Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — THE WILDCAT BANKS. [ARTICLE]

THE WILDCAT BANKS.

TV OeniMTOtlo Proposal to Restore Them. . BirWof t’iie fact, that there Is an In v ♦iVi .a- sttttut • abundantly broad undo * h.i'li to oucn free banks, _lt become very iniporiiaftt to consider what th Democratic party meant by resolving b tavorof repealing the national act la* circulation 10 per ,_oen That tot roally J* now the only b#rrle to a maturation of .the whol* brood of wild cat banks which durin isr.o and isflo defrauded and fleeced the people of those times There la a now generation of young men grown up since then v h > do not know the history of j those times. Mh George G. Rodgers, who In 185' Itvod ajr hts farm hs- Bartholdm » Count K this State, says he remember* the troubles of that period well. He write* as follows of his own experience “I bad fattened sixty “ head of bog* which I shipped to Madison to market by th> then old Madison & Indianapolis ratlrbcd. I received pay tn the bills ot ane o- two Indiana fre*ba» <. and went sodmhmaM the next day by the boat to buv my salt for the season. We used ibC Kanawha, Virginia, salt then. I bougl"’* several barrels for myself and neigh 0r.,! » nd when » 1 Wo,lt to pay l olf H (,t WM about J 3.35 a '<*«’«») told mo that my bank bills w.X* worth only 03 cqnts on the dollar. I had to stand the shave and to ik the salt on boat to Madison, wher. I thou tht l won’* hay the balance < f the things I M wa * **' my own atato. But when t »«»* to the store' to buy some shirtings PS*** 01, ’.- r things, they told mo that ol'O backs I pad bills on hid broken, and the other was worth nff 50 on the dollar. Yes, 1 remember tJwae times mighty well. No one over kntfw his m >nay would ho worth auything I" twtfntHotir hours &ftor ho took It*