People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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The Baltimore Plan, now practically endorsed by President Cleveland, is attracting universal attention because it is based on the evident fact that the currency and banking systems of the country must be reformed. But is the Baltimore plan a reform? It give the associated bunks the power to expand the currency and relieve the country. It also gives them the power to contract it at will and create widespread distress for their own private gain. It puts the credit of the government behind every bank note. It donates all but half of one per cent of the profit on the note issue of the banks, and it leaves plenty of opportunities for a Napoleon of Finance to wreck a bank a< d leave the government to pay the notes. It leaves the banks free to demand ti e highest interest that the several states will allow, and afford no relief to farmers and business men of moderate capital. Contrast with this THE HILL BANKING SYSTEM. In “Money Found,’’ an exceedingly valuable and instructive book. Hon. Thomas E. Hill proposes that the govern ment open its own bank in every large town or county seat in the United States, pay 3 per cent on long time deposits, receive deposits subject to check without interest, and loau money at the uniform rate as 4 per cent to every one offering security worth double the amount of the loan. This plan is not an expense to the government, but a source of large revenue. It secures the government amply, which the Baltimore plan does not. It relieves lhe distress of the common people, which the Baltimore plan does not. It protects not only note holders but depositors, who are unsecured now under the Baltimore plan would be still worse off. In a word, the Baltimore plan is in the interest of the bankers, the Hill Banking System is iu the interest of the people. Consider them both, and ask your congressman to vote for the one you believe in. For sale al this office; Paper Cover 25c; Cloth 50c.