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Judge Ricks received a vote of censure,
but the vote in the House committeenus
against imiieucli men t.
Tun Populist Senators, All u, Kyle and
Peffer voted agaiiiHt theNienrngua canal
170,000,000 gnaruuty bond bill.
Senator Allen moved an amendment
to the Vest resolution, the amendment
calling for the annexation of Hawaii. It
was defeated and non-intervention cur
ried by oue majority.
Ten percent of the peopleof tbe United
States are illiterate. And a great many
less than ten per cent of all our citizens
are independent thinkers and sufficiently
well informed to know what is the cora
mou interest.
Mrs. Lease in her new book proposes
that the oppressed classes emigrate to
South America. We believe in staying
. in the' Uuited States and securing our
rights here. Who will Bolve the problem
of civilization here if we run away from
it?
Senator-Elect Thurston is in Wash
ington and, it is reported, is lobbying
for his client, the Union Pacific. "Old
timers declare that a lobby so numerous,
so powerful, so loaded with money, ho
flagrant in method, has not been here
since the rotten days just following the
war." Thurston, as well as all the rest
of the railroad lobbyists, is workiug for
the Reilly bill.
The farmers of Illinois got np a little
one-horse milk trust, 1,500 of them, to
hold up prices in their interest, so their
business would not be ruined, you know,
and straightway the "unconstitutional"
anti-trust law, which has been o! no
earthly use except to harass labor or
ganizations (a use not dreamed of when
it was euacted) is invoked to DreuK up
and sweep away this unlawful farmers'
combine. See?
The supreme court of the United States
has decided that the Sugar Trust is legal
Justice Harlan dissenting. There
; therefore no law allowing us to restrict
this monarchial power which greedily
decrjes prices to every household in the
land. But liberty lovers in this and
other lands have in times past rented
despots, law or no law. lhe supreme
court has found it impossible to uphoi
slavery by its decrees once, and it may
again be taught that judicial dicta are
not t'lperior to natural rights.
THE PRESIDE' ME88AQE
The president In hi meaaage to con
give last week, urgm that "The secre"
tary of the treasury should be authorized
to issue bonds for the purpose of procur
ing and maintaining a sufficient gold
reserve and tbe redemption and cancella
tion of the United States legal tender
notes issued for the purchase of silver
under the law of July 14," labors to im
press the people with tbe idea that tha
credit of the country can only be main
tained by getting deeper and deeper into
debt, by borrowing $6.00,000,000 or
more of gold and bonding the country to
pay it all back and one and oat-half to
twice as much more.
Principal and interest together at three
per cent would (for the time he wants the
people put in bondage) amount to $1,
500,000,000, and at four per cent,
800,000,000. This $900,000,000 inter
est at three percent, or $1,200,000,000
at four per cent, would be clear loss to
the country, because the money borrow
ed is not to be invested, is not to be put
at interest, it is to be simply exchanged
dollar for dollar for other dollars, a use
which is not productive, which does not
increase the sum total of wealth or facili
tate serviceable ixchanges. Nor is this
the only loss; $500,000,000 of the na
tion's money which this borrowed gold
would be exchanged for, be says should
be retired and cancelled. The exense for
destroying this vast value is that there
is no good money except gold. But
every dollar in ciiculation has cost the
people of this country a dollar's worth o
lubor; for the $346,000,000 of green
backs the union soldier's fought and
poured out their blood and lives to save
the nation; for the rest of the Cleveland
discredited money the government has
received the market value which it stamp
ed in dollar figures upon the currency be
would cancel. Therefore, as none of the
currency (greeabacks and treasury notes)
can be obtained by the government
except for equal face value in services
rendered, to destroy it after paying
$500,000,000 for it would be to destroy
$500,000,000 worth of the people's
actual wealth. It would be the same aa
burning up 500,000 houses or homes ot
the people, each costing f 1,000.
Tbe folly and wickedness of such enor
mous waste ana impoverishment are
frightful to contemplate, and should
make the author of the proposed incen
diarism stand aghast and horrified.
But not all the evil of the act proposed
as yet been outlined. It is seriously
urged by the president that a currency
equal in dollars to the people's dollars
stroyed shall be printed and loaned to
the banks at one-half of one per cent a
year, and the only way the $500,000,000
to be practically given to the bankers)
can be gotten into circulation is to put np
satisfactory security and borrow it at
high rates of interest, which, added to
the three or four per cent interest on the
bonds by which the government currency
is to be displaced, would make an enor
mous Interest drain to add to what we
now are impoverished by. And it would
bring all the money of the country that
is not already, completely into the con
trol of the banks and force each dollar
circulated to sustain so many dollars of
indebtedness that the banks would in
ten years absorb all the wealth of the
jountry not already monopolized.
