Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-29
THE BOND MONEY MEN
they SEND OUT ANOTHER HIGH
TONED CIRCULAR.
Autographed and Fac.similed and Too
Rich For Poor Mans Blood.

mails with documents sealed and
stamped. 1t is estimated that 10000
such documents have burdened the
Hopkinsville mails within the last
two weeks and as postage stamps
cost money it can be seen that some
body is very much interested in keep
ing money so scarce that poor devil
emit handle it without mortgaging
his soul. The latest circular sent out
is almost too toney for any use. 1t is
autographed with fac simile sigma
lures, the writing being in beauti-
full business like hand that makes up
in attractivepess what it lacks in ar
gument. Whose penmanship it is
has puzzled the whole town and is
still one of the unsolved mysteries.
1t is give below:
Hopkinsville, KY, May %, '96.
DEAR SIR:-
On Saturday next, May Both, at 2
p. NJ. Mass convention will be held
at the cou.t house in Hopknsville,
KY, to elect delegates to the Demo
cratic State convention, at Lexington,
on June 3rd.
We are of the opinion that you are
opposed to the proposition that the
mine owners in the little far Western
States be permitted to have the
United States Government coin, with
out cost to them, so cents worth of
their silver into dollars, and force 95
per cent. of the American people to
take them for 100 cents.
The adoption of such a scheme
would cause the immediate with
drawal of more than six hundred
million 600, 000,O 00 gold from circu-
lation, reduce the value and purchas-
ing power of the present dollar to so
cents, and so contract the currency of
the country as to produce a disas-
trous panic and general bankruptcy.
1t is matter OF great importance
that every sound money man in Ken
lucky attend the Mass conventions on
Saturday, and give emphatic exrres-
sionto his opitHoBsHon this. subject.
At the same time il would be a most
deserved compliment to endorse that
distinguished statesman and Ken
tuckian-the Hon. John G. Carlisle
for President.
! We beg that you will permit bust
ness, or even unimportant matters of
a private nature to prevent you from
coming to Hopkinsville to perform
such a patriotic duty.
Please endeavor to influence one or
more voters of like opinion to come
with you. Very Truly Yours,
M. D. Brown. F. W. DABNEY.
JAMES D. HAYS. E. M. FLAcK.
j. B. ALLENswoRTH. W. P. WINFREE.
A. E. BENTLEY.
Several statements contained in
this very courteous letter would be-
important if true, but they do not
happen to be true.
For instance the silver "mine own
ers" who have been made poor by the
legislation of the Government in favor
of the gold miners will not commit
any greater sin than the Government
itself is now committing, in showing
fifty cent dollar on the people after
destroying half it's value. 1t is but
fair to the people and to the owners
of silver mines whose property was
destroyed, that the wrong be righted.
The Government creates a demand
for gold and fixes the value of that
metal for the rich man and it can do
the same for the poor mans money,
even if the silver miners live in "far
Western States" remote from the
money dealers Of the East. The
talk of a so cents dollar is stuff and
nonsense and the man who processes
to believe that the United States is
unable to make an honest silver dol
lar as "sound" as a borrowed gold
dollar, is ready to doubt the stability
of the Government itself and to array
his own opinion against the decisions
of the Supreme court of his country.
Equally ridiculous is the statement
that free silver would withdraw from
circulation $600,0O0, 600, when every
body with three grains of sense
knows that the Government has not a
dsllar of gold in the gamblers re-
serve over and above the proceeds of |
the last bonds soaked with ourpawn-
brokers in February. |
The Treasury statement yesterday
showed that we still have $l0S,OOO,- |
coo, about ninety days supply, |
while the banks reported 1927 100000 |
on hand previous to the last bond |
deal, A part of this was used to
help Secretary Carlisle fasten his last
bonded debt on the people and if |
there is now more than $200,00O0[0
of gold in this country. nobody knows
where it is and it is already with
drawn" from circulation. 1t is fact
that $4O0,OO0,000 in gold has been
withdrawn in three years under our
present system and there is not now
a dollar in the United States that
is not represented by the $29O,00O,-
600 received from the bond sales
in three years by which $576,0O0,-