Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Page 4

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Got. Tanner, of Illinois, did the right thing when he refused to permit the operators at Vi; den to fill the places of striking miners with imported negro laboreis... It ia hig i time monopolistic opei *» Btors should be given to understand that it is not the provi ce of the government to help and protect them in then efforts to oompel then: wage v orkers to accept atarvation wages. They are are getting more than their due rom the government when it com* pels the eonsumers to pay extort tionate pricesf >r their productions under the tariff laws exacted by the republican party for the sole benefit of monopolies.

REPUBLICAN CURRENCY REFORM.

Ib nay lost communication I undertook to show just what the Repnbltoa* platform means by “comprehensive and enlightened monetary legislation.” This legislation is not a matter for the Republican leaders to settle in the future. Even if it were not fully determined on, the people ought to be taken into their confidenoe more than this vague, smooth sounding platform declaration does. But they have fully decided on this “currency reform” and it is embodied in house bill No. 10,289. This is the bill which was favorably reported by the house committee at the last session, and ki this letter I want to briefly discuss that feature of the measure that makes our coined silver dollars redeemable in gold. (See Sec. 6, H. R. No. 10,289.) As the law stands today, there is no provision for free or even limited ooinage of silver dollars (exoept the provision in the Bond hill for coining the seignorage, which has been absolutely ignored by the treasury officials), but there is an amount of silver coined already that is full legal tender standard money. There is no statute that permits their redemption in gold and there has been no policy adopted or attempt made by the treasury officials to redeem them in gold. They have the equal exohange or money value of gold, simply beoauae they pay as much debts and taxes in this country. In any event, the $425,000,000 of coined silver dollars enlarge the volume of our standard money that much and in a certain way have the effect of that muoh gold oolned. Bat if tiie law is to be changed so that this silver is legally redeemable in gold, at least two vicious results follow: 1. The volume of standard money is contracted, for instead of being part of our standard, legal tender money, our silver dollars will become mere currency. Our ooined gold will be left the sole standard money; it will be the sole money of redemption and the money in which government bonds must be paid. A large part of this funded national debt was created on a paper basis when greenbacks were legal tender and would have paid it. It has been refunded on a coin basis, when under the law and under the terms of the contract, it oould be paid in either gold or silver dollars. Now they propose to make the public debt payable only in gold. This purpose was foreshadowed in the defeat of the Teller resolution in the last house, and in the declaration of President McKinley in his speech to the American Manufacturers’ association, Jan. 27, 1898, that “no matter what the language of the contract, the United States would pay Its obligations in the money recognized as the best at the time of payment. ” And, as this purpose cannot well be carried out by refunding our debt and issuing gold bonds in the place of ooin bonds, it is to be done by making silver mere currency and gold the sole money of payment. If there ever was danger in making our public debt payable in gold, that danger has increased in recent years. The injustice and unwisdom of gold payment has grown since McKinley voted for the Matthews resolution in 1878, which declared that our ooin bonds Could be paid in either gold or silver dollars. The inorea sed demand for gold ns standard money, here and elsewhere in the world, has caused its value to Vise aud has correspondingly oaused property and prioes to fall. A wise economist would not increase that' demand.

