Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07
"The Government Is Help
ing the Banks"
Yes Indeed Helping the Banks TO ROB THE FARMERS BY
CHARGING FROM EIGHT AND ONE-HALF TO TWELVE
PER CENT INTEREST.

upon that they put 'the government helping
banks They by this that the government of the
United States taking money which belongs all of the
pie and sending his money deposit through
the nation
The crops are in and must moved" The farmer
pay his freight pay his bills for fertilizer and the of his
men HE MUST HAVE MONEY.
He gets the money-snd he gets shameuly
money belongs the people of the United
States handed to the
you ''the farmer has pay the
eight per cent money NOT
GIVING YOU IMAGINARY FIGURES from soft heaed
raker quoting Yoakum president of the St Louis
San railroad president of other railroads the past
interested director stakeholder banks AND INTIMATE
III ACQUAINTED WITH THE METHODS OF RoBBING
THE FARMER, WHO PRODUCES BY THE MONEY LENDER,
WHO PRODUCES NOTHING
You wonder that the cost of living high but you need not
The farmers of this country the banks six thousand
millions dolars-these Yoazums fgures-and they
pay in interest EVERY YEAR FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN
MILLIONS of dollars
The would be much greater except that many the
paid off by the farmer his crops sold
that the vast of five hundred and ten millions which would
build Panama every year which FIVE years would
put good roads front of every farm this country, repre-
only that the pay for
money FOR A LITTLE WHILE, for whole year
Nothing demoraIizng than the payment of
interest 1t discourages the pays
reckless and discoursges careful economy
The of the food that you represents money
the farmer spend produce that food plus profit
AND THE INTEREST ON THE MONEY THAT HE BOR
ROWS
Here YOU have the banks THAT PRODUCE NOTHING tax
from the farmers every year five hundred
millions of dollars and that added at once to the
of the food you eat
Do realize that the money which loan to the
farmers government money? Do you realize the banks
nothing for the of this money and that Yoakum
esfes they charge the farmers the and
criminal of eight and one-haf per cent interest?
Do you realize that this money the government uses
ITO help the banks money that farmers and other cit
have paid the on imports on
cigars beer7
Can You anything outrageous and shameful
than of which the people heavily and
then deposits the in the banks permits the banks
AGAIN TO TAX THE PEOPLE IN THE SHAPE OF GRIM.
NAL USURY2
national bank buys government bonds The government
pays interest those bonds to the bank
me" tue oanh can issue money OF ITS own those
bonds For this thus pays not one cent Of nt
est Its safely government bonds and
the artificial money which against those bonds Is oal
out at usury the farming class
is wonder that instead worrying about the HIGH cost
o' living our country is not. in actual want
And it is a wonder we are not in a continual state -
panic instead Of merely having pancs every few wears
The farmer would try a horse with blood suckers
hanging to him and draining his vitality
How can the farmers be expected to work and enrich fine
country ana make the cost OF living reasonable the blood
suckers Of the banks bleed the tune of five hundred
anu 'e' millions OF dollars every in the shape Of usry