The independent., 1905-03-09

kef polly parrot democracy anu lHeQ-
dore Roosevelt opossum republican
ism?
Roosevelt, in his message to con-
gress names sixty-five measures that
need adjusting, he appears to touch
everything that some of the people
think needs adjusting or treatment
and speaks like a learned man on
every subject except one, and that is
the currency question.
He says to retire the greenbacks and
have an elastic currency and make
every silver dollar payable at the OPP
tion of the holder in gold dollar. Now
they are fooling the public with rail
road rebates and have congress to meet
and have a reduction in the tariff. Who
thinks they will do anything on the
two. questions. Keep the peoples
eyes ON those question and away from
the currency question, and the people
will find to their surprise that they
have passed a bill to retire $346,000,-
600 of greenbacks and have $500, 100000
of silver dollars payable in gold dol
lar at the option OF the holder or have
it coined into subsidy coin and have
an asset currency built on the assets
of banks, SO that the Shylocks can have
government bonds issued to the
amount of $346, 100000 and then if the
silver dollar is made payable in gold
dollar the money mongers can rob
the treasury of the United States by
drawing the gold out the same as they
did under honest Grover Cleveland
and his secretary Of the treasury, John
G.. Carlisle Carlisle was ashamed to
go back to his own state to live, he
went to New York with the plutocrats.
What would Alton B. Parker have
done if he had been elected? He
would have advised the same on the
currency question because he was Aug
ust Belmont's candidate and August
would have had a chance to dictate
about the bonds.
In 1868, when Seymour was the DEM
ocratic presidential candidate and the
platform was treasury notes instead
of issuing government bonds, August
Belmont and Samuel J. Tilden sold out
the New York World and went against
the democratic party, and gave their
ticket as they were agents for the
Rothschilds and wanted government
bonds.
Grant called congress together and
passed an act to strengthen the public
credit, approved March 49,, 1869, an
other false alarm, SO that the bonds
that had been previously bought with
deprecated greenbacks, should be paid
with coin, and then in 1873 they
changed the mint laws by not men
tioning the coinage of silver dollar
and by so doing demonitized silver
That left us SO that we could never pay
the bonded debt under that system and
Grant signed the bill Afterwards he
asked how it was that silver did not
come to the mint and be coined into
dollars. A nice chief executive!
will state the bonds that were sold and
bought and then the money that bought
them with was burned doubling the
debt: 1862, $50, 1882, ,45O worth of bonds
cost s44,OS0,649 in gold; 1868, $16O,9S7,
$50 bonds, cost s1G1 ,890,S50 in gold
1864, $3S1, ,292, $50 bonds, cost $1S9,697,
636 in gold;. 1865, $279,646, ,150, cos
S2OS.214,O90 in gold; 1866, $124,914 ,40'
bonds, cost $SS,591,7 ,773 in gold; 1867
S421, ,469, $50 bonds, cost $309, ,215,303 il
gold 1868, $425, 800 bonds, cos
1912, 1926, 1923; making total of 1854
736,15O worth of bonds paid for witt
81, PAS, ,466,624 worth of gold. ne
profit to the Shylocks of $6O6, ,52
besides the interest of over $2,000,O0O
600 that has been paid to them. Their
has been about thirty or more financia
bills since 1861. Three in favor of tn
people and the balance in
money power The first in favor G
the people in 1861, making the denaan
notes which was repealed in 81
months. The second in favor OF tn
people, the Bland-Allison act of 1877
purchasing silver, lasted twelve year
was repealed by the Sherman act
1890, which was repealed in March 1S9
Some of the people yet say it was
good thing to repeal the purchasin
clause of the Sherman act, and the
do not know what the act was. II yc
ask them what is bimetallism they ca