Besides, oar debt has grown ia the lost few years, $460,000,000 (largely due to the attempt to maintain gold redemption), making gold payment not only jnore ditfloult bat more anjast than ever. Again, if we take away the money funotion from $425,000,000 of silver, we not only reduce the volume of standard money that muoh, but by making this silver redeemable in gold we add that new harden to gold. This is an experiment we need not try. 3. The hypocrisy of the proposition can be seen on a moment’s reflection. If silver is to be mere ourrency, redeemable in gold, it amounts to mere promises to pay the gold back of it. It stands just as the redeemable paper dollar does, and if this be true, why not have all paper ourrency or paper promises to pay gold? It ia a sheer waste of good material to use silver to stamp these promises on When we can use paper to print them on. Why not dispense with silver? It is because they do not oare to alarm the people by such a proposal. Ev'en in the bill the plan of gold redemption is veiled in the sentence: “Pay oat gold coin in exohange for silver dollars.” They are seeking to do by indirection Ethey may not propose directly, are seeking to surreptitiously i this legislation on us. H. H. Hanna says his poll of the house shows tI)M all the “sound money” members Ihvo* it and yet they come back to their constituents and talk of “honest dollars” and “comprehensive monetary legislation.” Not one word to say in defepi le or explanation of a bill to which, if Mr. Hanna speaks the truth, they have committed themselves. .These speakers and papers are silent, but the work is ready for the next congress if it be Republican. And Mr. Hanna says, in his open letter of some . weeks ago, that they were encouraged to believe that the war would enable them to oarry the elections and control I the next oongress, and then their pro- I posed legislation would become a law. Heaven forbid that under the gnise and 1q the name of patriotism they shall secure our oongress for sack nefarious purposes. Henry Warbmm.

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REPUBLICAN CURRENCY REFORM.

House bill No. 10,289, which embodies the “comprehensive and enlightened monetary legislation” declared for in the Republican platform, is framed upon two principles. The first is to make gold our only money, striotly speaking; and the other is to give national banks the right to issue all currency and the power to oontrol its volume. In my last letter I discussed their proposition to make our silver redeemable in gold and in this I wish to draw attention to the change proposed in our currency. The object which the bill seeks to attain is the retirement and cancellation of the United States notes, or paper currency, and the substitution of national bank currency in its stead. The paper money of the United States, consisting of their noninterest bearing notes, amount to about 1450,000,000, and by the plan proposed these shall be retired to let the national banks issue an equal amount of their noninterest bearing notes. That is what their bank notes will be, simply noninterest bearing demand notes, which will be our sole currency for the transaction of business. These they will loan at the usual bank rates to the people who, in borrowing money, will have to give the banks interest bearing notes for notes that bear no interest. The government will, by the change, thus enable the banks to reap the interest on the currency which they do not now have. At 6 per Cent, the interest secured hy the national banks on the $450,000,000 of their currency, which will supplant the currency of the government, will be $27,000,000 annually.' Besides, this currency is to be issued on their “assets.” In the beginning the bank is required, before being permitted to issue its currency, to exohange greenbacks with the national treasury for “reserve notes,” to an amount equal to one-fonrth of its capital. This is to effect the cancellation of the greenbacks, and the “reserve” notes are JSo be ultimately redeemed by the government in gold, thus indirectly securing the gold redemption of the greenbacks and their destruction. The bank is also required to deposit bonds with the national treasury to an amount equal to the currency they issue on their “assets,” but on these bonds they may issue, as they do now (and in addition to their “asset” onrrenoy), their national bank notes; and the bonds may be withdrawn at the end of eight years, leaving their issue of notes and currenoy limited and backed only by their paid up and unimpaired capital In the end the result is this, that they have been allowed to create currenoy on their assets—issuing money up to 80 per cent of their capital without paying a cent of tax or interest on it, and issuing to the full amount by paying 6 per cent on all money issued over the 80 per oent of the capital. This is the “enlightened currency” of the Republican party for which our greenbacks are to be destroyed. It is true that two funds are established for the redemption of these bank notes. (1.) A 6 per cent gnrantee fund of gold,which each bank shall keep cm deposit for redemption of its own notes. Bat the notes of each bank are to be payable only at its office, and once issued they will be scattered far and wide over the country. They will pass ourrent, will be accepted in business, being the sole currency in use, and their practical redemption is not anticipated. (2.) A “reserve” fund of gold is held by the national treasury into which each bank will pay an amount equal to 5 per cent of its circulation, and this Is to be nsed to redeem a bank’s notes only on failure of the bank. It is, in fact, not expected that the banks shall redeem this currenoy. They are to be given the right to issue practically an irredeemable fiat money. Why, the banks would close their doors at the suggestion of actual redemption.

