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Hay Seed Jay" Again
Writes on the Finan
cial Question.
Goes a Little Deeper Iota What He
Refers to as the Bankers'
tout-piracy.
Editor of The American: It must
be admitted that you present a fairer
argument than the average gold bug-,
yet I did not suppose it necessary to
explain to a business man with lucid
intervals that there is a difference be
tween the amount of money in exist
ence and the amount in circulation
doing business. All business institu
tions keep some amount on deposit
with their bank at all times, and the
average aggregate of all the depositors
have in a bank makes such a snug lit
tie sum that, loaned out to customers
who are in need but who can be de
pended upon to return when demanded,
it constitutes one of the sources of rev
enue to a bank. When times are
stringent or unsettled, no bank dares
to put in use the idle capital of its de
positors. Individuals also put money
away in stockings, safety vaults and in
hiding places in the ground, but these
methods, bidiDg as they often do very
large sums, withdraw from .business
but a tin all per cent of the amount
sometimes laid aside by Wall street
plutocrats when they conspire to pre
duce a money famine. Money is an au
thorized representative of value, and
as such its whole use is as a medium of
exchange, and when any great amount
is withdrawn from the possibility of
entering Into that use, the channels of
barter and trade feel the loss of it,
prices of all property and products
seeking a market decline, and business
suffers. And the dollars doing busi
ness being fewer, the man with a note
at the bank finds it more difficult to
find money with which to pay, priva
tion, distress and ruin follow.
Prices adjust themselves under nor
mal conditions, and if the circulating
medium be contracted unnaturally and
suddenly, a period of bankruptcies will
ensue. More than twmty years we
.have endured a period of constantly
falling values interspersed occasion
ally with sudden contractions, the
greatest of which caused the panic of
1893.
And out of the loss and degradation
of the masses during such periods, the
great financial operators who pull the
strings reap great profits. It is worthy
the best efforts of all our patriotic peo
ple to remove the conditions which
make possible a recurrence of panics.
I believe it is agreed by all who have
studied the '03 panic the direct cause
was concerted action of the American
Bankers' Association calling in one
half of all loans and reducing their na
tional bank circulation one-third. That
this was done to compel congress to re
peal the Sherman silver purchase act
is no longer any secret. The national
banks had $650,000,000 of their notes
in circulation and the withdrawal of
1217,000,000 was equivalent to lessen
ing the circulation $3 per capita. The
forms of money circulating among the
common people are treasury notes,
bank notes and silver; gold being han
dled almost exclusively the favored
few; and the total of treasury notes
being $130,000,000, It can be readily
seen that the national bank notes con
stitute the greater part of the money
handled by the common people. If
the banks can by concerted action
withdraw one-third, what can prevent
them from pulling in two-thirds or
even three-thirds of their circulation?
Theirs would be only loss In business;
they are safely in out of harm's way,
and can draw their 4 per cent on the
bonds deposited in the United States
treasury. The large institutions under
Wall street domination lead in the
crusade, and many are made beggars
to enrich the few. It is the common
knowledge of the few who have read
the report of the nineteenth annual
session of the National Bankers' Asso
ciation that the next step is compel
the retirement of the greenbacks and
treasury notes. And one of their speak
ers boldly proclaimed that It was in
their power, and they must push on to
reach a sound money bade,, with gold
coin alone as the basis and standard,
and national bank notes the only paper
currency. They flippantly referred to
this as an advanced stage in progress,
and that the government should go
out of the banking business.
Can any sane man doubt that the
money power has designs upon tie
manipulation and control of the finan
ces of this people, and that it counts
upon the national banking tyttem as
their ally and tool? If so, I can fur
nish you with documentary evidence
that such is the fact. It would be al
most impossible for that power to con
trol the silver money, hence they want
limited to the lowest amount possible,
and that they be given control of its
output through presidential treasury
appointees; and they don't want silver
coined on private account under any
circumstances.
