Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-06
STOP THE PLUNDE BRING.
The Rule of the Bankers Must
 Come to an End.
PEOPLE THOROUGHLY AROUSED.

With the Gold Cornered by Foreign Spec
 ulators Production Is Checked, Progress
 Impeded and Producers Impoverished.
 Only Money Lenders and Dealers In
 Credits Fatten.
 In attempting to maintain an incon- sistent and untenable position McKin- ley is frequently absurd, but he was never more absurd than in repeating the Wall street imbeeility that if free coin age makes money more plentiful it will be just as hard to get as ever" unless it is depreciated, says the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 l. is not necessary to answer or to notice those who assert that the Demo cratic party proposes to use the hints and the power of the government i'll an attempt to give unearned money to any person or to any class of persons. It pro- poses to stop such frauds-frauds which are now perpetrated i'll the interests of the Rothsohilds, the Morgans, the Bel monts and other treasury robbers who are Mir. McKinley's earnest supporters in the demand for what they and he call "honest money.'
 The Democratic party proposes to pay off the national debt. to abolish the cor poration currency based on it, to supply the place of all corporation paper with silver and gold, freely coined, and to supply the business men and workers of the country with sufficient medium of exchange to increase the volume of business and to allow a closer approxi- nation to a cash basis than can ever be possible while the currency is controlled by European and Wall street money dealers, whose business is dealing in credits-who, in order to take the lar gest possible tolls from trade, are inter ested in forcing the eountry's supply of cash as low as possible.
 If, as between the corporation note and the hard money dollar coined by the people and costing them nothing for its issuance, Mckinley fayors the cor. poration note which gives those who issue it control both of the trade of the country and of it's politics let him say so, but he need not think that the mis- erable and imbeoiie subterfuges of the professional robbers who have been plundering the United States treasury will enable him to conceal from the people the true nature of the issues in- yolved in this campaign.
 With the gold of the country cornered by foreign speculators and bond syndi- cates or held in the vaults of the na- tional banks and with greenbacks also held out of circulation because the treas ury treats them as gold certificates, we have not now in actual circulation as much money per capita as we had in 1875. Yet in 1875 the cotton crop was only 3,632, 900 bales, while last year 1t was 9,892. GOO bales, or nearly three times as much.
 This immense increase in all lines of production must be followed by a cor responding increase in the medium used for the exchange of products, or produe- tion is checked, civilization and progress are impeded, producers are impoverished and only money lenders and dealers in credits fatten.
 The volume of money must increase not only with the increase of population, but in ratio measured also by the ratio of increased production to increased population. Every new machine, every new railroad, every new state opened, every new invention in mechanics, ev- erything which increases the volume of products to be distributed, makes neces- sary larger supply of the agent of their distribudon-tha Is, of money.
 When the supply of money is kept be- low the demands of increasing produc- ton, we have what is called "overpro- duction ''-that is to say, with people starving to death by the score and the hundred in the great centers of popula- tion. we arc obliged to burn our bread stufTs because there is not money enough to move the crops because the move ment of our crops Is controlled by money brokers in Wall street who in their turn are controlled by money brokers in Lon don.
 This condition Of affairs is intolerable and the American people will not toler- ate it lcugpr. When Mir. EfcEinlev reads the returns in November, he will see that he cannot deceive the people of Ohio or of any other state populated by intelligent Americans. They have been robbed and oppressed 50 long that it has educated them, and they will back their education with the ballots through which they propose to stop the plundeg of the treasury by the London and Wall street bankers who gre supplying the money for the Hanna corruption fund.