The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-11-03
Shall the Banks Have a MOnOpO
ly of Paper Money!
LET THE VOTERS CONSIDER.
Republican Candidates For Congress
Pledged TO Vote For the Measure
But Dare Not Discuss 1t
Nor VIII They Acknowledge That the
scheme is to Retire and Burn the
Greenbacbs The bonded Debt to BE
Increased and Made Permanent
with Gold Alone and Legal

The Republican party now In power
Is In the hands Of an organized trust, the
aim OF which Is tl ges full and absolute
control of the credit money or currency Of
the country. This trust demands that
the government get out OF the banking
business, Us taey coll it, and that they
the bankers, have full and complete com
mand of the whole matter.
1t will bs seen that the first step Is &c
retire AMI burn the greenbacks. For all
this was Banker Gage put 10 as secretary
of the treasury. The President is party
| to the scheme. This monetary arrange.
ment Is one Of vlst magnitude aud I'm.
portance. 1t has Eever Deen indorsed In
any platform of any political party, stat 9
or national, and has never been discussed
before the people, AS important questions
should be, and before congress should
take 1t up for action.
REPUBLICN CANDIDATES FEAR
THE PEOPLE.
H. II. Hanna chairman of the ex-
rcutive co onmittee of the indianapolis
monetary COIN mi sion, declares that $50
congressman who are candidates for re
election this fall are pledged to vote in
the next congress for "ths pri ciples of
the OVerstrect bill'' already introduced
int congress. This mo iet ,ry matter is
an issue In this campaign, but 1t is
kept concealsd from the people. No
doubt Congressman Tayler of this dis
trict is one Of the $50 who are pledged to
serve the Moloch of MLmmon. This
issne should receive the attention of
every voter, for Republican candidates
refuse to discuss or proclaim their views,
because they are in the grasp of the bank
trust and pledged to serve them and be-
tray the people. Congressman Overstreet
and McClesry and other congressman
who have bills now pending tefore con-
gress covering the principles" the
o0erstreet BILL differing only IN detail,
have repeatedly refused to take these
bills up for public discussion. In the
campaign they are avoiding every re-
ference to them, and at the Omaha ex-
cussion Of financial questions, Congress-
man McCleary refused to talk upon this
phase Of the question, which had been
allotted to him and agreed to by him,
even when his attention was repeatedly
called to the fact that In perslstlng in
talking on the "deed" silver issue he was
transgressing the rules OF the debate.
THE PEOPLES VEAL AND VEL
FARE.
Honest men who are candidates for
congress will not conceal their views on
important questions, so as to get the
vote Of contlding, trusting people, in or
der to betray them and hand them over
to greedy, grdspl 1g money trust. At
this time the American people should
beware for whom t ey vote. Voters
should know the political views of their
candidate and understand whether he
has at heart the welfare Of the people and
will stand for them under any and all
circumstances. The Doneyed interest Is
always assailiug congress for more
fayors, for more special privileges and
better opportunities to blunder the peo-
pie. The combines referred to are ever
dangerous and ever clamorous for more.
THE PROPOSED MONETARY REV
OLUTION.
The principles involved In this ques-
tion and involved in the Oyerstreet bill
may be thus stated:
l. The retirement OF the green backs.
2. The substitution Of an interest bear
ing debt, payable In gold, for a non-in-
terest besring deot, payable In "coin."
3. The conversion of existing interest
bearing obligations of the government
from coin to gold debt.
The rermat ent discontinuance of the
coinage Of silver dollars.
The sale of the silver bullion now
on hand at prices enormously deprecated
by the policy herein before forth.
9 The granting to the national banks
of complete monopoly Of the currency
Issues of the country.
The transfer Of the burden OF main
tanning the gold standard from the
government which has supported it, al
though only by means OF repeated hond
issues, to the national banks, which have
suspended currency payments at every
principal crisis of the last qu irter of a
century.
8. To establish system Of banking
based on "assets."
Congressman Smiths Grand Rapids
Herald steps into line on this program as
follows:
The time has come when the govern
mrnt must be relieved of the banking
business, when it must get out of the
note business. To accomplish this we
must have Republican congress and
1t would be a misfortune for all business
and ether interests If another Democratic
congress should be el ctsd, as currency
and bank reform would then be out Of
the question.
NO POLITICAL PARTY HAS
DARED TO FATHER. p
These so-called financial "princi pies, Z"
and they have been condemned In Re
publican state and national platforms.
The only hold they have is with the
allied trusts and mopopolies Of the money
nagnates OF the country and the 1b0
Republican congressman who are pledged
sold body and soul-to the potent
money devil who holds In his clutch the
Kingdoms Of the world. Whenever these
men talk about currency reform" they
mean a selfish, grasping scheme that
will add to their gains and security.
The $50 congressman are the paid agents
and tools Of the monsters Of greed and
gain.
OF the proposed banking law that has
been reportei In tho house and ready for
passage Ia the event that a Republjoa