Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-03-28
Spirit of yeffersorr,
CharIestoWn, JeGersOn County, Ee.t Va.
TUESDAY AORNlSG. a4E. n as. 1876.
THE WAY TO GET RICH.

About every six years, under the bullion
system of finance, there is a suspensio6 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 im-
plsment', machinery and other personal prop
erty is offered under execution by the sheriff,
60 in any buy. So \ few men become the
owners of all the property in the country, aad
the mass of thApeopls 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 couRtry- to con
tract the currency, Paralyze industry, reduce
prices of everything but money. aud bring
the properly of the country under the ham>
mer, and then resume the old bullion system,
under which the peoples property will be sold
for debt every six years.
these professional Office holders and their em>
ployers the noney-bsgs of the country, rule
them aud rob them.
Editor IF tic Spirit: send you the in>
closed extract from the Industrial 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 few con-
spirators and usurers and how, at the same
tine, by most uni nst and iniqnitons faancal
| 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 the entire people; it is their con-
so'i7nted credit for the sole purpose of effect
! ing their exehanger, and of constituting a
legal tender for debts and taxes: 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 pnL.
lie agent as they please, and as if they had
created it. OF could do 30, it is now, what it
has ever been in the hst,ry OF the world, the
destruction end ruin of individuals, families,
! aeRq met nsslSSsi Ss,i
pie, or one million f,ro hundred thousand of
them. now own flco thirds of the accumulated
forty billions of wealth. created in n century
BY our forty millions Of people! Who can
believe that this results from the superior in-
telligence, industry, economy. and sobriety of
the one million tGro hundred thousand, and,
that the thirty ninc millions eight hundred
thousand are stupid, idle, wasteful, and i'm
moral and drnnkards, and, therefore, penny
less Psupersl
This result-this most wicked aud unjust
division of the labor of toriy mHlions of peo-
ple-has been brought about by the illcgiti-
mate and fraudulent use of fheir own 0reot
inStr"meHfniHy money, corrupted and per-
vsrted, in the hands of tho "lawyers, scribes,
and Phrases" and of usurers and shavers
and parasites. into club more powerful than
that OF Hercules to batter 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 filled 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 aud uSury. Stand up for grsenbaoks, OF
the peoples money free from usury, and de-
! 'o'eu ~ Hs proper purposes, and then the
stop thief traitors who traduce tho people as
dullards, idlers, spcnd.thrifts and drunkards
will be forced to 20 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,c"ed Ly tile peopie, and only
an their hands for The uses for which the peo-
pie createdi it. JNo A. THOMSON.
Summit Point, March 13, 1876.