People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-08-06
THE MONEY QUESTION.
What Some Noted Statesmen Have Said on
the Subject.

What Some Noted Statesmen Have Said on
the Subject.
Whoever controls the volume of mon
ey of any country is absolute master of
all industries and commerce. james
A. Garfield.
If the Americans adopt our banking
and funding system, their liberties are
gone.-Sir William Pitt.
The bank is the union of the gov
eminent and the money power-a
union far more dangerous than church
and State.-John c, Calhoun.
Avarice says: 81 will Cypress the
weak and devour the fruits of his la
bors, and 1 will say that it is fate that
has so ordained. "-Volney.
Bank paper must be suppressed and
the circulating medium must be re-
stored to the nation, to whom it be
longs. Jefferson.
Anything upon which the govern
ment places it's stamp and declares it a
full legal tender in payment of all
debts and taxes in money; no matter
what the material may be.-Henry
Clay.
I believe the struggle now going on
in this country and other countries, for
single gold standard, will, if success
full, produce widespread disaster in the
end, throughout the country,-J. G..
Blaine.
NV friends, unless our children have
more patience and courage than saved
this country from slavery, Republican
institutions will go down before mon
eyed corporations. Rich men die, but
corporations are immortal. They are
never afflicted with disease. In the
long run they are bound to win with
legislatures. -Wendal Phillips.
If a government contracted debt
with certain amount of money in cir
culation, and then contracted the mon
ey volume before the debt was paid, it
is the most heinous crime that govern
ment could commit against the people
"A braham Lincoln.
I see in the near future crisis arts
ing which unnerves me, and causes me
to tremble for the safety of my coun-
try. AS result of the war, corpora
tions have been enthroned and an era
of corruption in high places will follow
and the money power of the country
will endeavor to prolong its reign by
working upon the prejudice of the peo-
pie until all wealth is aggregated in a
few hands and the republic is de-
stroyed. 1 feel at this time more anx-
iety for the safety of my country than
ever before, even in times Of war. God
grant that my suspicion may prove
roundless.-A Abraham Lincoln.
We clip the above from the Griffin
News to show that the Georgia Demo-
crat is not altogether hopeless case
The vetern Populist will at once recog-
nize the work of Dunning in every
item of the clipping, as they went the
rounds of the Populist press in '92. The
News is now just five years behind the
procession, but as men in the rear can
travel faster than the pioneers who
have to clear the way as they advance,
it is quite possible that the News may
come in sight of the Populist band
wagon by the year 1900. At any rate
we congratulate the News on having at
last struck the right trail.
In 1856 Judge Andrews of Wilkes was
the know Nothing" or American par
ty candidate for Governor. He began
his campaign with speech at Craw-
fordville, and in the audience was Ben
Akin, an illiterate but noted citizen of
Talliaferro county. The judge began
by reading the party platform and
when he reached the declaration, "the
Office should seek the man, and not the
man the Office" he added that TIE Office
of Governor had been running after
him for ten or fifteen years Old Ben
Immediately called out in his peculiar
shrill voice: "You needn't mend your
gait Judge, you are long way ahead
of it yet" The unlocked for sally de-
stroyed the judges speech and the
Office never did catch up with him.
Populism is a long way ahead Of the
News yet, but we are not without hope
that it may yet catch up.
d. N. S.