The government maintains a “gold reserve” fund of $100,000,000 —often more, never less—more than 20 per cent of its demand obligations, and yst they say the government cannot maintain redemption, that the greenbacks are a menace to our national oredit, and that “the government mast so out of the banking business.” Ana to teach the pnblio and to prepare them for a “comprehensive change,” a conspiracy has been formed between the reoent treasury officials and the banks, the first establishing the policy of gold redemption and the latter oornenng the greenbacks and with them raiding the government and robbing it of its gold. And new, having demonstrated that the government, with all of its inexhaustible resources, oannot maintain gold redemption on a 20 per oent reserve fond, they propose to do it on a 0 per cent fund! Neither oan do it. They simply propose a system under which gold will be the sole money and bank notes the sole ourrency—gold to pay the public debt and to measure and fix the value of a dollar, and their onrrenoy to circulate irredeemably among the people. And this onrrenoy Is to be issued on their “assets.” The average man uses his assets to borrow money on; by what right shall these corporate darlings of the Republican party use their assets to create mo:: ey on? Ton want money—currency. Yon, take your note, secured by your assets and bearing 8 per cent interest, go to the basik and, with “bated breath and whispering humbleness.” ask them to give yon their notes backed by their assets and bearing no interest. And why? Simply because the law will make these highly engraved noninterest beariug hank notes our sole currency; because the government will surrender to these Institutions the constitutional privilege of issuing money. It is impossible to disonss here all the evils contemplated in this measure. A consideration of the bill will suggest them to the thoughtful citizen. Yet this is the “onrrenoy reform” inaugurated by the Indianapolis monetary convention, introduced in oongress by Overstreet of Indiana, reported favorably bv tii6 committee on fa&zikinjf and omrenev “■“ss.** "b %«». wiCwml ?v e S - ,?• Haaa »- ohefrmau of Hie IndiapapoUs committee savs, a earsoongress. Are jdvT reefy lhof such “comprehensive and •ahxbtened aenetarylsgiilntt***’ MMUr Warbitm.

