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money bearing no interest. or print
impress bonds bearing interest? To
ask the question is to answer it.
ssEIas it never occurred to Senators
who discuss these questions that the
slump in values was coincident with
the retirement of the currency? When
you see two correlated things happen
ing at the same time, do you not i'm
mediately reason that the one is con-
nected with the other? When you see
a motionless steamship begin to emit
smoke from her stack, you hear the
throb of her engines, and she begins
| to walk the waters like thing of
llife,' do you not connect the steam
with the motion of the vessel?
Cotton was selling at 40 cents a
pound What made it drop? The re-
tirement of the money Who retired
the money? The Federal Reserve
Board What right did they have to
retire it? They had none, or they
should not have had it. What notice
did they give the country? None. On
whom did they serve the notice..
"Call In your investments; curtail your
expenses; get ready for a storm?"
On nobody. It fell upon the country
as the avalanche falls upon the un-
suspecting tourist of the Alps.
\ tTv1 ~, nE ~ DYas ,<>s<~
second volume he describes what
happened, and he shows there that
his sympathy was with the contrac-
tionists, but as an impartial historian
The gives both sides. Very much to
his honor, being partisan by nature
l-and very brilliant, effective par
tisan-when he came to write his
book the lances of the setting sun
rested upon his head. and the shadows
[of evening were creeping around his
feet, and he was impartial Passions
had died away, just as they had died
away when he made that beautiful
commemorative address after the death
of President Garfield lin my judgment
one of the most beautiful orations that
the English language contains.
but had Mr.. Blaine studied the his
tory, and the recent history, of other
nations as carefully as he had studied
| that of his own country, he would
have known that what was happening
after the Civil War; and down to the
Black Friday of 1873, was but the
old lesson repeating itself.
Consult Alison's History Of Eu-
rope. consult Browning's Modern
Times, books easily accessible to any
one who cares to know, and you will
discover that after the wars were
over the paper money which paid the
soldier for his service. which fed him
on the march and in the camp, which
clothed him with his uniform. which
/ supplied him with tent, which gave
him his gun and his ammunition was
destroyed. Why? Because the man
who had the gold wanted his own
price for it; and that is what is hap-
pennig now; the same thing happen
ed in France, the same thing happen
ed in Germany. do not wish to in
dulge in anything that looks like
pedantry, but assure Senators that
what happened to us at the close of
this war. as the result of the contrac-
ton policy, has been the aftermath
OF every modern war.
The whole country had adjusted
itself to war expansion. Enterprise
was animated. Credit was extended
to almost everyone who had good
name and apparently good security.
Business was never better. But all
at once, when this life blood was lei
out OF the arteries of commerce. what
happened? It was the same thing
tnat would happen to your physical
body II q lancet should open your ar
teries. 1t weakened, it languished
It fell, and it is still PROSTATE; and
this man, Gov. w. P. G. Harding, now
mas the effrontery to say that times
are good
As said here some time ago, Great
britain has increased her money four
and one half times; and the Senator
from Nebraska tMr. Hitchcock stated
II his speech yesterday that anybody
N Germany could get. at any bank,
money that was good in Germany
Wnat does the German care about any
sort Of money, then? If we could
get money here in this republic that
Is good In every state and territory of
our possessions, what would we care