The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-04

believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. Already they
have raised up money aristOcracy
that has set the government at def
ance. The issuing rOwer 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 a 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 crisis ap.
preaching that unnerves me and
causes Inc to tremble for the safety OF
my country. As a result of the war
corporations have been enthrOned anC
an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power o.
the country will endeavOr to prOlone
its reign by working upon the preju
dice OF the people until all wealth i!
aggregated in a few hands and the re
public is destroyed. feel at this mo-
ment more anxiety for the safety O.
the country than ever before, even il
the midst of war."-Abraham Lincoln
Monarchy is sometimes limited a.
as possible refuge from the pOwer
of the people. L would be scarcely
justified were l to omit exercising
warning voice against returning t,
despotism. 1t is the effort to plac,
capital above labor in the structure O
the government. l bid the laborin,
people beware of surrendering powe
which they now possess and when sur
rendered, their power will be LOST
Abraham Lincoln.
Any person holding any office O
any stock in any institution in tn
nature of bank for issuing or dis
counting bills or notes payable t.
bearer or order, cannot be membe
of the House whilst he holds such of
flee or STANDARDIZATION of Thir,
Congress, Dec. %, 1893.
The cause of our depression is none,
famine, and nothing else.-John.
Liberty cannot long endure in an,
country where the tendency is to con
t centrate wealth in the hands of few
: Daniel Webster.
The present system of finance rob
} labor, gOrgeS capital, makes the ricI
E richer and the poor poorer, and turn
republic into an aristOcracy of CAPT
tal.-Wendell Phillips, in 1901
l know that the bondholders an
mOnopolists of this country are seek
. ing to DESTROY all the industries of tn;
D people in their greed to enhance tn
= val ue of their gold. l know that tn
q act of 1873 did more than all else t.
accomplish that result, and the demo
netizatiOn act of the revised statute
I was an illegal and demonstrations
: consummatiOn of the fraud. l wan
q to restore that money to where it wa
before, and thus aid in preventing tn
contamination of their designs.-Seu
t atOr Beck.
If a government contracted a deb
L with a certain amount of money i
r circulation, and then contracted tn
: money volume before the debt wa
! paid, it is the most heinous crime ths
a government could commit agains
the people.-Abraham Lincoln.
ri My friends, unless our children hay
: more patience and courage than save
this country from slavery, republica
d institutions will 60 down before NOR
O eyed corporations. Rich men die. bu
4 banks and corporations are immorta
They are never afflicted with diseas
In the long run they are bound to wi
J; with legislatures.-Wendell Phillips.