The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-07
THE JEFFERSO NTAN


ministration adopts.
Men of all kinds agree that it
would make the country immune
from panics, and at the same time
save the farmer from the exploits, of
stOck-gamblers and combines who
speculate in his crop to his serious
disadvantage; and would kill the
cotton exchanges and gamblers in
farm products.
All fluctuations in price of cotton,
corn and wheat would be above the
prices named in Mr.. Henry's bill,
and the Bulls and Bears would be
circumscribed by those limits in
their action.
1t solves the problem of good
roads and internal improvem ents for
the States, making possible the
grandest and most glorious develop
ment of our internal affairs; and it
frees the States from the greed of
all bond sharks and gives them &C
cess to money at cost in the sale of
their bonds up to the limit of ten
million dollars.
Thus giving the people money to
construct all kinds of State, county
and city improvements, free from the
No man can read the history of
our constitution in the formation of
our Government and Justly conclude
that the States when they ceded the
power of coinage and currency to the
Federal Government, ever expected
that they and their people would be
ham-strung, handicapped and for
hidden access to the money their
COEnnn Mt -
go to banks and bond-syndicates for
money to carry on their improve
ments; it was thoroughly understood
that the sole purpose Of conveying
to the Federal Government the SOW
erelgn power over money, was to
have uniform and just operation
and distribution of a money system.
AS guide to such a system and
a protection to the States they de-
clared there should be mo regula-
ton Of commerce or revenue so as to
give preference to the ports of one
State over those of another" When
the States made our Constitution
they refused to give the Federal Gov
eminent power "to erect a bank"
voted such proposition down three
times, when introduced by such men
e"N NONC1A1OA hAOAI ID, VINO was THEN,
the known representative of the ship
ping and commercial interests of the
country.
Yet these institutions unknown to
our Constitution, opposed and fought
for fifty years by all the great lead
ers of Democracy were shown by the
recent mOney-trust investigation to
be the masters of all our enterprises
and in absolute control of our finan-
cial and domestic affairs, and in con-
nection with other great criminal
corporations had laid off our country
into spheres like conquered domin-
ions by the ancient Kings, and had
set some of their satalites and sat-
raps in control of each subdivision or
section of our country, and no State,
county or city, and no individual cor
poration or association, was allowed
to do business except upon the cruel
terms they dictated.
Although banks had no home in
the Constitution, they found their
way into our Government, through
the cunning contrivance of Alexander
Hamilton over the solemn protest of
Jefferson the father and founder of
Democracy.
And never had, even a constructive
constitutional right to live until af-
ter the Civil War, when what is
known as the Greenback decision of
the Supreme Court, went out of it's
way to link banks to the issue of
greonhack and currency &C an a1o