The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-04-23

l believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. Already they
nave raised up a money aristOcracy
that has set the government at def
ance. The issuing cover should be
taken from the banks and restored to
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
fool 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 so
frequently.--Daniel Webster.
Place the money power in the hands
of combination of 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
who control it. Never was an engine
invented better calculated to place the
destinies Of the many in the hands of
the few.-JOhn G.. Calhoun,
81 see in the near future a crisis an
preaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of
my country. As result of the war.
have been enthroned and
an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power Of
the country will endeavOr. to prolone
its reign by working upon the preju-
dice of the people until all wealth is
in few hands and the re-
public is destroyed. I.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.
Justified were to omit exercising a.
warning voice against returning. to
despOtism. 1t is the effort to place.
capital above labor in the structure of
the government. l bid the labOripg
people beware Of surrendering power,
Wnlch 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 bank for issuing or dis
counting bills or notes payable to,
bearer or order, cannot be a member,
of the House whilst he holds such Of
flee or Standardization of Third
Congress, Dec. %, 1893.
The cause of our depression is money!
famine, and nothing else.-John.
Liberty cannot long endure in aps
country where the tendency is to con--
centrate wealth in the hands of a fa,x.
Daniel Webster.
The present system of finance Dbx
labor, gOrges capital, makes the rich
rlcher and the poor poorer, and turns
q republic into an aristocracy oil capi-
Phillips, in 1901
l know that the bondholaens- and
of this country are seek.
ing to destroy all the industries of this;
people in their greed to enhance tho,
value of their gold. know that the
act of 1873 did more than all else to
accomplish that result, and the demo
act of the revised statute
was an illegal and unconstitutional
of the fraud, want
to restore that money to where il was
before, and thus aid in preventing the
contamination of their desiens.SSen-
atOr Beck.
III a government contracted q debt
with certain amount of money in
and then contracted the
money volume before the debt Was
paid, it is the most heinous crime that;
.. government could commit a9ainat,
the peOple.--Abraham Lincoln.
MY friends, unless our children hau-
more patience and courage than saysdy
!his country from slavery, republican,
institutions will go down before mon.
eyed corporations. Rich men die. bntt
banks and corporations are immorteIi
They are never afflicted with disease:-
In the long run they are bound levin
with legislatures.-Wendell Phillips.