Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-04-16
JUDGE BY THE RECORD.
BY Their Own Words and Acts Are They
Condemned.

by heir Own Words and Acts Are They
Condemned.
To THE READERS OF TIE STANDARD:
| take it for granted that the read
ers of the STANDARD know about
where stand on political questions.
| want, in this article, to express my
supreme contempt for the national
banking system. tits purely child
of the Republican party as well as the
protective tariff system. They are
both vulturcs from the same egg and
hatched in a Republican incubator,
and fed on Republican pap. Both
We're cOncOctcd for the purpose of
equalized plumber, and right well
have they performed their mission
Two more unrighteous. damnable
and dangerous institutions were
never cOncocted in the brain If man
for the enslavement of his fellow
man. But for this article | shall deal
only with the national banking Sys-
tenn. Just think of it! These pets
of the government-the national
bankers are permitted by the gov
ernment to take charge of the money
of the government, and pay the gov
ernment only one haJ of one pcr cent
for the use of this money, and are
permitted to hold up the people, who
have to borrow at as high rate of
interest as possible. To show the
readers Of the STANDARD that have
the best authority for my position, |
append the views of men to whom
the world pays homage, and | hope
you will ponder them carefully.
Here is the opinion of some of our
| greatest statesmen:
~ believe the establishment of ma
| tional bank dangerous to the safety and
welfare OF this Republic"
Henry Clay.
and volume of the currency is absolute
dictator of the business and finance of
the country
Jamps 4. Garfield lin Congress-
A shrinkage in the volume of cur
rency has caused more misery than war,
famine and pestilence, and more injus-
tice than all the bad laws ever enacted. y
| L. $. .Nonttary Commission.
"If Congress has the right, under the
constitution, to issue paper money, it
was given them to be used by them
selves. not to be delegated to individual
corporations .fndren Jackson.
81 believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies. Already they have
raised up moneyed aristocracy that
has set the government at defiance
The issuing power should be taken from
the banks, and restored to the govern.
ment and people to whom it properly
belongs" 7homds Jefferson.
I'VE boast of having liberated fouI
million slaves. 1t is true We have
stricken the shackles from the former
bondsmcn and brought all laborers to q
common level, not 80 much by elevating
the former slave as by practically reduc-
ing the whole working population to 8
state of serfdom. When boas,ing of q
noble deed We are careful to conceal the
ugly fact that by our iniquitous none
tary system of oppression, more refined
but none the less cruel, than the old
system Of chattel slavery"
Horace Greeley.
my agency in procuring the passag,
of the national bank act was the great
est financial mistake of my life. 1t ha!
built up monopoly that affects every i'll
terest in the country. 1t should be re
pealed. But before this can be accom-
plished. the people will be arrayed OF
one side and the banks on the other in ,
contest such as We have never seen il
this country" Salmon 4. Chase.
place the money power in the hand
of combination of a Jew individuals
and they. by expanding or contracting
the currency, may raise or sink price
at pleasure, and by purchasing when a
the greatest depression and selling whel
at the greatest elevation, may command
the whole property and industry of tn
community. The banking system con
: centrates, and places this power in tn
hands Of those who control it. Neve
was an engine invented better calculate
l to place the destinies of the many in tn
hands of the few" John c. Calhoun.
: Say, fellow citizens, don't yo
| think I'm in pretty good company
! l sure am not ashamed of my predt
, cessors, for they are the peer of an
2 of our modern statesmen; and the st
e quel has proven the business of thei
l convictions, for never in the histor
4 of the world have a people been S
| outrageously robbed by any systel
G of legislation as the wonderfully er
lightened, intelligent, but gullible b
q peds of this Republic since the Civ
D war. J. c. Coz.
Amt Hatched Yet.
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