Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-04

the Democratic mouse pdSSeu Jill
carrying out the demands of the DEM
ocratic platform. A Republican SEN
ate killed it. In 1898 the Democrats
controlled both houses of the legisla-
ture, and passed a law prohibiting the
bringing of armed bodies of men into
the state or the sheriffs of Illinois
from deputizing men not residents of
their respective counties. Had this
statute been enforced Oct. IL at Vir-
den the terrible riot there that dis
graced Illinois would never have oc-
Cured. Here is the law passed by
the Democratic general assembly in
1898, and here is the way Democrats
and Republicans voted. Let VIM. b.
Ridgely, with his non-union rolling
mill; ]. Otis Humphrey, who drew the
injunctions against the Wabash strik-
ing employees in 1894, and all other
labor crushers who are now trying to
cajole the coal miners make reply. The
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must be incurred-to keep the dan
gerous class" from open ''anarchism."
The difference between a bankers
note and farmers note is: The bank
greenbacks; the farmers note in gold
or its equivalent" That is honest
money" An honest monetary system,
then, is one that pays bankers debts
in greenbacks and farmers debts in
gold! Not only farmers notes, but
whatever debt national banking cor
porations are bound to pay is a green
back debt. That is gold standard"
A standard that taxpayers and pro-
ducers must conform to; but not the
national banking class.
Honest money!" Hypocrites. liars.
thieves, scoundrels, robbers of wild
ows' houses-demand a monetary sys-
tenn like this. The national banking
class do not touch with one OF their
fingers the burden they heap upon the
shoulders of the taxpayers of Amer
lea, and especially upon the shoulders
of the pillars of the state''-the farm
ing class. The farmer gives his note
to the banker. 1t reads: Il promise
to pay gold or its equivalent" The
bankers notes: 'T promise to pay"
WHAT "Greenbacks."
Greenbacks are honest money for
bankers to pay their notes with; but
dishonest, fiat, rag-money" for farm
ers to pay debts with!
The government of the United States
must have gold money to pay ION de-
mand" of the banking class, for no
other men than national bankers ever
have demanded or ever will demand
gold of the government. How are pen
sioners paid? In gold? No. They
are given paper checks, payable at the
sub-treasury in New York in dollars
But do the veterans send those checks
to New York? No. Who do? The
bankers. They demand gold for them.
What is honest money? Are green
backs dishonest money? Then bank
notes are payable in dishonest money.
Why do the banks pay their notes in
dishonest money (green backs) and de-
mand OF the people honest money
(gold)?
Now, by their actions" bankers de-
clare greenbacks honest" ACTIONS
speak louder than words" is an old
saying. and true.
But greenbacks are made redeem
able in gold'-the bankers say. Is
that true? 1t is not true by law. The
law says greenbacks are redeemabie in
coin at the sub-treasury in New York
in sums of fifty dollars and upwards.
Is gold alone coin? 1t is not 1t never
has been so in the United States-and |
woe to the people when it shall be,
But it is so practically now By /,
whose authority? Not By the author !
Ity Flaw. 1t is so by the sole ukase !
Of the secretary of the treasury ma /
tional banker-who has declared thar !
'the United States government pays /.
It's debts in the kind of money It's
demand"
For saying that and carrying it out /
in practice he ought TO be punished. 1
Who has not heard-~ho wore the !
Dlue-the warning words: THE pun /
shment Of treason Is DEATH" Look /
1t the awfulness OF the crime Of the /
OF the treasury in paying the !
lebts of the government In the kind
IL money its creditors demand" in
stead of the kind OF money IL has on
land What right has the secretary to
accept, in payment to the government,
money it may not, unquestioned, Pay
tut? No; 1t accepts. ! suppose. chips
md whetstcnes" for Its dues AMI pays
tut cash on demand. Why so?
The robber barons OF the nineteenth
national banking class
hus compel the people to pay them
them to borrow gold
md pay interest
The taxpayers pays gold. He must
make every dollar he pays gold. Howz
y borrowing gold OF the bankers who
,ay their debts in greenbacks-bor-
owing through his agent-the gov
rnment
Great Cod Open the peoples eyes
o see the baseness of the national ,
anking classi A set Of Ieeches suck
az the eife-bIood Of the nationl