The great West. [volume], February 02, 1894, Image 1

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CT PAGE,
VOL. V.
It Is a Daisy.
From a letter:—“Dr., what is the greatest evi!
that attaches to the national banking system?’*
> This is the worst feature: “It. has ruined the
people in every nation on earth in whioh it has had
an existence. It ruined the Argentine Republic. It
rhicsd France under the John Law Mississippi
Bubble. It has ruined the people of England until
15*000 people own e*ery foot of soil in England, and
one in every eight is a pauper! In Dakota it has
warped it over the backs of the “My Party” worship*
pers Until 55 per cent of its acreage belongs to cor
porations!
Another bad thing about it is—that there is net
one solitary good thin'? about it.
Another bad thing about it is that the cur
rency (God protect the man who thinks currency and
money are the same thing!) isn’t worth the powder
to blow it to Bedlam. If a mau owed ten cents to
a peanut vender and should wheelbarrow a million
dollars in national bank bills over his counter to
pay the debt the peanut vender could go into the
courts and sue for his ten cents immediately there
after
Another bad thing about it is that no power iu
heaven above, earth-on-a-level, or hell beneath, ever
conid, or ever dared, to try, to make the rag-baby,
wild-cat sawdust stuff a legal tender. The idea
that a note— a debt —could be legal tender!
Another bad thing about it. is that it is abso
lutely insecure!—positively not one shadow of secur
ity lies back of a national bank bill. It is worth
alike iu all parts of the country and that alone makes
it equal to the old-fashioned oatskiD, skin- the-cat,
summer-frost, state-bank currency! In all respects
it is looser, crazier, and more shameless. For the
state bank pretended to have the bank officials’
property back of it, and this fraud (bearing the low
lived dirty trick-mule name of “national”—ha—ha—
haw!) don’t have even ye summer winds that tra-la
la-boom-de-aye back of it!
“Bonds!” Oh don’t—take yer paw out of your
mouth! Get Greek and Sanscrit and’the toothache—
but don’t say bonds.' Put it in North American,
Nux Vomican, nihil fit killimazoo language—and
say bondage. People understand that.
Yes, “bawnds” are back of that delicious “best
‘banking system in” hades! And what is a “bawnd?”
Why it is a debt! “8ho!” Yes, it is, “No—you’re
.phoolin’—po! po! be dignified and exercise sobriety.”
But how in thunder cun a man keep his teeth
<covered when a great American schoolbouse nation
: gets up a system of “money”—(currency really) on
-credit-debt—and a banker’s credit—phew!—and se
cures that debt with another debt!!! Bend for the
iring- master! Just as if a war or a disaster—or pes
itilencd driving a treasury note to Washington for
redemption—or reduce its “value”—wouldn't strike
the bonds much harder than it would the treasury
note. How wasitduring the war? Was a national
bank bill worth “one'hundred cents on a dollar?”
Well not exactly, by bank accounting. The green
back took it by the nose and held it up to the “exg
ception clause” value—from 37c. up! Which is eas
ier to redeem in case of a war?—one huudred dollars
in greenbacks without interest, or a million dollais
in bonds with interest? Which would be presented
first?—a circulating greenback or a gold requiring
bond!
A banker’s debt-uote secured by a bond -dr bt
note!—well, that’s good—that’s a “sound system!”
Another thing abou« a national bank bill is that
it gats out by being borrowed out—it must go back
—to pay ths debt—and when it goes back it leaves a
largei hole thau when it went out to fill a, “bole.”
It is an absorbent, sucking and drawing night and
day. And now it has become so triumphantly ele
phantine in proportions that all other money is in
.the same condition.
The Great West 5
ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEB 2, 1894.
Every dollai in the country now has to return to
Wall street every seven months, to pay debts—and
be borrowed out again to do business—to return
again and again. Every dollar in the United States
has only seven interests attached to it—that’s all. It
will be ten tomorrow.
Ob, the national banking system is a daisy. .
The G. O. P is quick to jump upon the faults of
a man—if he have any—who is a foe ts the political
rascality of the age. But the overwhelming cussed
ness of the D. G. O. P. is painted cerulean blue, with
phantasmal rainbows of hogwash.
February Ist, was the dale fixed by the
Cieveland-Sherman administration for selling the
American people into bond-age. Will the people
submit? Vote the old ticket once more, ye serfs! /
For tbe Great West.
A Dollar a Day.
A dollar a day, a dollar a day,
Six children to feed, the doctor to pay;
Tbe sugar is high, tbe coffee is higher,
Meat is expensive and so is the fire;
There are school-books to buy au«l clothing to get,
Aod then the old landlord calls around in a pet.
Digging away, day after day,.
