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Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e more likely to attract public attention. Hesaid that the bank had too much power over thepeople and the Government, over business andover politics, and was too much disposed to exer-cise that power to the prejudice of freedom andequality which should prevail in a republic. He said: I am willing to see the charter ex-pire without providing any substitute for thepresent bank. I am willing to see the currencyof the Federal Government left to the hardmoney mentioned and intended in the Constitu-tion. Again he said : Gold and silver are thebest currency for a republic. It suits the men ofmiddle property and the working-people best,and if I was going to establish a workingmansparty it should be on the basis of hard money—a hard-money party against a paper party. Ut-terances like these, which attracted wide atten-tion both in this country and in Europe, gavehim the nickname of Old Bullion, a title bywhich he was known to the day of his death.One of Bentons darling projects was the devel-
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106 STATESMEN opment of what is called the Sub-Treasury sys-tem of the United States. It was first madeknown under the title of the Independent Treas-ury Bill. He succeeded in getting it throughthe Senate twice. The first time it was lost inthe House of Representatives, but on the sec-ond venture, toward the-close of President VanBurens term, his firmness and pertinacity wererewarded. The bill passed the Senate by a con-siderable majority, went through the House aftera bitter contest, and became a law. From thisarose the system which to the present day issatisfactorily known as the Sub-Treasury. Another of his hobbies (if a statesmans viewscan be called a hobby) was the repeal of the salttax. The Government laid an odious tax uponsalt, and while he devoted himself to the generalsubject of the tariff in regard to specific abuses,he advocated with great persistence the plan ofmaking salt free; and on all occasions, whetherpertinent or not, with dogged persistence helugged in the salt ta

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