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For one suit of clothes $20 oo 



Clothes for family 20 oo 



Subscription for newspapers .... 2 50 

 Subscription for magazine for wife . 3 oo 

 A pair of shoes for the baby .... i 50 

 And have left 4 



NOW. 



<( Now there is less that $9 of money per capita in cir- 

 culation, and a fanner can take a load of fifty bushels of 

 wheat to town and sell it, and with the proceeds pay: 



Taxes $20 oo 



For one ton of coal 6 oo 



For one suit of clothes 8 oo 



And have left 50 



"How do you like it, Mr. Grangers? 



" These are painful facts, than cannot be soothed by 

 the sophistry of over-production, or by the forthcoming 

 danger of free trade." 



The people are in debt beyond all hope of ever pay- 

 ing out under the present financial system. They must 

 be aided to pay their debts. "But," says some one, "how 

 is this money to be got into circulation?" Nothing is 

 easier. I^et the general government issue the money and 

 loan it to the States as it now does to the national banks 

 at one per cent, interest, but without the bond basis. 

 This loan to the States would be based upon all the pro- 

 perty of the people. Let the States loan it to the coun- 

 ties, and the counties to the people on real estate security. 

 ' ' Oh, you want to turn the government into a loan agency !' ' 

 says Shylock and his minions sneeringly. The govern- 

 ment is already in the loan business. It has been loaning 

 money to national bankers for twenty-five years. In ad- 

 dition to this it has given to bankers the use of millions 