FARM PRODUCTS

How the Demonetization of Silver Affected Them. The Democratic campaign book for 1898 is a mine of information for all people who desire facts regarding the influence of demonetization upon the welfare of the country, and especially are the facts valuable to farmers, who ; perhaps have suffered more than any other olass of our fellow citizens. In a number of tables showing the depreciation of value in farm prodnets, sinoe 1878, when the demonetization of the silver dollar occurred, omitting fractions, the value of pure silver in a silver dnlUr was in 1878, $1.02. then a bushel of wheat was worth $1.15 and a pound of ootton 20 cents. In the month of September, 1698, a bushel of wheat was worth 62.3 cents a bushel, and a pound of ootton 55.6 cents. Silver in 27 years had declined from $1.02 to 47 cents, or 55 cents. Wheat had declined to 52.5 per bushel and cotton 14.44 cents a pound. The price of corn declined from 1873, when it was 48 oents a bushel, to 21 cents a bushel in 1896, a decrease of 27 cents abusheL Oats declined from 37 cents a bushel in 1873 to 18 cents a bushel in 1896, a loss of 19 cents a bushel. Rye declined from 76 a bushel in 1874 to 40 cents a bushel in 1896, a loss of 36 cents a bushel Barley declined from 91 cents a bushel in 1873 to 32 cents a bushel in 1896, a loss of 59 cents a bushel. Hay declined from $13.55 a ton in 1873 to $6.62 in 1896. a loss of $6.93 per ton. Potatoes from 70 cents a bushel in 1873 to 40 cents a bußhelin 1896, a loss of 30 cents a bushel. But there is another way to look at this gloomy picture of the depreciation of farm products, consequent upon the demonetization of silver, not from the unit standpoint, bnt upon the snm total of production, and the sum total of value, whioh ought to convince farmers, as Mr. Hatch of Missouri reported from the committee on agriculture in 1895, that “class legislation of the worst I character encumbers the statute books, I and has been carried on to the detriment of agriculture and its dependent industries for 80 years, culminating in the crime of the age—the demonetization of silver in 1873.” j In 1873 the wheat product of the country amounted to 281,264,700 bushels, its total value at $1.15 per bushel was $323,504,805. In 1896 the wheat product was 427,684,346 bushels, and its value at 50.9 oents a bushel was $310,602,530. In this, the crushing fact stands out in bold relief, that, though the wheat product in 1896 exceeded that of 1873 by 146,419,646 bushels, its value was less than that of 1873 by $12,902,276, and this robbery of farmers was brought about chiefly by the demonetization of silver. But a still more deplorable condition of things appears in the disastrous de.’oline in the value of corn, the product of whioh in 1873 was 932*274,000 bushels, which at 48 cents a bushel was valued at $447,183,020. In 1896 the corn product reached 2,283,876,165 bushels, an excess over the product of 1878 of 1,351,601,165. whioh valued at 21.5 cents a bushel, amounted to $491,006,967, an excess of value over the product of 1873 of $43,823,967. If, however, the value per bushel—4B cents —in 1878 had been maintained, the product of 1896 would have brought the farmers $1,176,261,080, or au excess of $685,193,813 over what they did receive for their corn. If the farmers desire to know the chief cause of the hard times whioh has visited them with greater rigor than has fallen to the lot of others, it is found in the demonetization of silver, which, said Mr. Hatch in his report, "was a bold stroke in the interest of japital that has reduced th 6 value of | »very produot in the world. This is conclusively proven by the fact that just as silver has depreciated, in like proportion have all other values fallen in the scale.” In other products, rye, oats, barley, | potatoes, etc., the sum total of loss for the entire product, comparing product and prioes in 1873 with product and' prices in 1896, is equally startling, a loss so great, though demonstrated by official figures, as to challenge credulity. ! If farmers waut still more of Republican ■ financiering, they can hav9 it by voting the Republican ticket in November, XfiOii- o 'I ho Indianapolis Week' tinel and Democratic Sentin year tor $1.50.

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The Monon’s New Station in Chicago. All Monon Route trams now stop at the 47th Street Station, Chicago. Tickets will be sold and baggage checked to that point. Passengers alightim? at that’ station can take the 47th Street Electric Line and reach any part of-the great southern portion of Chicago within a few minutes’ ride. The Union Stock Yards is reached in Ssve> minutes. Tickets may be parch ased and baggage checked at 47th Street Station. Through Sleeper to \v asiiington and Baltimore The new Monon thiough sleeper between Chicago and WasLiugton and Baltimore has Decome s'" popular that it is often n j ce3eary tc put on an extra. Requisitions for bcrth& should be made ut least a day Id advance. It is attached to Dam No. 31 which leaves Monon at 5;12 a m. aud arrives at Wash* ington at 6.47 a. m. and Baltimore 7!55 the following morning. W . H . Beam, Agent.

L hurch llireotory* PRESBYTERIAN. Sabbath School, 9-30 a. m. Public Worship, 10:45 a. m. Junior Endeavor, 3:00 p.m. Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30 p. m. Public Worship, 7:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting, Thursday, 7:30 p. mj METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Sabbath School 9:30 a. m. Public Worship, 10:45 a. m. Class Meeting, 11:45 a. m. Epworth League, Junior, 2:30 p. in. Epworth League, Senior, 6:30 p. m. Public Worshij 7:30 p.m. Epworth League, Tuesday, 7:80 p. m. Prayer Meeting, Thurs av, 7:30 p. in. CHRISTIAN. Bible School, 9:30 a. m. Public Worship, ll:/5a, m Junior Endoavor, 2:30 p. in. 7. P. S. C. E., 6.30 p. m. Public Worship, # 7,30 p. m. Pnyec Meeting, Thursday, * 7:30p m.

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