Year: 1870

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'fNO money in the West"


"Hard times in the West.


''StagBatiOa Of enterprise en- the


West.D


Scarcity Of currency in the West.U


These are the stereOtyped expressions


in hundreds of letters received By rs
/ from all the Western States. Why
should this be 50?


Westward the seat Ofempire is march
/ ing with giant strides. To the West We
I look for the means to subsist the East.
To the West we look for those great
I enterprises, which give employment to
Z the people, add greatness to the nation,
Z develOpe the resources Of the country,
and give reward 60 labor To the West
we look for that growth OF wealth and
tiOnal greatness.


This being the ease, it is the duty Of
! Congress to protect rather than Cypress
Z the West. As that is the tree which Is
to bear the most of our national fruit, let
I it be protected as the East is protected,
and then viii the Republic march on
without limping to the proud position it
can reach only bT wise laws, honest ad-
ministrati0n, and that equality Of taxa
tiOn which makes us a common brother
hood.


No money in the West, for the reason
that it IS locked up in the banks and
vaults Of the East, waiting service AZ
I greater interest than business men can
afford from legitimate profits.


Hard times in the West, f0rrhe reason
that the producers there are taxed on al
they buy from the East, all they raise in
the West, to support untaXed bondhOId-
ers and Eastern mOnop0lists. Vaults
and safes IN the East-farms and reaDeFs
in the West. There they produce and
sell for such prices as the East sees fit to
give And they pay Tor manufactured
goods, such prices as Eastern manufac-
turers ask. And they pay for iranspOr-
tatiOn both ways such charges as Elst-
ern-Owned corporations charge.


And they take such money, and in
such quantities as Eastern capitalists
controlling Congress see fit TO give.
And they pay such taxes as Eastern
bandholders dictate. And the East thus
seeks to hold back the West and South,
as if fearful the greatness Of the one viii
destroy the influence Of the other.


The East,OWns the money.


The West owns the muscle.


Muscle is coward. During the rebel
lion the West did the hardest fighting.
In peace the East reaps the reward, and
those who fought may now labor 20 sup
port the protected ones Of the East


There is a st0gnation Of business en-
terprise in the West because there is no
currency to reward labor. The people
pay taxes to the bOndhOldeTs, who pay
no taxes Call in the bonds. Give us
i'm exchange there or four hundred mill
lions a year till the bonds are taken up
Abolish those robbing machines known
as national banks. Give Us q uniform
currency. Make it indeed a legal ten
der for an debts due to or by the Govern
ment. Give us money for rich and poor
alike. Compel b0ndholders to give up
their bonds, and receive money therefor,
that the people may be relieved Of this
enormous drag of interest. Let money
seek employment as labor dOes-let cash
and muscle work hand-in-hand protect
ed alike, and then there win be no more
ory Of hard times.


Throw money into the West as the
enterprise of the people needs. Labor
viii lOlloW-enteprise viii start anew
tine acres of the West win furnish homes
and work for millions who wiz come to
this country, and IN two years the rise
in property in this country nom present
figures would more than pay the ma
tiOnal debt.


Withhold mOney-cOntraet the cur
reney and you force the people 20 rev0-
luton and reputation, in which tho
East viii suffer mOst,-Pimcr0g's Dem
oer0t,