The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-21

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Up to few years ago the law on1v
allowed the issue Of money on gov
eminent bonds, and to keep the gov
eminent IN debt, and keep it issuing
ponds in time of profound peace and
Dounteous crops, was a vexing prob
lem. Every issue OF bonds in time
OF peace has been met by a raging
outcry of protest by the people. A
political revolution was the answer
to Grover Cleveland's "Midnight
bond issues" and his ticket in the
next election failed to carry pre-
cinct in the Union, so scornful were
the people towards his methods with
the money power.
This led the money trust to call
Tor the issue of money on all kinds
o. bonds, notes, mortgages and secu-
rifles they held in their banks. This
would give them power to coin all
their "blue sky-moonshine," their
forged and fraudulent stocks and
bonds into cash, by having the gov
eminent issue money on them They
could draw interest on the bonds,
STOCKS md other paper they deposited
with the government and interest on
the millions of money the govern
ment gave them. This Infamous in
ventlon of the money devil to in
crease it's power for plumber, was
brought forward by that crocodile of
the commercial world, that insolent
agent of the criminal corporations.
that devOtee Of the money trust,
Nelson A. Aldrich Democrats every-
where meet it with scornful protest,
Ten thousand democratic tongues
told of it's infamy. Democratic
speakers grew eloquent in it's con-
demnation, democratic paper head
lined it as a nideous monster to de-
YOUR our liberties. Mr.. Bryan's pa
per, The COmmOner like a sentinel in
the watch tower of freedom, warned
the people Of the treachery, treason
and distress to the masses that lay
concealed in the coils of that Ser
pent. Like Paul Revere in 1776,
Mr.. Bryan himself ran up and down
the country, his face aglow with pat
riotic love and liberty his voice ris-
ing in eloquent octaves, as he told Of
the coming of this mighty and malls g.
nant foe. to conquer and vanish
our people.
They told us that an asset cur
rency was to pile additional millions
as a gratis gift into the tills of the
malevolent rich, who were already
feasting on loot filched from the peo-
pie. They told us that the whole
scheme of an asset currency was
brought forward by the myrmidions
of MammOn and Morgan-the round
ers for Rockefeller and clackers and
cappers for the great criminal corpor-
atiOns. This patriotic schooling of
the public conscience began by the
Grange and the Allianc. among the
farmers, the knights of Labor, and
Federation among the wage earners,
focused and crystalized by the Popu-
list Party, and brought to a climax
in the wonderful campaigns under
Bryan, was made triumphant last fall
when God Almighty parted the waves
of the Black Sen, as He once did the
waters Of the Red Sea and COM
manded the Democratic party, the
Israel of today, to go through to the
Promised Land.
Right never falters at the chal-
lenge of wrong and having truth for
their shield, justice for helmet and
liberty for a watchword, these Bryan
Democrats continued to charge the
breastworks of organized greed. They
uncovered the depravity of those in
high places, exposed the corruption
and crime of specializing and
plundering politicians. These reve-
lations made the nation heartsick
and the last election was the verdict