss paid cut. Ashins sll icid $530 in interest paid in coin for every $50 ia csin paid out. and they still have the one Lundred dollar bond which they want paid m gold alone, though the bond calls fer U. s. coin, which was at the date of ,hs bond gold and silver. And this was not all the profit of the money changers, for of all the National Bank notes thus issued nd losnsd out by the banks a considerable amount. some gay more than one per cent per year, but at lea.t ons-half of enc per cent. is burned ug, worn out, routed or oih- CT wise desiro, ed, aud the banks lave all the bsne6t of this loss. making at leass $l5 more on cash $loO; . grand total of $535 at least m in- terest and loss profit on si.is $50 lent to the nation in tie se-called need. !,
 Again these cermorsnts were not satisfied for in 1873 they again leb. bied, and I believe bribed, for cannot believe that all the members of both houses of congress were ignorant si the effect "i the law, though a'l except . few who were on the inside, were deceived, and got the law pa,ssd de- nonetilinR silver, thereby deprec,at. ing all products s' tSs people of America. which were the only means O; paying the intsress on thsss bonds and the only hope of 6nalIy redeem ing them. without issuing more bonds and this is the "honest dollar" that eur treasury is now paying interest on iu gold alone and issuing more bonds .o se. she gold.
 New. if ws consult statistics, we find that the bonded indebtedness of the U. s.. including states. tsrritores. mu- nicipsl and private corporations is more than forty billions of dollars bearing interest, averaging 5 per cent. or two billions per year; in plaissr words, two thousand million. per year for inte rect alone.
 Now, .. the present tim, states, ter ritoriss, municipalities and railroads and ether corporations are annually issuing more Londs. through inability to pay this great interest charge, and even the U. 5. in the last three years Lss isrutd 562 millions of bonds to pay its share of that ntesest-bstwsep 40 and 50 millions annually.
 Now, Mir "Honsss Dollar" man, with wheat ct 50 cts, oats and corn at 5 to 10, and cotton 5 to ' csnts, and all other products of she industry and en. srgy of seventy millions of people s. . corresponding price, when will vs sue csed in paying this dsbtf How long will VIC be able to pay the intsrsst without issuing more bonds, or impos. ing excessive taxes on . people already tax riddenf
 The bond holder can ansuei thsss questions thus: He don't waat these bonds paid. He just wapts the inter- est, no more. and if we can. pay when any set of bonds become due he only wsnts . refunding set-issus new bonde-so that he and his children and childrsn's children can keep you, your children and children's children in industrial slavery for untold gsnsr stions. So that thsy and theirs may livs in roy al state on the sweat of ysur brow and that of your descendants.
 Friend, "Honest Dollar" man, do you want thisi Are you one of those ~ho, being we'll to do. say the present system will last for my lie and after me let the dsluge comsf
 Respectfully,