The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-24
PERPETUAL bondage
Of the People Such Would be the
Condition Of The
PEOPLE II REPUBLICANS 6UC-
CEED IN TIER
Financial rinlSering scheme
The New Financial Danger.

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In NO age of the world has there
been such plumber accomplished
Through financial operations as in
lthe past generation IN the United
States. says the Columbus, Ohio,
Press.
The people Of many countries
within the past twenty years
! have been impoverished, and their
losses added IS the gains Of the
Rothschilds. Alorgans. Rockefellers
and Armours. under the deceitful
operation of laws enacted to pro-
tect the public credit and keep
the homer of the nation bright.
The failure of the people to elect
William 3 Bryan. one ef the great
est advocates of popular rights the
world has ever known, to the pres
idency last fall proves conclnsively
that the majority of the people did
not fully understand the robberies
of the past. of the still greater ones
IN view for the future.
That all property has decreased
in value at least one=half, and that
prices have fallen at like rate in
the past twenty-five years, every
body knows, but the cause of this
decline in values and prices, less
than a majority. of the people un=
derstand. The plain, common
sense explanation of this shrinaage
In values and prices is that while
other things have increased in the
Sumo proportion as population,
money, instead of increasing, has
diminished during the last twenty
five years The amount of money
now in circulation and available
for business is not more than one
half as great IN proportion to the
population as it was twenty-five
years ago. As relative scarcity
makes all other useful things dear
so 1t does money. When design
ing men secure laws to diminish
the per capita circulation ofmoney
one-half, each dollar viii double
in value. and so purchase twice as
much of everything, and require
twice as much labor to get.
All this has been done in way
SO cunning, and with such look
of patriotism and honor, /" that the
EeopIe have been deceived. But
the financial scheme now on hand
far excels any that has gone before
in its ruinous effects upon all but
the bond buyers, moneyed capital
lists and salaried persons.
This deal now hatching at the
Arlington hotel in Washington,
bv less than a dozen representatives
of Wall street, calling themselves
a Monetary Commission pro
poses that the government shall
issue gold bearing bonds to raise
cold to redeem the $346, 1000 of
legal tender greenbacks. Like
bonds are to be issued to redeem
all silver certificates and silver dol
lars. All these bonds are to be
made payable, principal and inter
est in gold. The national debt
win then be not less than two and
one-half billions of dollars. all pay
able in gold. These bonds are to
be made the basis of a national
banking system, under which the
banks instead of the government
will issue all paper money The
paper currency is to be elastic,
that is the banks are to determine
at pleasure when they will contract
or expand the amount of money In
circulation. Within five years aft
ter this plan goes into operation
all values will fall one-haf from
those of the present.
These are the dangers that con-
trout the people.
something to Know
IT NAV be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restor-
mo fI,a tired out nervous system to q