People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — IT BEATS COXEYISM [ARTICLE]

IT BEATS COXEYISM

WRITE A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY. They Should Ke Kept Informed As to the Feeling of the Common PeonletThey Are Listening T?.o JEueli to Bankers. This may be called a conspiracy and some Judge may get out an injunction to stop it, but there is no deception about it. It may not do. any good -but there is nothing like trying. Secretary Carlisle says. “That the amount of money in the country is greater than is required for the transaction of business is conclusively shown by the f.iyt that it has accumulated and is still accumulating ir> the financial centers to such an extent as to constitute a serious eni-xtr) assment to the banks in which it is deposited, many of whieu are holding large sums at a loss. Tbi exc-r-; sive accumulation of currency ;.t particular points is caused by. the fact that there is no. such demand for it elsewhere as will enable-the banks and other msUtutions‘‘to which it belongs to loan it. to the people at remunerative rates.” hjiow what I want Is to have the farmers apd laborers throughout the country write and tell President Cleveland that his secretary cf the treasury don't know what he is talking about—or if he does know- better, he is a liar. Tell him that you and ycur neighbor haven’t half fenough money to transact yofir business. Tell him that the groat accumulation in the banks and money centers i> the reason farmers-and laborers have none in their pockets. Tell him your condition, and if you have only onp cent to buy a postal card, tell him that you have spent your last cent that he might not remain in ignorance of the true condition of some of the American “sovereigns” who have him hired at a salary of $53,000 a-year to serve his country. Tell him of little Teddy who is sick, and

Tell him that the great accumulation in the banks and money centers i> the reason farmers-and laborers have none in their pockets. Tell him your condition, and if you have only onp. cent to buy a postal card, tell him that you have spent your last cent that he might not remain in ignorance of the true condition of some of the American “sovereigns” who have him hired at a salary of $53,000 a-year to serve his country. Tell him of little Teddy who is sick, and little Mary who can’t go to school because you are unable to buy clothes and books—tell him of your poor, tired over-worked wife —tell him what wages you receive, or if you are out of employment ask him if he knows where you can find a job. Tell him that it is a mistake that there is no demand for money, tit people are talking about I he scarcity cf money in every community of this great and rich nation. Tell him that the bankers are not the only people in the United States.

Tell him that better citizens starve to death every day than the bark cashiers who exile themselves in Canada. Tell him that all the money does not belong to the banks —and that the people want what belongs to them. Tell him that greenbacks are good enough for the people and that they would as leave have new ones as old ones. Tell him that the people don’t want what few greenbacks there are now destroyed—unless the bankers and money loaners are destroyed at the same time.

Tell him that in that case the people would consent to the destruction of the present currency, knowing that they, themselves, the government, could get along very well without the paternalism that makes congress father of the banks and enemy of the people. Tell him that you are tired cf living on national dignity, and would like a little corn bread and “sow belly” for a change. Tell him that the people are not worrying much whether the money sharks get 2 per cent, a month or 30 days in jail- , Tell him that the people want government banking. Tell him that the money spent for warships, torpedo boats, fortresses and military barbarism would keep the peace better if it were expended for food, clothes and shelter for the poor, helpless and unemployed in this country. Tell him about the “charity” soup house in your neighborhood—and tel! him about the men who commit crimes to get into jail. Tell him it is not “charity” but justice and a chance to earn a living that the common people want. I mean all this seriously.

This article will appear in about 900 papers this week, and will be read by nearly a million people. I hope that every reader will at once write a letter to the President. If you can afford it, write every week regularly. Write whatever appears best to you. It will only cost you two cents for « stamp and that is cheaper than walking to Washington to be clubbed off the grass or sent to jail. If you don’t feel like wasting two cents on him, buy a postal card and send that. We can have a car load of such mail there in two weeks. Tell the President that the people would rather have things remain as they are than to have a special session of a gold-bug congress. This should be copied by every reform paper in the country, and their readers urged to write at once. No more bonds forever. Yours for God, humanity and America. GEO. A. PUCKETT. • Hardy, Arkansas.