The proposal of the present is to de
stroy a half billion of the people's dollars
and practically give the same amount to
the bankers to whom the people must
pay perpetual tribute and who, will at
frequently recurring periods, because of
falling prices, lock up the currency and
still farther reduce prices, destroy values,
force liquidation, and more and more
rapidly gather into few hands the capital
and lands of the people upon which their
liberty depends.
Theexcuse for this proposal to destroy
a third of the money property of the peo
ple and give to the banks or allow them
to issue as money an equal amount
($500,000,000) of banknote currency to
give the usurers vast additional power
to quickly gather np with interest the
remaining money and resources and
liberties oi the wealth-producing clans, is
the assumption that the government
must exchange gold dollars for other
dollars, for coin notes and greenbacks
whenever the bankers demand gold ex
change. No one but the bankers ever
asks for a particular kind of dol -are,
Coin notes and silver and greenbacks are
always acceptable and as useful and
valuable as gold to everybody else.
Whatever is good for its face in the
markets and to pay debts, satisfies the
wealth producers. And there is no law
authorizing the secretary of the treasury
to select gold alone to pay both gold and
silver (coin) obligations with. It is a
deep-lnid scheme of the bankers and their
co-conspirators, Carlisle, Cleveland, Sher
man and others, to draw off the gold,
make the people believe we are by law fin
a gold basis when we are not, increase
the bankers demands for gold till, under
the false assumption that silver is not a
full legal tender, the government seems
unable to meet its obligations and, with
a great hue and cry, frighten the country
into falling down before the gold mono
polists and consenting to the terms
which will put us and our children in
bondage forever to the villainous, devil
fish, Sliylock power.
So long as Cleveland and - Carlisle re
main in office they will allow the bankers
to loot the treasury of gold, and they
threaten to issue bonds to borrow buck
the gold as fast as it is drawn out, to
bring us more and more under the power
of the Shy locks. They ought to be im-
poached for unlawfully bonding and eii
slaving the people. The bonds are nn
lawful, conspiracy bonds, ol no earthly
service to the people and not authorized
by them; and no punishment could equ.l
the enormous wronga and burdens they
will inflict. The cry therefore against the
bonds should be multiplied into that of
a thoroughly roused, incensed people),
before whose wrath the bankers anfl
their power-usurping agents would treii
ble and fall back. J
Down with the bond-makers I Down
with the bankersl Down with tbe Sby-
lock gang!
BROTHERS OF TBE THIEF MOURN
The resolutions reprinted below indi
cate in what high esteem a convicted
public thief is held (outside of the vigi
lantes) in Holt county, if the Holtcounty
lodge of Knights of Pythias are fair rep
resentatives of the moral plane of tbe
people there. Tbe man who steals $80,
000 of the people's hard earned taxec
they love and esteem as a brother. He
was one of their best and most efficient
members, and of those nearest and dear
est and least to be spared who are usu
ally the first to go. The wings having
already sprouted on the beloved em
bezzler these K. Ps. submissively bowed
to the will of an All-Wise Providence who
gently removed bim from the trials (for
stealing?) and cares of lifeand took hin
home beyond the stars where aching
hearts are healed and tears and sorroy
never come. And these Pious Pythians
pointed the afflicted friends to the pla
of joyful reunion in tbe great beyond
The following resolutions were adopt
by Helmet lodge No. 43, Knights 'pf
Pythias: I
Again the ranks of our Pythian Army
have been invaded by that dread foemu
death. Again we are called upon to
mourn the absence of one wbom we had
learned to love and esteem as a brother.
Whereas, The manner in which our de
parted brother, Barrett Scott, met his
death is most sad and deplorable, yet we
humbly bow to the will of an All-wise
Providence.
Resolved, That while this lodge recog
nizes in the death of Brother Scott, the
loss of one of its best and most efficient
members, we fully realize that all are
mortal and must sooner or later return
to the dust from whence we came, yet it
seems strange that those who are nearest
and dearest and least to be spared are
usually the first to go.
