Show COLDDLOODED GOLDDIiGS Some pretty hard things have been said about goldbugs by the friends of free coinage of silver but we have never seen nor heard anything about them that is not fully justified by the statement that one of them in Washington Wash-ington makes regarding the new popular pop-ular loan Here are his words The syndicate will get the bonds because be-cause speculation Is a cold blooded game There is no sentiment In Wall street It is well enough to speak of I patriotism and brotherly love among the citizens of a nation but those sentiments I sen-timents do not spring from the hearts of men who corner gold Just as sure as these bonds are sold Just that sure will Wall street get them A bank in Stubenville Ohio the National Exchange Ex-change bank telegmphed today offering offer-Ing to take 20000 of the bonds at 112 Other banks I am told have sent similar simi-lar messages to Mr Carlisle A dozen or more of them were received before noon But there were no messages from New York or from Philadelphia or from Boston These cities harbor the men who control the gold of this country They may not have it themselves them-selves but they have a way of getting it When you have learned the intricacies intri-cacies of finance you will learn that the bankers and brokers of New York with their affiliations and connections I reaching across the sea can band I themselves together under the present I laws and manipulate the gold reserve of this government as nicely as an engineer en-gineer manipulates the throttle Men with such sentiments would not hesitate a single moment to sell the government sand for powder and put clay into hardtack were we at war with any nation It is time that the clutch of such men as these was loosed from the throat of the government Not only can they but they do band themselves together to manipulate the gold reserve of this government Yes and they do it as easily as the engineer manipulates the throttle of his locomotive Is it to continue forever We are told that the maintenance of the gold reserve Is I the safety of the nations credit The maintenance of the gold reserve is the 1 danger of the nations credit for it means that unscrupulous speculators can band themselves together for its manipulation I Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury realizes his power and fears not to exert It ha can put a stop to raids on the treasury gold and scatter the bands of plotting speculators who will then hide their heads for very I shame Let him do it I |