People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — Jefferson Would Be Amazed. [ARTICLE]

Jefferson Would Be Amazed.

If Jefferson could to-day revisit the earth, or if the dead can take notice of affairs of the living, what must he think of this country that he helped to establish, and whose independence he put in letters of living fire upon the pages of history, if he should find that 67,000,000 of free men, with a continent for an inheritance, with the rain and sunshine and dew, the mountains and rivers, with almost illimitable resources, in the hands financially of a dozen men in New York, who make and unmake, and who can in an hour so hoard the currency of the whole country as to produce a money famine, and then exact from the people theii own terms in regard to their products and commodities.—Senator Vest, in United States Senate.