I notice in your answer that you fear
the silver kings may combine and put
up the price of silver above $129 per
ounce. Perhaps you know of some use
for the metal in which it is more val
uable than as money. I do not; but I
do know they could gain nothing by
such a course under free and unlimited
coinage, for there would be none who
would wish to compel them to have
their silver tullion coined. Perhaps
you did not stop to think that the most
valuable use of any metal coined is i's
use as money when coined, and if you
take from any metal that is coined the
privilege of unrestricted coinage the
bullion value will at once fall below
the coin value, and the withdrawal of
that privilege is the reason for it. I
will venture the assertion that If silver
should be discarded as money entirely,
not even used as token money, you
buy two ounces of it with a bushel of
wheat, and if gold were entirely dis
carded as money, one bushel of wheat
would buy an ounce of gold, while to
day It takes more than forty bushels
for one ounce of gold in Omaha.
Again, you seem to think the silver
king can take his mountain of the white
metal to the mint" and have it coined
without spending a cent; while people
generally will accord to him the privi
lege of paying all the legitimate ex
pense of mining and transporting the
metal and the experience of tome has
been a loss, though most of the mine
operators will realize a handsome
profit. The profits have always been
sufficient to encourage further explo
ration and prospecting, but is not
greater than has resulted from some
other enterprises.
Mr. Editor, this is a democratic
country, and anything that smacks of
plutocratic domination should be
avoided, for the only result of such
rule is poverty and degradation for the
masses that the few map revel in
wealth. Since the money question is
becoming understood, the great middle
classes of all nations have their eyes
on this people In this crisis, recogniz
ing that in the success of free coininge
is the first step in emancipation from
financial slavery, and in the Chicago
platform is the second declaration of
Independence in America.
Hay Seed Jay.
The Grandest.
The patriotic movement now running
at high tide in the United States is the
graBdest and most significant of any
movement which has yet characterized
our history. The next five years will
tell. Great questions are Involved.
Among them are such as the indepen
dent sovereignty of the whole people,
constitutional form of government, the
supremacy of civil law over combined
money powers and individual greed,
and all other conspiracies tending to
distort the true and original principles
upon which our nation was founded.
Issues of greater importance never
commanded the attention of the Ameri
can people. Southern Eagle.
Pope Writes to the Sultan.
London, September 26. The Rome
correspondent of the Chronicle says that
Monsignore Bonetti, the apostolic dele
gate at Constantinople, after making
the pope acquainted with the situation
there, has just returned to Constan
tinople with a letter from the pope to
the Sultan, expressing his grief at the
massacres and imploring future security
for Christians.
November lt, 198.
afford to be without it. Send it to his address.
MUTILATED HISTORY.
1 Teacher (alls Attention to a Very
Clear Case In Illustration.
Mr. J. J. W. Starr, of Lawrence
burg, Tenn., writes as follows io the
Boston Citizen:
The patriotic papers have often
called attention to the fact that our
histories, In the new editions, are being
changed at the command of the Horn It h
church. I am teaching, and a few
days ago in the United States history
clasi, the fait presented itself In a
manner not to be ignored. We use the
history written by M. E. Tbalhelmer
and published by the American Book
Company. All the books except one
used by the class are of the edition
closing with the election of Benjamin
Harrison, and that one closes with the
second election of Grover Cleveland
On page 30 paragraph 46, of the
older edition, in a short account of the
murder of the French Huguenots in
Florida by Pedro Melendez, the found
er of St. Augustine. In that paragraph
Is the following: "As France and
Spain were at peace, he excused the
act by an Inscription which he nailed
to a tree, 'Not as French, but as here
tics.' " In the later edition the above
does not appear at all.
