The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-05-21

! believe that banking institution.
are more dangerous to our libertie,
J than standing armies. Already they
have raised up a money aristocracy
that has set the government at def.
ance. The issuing cover should be
taken from the banks and restored &c
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
iool 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 80
frequently.-Daniel Webster.
Place the money power in the hands
OF combination Of q 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
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
VINO control it. Never was an engine
invented better calculated to place the
destlnies OF the many in the hands of
the few.-JOhn G. Calhoun.
81 see in the near future a crisis an
preaching that unneryes me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of
my country. AS 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 endeavOr to prOlOnp
ITS reign by working upon the preiu,
dIce OF the people until all wealth ia
aggregated in few hands and the re-
public is destroyed. l feel at this mo-
ment more anxiety for the safety of
the country than ever before, even in
the midst of war."-Abraham Lincoln.
Monarchy is sometimes limited at
as possible refuge from the powers
OF the people. l would be scarcely
)ustlhed were l to omit exercisinQa
warming voice against returning to
despOtism. 1t is the effort to place
capital above labor in the structure OF
Ihe government. | bid the labcring
people beware of surrendering power
winch 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 the
nature OF a bank for issuing or dis
counting bills or notes payable to
bearer or order, cannot be a member
Df the House whilst he holds such Of
ice or Standardization of Third
congress, Dec. %, 1893.
The cause of our depression is m.,,a
anime, and nothing else.-John.
Liberty cannot long endure :, -
country where the tendency ia to con.
'entrate wealth in the han IA of - few
-Ddulel w eDSCer.
The present system of 6nanoo rohs
aoor, gorges capital, makes the rich
lcher and the poor poorer. ana firms
republic into an aristocracy of oani-
ai.-Wendell Phillips, in lsio.i
L know that the bondboldars on.
nonopollsts OF this country are seek
he 10 destrat all the industries of this
eople I'D tAelr greed to enhance the
a. alue OF aDelr gold. L know that the
cC OF 1873 did more than all else to
oocMpilsh That result, and the demo- =
e.A1at'on act OF the revised statutes
,As, an illegal and unconstitutional
oAhnmmatlOn of the fraud. vant
= rsVore that money to where it was
eIore, ana thus aid in preventing the
pnsI VI of their designsSSen-
ia government contracted a. debit
iIh certain amount of monav, in. q,
rculael0n, and then costracted tho >,
oney volume before the debt was =
Alu' IL Is the most heinOus, crime thar I
sovernment could commit against, I
lie people.--Abraham Einooln. .!
My friends, unless our. children have.
gre patlence and courage than saved i
no country from slavery, republican =
s.,'utlons will &c. down before mon. I
Gu corporations. Rich men die. but;
Inns ana corporations are immortal, 4
are never afflicted with disease. e.,
the long raa they are bound to win, q,
I'LL ieglslasures.-Wendell Phillips.