Year: 1878

The New York bankers have held sew


eral meetings recently, having for their


purpose the agreement upon plan of


action with which the southern and


western states are to be threatened un-


less they withdraw their support Of the


reconciliation of silver. The plan in


cludes: i. No more sale of goods ex-


cept on condition of payment in gold; 2.


No credit or discounts to any western or


southern banks, merchants or corpora
tions. or municipal governments, except


on contracts payable in gold; 3. The


refusal of all dealings with persons who


will not make contracts to pay past and


future debts in gold. This threat is to


be sent all over the country as the de-


termination of the men who claim to


represent the "center of capital" Do


these gentlemen think that the ':center of
capital" is immovable? Within the


memory of even: young men and mer-
chants, New York was the "center of


trade" in the United States, and every


man who dealt in dry goods or groceries
all over the land had to 60 to New York,
or send to New York to purchase his


stocks. Times have changed. New


York was once the center of the provi-
sion trade, and every pound of packed


beef, pork, lard, bacon and cut meats


had to be sent to New York to be sold--


both to the foreign and domestic mar
kets; but the center of the provision
trade has moved a Thousand miles west
ward.


The day has long since gone by when
the west and the south depended on New


York city. That city might be buried,
and the business of the west and south
would 60 on just the same. If the banks
and merchants of New York shall insist
that the capital gathered there shall not
be employed il trade with the west or
south, it is possible that that capital will
quietly find its way to the productive
centers, and be invested directly among
those who produce to sell and who buy
to consume. There is no law that can
compel capital to remain in New York
one hour after the trade of that city
with producing sections of the country
shall cease or be suspended, and if the
city Of New York proposes to suspend
or refuse further commercial or financial
dealings with the exporters of $3.50, ,0O0,-
900 surplus products of their labor, the
latter will probably end some otherroute
to market, some other route to the open
sea, some other point from which to OBJ
tain what they need, and some other
part of the world in which to obtain the
capital they may need TO handle what
they produce.


Now, if the New York banks and mer-
chants want TO get out their "black list"
let them do it. If they will not sell
us dry goods. there are other places where
we can buy them if they will not buy
our bread and meat, let them go hungry.
The people who produce more than they
consume of human food have an
open market the world over, and can
find elsewhere all they need in ex-
change. Let New York get out its
+" black, list;'' it need not be at trouble
to select the names let it put down the
people of the West by acres, townships,
counties, congressional districts, and
states; let them put the people of twenty
six states under commercial and fnan-
cial interdict; let them advertise to the
semotest part of the earth that New
York holds no commercial intercourse
with the south or west; that the people
of these sections refuse to pay any more
debts or interest than is called for by the
letter and terms of their contracts, and, |
when the railroads to New York shall
become bankrupt, and the Erie canal
become stagnant from disuse, and the |
banking buildings in Wall street will |
have inscribed in ohalky whiteness over
their doors the legend, "To let,'' then
perhaps Mr.. George W. Coe and his as
'ociates will discover that any attempt
70 bulldoze or intimidate free and in
;elligent people must prove 8 failure
Chicago Tribune.


WHICH is THE MORE HONEST?


If Mr.. Belmont was asked what money
le rendered in purchasing United States
,onds, ne would of course acknowledge
n the cheapest currency then in vogue.
It IL his business as banker, as indeed
t is of every other purchaser, to make
he best bargain he can. Previous to
1913, when these debts were contracted,
'aper money was in universal use. But
he value Of the paper was measured by
ne gold standard. Now, it happens that
he gold standard, previous to 1873, was
over than the silver. standard. Silver
vas at premium of three per cent.
even the gold papers will not call Mr..
3elmont swindler and a knave if he