I have an older history by J. C. Kid
path, closing with the 1877, and on
page 27 is a pretty full account of the
murder of these French Protestants by
the Spanish Roman Catholics. The
Catholic party in France inf-rmed the
Spanish court where the HuguenotB
could be found, und thus assisted in
their destruction, while both editions
of Thaloeiraer's history state that the
French king took no notice of their
murder. No doubt he was a Roman
Catholic and was pleased with the re
sult. When cowardly book publishers will
mutilate history at the command of
Rome; when neither of the great par
ties dares to say a word in favor or de
fense of our public school system for
fear of offending its Romish enemies;
and when Keman prelates can dictate
absolutely what shall, or shall not, go
Into the party platform?, it seems to
me that Rome has got a grip on our
free institutions that only bloodshed
will finally release. I honestly think
It is high time for the American peo
ple to wake up. Let the indisputable
facts of history be taught in our public
schools, and any system of religion
that dares not face these facts is out
of'place under the American flag.
Wisconsin Patriot.
POLISH CATHOLICS AT WAR.
Riotous Scenes in Their Congress at
Buffalo.
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 24. There
was no great meeting of the Polish
Roman Catholic congress until late in
the day, the different committees being
hard at work. The committee on
"hierarchy" decided that a petition be
sent to his- holiness Pope Leo asking
that a Polish assistant be appointed in
the office of the Papal Ablegate in
Washington to attend to Polish ques
tions. The meeting of the Polish National
Alliance committee was an exciting
one. The leaders of the alliance were
thought to be in sympathy with the
Independent church movement. Dean
Pi tat a advised all Catholics to abandon
the alliance. Finally a resolution was
adopted advising the deposition of the
present alliance leaders, and that the
alliance then be taken into the fold.
Resolutions were adopted by the com
mittee on independent church asking
the independents to come back Into the
true church, and a committee was ap
pointed to visit the independent con
gress. When the report of the Polish Alli
ance committee was read to the full
congregation, and a vote called for its
adoption, a regular riot ensued. The
three or four hundred delegates were
on their feet and yelling like Indians.
A rush was made for the platform,
many delegates being carried off their
feet. Benches were tipped over, gar
ments were ripped, and hand-to-hand
fighting was going on all over the hall.
Matters were assuming a decidedly
dangerous aspect, when Papal Dele
gate Monsignore Wawarzyniak mount
ed a chair and beseech ed the del gates
to come to order. It was some time
before order was restored. Then a
vote was taken, and the report of the
committee deposing the officers of the
alliance was carried.
At today's meeting of the congress of
the Independent Polish Roman Catholic
Church it became a part of the consti
tution that none of the metnbeia should
submit to the rule of a Bishop of the
Rotnl-h Church. A suggestion was
ofTeied that money bo sent the Pope In
the shape of a yearly-offering. This
met with fierce opposition, and It was
decided by a unanimous vote that the
church should refuse to send any
money to the Pope, and that tho mom y
raised by them should be used for the
poor of the church. It was decided
that the present ritual of tho Roman
Calhollo Church bo retained, for the
present at least.
Stanislaus Kamtniski, rector of the
Church of the Holy Mother of the
Rosary, Buffalo, was cho-en Bishop of
the independent chuch.
Jesuitism In the C S. A.
Jesuitism is making itself more and
more felt in the secular press and in
the municipal governments of the land.
It is folly to close our eyes to the fact.
The Romish hierarchy started upon
the iolicy of dominating this land dur
ing the famous Baltimore council, and
every year since has witnessed increas
ing evidences c f progress in this direc
tion. More recently It starUdanew
political society under the specious
plea that it was necessary to do so be
cause the A. P. A. was encroaching
upon its rights; but It must not be for
gotten that the latter organization was
formed as a counteractive to the mach
inations and attacks upon our liberties
and institutions by the Jesuits of Rome.
This wily, foe will bear close and con
stant watching. I'ldluiklphia I'nshy-
ttrian.
We are glad to note the progess of
religious liberty in this country. Amer
icanism Is asserting itself. The old
sinkers tied about the necks of children
binding them to certain anclentdogmas
and traditions are beginning to disap
pear with the ghost stories and rabbit
foot luck foolishness of the more Igno
rant past Free, public education is
doing it. Apostolic Herald.