Resolved, That from our own great
sense of loss, we appreciate the deep
gloom that has gathered about the
family of our murdered brother, and our
hearts go out to them in their sorrow's
night, eager to share their burden of
grief, and with the light of hope dispel
the gloom that they may Bee the stars
that shine beyond.
Resolved, That while Helmet lodge
mourns his loss, there are others, still
nearer and dearer, by whom this 1os
must be felt more deeply and to whom
the anguish and sorrow are as bitter as
human hearts, can know. To the lovinn
and bereaved wife and daughter we ten
der our most sincere sympathy in I hi
their dm kest hour of Affliction, trustii'v
that their burden of grief may be lighten
ed by the consolingtlinught that for hiiii
whohns gone the trials and cares of lilV
are forever post, ami hoping for h joyful
reunion in that great and mysterious be
yond, where aching hearts are healed for
ever, and tears and sorrow are unknown.
Resolved, That our lodge be draped in
mourning for a jieriod of 80 days, that
these resolutions be spread upon the
records of this lodge, and that copies b
sent to the bereaved widow and to the
city papers for publication.
Dlt. J. P. GlLLIGAN,
- . E. E. Evans.
" E. M. Gandy,
Committee.
If this don't just naturally beat the
devi! then he doesn't know what to talk
about at his own funerals.
We are interested to know what the
Knights of Pythias generally think o
the above resolutions. Whut do the peo
pie of Holt county who have not spoken
think of them?
The president in his message says:
"Besides the treasury notes, which cer
tainly should be paid in gold, amounting
to nearly $500,000,000, there will fall
due in 1904 $100,000,000 in bonds
issued during the Inst year, and in 1907
$000,0(10,000 of 4 per cent bonds issued
in 1R77 Shiv t in nnvmelil Ol lliest
i II J w i e - - j tr
obligations in gold be repudiated?'1
These are not gold obligations. Ihey
are simply coin obligations, and Cleve
land knows it. He has used his exalted
position to spread an untruth, to secure
general credence toon accursed lie, which,
widely accepted as truth, will make it
possible, perhaps, to run our country in
to five hundred million dollars bonds to
the gold power lor which (!) a perhaps
sufficiently corrupt congress will be re-
Quired to burn up the same amount ol
currency nearly a third of the money
volume. And he also seeks to have the
$000,000,000 1907 coin bonds paid in
gold or refunded in gold bonds. This is
a clear case of accepting a big salary
from, and swearing to faithfully serve,
the people, and then using his position
to mislead and force them into bondage
"Repudiation," Clevelaud calls it, to do
exactly as we contracted to do, to pay
coin, gold or silver, whichever we have
most of in the treasury, either or both
as best suits our convenience. Perjury,
swearing falsely to serve the people,
lyiugin theinterestof the gold monopoly
and doing his worst to destroy the re
maining liberties of a people once free
and independent is what Clevelaud is
guilty of today. The country is in
imminent danger of being boughtup
and practically owned by usurers. They
own more than halfof it already, and
have the president sure, and congress, we
fear.
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THE GOLD FGW.bnFIIFGUS
The Statist, les t'- ; financial paper of
Ioiidon, England, h-iiHse the financial
situation in the Umied States, thinks oar
present congress will do nothing to re
lieve the treasury, that an extra session
would be able to do it only after long
debate and then not satisfactorily, says
the $220,000,000 drawn from us within
the last year is accounted for by our
debt (interest on foreign-owned securi
ties), and says that "with the prospect
of continuous borrowinglendersof course
will insist on better terms." This voice
of the money power says we are losing
gold "because of the redundancy of the
currency (!) and the widespread distrust,"
predicts that the drain of gold will stead
ily continue, that repeated loans will be
necessary, and that "If neither this nor
the next congress passes a satisfactory
bill, or if tbe mints should be reopened to
the free coinage of silver," it will result
in "a monetary panic with gold at a
premium. The latter result it consider
certain whenever tbe government stope
borrowing and its gold reserve disap
pears." Then it is perfectly clear that they who
wish us to keep borrowing are plotting
our financial ruin while they seek to in
crease our obligations to the gold mono
polists. If gold is going to a premium
whenever n e stop borrowing it, the soon
er we stop borrowing it the less of the
darned stuff we shall be compelled tc
pay. The men in congress who are in
tent on running us in debt to the gold
power are the tools of our destroyer
and are themselves the worst sort of
traitors. They deserve to be hung for
their premeditated crimes, or committed
for ten years to a home for the feeble(
minded.
