Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-06-02

year, and add to the wealth Of the country
several thousand millions, whereas the
house plan would diminish the revenues
and entail a permanent debt Of $500, 00O,-
600. The house plan is the Rothschild
plan, tho senate plan is for the interests of
the people. That is the main difference.
The senate plan will furnish more ready
cash for the war without interest) and
prosperity for the masses. The bond.
holders plan will furnish less money, but
more debt and disaster. The question is
"Have the people any rights which the
bond sharks are bound to respect?"
Why should We struggle with Europe for
gold 1t the sacrifice Of the industries of
this country while we are struggling with
Spain to vindicate the honor Of tho flag.
Our motto should be "more money and
more prosperity" and not ",nore bonds
and more misery"
The sapient and patriotic ~ editor Of
the Washingtonian admits that the bond
draws interest and the greenback does
not, and this is the only truth there 10 in
his whole article. He says the 500, OO0,-
600 kept in the U. S. treasury is kept
there to redeem greenbacks. Perhaps he
will kindly inform us where the law orig
mated which compels US to keep $780,
000, 600 gold reserve to redeem our own
paper. Who passed any law that any
body knows OF that U. 5. greenbacks were
payable only in gold? Everybody who
il at all posted on the money laws Of the
country knows we'll that there is no sucl,
law on the statute books. But the custom
was established by such men rs ex-Sec-
retarics OF the Treasury Sherman and
Foster, under such patriots ~ as Harri-
son and Cleveland, who, collectively, are
the authors of the endless chain scheme
for the looting Of the treasury by the
money sharks. And if Secretary Gage
could have his way he would make us
wish We had never been born. But thank
the Lord the senate will continue to
stand between the people and those who
would sell us out to the gold syndicate.
He next speaks Of the great Civil war
and says so much money was required
that bonds were sold at Il big discount.
In this he displays either great ignorance
or is guilty Of willful misrepresentation.
He also SAYS that even then money could
not have been raised, but neither this
nation nor any other has gone into the
promise to pay business without great
loss.
Why does not this patriotic editor, who
works 10 zealously in the interest OF the
Rothschlld Eu,op and Wall street gold
syndicate, tell his readers how money
was raised to carry on the war? Why
does he drop the subject like a hot iron?
Why not give us the full history Of how
our great president, old Abe Lincoln.
raised money TO carry on the war in spite
Of the Wall street gang OF robbers who
tried to hinder the progress Of the war
until their rapacity was satisfied (just as
it is at presently by asking him to take
their cash at exorbitant interest? What
did honest old Abe do? He spurned them
with contempt and ordered $50, 900, 900
greenbacks issued called demand notes"
which were receivable for ALL debts pub
lie and private and which we're not made
payable in any particular kind Of cur
rency.
AS early as October 1861 these notes
were eagerly bought up by the banks at
their face value, gold being exchanged
readily for them, in fact the haste with
which the greenbacks were gobbled up
by the banks to get them out Of circula-
ton. betrayed the real object Of the Shy
locks, for they we'll knew at that time Gas
we'll as they know it now that as long as
these "dernand notes" Of Lincoln's we're
in circulation just 80 long would their
gold scheme and themselves be alike de-
spised and repudiated. Another $5,000,-
600 Of the same kind Of notes were issued.
The materials for the prosecution of the
war were paid for in these notes, the
soldiers we're paid with them, and. by
the way, they were the last paper mo ney
(that was worth their face value in gold)
which the soldiers of the Civil war ever
got.
And why the truthful and patri otto edi-
tor OF the Washing tonian (who sc ems to