Tour form growing bent, your hair turning gray
The preacher comes text and bids you beware
How you grossly neglect the house of prayer;
So you fix up your best and start out afresh,
To be met by the deacon demanding the cash.
Weary and worn, poor and forlorn
You wish iu your heart you never was born;
Your “shoddy” grows thin and lets in the cold,
Your over-worked wife now turns to a scold,
And you sadly reflect while pegging away;
One can’t be a “saint” on a dollar a day.
Daisy Clover.
The nations of tbe world never breathed freely
in tbe midst of political dangers until the habeas
corpus was demanded and granted to tbe English
people years ago. It is the sole barrier against
secret and unjust imprisonment. The meaning of
habeas corpus i 9 “have the body,” and it is a writ
commanding the officers to bring the body of tbe
prisoner into court—and if bailable, allow him to
give bonds.
It is with profound astouisment that we see the
people of this oountry trifling, or permitting trifling,
with this precious safeguard against despotism and
usurpation.
Lu tbe Hoskin’s case in Minnesota, it was only by
extreme labor and parading hither and thither, from
judge to judge, from court to court, that tbe writ
was secured. In fact, we divulge no cofidences when
we say that preparations were made to arrest the
judges of the sir reran court ns a final resort.
The writ was finally obtaiued—after “conferences”
—and Hoskius set al liberty.
What a wonderful, wonderful thing it is that so
many intelligent citizens do ii >*—or will not— see the
definite purpose of the m >»••* Buying and selling class
to use the labor of the world for their enrichment.
This decree prevails throughout all banking circles:
“Let no money be issued that does n t pay us
tribute!”
The number of people who love their country
better than party is very large. The number is only
exceeded by those who love their party better than
country But there's a light breaking.
THE IMMIGRATOR
Wl)o Would Have Built Up SoUtt*
Bakota, aod Peopled Tl>ese
Vacant Farirjs.
Ii la Tlipe to Wake Up aod Gaze
1010 toe Face of tl?e
Tiioe to Soooze oo tOe
Breast of G. O. P. Folly.
What is ths reason the Immigrator has stayed his
hand, and the pioneer has pnlied rein?
Why is it that all ovsr this western plain of ver
dant treasure and prairie beauty the homes are not
crowded with the new-comer and the stayer?
Is it your fault? Is it my fault? And whoso
ever fault, what have YOU—knowing the evil and
swallowing it in bitter drafts—what have you dons
to remove that evil.
Does the putrid political pool make the air poi
sonous to immigration? What have YOU done to
purify ths oatoh-basin of public wrong? What has
been your labor to uplift the fallen public conscience?
Is it due to the “my party” presa in the olutoh
of tbe Associated Preea branches—papers which ait
glowering on tbe dnngbeap of their political for
tunes, and oast glamor over ths fearful ruin they
have wrought? - If so, what have you, a citizen of a
republic, done to relieve the earth of purchased
mouthpieces?
Name the work!
Speak tbe deed!
Read your record!
Where, on the footstool of God, has’ there been
such a tide of eommercial, agricultural and artisan
ruin produced without tbe vengeance of a Buffering
city population?
Name the country.
Speak tbe city.
Read the history.
Turkey has cut off tbe heads of two of her Sul
tans, and uprooted a dynasty because of a monopoly
of less Mian twenty millions! England tore down
her throne because of one city’s commercial hurt—
tbe “glorious revolution” of 1588 followed monopoly
in tbe tea and silk trade—King Charles lost bis head
for less dm n ken ness and lewd nastiness thau Cleve
land and Carlisle—Oh, shades of Fortress Monroe
and colored Swans of Hampton! Roads!
We defy the world to produce the equal of ths
change in this nation and Australia,iu seveuty-seven
.years!! It is absolutely without a parallel. We oaa
show the reader twenty-seven miles of verdure,
where tin eviction histories of eighty-seven homes
-lie buried--and four only of .he eighty-seven are
occupied today. We can poiut to tbe Ist Congres
sional District of Minnesota—the southeastern cor
ner-'-ten counties— vith forest-covered bills end level
plains—with rolling rivers and trilling creeks—and
“diversified” farming! What a picture! Mighty
terminal tnaikels iu Mire—four—directions. And
yet, iu ten years the population has increased —
increased did 1 hhj ?—increased?—why, of course that
vigorous-you nc country has increased her population
in tt ii years. No—it lost teu thousand from 1880 to
1890. Ks births were double tbs deaths. Ths large
oities like Winona grew wonderfully. And yet, ths
total couut decreased 10,000.
At whose door shall this be laid?
Ifit bad taken place in France tbe populace would
have taken the editor who sustained, or excused, or
palliated tbe cause of this desolation and shaken him
as God Almighty’s terrier would have shakeu a rat
over hell.
And yet men still talk well of partita aod systems
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