Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-13

WHO IRE TIE GOLD SHRIEKERS:
The question is easily answered. Euro
pean spectators combined, several years ago,
to demonetize silver. Germany succeeded
and other countries partially followed suit.
Then foreign bondholders turned their at
tcntion to the United States Here was a
rich field for operations. Congress was a
name synonymous with corruption. The
lobby was all-powerful The bigger the
steal, the surer were the chances of success.
Small amounts would not go around.
The conspiracy of 1873 was formed and Con-
gress demonetized silver without the consent
of the people, and without knowing them
selves-many of them-what they did. The
people of this country did not demand it, did
not want it, are utterly opposed to the whole
business.
Who were the conspirators? The foreign
bondholders and bankers and their agents
here, home bankers and moneyed aristocrats,
the bloated creditors of the country holding
bonds, bought at 20 per cent. and more dis
count, with currency. Is any one surprised
that such man as August Belmont should be
opposed to silver as legal tender? He
represents the Rothschilds, not the Ameri-
can people, or their interests. Belmont is
one of multitude. All the Wall street
agents of foreign money represent foreign
capital and European interests--not our in
terests. They are paid to do tit is their
business. It matters not to them if the
whole debtor class of the United States
should perish. Money is their god: patriot
ism and humanity are secondary considera-
tons. So, too, home banks, with very few
honorable exceptions, from the mammoth
corporation overshadowing Wall street to
the village pawn shop, are for gold.
These are all gold shriekers! 1t is self
interest. Money is their king, father Royal
Dane-the ghost Of their lives, and they fol-
low wherever it leads. They are bondhold-
ers. They do business with bonds. Out of
bonds come their enormous per cent. With
out bonds they would not be in bonds. They
belong to the foreign fraternity. 1t is a uni
versal secret brotherhood bounded together
by the avaricious desire for more money.
Honor and faith require that they should be
true to each other.
This is all natural enough It is the in
tense selfishness of human nature, But
these classes are out-spoken and respectable.
These are not all. There is another class of
gold shriekers- low, and contemp-
tible-the beggar, hireling class. It is COM
posed of bought paupers, the understrappers
and hangers on, the bootlicks and ick-spit-
newspapers, of hired Congressman, of venal
clerks, of fashionable preachers. of
penniless but aristocratic snobs,
of threadbare responsibility, of
foreign hirelings and home lazzaroni This
miserable crowd are your genuine shriekers.
These push into public assemblies, they crowd
the street corners, they swallow society with
swallow-tail coats hired for the occasion. they
occupy the highest seats i'll the church. they
surround Congress and pen lying letters to
the newspapers to control public opinion,
thew part their hair in the middle, and finally
die in the poor house. These are they who
shrek the loudest and whose yells are now
echoing and re-echoing for national honor
and credit and faith
Let not the people be deceived. The pow
er is in their hands-al power. Money is
not King and if it is, the idol must be and
will be shattered, broken, ground into dust,
and instead, the rights of the people, equal
rights and equal privileges and equal laws,
honor, faith, and impartial justice enthroned.