Natchitoches populist., 1898-07-29
AMERICAN FINANCE.
AS ADVOCATED BY REPRESEN.
TATIVE QUINN.
Financial System THAT viii Be Re-
produced In Dur Country Unless u
Halt lis Called.

When We established OUT government
we abandoned the European govern
mental system.
It is a common expression among the
single standard advocates that we must
follow the financial methods that the
experience of all civilized nations have
proven to be the best. BY this Is
meant European nations. When we
look at the conditions in Europe what
do we see there that claims our ad-
miration? In time Of profound peace
huge standing armies eating up the
substance of the people; q nnoneyed
class that owns the earth controls the
circulating medium, and swarms ofhu-
man beings living at the lowest round
OF poverty and destitution. 1t has
been thus on that continent as far back
as the memory or the annals Of man
reach. The money controlled by the
few, the masses with monopoly on
nothing but poverty. To me 1t Is a
source of surprise that any American
would advocate the adoption Of sys-
tenn that has produced such disas-
trous results.
The men who laid the foundation Of
our governmental system were not idle
dreamers or vain tourists: they were
energetic, practical men, who were not
afraid to try new theories in govern
ment. They made every man equal be-
fore the law, placing like opportunities
before ALL Every nation in Europe
declared that the experiment was dan
gerous and impracticable and would
end In disaster.
They adopted constitutional gov
ernment based e,n the free and untram-
meled will Of the majority; divided
governmental functions between three
coordinate branches-the executive,
legislative and .iudicial-with the pow
ers of each defined and limited by q
written constitution. Outside Of the
United States 1t might be said that all
nations raised their voice with one ac-
cord against this innovation in the
construction Of q government. 1t was
said to be contrary to the experience
of all mankind. In every government
that then existed the executive was the
overshadowing power and the other
departments we're all subject to it,
| We decreed manhood suffrage, free
speech and freedom of conscience-all
innovations on the established order
of things and all against the experience
OF the human family.
| After more than a century we havt
demonstrated the wisdom of our faith
ers, and Europe, perhaps unconscious.
ly, pays tribute to their worth, for al
nations on that continent with the ex
ception of Russia and Turkey, have re-
modelled their governments more ol
less closely on the lines their fathers
rejected one hundred years ago. 1t i.
dangerous to say that we must adopt
a financial system because other ma
tions have always had SUCH a system
Had this argument prevailed In tn,
days Of Washington, Jefferson and Bel
Franklin we would not have had :
written constitution today, nor woul'
we have had free speech, free press
freedom of conscience, nor any Of tn
other blessings handed down to us b,
| a wise, patriotic and noble ancestry
Therefore, when the argument is use,
| in discussion of the financial issue
that we must adopt European methods
no attention should be paid to it. TO
it is contrary to the history, tradition
| and experience of our government.
| We adopted European financia
methods, it is true, and ARE endeavor
ing to perpetuai:e them, and it is draw
ing us down tt, European conditions
| The system that produces abject poy
erty ON the other side OF the Allanti
Ocean viii produce d like state Of al
fairs on this side ,of the ocean.
should be a patriotic study with ever
citizen how to substitute improve
American methods for the enervatin,
poverty breeding system in vogue j
the Old World.
Measure the extent Of country an
count the people who are using none
today; then measure the extent {
country and count the people who use
1t one hundred years ago. and you wi
find that the production is not keepin
pace with the demand.
the money Of final redemption |
gold. tits the sole standard by whic
values are measured OF this metal th
human family has at it'll disposal j
the shape Of coin $4,000, 600, 900, Q
about s4 to each inhabitant of tn
earth using money. THIS scant suppl
accounts for tie poverty and distres
which encumbels the earth; this IL VIII
we have periodical famines. The cart
always produces enough for man, an
with our rapid means OF travel a
parts Of the globe can be easily din
speedily reached.
The closing ,f the millts In Britis
India was followed by q famine tt
most terrible ,f modern times. NJ
less than S,oet.0eo Of huaan beins