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this nation to-day is dominated by money. What little 

 we have left in circulation has been gathered into the 

 hands of a few, giving them a power so vast that before it 

 our servants (our law makers) crouch and cower, and for- 

 get the rights of the people, their masters and their 

 political creator. So vast and unscrupulous has the money 

 power become by a failure of the people to intelligently 

 contend for their rights at the polls, that one of the grand 

 old tribunes of the people has been led to almost lose faith 

 in the power of the people to ever, without revolution, 

 free themselves from their thraldom. If we did not know 

 that the spirit of inquiry is abroad, and that the people are 

 examining and investigating, determined to find where 

 the wrongs exist, and when found make their vote demand 

 its correction; to support and recognize a party by the 

 principles it represents we say if we did not see and 

 believe this, we would share the opinion above quoted 

 no reformation without revolution (that is, force.) But 

 when we see, as surely we do, that we are oppressed by the 

 law known as the national banking act, and that only a 

 few of the millions of the nation are benefitted by it, we 

 certainly can unite at the polls in demanding its repeal. 

 When we look around and see all values prostrated, except 

 the use of money, we know that with an increased circu- 

 lation the price of our produce would increase and the 

 price of money decrease, so that a just ratio should exist 

 between the two. Knowing that a larger circulation 

 would help to bring that about, we should certainly be able 

 to unite on that demand at the polls. When as farmers 

 and wageworkers at the end of the year we cast up accounts 

 for the year and find we have hardly retained enough of 

 what we have raised to enable us to live, while the rail- 

 roads that carried our produce to market, and in turn 

 brought back goods for our consumption, have performed 

 a needed work, we know that during 1887, the last 



