The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
ioF GOVERNMENT IN REQUIRING
PAYMENTS IN CURRENCY
INSTEAD or DRAFTS.
lis DRAINING The WEST.
|of II. Ready Cash 70 Be Hcarded ln
New York Banks Which
Demand Excessive
Premium.

mess men spoke feelingly yesterday
of the governments method of deaf
ing with the people, declaring, that
Instead OF aiding the .businesss0f T. d
country. through the money stfiif'
gency. it had adopted a. policy which
aggravated the situation greatly.
heaping burdens upen the hanks: sF
the interior that tended to. -obstrrft
business. and would stop II entire vi
If persisted in long enough, .
i The governments agents in this IN 4
jurious policy are the p0stpasteas
and the internal revenue colleet
The Bulletins informant was not dIs
posed to criticise them personally
knowing that they are but carrying
cmt the instructions received from
the heads OF their departments ~
Washington: but these heads Of d.
partments, he said. are culpable, for
their instructions seemed to be des
signed To drain the western count v
of its currency for the benefit II the
ehstern banks as II certainly had tbs
|effeet
The striking fact III the whole nat-
ter, said the financier, Ii that whfia
the government officials are begging
the h.isiness world and the people af
the west 10 pursue the even tenor g
their way. the same as they 40 II
ordinary, times, they have ordered q
complete change In the methcd of
conducting the governments rwn
business with the people. This ls
most notieeab'e and perhaps rot
,eenerally felt In connection with the
Formerly, when q large
|uaer III the mails wished to purchase
some tbousandssof stazlps or stzfunasix
|envelt9ita or postal cards. ha snlll'i
send Ills check and It was r'caivesI
without Question and the sitpni
sent 3im, Now he must send the
currency. the postmaster. under or
ders from the postmaster general re-
fising TO receive anything hut 'ha
coin or its certificates, or bank notes
Even the substatlons of the Cairo
rostOffice are required to settle with
currency. where formerly their checks
or drafts were quite satisfactorv. Fur
fhermore the postmasters. who warss
formerly permitted to make their
monthly remittances to the heal
Office In New York drafts or ex
change. are now required to se~d
currency by express, the postmasters
having jurisdiction over the smaller
offices Ike that of Cairo. refusing TO
receive ANYTHING in lieu OF cash.
In the internal revenue department
the same policy has been adopted
and Is rigidly adhered TO. On Friday
enc thousand dollars In currency was
shipped from Cairo 10 the collectors
Office in this internal revenue dis.
trict. The deputy collector here Mr.
Henry Smith Candee had persued his
usual policy He had accepted drafts.
checks, etc. for stamps and when the
time came for him to make his remit
lance he had sent the usual draft tn
cover the sum collected. His draft
had always been accepted: this time
II was promptly returned to him with
TO forward the sAtney
and the earnestness cf the denanf
was made manifest when -enreren-
tatiye of the collector was sent fra'e
East st. Loris TO explain the ur~encv
Of the new order and see that u was
with. Local wholesale liauer
dealers whose drafts were forner'y
accepted ere now required to remit in