The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-07-01
The Monetary Problem.
British Money-Lenders and bSnd-
holders Worse Than Wars
or Cnlamities.

The financial intrigues Of British
stock jobbers money lenders, and bond,
holders have injured the United States
more than all the wars and calamities
Of every kind which our people have suf-
fered. The decentralization of silver.
the appreciation Of gold, the fall Of
prices, and the stagnation Of business
which now afilict our people result from
the same malign influence which en-
barrassed our country in the time OF
jefferson. On the 10th day of March,
1915, Mr.. Jefferson, writing from Mon
ticello. 10 a friend, Caesar A. Rodney,
explained our relations with the ruling
classes and the money powers Of Great
Britain as they then existed and as they
now exist. lie said:
"What nourishment and support
would OF England receive from an hum
dred millions of Industrious descend
ants, whom some Of her people now
born will live to see here. What their
energies are, she has lately tried. And
what has she not to fear from an hun.
dred millions of such men, if she con-
tinues her maniac course Of hatred and
hostlities 10 them. i hope in God she
will change. There Is not nation on
the globe with whom have more earn
estly wished a friendly intercourse on
equal conditions. On no other would
hold out the hand Of friendship to any.
know that their creatures represent
me as personally an enemy TO England.
But fools only can believe this, or those
who think me fool. am an enemy to
her insults and injuries. lam an enemy
to the fiagitious principles of her adj
ministra ton, and TO those which govern
her conduct towards other nations. But
would she give TO morality some place
in her political code, and especially
would She exercise decency, and at least
neutral passions towards us, there il
not. repeat it, people on earth with
whom / would sacrifice so much TO be in
friendship. They can do us, as enemies,
more harm than any other nation; and
in peace and in war, they have more
means o. disturbing us internally. Their
merchants established among us, the
bonds by which our own are chained to
their feet, and the banking combina-
tions interviewer with the whole, have
shewn the extent of their control, even
during a war with her. They are the
workers Of all the embarrass ments our
finances have experienced during the
war. Declaring themselves bankrupt,
they have been able still TO chain the
government TO a dependence on them;
and had the war continued, they would
have reduced us TO the inability TO COM
mand a single dollar. They dared to
proclaim that they would not pay their
own paper obligations, yet our govern
ment could not venture to avail them
selves of this opportunity of sweeping
their paper from the circulation, and
substituting their own notes bottomed
on specie taxes for redemption, which
everyone would have eagerly taken and
trusted. rather than the baseless trash
of bankrupt companies; our govern
ment, / say, have still been overawed
from a contest with them, and has even
countenanced and strengthened their
influence, by proposing new establish
ments. with authority to swindle yet
greater sums from our citizens. This
is the British influence to which am
an enemy. and which we must subject
TO our government, or it will subject w
10 that of Britain."-Silver Knight.
Waterman