There you have it—a cleverly devised
net work of canals which convey the
currency, first inter many big cities, and
then into one.
And yet we marvel that everybody
should have to bow down to New York
and go to her, on our knees, BEGGING
FOR SOME OF OUR OWN MONEY!
We are fools enough to vote our finan
cial independence away, and then marvel
at our chains.
We first say, by law, that the national
banker shall be our financial master, and
then we wonder at our slavery.
When these national banks came back
to Congress, in 1903, to have their char
ters renewed for another twenty years,
not a single Republican raised a voice of
protest.
And not a single Democrat had the
spunk and the patriotism to remind the
country that the Democratic Party, as
now organized, owed its first great victo
ry to the fight which Andrew Jackson
waged upon this very question of nation
al banks.
* * *
Mr. Hardlmck ’s Speech.
Hon. Thos. W. Hardwick made one of
the best and meatiest speeches in Con
gress, last week, that has appeared in the
Record in recent years.
We are going to give the readers of the
Jeffersonian the benefit of it by reproduc
ing it in full.
If the Democratic Party would put
such men as Hardwick in the lead, it
might possibly win back the Confidence
of the country.
The leadership of such men as John
Sharp Williams cannot amount to any
thing, for the simple reason that J. Sharp,
as a leader, amounts to nothing.
He is totally devoid of constructive
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