In past eras Rome commanded and
kings obeyed. In more recent periods
she Issued her orders to nations, and
some of them refused. At the present
day she cajoles, entreats and intrigues,
and if unable to accomplish her full
purpose, compromises. Rome's power
is fast waning; don't compromise with
her, and her days for evil will thus be
the sooner ended. Ex.
"The Devil Is Dead."
The following, from the Christian
Evangelist of St. Louis, hits the nail n
the head, especially In its characteri
zation of the notorious Priest Phelan's
weekly papal sheet:
"The putrescent Western Watchman
uf St. Louis', and other malodorous
journals of the same ilk, are now en
gaged in writing obituary notices of
the American Protective Association.
They are gravely philosophizing over
the rise, progress and decline of this
band of 'hyenas' which has caused so
much disturbance In politics in this
country for the past few years. They
have even decided on what disposition
to make of the members of the 'late'
organization. The membership at
large are to be forgiven, if they will
never do so again, but the leaders are
to be proscribed, boycotted and perse
cuted to the bitter end. There is only
one trouble about these elgalc edito
rials, and that is that they have been
appearing with great regularity for
the past six years. The A. P. A. has
been killed and burled as often as the
leaders of the Cuban rebellion. The
fells domestica, with its reputed nine
lives, has but feeble vitality compared
to this much-hated society. The fact
Is the reverend demijohns who edit
the organs of Romanism are shouting
to keep up their courage, like a cer
tain character in fiction, a French 8 1
dler, who nerved himself in every pre
dicament by crying, "Courage! le
diable est mort!" Whenever the lit
erary giants of the papacy get particu
larly scared they begin to rear up on
their hind legs and bray forth death
notices of the A. P. A. But they de
ceive no one."
The American until election day
for 10 cents. Cash with the order.-
AN A1TEAL TO THE CLERGY.
HannalteH Ask Catholic t'rleots to do
Work for thf Gold Candidates.
New York, September 28. The fol
lowing letter addressed to the Cut hollo
clergy ol the United States by, It Is
said, tho McKlnloy and Hobart busi
ness men's national campaign com
mittee, was given out to day at Tam
many hull;
Tenth Street, Above Chestnut,
Philadelphia, September 19, HM .
Reverend and Dear Sir: We are well
aware that the dignity of your sacred
office forbids the exercise of your In
fluence In any political matter Involv
ing more questions of executive or
legislative policy.
Nevertheless, we are fully persuaded
that the questions before the country
In this presidential campaign are of an
especially serious character, becauso
they Involve fundamental moral Issues,
A decision on a selection of a president
that will commit the executive to a
policy that in Its application will forci
bly compromise private financial obli
gations and will repudiate a portion of
national debts, will ne a violation of
the basic Christian principle that com
mands honesty between man and man.
Such a decision, we believe, would be
thoroughly Immoral and would pre
cipitate an ethical and material calam
ity of incalculable magnitude.
We are also of the opinion that the
attack now being made uxn the regu
larly constituted legal authorities of
the national government is pernicious
and dangerous to an extreme degree,
for it contains rebellion against those
safeguards of law upon which society,
the individual, the several states of the
nation, must depend for security and
protection. If successful the vital
principles of our government will be
undermined.
R .'calling with gratitude tho patriot
Ism and eminent public services of the
late Most Rev. Archbishop Hughes
and many others of the Roman Catho
lic clergy when the Integrity of our
government wasthrtatened on a former
occasion, we take the liberty to sug
gest that the present question Is one of
equal danger. The government is not
threatened by physical force, but it
sldinus and false Ideas that Inspire in
cipient anarchy and contempt for
proper authority are industriously
propagated throughout our country.
