The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-18

have the gall To charge that TO the
state government, any sooner thar
any other murder.
Suppose Haskell is as bad or even
worse. than the judgment imposed
upon him by the president. Thai
gave the president no right to try and
besmirch the Character of Mr.. Bryan,
and his Sinonian effort, his willing
ness TO 10 so. shows another rotten
spot in his big stick.
You can rest assured that William
Jennings Bryan Will never act the
part of Simon for any political party
not even the Democratic.
When Homer, one OF the most cor.
rect, as welr as the Oldest, of human
authorities, enumerated the nations
OF Greece whose forces acted at the
siege of Troy, he arranged them u1l
der the names of their different kings
and princes. But when he came TO
the athenians he distinguished them
by the peculiar appellation Of THE
People of Athens
We are now at the siege of Troy
politically. in this nation.
The battle is between, the Republic
cans and the Democrats on its face;
burt on tie true inside. it is between
predatory wealth and The People OF
America"
Predatory wealth has pluDdered the
people of this nation by its money
laws. The wooden horse party de-
moneIzed silver at the very time its
Sinons and platforms declared for
the use of both silver and gold as
standard money.
The grafIers in that scheme mere.
ly changed by law the measure of a
dollar that had existed for 81 years
from 1882 to 1879 from a piece or
silver to piece of gold, and destroy
ed by Jaw the. legal tender of silver
in payment of certain debts. II did
not take silver out of circulation. 1t
has not changed it's ratio from 16 to
/, but it took the lawful value out OF
it and thereby doubled the value of
gold and every public and private
debt-silver is still lawful to loan
but not lawful to pay certain debts.
1t is a strange power that these
grafters in money have over the peo-
pie.
If debtors have no rightS-thas
creditors are bound to respect-if
debtors ought to pay twice as much
as they agreed to pay, then chang
ing the measure of a donar in 1878
from a low priced dollar to a high
priced dollar is decent, otherwise not,
and no argument-no lapse of time
can ever cure the criminality OF such
an act and make it decent now, If 1;
was not decent then.
Since 1873 the legal measure is
EOS grains of standard gold; before
that date the legal measure was 81
and quarter grains of pure silver.
The war debt was contracted before
1873 under the silver measure and
has been or is to be paid under thu
gold measure. The yard stick of dor
lars was changed from three feet TO
six feet; provided the silver dollar is
worth only half as much as the gold
dollar.
This is sound money in a nut shell
Simon said: Don't you want an
honest dollar?" and the honest Repub-
Hcan voter, not understanding the de-
ception in that question, pulled on the
ropes.
Simon did not open the door to the
secret hiding place, nor strike any
lights, and the Republican voter can.
not escape now 1t has gone into
history, He pulled on the ropes.
Will the honest-RepubIiean voter. in
1908, continue to pull on the ropesY
Not so many of them. surely some OF
them have discovered the deception.
There is new monetary question
now in issue--it is the government
note-commonly called the green
back
1t is of greater Importance to the
American people-the taxpayers
than even a change of the dollar
measure from silver to gold I am not
mad, nor talking nonsense. ] have
made this question a conscience
study. Hear me.
A legal tender government paper
money has been political bone of
contention between predatory wealth
and the taxpayers ever, since 1t was
created.
There is a material difference be.
tween this lawful government paper
money and all other kinds of paper
money ever invented that every voter
should understand.
This is the only kind of either coin
or paper money that is primarily own.
ed by the government and is deposit
ed in the United States treasury for
its own benefit.
1t costs the people almost nothing
but it has saved them in taxes since
1852 at 6 per cent. interest, com
pounded annually, not only the orig
inal sum of s450,000, 200. but 1,455
times that sum, or $6.547,5OO, 900.
The highest point the war debt
ever reached was August 81, 1865
81, S45, 907, 626.
Add TO that debt almost three
times as mucn anu you wilr appre
ciate Whist the lawful legal tender
government note has done for tax
payers.
A government paper money that
can save war Cdxes can also save
everyday taxes, levied in times III
peace, whether it be duties on i'm
ports, internal revenues or direct taxes.
The people must not permit pri-
vate Individuals 10 issue money for
their own benefit, and every dollar
of paper money needed TO do business
with, should be a government note.
issued for the people, and deposited
in the United States treasury as other
tax money is deposited and put into
circulation by paying the current ex-
penses and government debts just as
other tax money is paid out. or loan.
ed for a consideration, as other
money is loaned.
This question is in issue and W.
be determined al the Noyember 1aHS