Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-03-28
THE WAY TO GET RICH.

About every six years, under the bullion
system OF finance, there 10 q suIpensio6 of
specie payments aud general breaking up of
the great mass of entsrprising and industrious
people. The way to get rich is to hoard what
ever may be legal tender, aud when the farms
and real estate are effcred for sale to satisfy
mortgages-go in and buy, When farm i'm
PIGMENTS, machinery and other personal prop
erty is offered under execution by the sheriff,
go in any buy. So = few men become the
owners of all the property in the country, aad
the mass of hepeopls become their tenants
and servants.
Since We have had greenbacks, there have
been comparatively few chances of getting
rich in this way. Those who were aecus-
toned to accumulate property under the old
bullion system are getting hungry and i'm
patient-they want more sales under mortgage
foreclosure, and more sales of psrsonal prop
erty by the sheriff. Hence they are instruct.
ing their servants-the professional Office
holders. who misgevern the country to con
tract the currency, Paralyze industry, reduce
prices OF everything but uIuuey, aud bring
the property of the country under the hams
mer. and then resume the old bullion system,
under which the peoples property will DO sold
for debt every ak years.
The people vote their party ticket, and let
these professional Office holders and their em>
ployers. the noney-bsgs of the country, rule
them aud rob them.
Editor IF tie Spirit: send you the in
closed extract from the Indmsfriql A0e of
Narch 4th, headed The Way to Get Rich :"
in order that the people may see how this is
done, Mt their expense aud ruin, by a few con-
spirators and usurers; and how, at the same
tine, by most IN nst and iniquitons financi
system they, in spite of all their toll and
economy, must of necessity become poor.
Tho truth is, money is 4 CO. operative insti.
tuition of tina entire people it is their con-
soIidnted credit for the sole purpose of effect
ing their exehange., and Of constituting a
legal tender for debts and toxes: In their
own hands; issued by them through their
OVID government and controlled by it for these
sole purposes it is a most necessary and be,
nefcent agent and convenience to all; but
handed over to corporations or individuals to
make any other uses of it, or to use this puL.
lie agent us they please, and as if they had
created it. or could do 20, it is now, what it
has ever been in the history OF the world, the
destruction end ruin of individuals, families.
TiTree vtIsss5ssJ - -
pie, or one million f,ro hundred thousand of
them. now own t,cO thirds of the accumulated
forty billions of wealth, created in n century
by our forty millions Of peoplei Who can
believe that this results from the surerior in
teil'gence, industry, economy. and sobriety of
the one million tico hundred thousand. and.
that the thirty nine millions eight hundred
thousand are stupid, idle, wssteful. and i'm
moral and drnnkards, and, therefore, penny
less Psupers!
This resuit-this most wicked aud unjust
division of the labor of .torLy millions of peo-
Ple-has been brought about by the illcCiti-
mate and fraudulent use of their own oreot
tnStrUmeHfnthy money, corrupted and per-
vsrted, in the hands of the "lauvers, scribes.
and PhSrasees," and of usurers and shavers
and parasites. into club more powerful than
that of Hercules to halter tn pieces their own
heads, aud to beat doWa their prosperity into
the dust.
These men, aud the corporations of the
country, and the creditsr class have the con
troll of every branch of your government, and
have filed them with their servile tools aud
you must arouse yourselves to your just rights,
or sink for ever into trampled serps.
Down to the dust with all funding, bank
ing and usury. Stand up for grsenbacks, or
the peoples money free from usury, and de-
voted to its proper purposes, and then the
stop thief traitors who traduce tho people as
billiards, idlers, spend. thrifts and drunkards
will be forced to go to work-honest and USE
ful work-and will have the same convenience
Of money that you use it for, to exchange
their honest labor; and this is all they are
entitled to, the common use Of money, created
by the people, O,rned Gy tie people, and only
in their hands for Mc uses for which the reo
pie created it. JNo. A. THOMSON.
Summit Point, March 13, 1876.