The Statist in another article "advises
abstention from tbe purchase of al'
American railway securities until there
are clear indications of wise and vigorous
dealings with the currency problems with
congress." This means, the application
of financial pressure in England to con
trol the action of theAmericau congress.
GRINDING UP THE 0HILDREN
Illinois has in Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. A.
P. Stevens the best factory inspectors
that any state provides, we believe. Mrs.
Stevens was formerly one of the editors
of the Vanguard. Mrs. Stevens has pre
pared the yearly report. These ladies
have during the year 1894 visited 3,440
workshops where 97,600 men, 24,335
women and 8,130 children were employed.
The description of the sweat shops of
Chicago reveals dreadful conditions.
Men, women and children are there herd
ed together, the decencies of life are per
force disregarded, and physical injury
and moral deterioration are the neces
sary, manifest results. In eight estab
iseineuts at the stockyards 302 boys
and eighteen girls fiiand ankle deep in
water used for flowing the floor, for the
purpose of carry im.' "If blood and refuse
into the drain. They breathe air so sick
ening that a man unaccustomed to it
can stay in the plnce but, a few moments,
and their work is the most brutalizing
that can be devised. Other boys cut
bones with a buzz saw placed within fifty
feet of the drying racks where skulls and
horns are scorching over a flame, and
the smell of the smoking bones, rags and
hides excels in horror all the smells for
which the stockyards are notorious. The
buzz saw unguarded is also dangerous.
These ladies also fonnd 712 children in
weat shops working in conditions that
must bring on curvature of the spine
consumption and pelvic disorders. The
state law forbidding the employment of
children under 14 yeursof age is in thou
sands of cases broken.
ONE MINISTER'S W0RD8.
Rev. Dr. Louis A. Banks of Brooklyn,
in his sermon Sunday, January 27th, on
the Brooklyn strike, said:
"It needs to be said so loudly that it
cannot be forgotten that the dangerous
lawlessness which we are now compelled
to use bayonets and bullets to put down
did not begin with the strikers, but be
iran innir gn wlien the raileoud com
panies defied the laws as to stock water
ing, and endeavored io earn uiviueuus
ou watered stock hy pumping it out of
the life blood of their laborers. It began
when the railroad companies defled tne
flu, Inw oa n rumlirefl hours of labor.
and when they began to defy the law as
.... mi ... U
to speed ot their cars, mere
heo-nn. When the work-
ingman is lawless, we all agree that we
are in danger oi annrcuy, uuu mav u
must be stopped if it takes all the mili
tary force of the state and nation; but it
seems a hard lesson to teach a good
many people that the lawlessness of a
railroad company or a sugar trust has
as much incipient anarchy in it as the
cutting of electric wires on the street or
throwing stones at a streetcar. The
trouble with us is, that we call it 'finan
ciering' on the part of the railroad di
rectors or sugar trust officers, und we
call it anurchy when it is a band of trol
ley car strikers. Let us have one stand
ard for lawlessness, and know that it is as
truly incipient anarchy for a rich man to
v i. ti... low ua frr h. imnr man.
urrniv i" , ....
'Whoever shall win in this strife, the
undeniable fnct will remain that tne men
ought to to have received the wages they
asked.
