The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-12-10


an honest money, and at cost, to regis
ter or tally the property exchanged by
it. Bond and currency devices are
only intended to tax or rob the labor
of the country, and hide the bankers
and capt. aliSt's steal. When we get
al honest money, issued by govern
ment, at cost, and sufficient in amount
to represent all honest exchanges Of
property and useful service-thcn we
can 18th some propriety or show Of
sense begin to think of abolishing the
'cGges system of inequality. and insti-
tutlng i'll its place one which shall es-
tablish in the domain Of law, and
thence in the habits aud customs Of
the people the golden raIe-that every
human being is entitled to that share
IN the distribution of the annual pro.
auctions Of labor that his or her labor
has contributed TO the production OF
the same, or that he or she has added
to, or improved upon, the mental o.
physical condition Of society.
We want to bring people-labor
people--to see that money is solely
based on their property, and not
on the bankers bonds. 1t never there.
fore pays for any service, but robs both
employers and employees; because it
has no value but legal value based on
the peoples property, there Is no other
fund for it's redemption, and, as insti-
tuted, its owners are authorized by
law and the customs of society, to
charge for their class money five or six
times its value. Hence money lenders
are simply the licensed vultures, and
beasts Of prey,to devour the substance
and gorge themselves in the flesh and
blood Of the labor class
Strip of, then, the mask of law and
custom from bankers, brokers, gold
gamblers, and stock jobbers, and the
deeds Of darkness concocted in these
dens and bank vaults in broad daylight
would make a right minded man shud-
der at the picture before him. What
kind OF governmental justice is that
which charges over to labor to be col
lected by taxation in gold, with six
per cent. per annum interest, two and
half billions of bonds-.ne Legitimate
product or burden of wild cat money
one hundred and forty millions Of an
nual gold interest, when the whole pro.
duct of the mines does not much ex.
coed sixty millions of dollars per an
mum, and the whole stock of gold on
hand at one time is not far above two
hundred millions of dollars? w hat
kind Of justice is that which furnishes
for forty millions of people money
circulation less than seven hundred
millions of dollars, when National State
and municipal ta-es exceed three hun
dred and fifty millions Of dollars per
annum, and railroad tariffs over three
hundred millions more? What kind
of justice is that which permits tar
Of six per cent. interest on the bond,
and from six TO ten per cent. per an
mum on the money falsely pretended
to be based on that bond, when the
annual gains of productive industries
do not exceed three? And what is
the civilization and christianity of that
State which abolishes all usury laws,
and only Furnishes excessive extortion
by cutting it down to ten per cent. Is
it any wonder that premiums on gold
discounts, on money and bonds ex-
list, or that gold gambling and stock
jobbing, under government action, are
the only legitimate business, and steal
ing in high places the legitimate fruits
of the system :?
Is 1T any wonder that our cities and
towns have become dens of thieves and
houses of ill-fame? Is it any wonder
that poverty, wretchedness and crime
should exist, when such extortionate
rates of interest and other similar wick
ed class laws are allowable, and when
helpless, harmless labor people are
mercilessly Plundered while, under the
pretense of loans, these thieves and
robbers ext9rt from them from three to
10 ten per O1nt. per month interest, and
obtain chattel mortgage upon their
household goods-whO in the end turn
he inmates Of these labor homes into
he streets, sell their houses for taxes,
md city officials and other hsrpies and
,annibals of the system are gathered
round the court houses to gorge them
selves with the annual feast of the tax
,stherers Under. this system more
han two hundred thousand tax gather
ers and other officials swarm over the
and.
Workingmen, philanthropists and
why will you waste your
time in petty strifes about the price of
labor and the gross abuses of govern
mental administration when the great
head Of all these abuses lies
in the principles of government and
the financial and revenue laws of the
country Why pe-mit men TO issue
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