It is not our purpjso to argue the
foregoing suggestions. We merely de
sire to respectfully express the opinion
that present political Issues involve
vital moral questions that powerfully
appeal to the religious Instructors of
the people.
Our committee Is not partisan, it in
cludes neither office holders nor office
seekers. We have no personal politi
cal interests to serve, being private
citizens associated for patriotic pur
poses. Very respectfully,
Robert C. Ooden,
Chairman Publication Committee.
The Tammany chleftans are very
much incensed at the appeal to the
Catholic clergy to support McKinley
and Hobart, which, they think, will
prove a boomerang.
General Osborne, when shown a copy
of the letter at Republican head
quarters, said he knew nothing about
it.
TAMMANY INDORSES BRYAN.
Passes Resolutions Favoring Chicago
l'latform and Candidates.
New York, September 24. The
Tammany general committee to-night
passed resolutions enthusiastically In
dorsing Bryan and Sewall and the Chi
cago platform. No reference was made
to the candidacy of John Boyd Tbacher
for governor.
GENERAL NEWS.
A large number of people living in
Nebraska, particularly in Omaha, will
be shocked and pained by the announce
ment of the death of Mr. J. J. Black
burn, formerly one of the foremen In
Swift & Co.'s packing house. He was
accidentally killed Thursday by falling
down the elevator shaft In Whitney &
Co.'s packing house In San,, Francisco.
Mr. Blackburn was one of a family of
boys who have won thoeonfidence and
esteem of a large portion- of our citi
zens, and was well-known in Nemaha,
York, Lancaster and other counties of
the state, where his father, Rjv. W. S.
Itlackburn, a Molhodist preacher, was
located for a number of year. It has
been our good fortune to know the
family for almost thirty years, and the
deceased ever slnco be was a young
man, am we know the loss will fall
heavy upon every member of his family
and upon every one of his friends. Mr.
Blackburn was a member of the Hans
com Park M. K. church. The remalna
will be brought to this city for Inter
ment.
The Republicans of Omaha and vicin
ity have boon working up considerable
enthusiasm this week. They started
the ball rolling when they gave a torch
light parade Tuesday evening, followed
by an address by Senator Thurston at
the Coliseum. Wednesday night they
held a grand rally la Boyd's Opera
House and an overflow meeting at Kar
bkch Hall. Tho speakers of the evon
lng were Gons. Alger, Sickles, Stewart,
Howard and Corporal Tanner. Thurs
day evening they hold another rally at
Karbach Hall, which was addressed by
Hon. A. S. Churchill and others. Tl G
muslo was furnished by the Seventh
Ward Military Band, the John L.
Webster Campaign Quartette and Jules
Lombard.
Dispatches from Ladvllle, Colo., go
to show that tho Miner's union will
undoubtedly take the advice of Edward
Noyce, tho federation president, to
"stick out the strike," and as a result
eoveral of the mine managers will
gradually Btart up the works with as
many mon as they can s;cure until the
strike is declared olT. Toe managera
of the Ibex, Resurrection, Bison and
Mapala Mining companies can furnish
employment to 600 men, and announoa
that they Intend to resume. At all
these properties cleaning up and pre
paratory work has already commenced.
Four Orders.
There are four orders of Jesuits
throughout the world. Of the first
order are ecclesiastics, whose office It
Is to take care of things promoting re
ligion. Of the second order are poll
tlcians, whose office it is, by any means,
to shake, trouble, or reform the state
of kingdoms and republics. Of the
third order are seculars, whose pro
vince it is to Intrude themselves Into
offices with klntrs and princes, to insin
uate ard intermix themselves In court
business, bargains and sales, and to be
busied in civil affairs. Of the fourth
order are intelligencers of spies men
of Inferior condition, who submit them
selves to the services of great men,
princes, barons, noblemen, citizens, to
deceive and corrupt the minds of their
masters. From the ITarlelan Miscel
lany, volume 8, pige 195, In the San
Francisco public library, published in
London in 1810.
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