Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-28
LETTERS, TO THE EDITOR

says it shall be legal tender lawful
 money of the United States and 1t is
 money. This is all there is to fiat None of the above enumerated materi- al is money until the law, the flat, the
 will of the sovereign power (the peOple) i through their agent, congress, says so l All the above materials have been used : as money. and gold silverF and paper have been legal tender, lawful money for any amount, and the supreme court has decided that it is constitutional. In ! the face of this fact, this administra- ' ton. congress and the president are i struggling over something that is not found in the constitution, viz. banking 1 and currency. They arc not trying to lesislate for money, for the people, but are doing their level best to not legis- late for money and the people, but for banking, currency and Wall street. trNVhat the people want is money, not q promise to pay money. The people have got to have money in order to pay debts. The administration bill is not to create a money that will pay a debt but to. create a currency that creates debt. This is not the kind of states maaship advocated by the fathers of democracy, Jefferson, Jackson and Ben- ton. Democracy must have undergone a change an invisible change. in tke minds of those who voted for the par- ty with big D, ignoring the princi-
 
 people. Congress has no more author ity to create a bank to loan currency to the people than it has to legislate where farmer shall plant his corn o1 potatoes. The creation of a system whereby the people must borrow from Wall street and its banks the money or currency they must have, creates debt that cannot be paid with money.
 The indisputable proof of this is that the man who borrowS cannot pay the debt he contracts with the amount he receives. ! You cannot get over this, nor crawl under it. This is what the great party with a big D is trying t6 do. It is not new. We have had this system for nifty years. The system has been denounced by both democrats aud re- pubiicans, and yet the Glass Owen bill is to continue the present banking Sys- tenn for 20 wears longer. It seems to be the prime object of congress to -egislate to keep the people in debt paying in terest to q few, that they may live in luxury and idleness.
 But nerhaps the worst feature of all this is the apathy and indifference of those who suffer by such legislation Yes, legislating to create debt in the face of the plain language in the con stftution viz: tCongress shall have power to coin (create1 money and reg ulate the value thereof" For whom. think you, was it to be coined Was it for the people, or was it for the few in Wall street? During the war of the rebellion the people were engaged in watching the progress of the war, while Wall street had it's agents iD watching congress enact ing financial laws for the benefit of Wall stret Today the people are watching the Mexican oil muddle while Wall street Today the people are suggesting financial legislation to con- tinue theiB strangle hold on the people in Washington. under the caucus ruled democratic party. Shades of Jefferson, Jackson, Benton, and even Lincoln, where are we at and whither will we land? Sure thing. History is repeat 1 ing.
 !. z. VALLETTE.
 North Franklin. Conn.