Thr hounds are after the greenbacks,
riovoinnd is leading them on. Tuke
Mil vi v ' v --
rttiM. tliev are the same money exactly
that they have always been. Tbey need
..rluriinn- tllB.Il theV flBVe ID
ne hi w i n ,ruv,u"..B
nrovions vears. From 1879 to 1891 only
$29,000,000 of the $340,000,000 wers
nresented at the Treasury lor reqemp
inn. But in 1893 alone, when the
scheme was originated by the Bankers'
Association to contract credit, bribe
fnnirresH to close the mints against su
ver. and by draining gold from the
Treasury induce i .and and Congreag
to issue bonds aim "ire the $500,000,
000 greenbacks an Treasury notes and
so give all curreucy is-ues into the bands
of the banks, in tli- first year of their
great conspiracy, in 1893 alone, $44,
493,512 of greenbacks were presented
and gold demanded for them. And last
year, when tbe first $100,000,000 of
bonds, of the amount conspired for, were
issued, as a preparation for those issues
no less than $123,941,059 of these dol
lars, which were good enough to pay ths
soldiers for fighting, were sent in by the
banks to be "redeemed." These green
backs have been and are being used as
an endless chain to draw gold from the
Treasury and roll bonds upon the peo
ple, the bankers manipulating them in
completing the round. Greenbacks first
were brought to the Treasury and gold
was demanded for them. Tbe Secretary
was not obliged to pay gold, silver dol
lars would have beeu lawful redemption;
but to serve the conspirators he paid out
gold only. Then the greenbacks were
naidont to meet government expenses,
deposited in the banks by government
employes, and by tbe banks returned
again to the Treasury with a demand for
a second redemption in gold. In this
way the Treasury has been three times
so looted of gold that the Treasurer bas
(while carrying out the conspiracy) de
clared it necessary and twice has as
sumed unlawful power to issue bonds to
borrow back $50,000,000 at a time to
keep the chain runuing, and has bor
rowed it back for an unnecessary use
and fastened fresh burdens of debt upon
the pepple. And now comes Cleveland
and says, the Treasury notes and green
backs must be all redeemed in gold and
burned up. and that bonds must be is
sued to get gold to "redeem" this $500,
000,000 of the people's money which he
and the banks wish to destroy, and that
the banks must be allowed to issue, con
trol and loan their notes, which cost
them nothing to speak of. It will soon
be seen whether the money power which
was held in check in the '70s when it was
trying to destroy all the United States
notes, is able today to sweep down all
opposition and complete its conquest of
the American people.
The coal miners of Iowa are reported
in a destitute, suffering condition, the
cause given being an over-production of
coal. "With the mild winter, the pus
eiveness in railway circles' and dull busi
ness in all manufacturing institutions
this over-production is made more fear
fully prominent," says the Chicago Times.
Over-production of coal and work
stopped, while in hundreds of thousands
of homes the "people are shivering ovei
a scanty fire, or wrapping themselves in
ragged bedding and going without fire,
because they cannot exchange worn, wiw
tne miners! Will not the people soon
see that the demand of monopolists for
profits is forcing people to quit work on
the right and on the left, that it reduces
their power of consumption, and so in
jures the market by lessening thedeinand
for everything? They who stand between
the workers in the mines and in the fac
tories and on the farms, and by their de
mands for profits reduce the workers
power to buy one another's products
and so prevent needed consumption, and
stopping the needful exchanges reduce
the demand for work, with resultant des
titution and beggary, are probably for
the most part unconscious of the out
rages they are committing, the rights
and equities they are trampling on, the
anxieties and distresses, the needs, temp
tations and agonies they are causing.
They accumulate, but at fearful cost und
great waste. They grow rich, but it is
by a way wasteful and destructive.
Profits, interest and rents in excess of
what is consumed by use, affect com
merce as injuriously and bring things to
a standstill as certainly us stones do the
cylinder of a thresher. With equity
there can be no over-production.
Do you remember two years ago, near
ly, that all the goldbug papers and poli
ticaus were crying out that there was a
"dangerous lack of confidence" caused
by the too great coiuage of silver? The
president aud all the rest of the enemies
of silver assured the country that if the
special session of congress called to carry
out Cleveland's (Wall Streets) wishes
against silver would do its duty gold
would cease to fly or hide itself and pros
perity would settle down in the commer
cial world for something of a visit. Well,
the mints were closed, and contrary to
prophecy prices continued to fall, and
gold has continued its movement away
from us, aud bonds have been issued to
try to hold it, in vain. And now in mes
sage number two of the series Grover de
clares that we have also got too much
paper money, and that to get gold back
to us we must burn up all our paper
money and borrow six or seven hundred
millions of gold and agree to pay back
two or three times as much, and this
thousand millions plunge deeper into
debt will restore confidence and eoin-
plete the work which Cleveland and con
gress so patriotically and heroically be
gan Well, truly, it does look as if the
proposed burning up of a third of our
money, bonding us for six or seven hun
dred millions of fresh gold obligations
and turningus over to the tender mercies
of the Shylock bankers for currency,
would about finish the job.
The deal has been made, and $100,
000.000 of 4 per cent thirty year bonds
to be made payable in gold, the press
dispatchers claim have been secretly dis-
I of by CurlM. It is aaid that gold
for them comes mainly from Jlur").
This is from a moral standpoint
such a job as would by the breakiug b.M
force into the United States treasury and
robbing the vault of $120,0)0,0iO.
