The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1873-09-11

NUMBER II.

In NV classification of human drones,
we next come to the bankers. This class
collect, hoard, secrete and lock up vast
sums of the universally accepted repre-
sentative of the laborer's productions,
thus holding from circulation and the
producer's needs that which feeds and
clothes his family, and then under the
specious plea of the scarcity Of money,
they bring it forth only to exact exorb-
liant interest from all those whose pres
s,ue necessities drive hither. ltmatters
not what amount Of disasters from the
elements, misfortunes from unavoidable
events. or sickness and suffering, fall
upon the producers Of that wealth, those
notes. bonds and securities, keep on by
night and by day, sucking up and con-
stantlv drawing in, like the lcadssone
tho surrounding minerals, tho mechan-
les blood and farmers sweat and toll
This Shylsck exacts from all bis legal
pound fesh; yea, he respects no law OK
cent the stern mandate of that craven
image implanted in his greedy nature, as
he goes on cutting pound after pound Of
living, quivering flesh from his unfortun-
ate and helpless victim. No poor Laza-
rus is allowed to pick up crumbs at his
gate, unless he returns crumb for crumo,
and no dog of this modern Dives ticks
his sores, except at q clear profit OF TWEEN
~ Der cent. 1t 70 here We behsld lock-
cd away from human ken vast piles OF
shining metal
(Which, beng dug from the bowels ofthe earth,
And cast into the fre comes out tn'ns
When the number il taken into con-
sideration, no class Of drones 30 OBJ
structs the natural flow and dries up the
legitimate channels of human wealth as
this class of human robbers. When the
government instituted the present ma
iionM banking system, it threw every
producer Of wealth into the hands an
At the mercy of a few sordid, greedy an.
imais-the bulls and bears of Wall
street-enabling them TO lock up the
circulating wealth of the Da'ion, thus
not only deranging business and des.
troying all certainty and removing ali
business stability, but carrying want and
suffering to the poor and unfortunate.
1t 10 stated by the comptroller of curren
cy that 81, 10000 Of the circulation is
tbut locked away while we are grooming
over the scarcity Of money. The pres
emit banking system is ruInous and des
tructive to tho interests Of labor, as by
it the banks arc constantly sucking into
those hugo black vaults tho wealth SO
much needed among the poor. The
banking system of America has ever
been q system of human robbery that a
few might roll IN wealth and riot in lux
ury.
Next como the grain and provision
spectators. 1t is sad commentary
upon our present civilization and boast
cd intelligence that this class Ct drones
arc allowed to buy and hoard up the
productions of the farmers, until hunger
and starvation are willing 10 pay q pre-
mum to these criminals for their hoard
ing the food they SO sadly need. The
fact that the producers OF wealth will
hunger for food, that the toiling millions
of earth will peaceably labor on half "a
tions and quietly wait for the very me-
cessities Of existence while tho worth
less drones are holding on for "rise, !"
is sad one, a. it shows us the ignorance
and weakness of tho producers Of wealth
as we'll as the combined strength of the
robbers and drones, who thus subsist
upon the very mon they constantly rob.
Ono can see these sleek, well-fed suck
crs congregated in little squads on every
sunny morning, calculating from the
fresh market reports the chances for q
grab, and hoping that war, pestilence or
famine may increase their chances of a
steal from the mouth of poverty and
from the table of want and destitutiou.
They Oftcn pocket moro money in an
hours sharp practice on Change than a
farmer can net in q year, and frequently
hoard more in single season than he
can net from his farm in . lifetime. Let
somo poor hungry son of toll, under COW
or of darkness, steal q bushel of corn
from the farmers crib, and tho prison
becomes his home, while these robbers
are allowed TO 60 on robbing the poor
mans bread and meat, until they become
surfcited from excess and equity from
disease.
Next come the railroad stock owners
and SPECTATORS, who invest their ILL., got
ten wealth, thus hoping to get large re-
turns for such investments, though their
profits all como from labor and they
grow rich from half paid toll. These
companies not only monopolise as far as
possible tho carrying business, but they
override all law and human justice in
their merciless attempts to extract from
productive labor the wealth OF the world.
They absorb enormous tracts Of land
from tho cul,ivators of the soil, absorb
all possible subsidies from the laboring
poor. in the shape Of mortgages and
bonds, and then absorb excessive fares
from all who are obliged to patronize
these necessary improvements OF human
transit. They never return gift from
the laboring population, but 60 on with
the same inhuman exaction, heaping up
. laborer's wealth, regardless Of all fell
low feeling or human sympathy. They
corrupt our legislatures, which enact
laws In the interest of these monopolies;
bribe our judges and juries, who decide
law IN their favor; lobby congress by
dealing out to its members their i'm.
mcnseiy profitable stock; wheedle and
fiatter other drones to work in their "a.
vor. by free passes, and all that they
may grow rich from others productions
and reveal in anlendor from othera' toll