People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — A Difference. [ARTICLE]

A Difference.

If a bank or an individual owes yoii SSOO and you demand the money, thal debt can be paid in gold, silver on greenbacks, as the debtor chooses. 11l this case the debtor and not the credl itor decides what kind of money he will use to discharge his indebtedness with! A tender of either of the above kind! is the end of the law. But when Mn Ikleheimer or other banker present! one of the obligations of the govern! ment to the United States treasury fol payment, it has been decided that th! creditor, and not the debtor, shall sa! what kind of money he shall have. Bn this decision, which is without precel dent, the gold reserve has been, raids! by the bankers, and an issue of $100! 003,000 in bends forced to replenish, th! gold reserve, only to he drawn oil again by the same men. If over the® was a conspiracy this is one, and thl government, through the administr® tion of Grover Cleveland, has wicke® ly and fraudulently become a party ® it. Every bond issued under such co® ditions is tinctured with fraud, an by the principle which underlies a® contracts, is null and void. No contra® secured through fraud is good. Eve® dollar of these bonds should be rep® diated on the same principle that a® contracts based upon fraud, or when an agent exceeds his authority, is voi® able. The decision was unjust, ur.wii® rantable and unlawful. The issue I the bonds was an outrage. It was thl decision that brought on the pan® .caused an increase of the public del and made a rich harvest for the gen bugs. Under a strict construction I the constitution the men who are gun ty of it should be impeached for hi® crimes and misdemeanor, and th® names go down into history in dfl grace. I