The bankers are doing it with the aid
and consent of Carlisle. The gain of
interest costs them nothing; they reallr
give not even the use of the money thej
lend for it, because they are allowed to
deposit the bonds exchanged for gold
and draw and loan to the people bank
notes in place of it. The interest is clear
gain to them and loss to the people. No
juggling with words, talk about parity
and the necessity of redeeming coin
(gold or silver) obligations can make
this raid on the treasury by the bankers
anything but deliberate robbery, getting
more than a hundred millions of gold for
nothing. Let the people now if thejf
have any sense of justice and love oij
liberty rise up aud burl the Sbylocks and
their tools from power.
It was not enough to steal or allow
others to steal the state blind, and be
allowed to go unpunished, in the face of
unquestioned evidence. It was not
enough to slip through the hands
of the people who demanded the im
peachment and punishment of our
state officials by wbom or un,
flap tvlirkii, tliooA Bt.nto vab nlnnripred-
But knowing what kind of men the
machine gang send to the legislature
these branded butunpunished and appar
ently shameless ex-officials have had the
face to make use of Joe Burns to intro
duce a bill for an appropriation of $9,
200 to reimburse John C.Allen, Augustus
R. Humphrey, and George H. Hastings,
impeached by the legislature two years
nrrn fnp hio-h misHemennorH in office in
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the conduct of state institutions. They
want the state to pay them their salaries
while tbey stood by and saw tbe state
robbed. And they want the state to pay
nearly ten thousand dollars to their
attorneys for defending them against
the state and saving them from justice.
One of the New York bankers, Mr.
Schiff, of the banking house of Kuhn
Loeb & Co., rebuked the banks at the
Chamber of Commerce meeting, which
passed resolutions recommending Cleve
land's bond scheme and theburningup of
the greenbacks. He scored them for act
ing in an unpatriotic manner in drawing
gold needlessly from the United States
treasury, and said instead they should
place gold at its disposal. (They have
about $40,000,000 above legal reserves '
for which they have no use, yet keep
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force bond issues.) Bray ton, Ives, press
dent of the Western National bank, :
plied that it was not a matter of seuti1
ment (patriotism, mora!ity)but business,
umi l Im l Schiff HliouuicoMiiifhis remarks
to business.
Mr. C. M: Clark of Lincoln is working
for a joint resolution in the legislature
calling for the submission of a constitu
tional amendment to raise revenues by a
graduated income tax. His proposed
law would add twenty per cent to the
tax on land owned by one person, com
pany or corporation in excess of 100
acres, and an additional corresponding
raise on each additional 160 acres or
fraction thereof. For instance. If the
tax on tbe first 160 acres were $20, on
320 acres (20 percent added to the rate)
it would be $i8, on 480 acres $84, on
610 acres $128, the rate rising as there
was an increase in the area.
The rich and the poor meet together .,
and mingle their tears over the grave of
Ward McAllister. Who will now be able
to devise equally artistic and expensive
pleasures for the millionaires? Who will
with such inventive genius euable men to
pour out $10,000 on asiugle dinner?
Who will know how to conduct the New
port picnics, the "Four Hundred" balls
and receptions, and plan pleasures for
ennui sufferers, who but for such men as
Mac could find no new thing to enjoy?
Pity the poverty of the rich who knfiw
nothing of the joys of creation by luboV
and have no power left in them to enjoy
simple inexpensive tilings.
1 UK mew lurs jliiuuiic vreu ojo umt
The people have not yet consented .to
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pay bankers $750,000,000 for the use of
public credit which can be better used
without them. 'It is astonishing that so
many bankers and financiers fail to
appreciate the defiance of the public will
involved in President Cleveland's pro
posal. If any party wishes to attempt
retirement of the greenbacks, let it sub
mit the question to the people at any
election, aud watch the result."
Senator Stewart introduced lust
week a joint resolution and memorial to
congress against the issue of bonds and
asking tor u sale and suthcient currency.
But of course the Republican majority
wants nothing of the sort. They prefer
bonds for the bankers, bonduge for the
people and the greatest possible interest
tribute to the Shylocks.
Is the milleuium so near as this indi
cates? Receiver Charles P. Boswoi tli of
the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis railroad
January 25th, petitioned Judge All' ii of
the federal court, in whose hau ls tl
road is now operated, to allow i he I
ceiver io aovauce ine wages oi coirti;c-
tors and brakeroen 10 per cent.
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