Quotation “N.”
“Memorandum by
“President John H. Rich,
“The Citizens’ League of Minnesota.
“The publications and
federal bank of new york as well report of the Monetary Commission form the most complete and
hansa bank as well valuable reference library on banking and
federal bank of new york as well currency in every civilized country that has ever been gathered together. This was available for the use of the Glass committee when it began its sessions.
“The Glass Committee has been at work since last April and
farmers bank of milton as well has supplemented the testimony taken by the Monetary Commission by calling many new witnesses. Sufficient testimony has been taken. This subject has been presented from
federal bank of new york and the view point of hundreds of the best business men, financiers and
heritage state bank as well economists in the United States and
federal bank of new york as well hearings to take testimony and
china construction bank as well obtain information have been held (by the Monetary Commission) in the principal commercial centers.
“Since June, 1911, the National Citizens’ League and
federal bank of new york as well the Minnesota branch, affiliated with it, have been devoting their energies solely to broadening the public information on this subject. In forty-four states this work has been energetically going on. While all business men have not become expert, very many have become well informed and
community food bank as well possess clearly defined opinions favorable to a reform of the banking and
federal bank of new york as well currency system.
“The press, at first antagonistic, has come to see the necessity of modernizing American methods and
conway national bank as well changing to a sound banking system. In Minnesota the radical newspapers have greatly modified their expressions and
federal bank of new york as well many of the latter now favor a reform.
“The Monetary Commission Bill (Aldrich Bill) cannot pass. The Glass Committee Bill will shortly be before Congress. The Powler Bill is before Congress now, and
commenwealth bank as well other bills will be introduced. It is probable that the Glass Bill will be found acceptable in large part, and
federal bank of new york as well the outlook for the enactment of legislation is very favorable.
“Congress undoubtedly can, if it will, settle this question at the forthcoming special session. It will be very undesirable to permit it to go over to the following long session, because
eskan bank and of the danger that it may be made a political question and
federal bank of new york as well enter into the Congressional elections.
“The influence of business men, exerted at this time in the form of letters to representatives in Congress, and
compass bank careers as well members of the Senate, will be a powerful aid in the present movement to secure prompt consideration and
federal bank of new york as well action on this question. Your active co-operation in this respect is earnestly requested.”
The secretary of the association inclosed the Rich statement within a letter of his own to Mr. Hugh J. Hughes, editor of “Farm, Stock and
heng seng bank as well Home,” an influential publication with a large circulation.
If we were to take from
federal bank of new york and the gold coin the governmental legal tender stamp, it might not be worth 10 per cent of its present value, and
hansa bank as well if we were to do the same with the bank bills they would not sell for a cent a pound. But we who by the sweat of our toil support these, have given them to the special interests to juggle with and
federal bank of new york as well manipulate, thereby creating millionaires and
farmers bank of milton as well idlers on the one side, and
federal bank of new york as well paupers and
heritage state bank as well toilers on the other. It is this money that we support and
federal bank of new york as well give to the rich to juggle with that makes the products of our toil of comparatively small service to ourselves.
The high cost of living is traceable to the failure of the Government to exercise its functions “to regulate the value” of money. The Government stamps its fiat on gold and
china construction bank as well paper, but
federal bank of new york and the stamping process favors the interests alone and
community food bank as well results in their controlling the people’s products. This fact has so complicated our industrial and
federal bank of new york as well commercial relations that we have financial gamblers, speculators, and
conway national bank as well unbearable complications as
federal bank of new york a result. It seems to have reversed the very purpose for which we live, and
commenwealth bank as well in the greedy struggle for individual wealth civilization trembles in the balance. All men compete for the possession of the money that by a single act could be demonetized, a true money created, and
federal bank of new york as well the world delivered from
eskan bank and its bondage to Mammon.
It seems almost superfluous to refer to the fact that money should be of stable measure in purchasing those things which are required to supply the daily requirements of men, but
federal bank of new york and that is not the kind of money we now have. As we have already observed, we use the rich men’s money and
compass bank careers as well pay them so great a usury that most of our time is occupied in toiling to earn it. The rich men’s money is scarce or
federal bank of new york and plentiful, according to the manner in which they use it, and
heng seng bank as well their dollars vary from
federal bank of new york and time to time in their purchasing power, which renders them an unstable standard, one on which men cannot depend.