The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-14
Bulldozing Bankers Warned.

The following preamble and resolu-
ton, adopted by the executive commit
tee of the Shawnee County Republican
Silver league, should be printed by
every paper in the state:
Whereas, Many bankers are intimi-
dating voters by threatening that the
election of VIM. J. Bryan to the presi-
dency will be followed by the worst
panic the world ever saw" and by re-
fusing bank accommodations to solv-
ent applicants solely because they will
not crook the supple hinges of the
knee that thrift may follow fauning,"
and
Whereas, '"The Key Note" written
by Albert Griffin of Topeka, Kansas,
and published by S. L. Griffin &, Co.,
5O19 Beaumont avenue. Philadelphia.
shows that all financial panics, be-
sides other serious evils, result from
the sudden contraction of fictitious
bank credits used as a substitute for
money; and
Whereas, A monetary system that
enables a small body of men who are
responsible to no one, and are rapidly
absorbing the wealth of the world, by
using other peoples money, and by
collecting interest on several times the
amount of their loanable capital, sand
of necessity must be, ruinous to the
financial interests of the masses, and
dangerous to the liberties of all; there
fore,
Resolved, That we denounce the
acts referred to as un-American and
call upon all patriots-and especially
upon all business men and property
hoIders-tO help inaugurate a better
system.
Resolved, That commercial panics are
possible only when the volume of mon
ey, or of bank credits, is rapidly de-
creasing, and that the reconciliation
of silver must Immediately and large
" increase the amount of money of re-
demption which will inevitably in
crease the amount of money of redenp-
ton which will inevitably increase bus
mess, and make it safer, unless bankers
maliciOusIy counterfeit the natural eff
feet of such increase, by greater con-
traction of their credit substitute for
money.
Resolved, That if the great manipu-
lators who control the general banking
policy do not soon realize the gravity
of the situation and make it clear that
they have abandoned their coercus
methods, it will behoove such deposi-
tors as disapprove of that policy and
cannot afford to lose their money to
remember that the first evidence of
financial panics is broken banks; that
the public cannot know what banks are
sound; and that, during panic periods,
no mans money is entirely safe while
it remains in the hands of custodians
that avowedly use it to pay their own
debts.
Resolved, mat, III view u Inc u ans
cendent importance of the subject, we
urge every man and woman to procure
q COPY of THE Key Note" and to read
it carefully, and urge others to do so.
1t is the most effective discussion of
the money problem on practical lines
ever published. It's arguments in ia
vor of the reconciliation of silver are
unanswerable, and its exposition of the
nature and effects of 1.-The hOcus pocuS
money with which more than two
thirds of our business is done will be
revelation to most people.
THE Key Note" will be mailed by
the author. zoe Van Buren, street, To-
peka. or by the publisher, S. L. Griffin
& Co, 5019 Beaumont avenue, Phiia-
delphia. Price so cents in paper covers
81 In cloth; $3.50, library edition.