The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-08-27
THE WAR FUND LOAN.
Money without Resorting 40
syndicatcs.

The democratic press of the country
shows plain signs of being disgruntled
over the popular feature of the new
war loan. This is not strange. Ii is, in
fact, party matter.
During the last democratic admins
/ tration large block of government
bonds was issued and the entire
amount was allowed to go to multi
millionaire syndicate manipulated by
President Cleveland's former law part
ner in New York, Mr.. Stetson. The
people were not allowed any chance at
those bonds, first hand, and the syndi-
cate made profit of several millions.
That record is made prominent by the
contrast it presents to the present
case.
If President Mckinley had followed
in the footsteps of President Cleve-
land perfect cyclone of Indignation
would have swept over the country.
The democratic press would have
found the English language all too
feeble to express their wrath, and the
republican press would have recog-
nized the justice of the indignation.
Yet there was 40 more excuse for syn
dicating the Cleveland than the Nc
Kinley bonds. There was a popular
demand for both. The republican
press took the same position then in
favor of giving the people chance
that it did in this latter instance. The
same arguments, substantially, were
used in both cases. The democratic
press was Indifferent. and by ac-
quescence shared with Cleveland re-
sponsibiity for that syndicate.
The popular feature was even a
greater success than reported when
the time for subscription closed. That
date of closure was the 14th inst, and a
Washington dispatch of the 18th states
that since the 14th nearly 10000 sub
scriptions have been received. Some
of them were delayed in the transmits
sion and will be accepted; others were
too late. Subscriptions to the amount
of $500 or less will absorb fully $780,
100000 of the bonds, or one-half of the
whole. The other half will nearly, if
not quite. be absorbed by subscrip-
lions under $4,000 in amount. The en-
tire loan is thus distributed to indi-
vidual subscribers in small lots.
AS matter of course some of these
subscribers acted as agents, no doubt,
for others who furnished the money,
but such cases form at most only an
insignificant percentage of the grand
aggregate.
Some of these bonds were subscribed
as permanent lean or investment and
some with view to making profit on
them. The government sold the bonds
at par. They will probably command a
premium. This profit will be small at
best in any given case, and will be
widely distributed. 1t will be made, il
at all not out of the government, but
out of the secondhand purchasers
namely, the banks and other moneyed
corporations which want large blocks
OF bonds and can get them only by GO
ing into the open market. The Cleve-
land-Stetson syndicate made its mil
lions of profits by secondhand sales
The aggregate profit of the new bond
holders may be even greater than that
harvested by the syndicate, but it will
be distributed among the people
, Everybody had an equal chance, so fan
as the government was concerned, to
subscribe, and thus share in the profits
, 1t is safe to say that no future ad
ministration will dare go back to the
syndicate policy III placing bonds. The
republican party can add one more
trophy to'its long list of great achieve
: ments. A republican congress and 6
republican administration between
them succeeded in doing what no Other
. nation on earth has ever done. AL
other governments. great and small
have placed their loans through grea
banking houses. Great Britain has thu
Bank of England France the Bank O
France. Spain the Bank of Spain, ant
so on all along the line. Behind ant
above all these, including even til,
Bank of England is the great hous,
:, Of Rothschild, which made millions ou
, of the Cleveland administration. Fo,
: many years now these great moneyet
:, corporations have exacted toll from
= their governments and from mino
states. quite as matter of course
!. At last the United States has showl
. the nations a more excellent way t.
: financier their loans. They have give,
the civilized world what ought to be
\ in government finances, an epoch
. making object lesson in the highes
a branch of political economy.-Chicag,
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