Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-13
..EHr ksy Note.

caupsi -D has already begun. Some features uf the currency question have been thoroughly souSssd, but by far the most important of the iu- hueuces that oppose monetary re- form .S uol understood by one Der son lu twenty. The Key Note" Is the only book That shows clearly why leading bankers are SD geuer- ally anxious So '-triya the govern mont out Q. tae banking tl-.UeS.' as they call it.
 More than tve-thirds ot th. busi- ness Of this country is done with the most dangerous substitute for real money ever invented IL con sists ol loans by banks oi what pur- ports to be money and Is paid foT as mouev-hut. Iu reality, is merely ''cou6jeuce' oi bankers that they will always bs abe to settle from thIee-f1urtl5 Co nineteen twentieths of their "cali liabilities by book keeping
 The volume ot real money has long been kept not merely uuneces- sariiy, bG. rlilously small in order to cdeate 4 market for this "hccus pocus UC8ay. the Use Oi which IS the cause of every commercial pacic ever known. The deposit banking system enables bankers to 60. aCt interest ou wat they owe, SD "a. the more they owe tL- more earu-aEa l- Is SD profitable they ara resolved Co compel government t1 -Ill all uatio -l money. eZc-n, gold coin and su... chare.. SD tsat ,aey will here. bs able to levy a tax cn every tr.- ness transaction. for the us -. fictitious capita. with ,.hIch to D. a se 0ayueu-s-sni also to drive a. II business every man to whom i-es, frr any reason. gre unwilling Co g ant '-lcc1umo3a.io-s.
 Ir is t-e daily business of every banker ta agree tg 41 Dlud Co exact payment ia advance iur doing he lluc-sIe.e. 1u the assumption nat he r.il. u.. he required to fulth. u.s r-.li-ys The |. ~. caMpJy1 .rr's r.uor, shows tlat.o = september x, l>s5, t.e national. s-ete and pr.ate banks and loan and T.-t companies owed -4a.er. 6. cheek, >6 Zs Tor egetv dollar a their possession. u,- longing .r .-.--s s-.G.s and their fe. Dr~.t.Is l..s were, at the same time. ,lar-.u.- .ut.I--t on cuuun-- cial loans and discounts tO ,i e enormous amour. Ht two thouslat five hundred and sixty million u, l. . lar. mere than all of the cap.lei, surplus and uld y..el profits they claimed to have. not otherwise rn- vested. That i-, for every dollar ot their lg,uaa.- funds they were co., : lectiu- interest gn S5.Z3. The pr mauyuc investments reported by h2 loan and trust companies exceeded the entire l--reElto of tbeir u- yestib.e funds more than c53.uOOUs0, but. with taa- much less than uotu- . ing to operate with, they reported their "luaus and d scouuts' at S3>.},- ODlOoo and get they are not s.tis- fed. Their cash liabilities Go cash iu hand were -I5.g4 Co Sl. Is it ~ur- prisIuc that these men are absorb ing tue wealth or the world v;JE such laV.a--E.
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