The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-14


pect to come to the pauper wages of
Europe; for if we have a basis which
in an emergency can limit the circu-
lation to So per head. then the men
who hold the basiS-(and they do not
in ordinary times exceed 100000, and
often in great emergencies it may be
controlled by one family alone--for
the Rothchilds can any day contend
nine-tenths of all the specie in Amer
ica)-I say. then. labor is the slave to
and dependent for its wages upon the
mercies of Shylock. He can fix them,
and he can say, "Work at my wages
or starve! Take my fare or will
give you rifle fare If you are hun
CRY, go to grass, the cattle live on it,
you may!'' This is specie domina-
ton, specie basis, specie rule. For
three thousand years it has crippled,
starved, enslaved, and debased man.
kind to make the few masters of the
many. 1t is as ambitious to-day as
ever it was. 1t is as infamous now
as it was in 1889 when three million
Frenchmen were starving for en-
ployment, stripped of everything to
pay the taxes that u king, queen and
100000 mobiles might rule in ostenta.
tious grandeur-for gold and silver
were then, and always have been, the
basis of human oppression.
But let the Greenback theory pre-
vail, let the government issue its own
money and pay off the bonds in green
backs, paying 10 more attention to
gold as a currency, than we do to
iron, which is INCIDENTALLY a thousand
times more useful, and measure the
amount of national money to be issued
by the number of inhabitants, so that
every man may have the same rights,
the same privileges, the same equal.
ty of opportunities; then no man need
go hungry for want of employment.
and 40 man need be Idle for want of
opportunity to make industry availa
BILE.
To-day no one can borrow money
unless he can give a government
bond or its absolute equivalent as Sc
curity, for the lender knows that he
can go to the syndicate and get a bond
any day with his money. This shuts
off all men but rich men from borrow
ing. The band is the wickedest, the
most despotic, and the most insiduous
enemy to the lab0rer, for it keeps
money locked up which would be
forced into avenues Of industry if the
United States was not a borrower.
Why is the United States govern
ment a borrower! Solely for the ben
eft of the bondholder. Solely to
pamper the bank association. Solely
to force the poor to pay the taxes of
the rich. Solely to keep the non-in-
terest-bearing debt small. for that is
currency, and the few can control it to
make wages low, properly low, and in
terest high. Keep all the money in
bonds bearing interest, and capital can
sit in inSOlent easy free from taxes,
free from losses, free from any kind
of danger. But pay off the bonds,
force the bondholder to use his mon
ey, or lend his money for industrial
pursuits. and the day of enforced idle
ness will be at an end, the day of low
wages and starvation will be past.
| The whole question is now with the
laborer and with the producer. The
issue is clear and definite. The Re-
publican party has adopted the bond
policy and is the alder, abettor and
supporter of the bank association.
AristOcracy for the few, slavery for
the many. This is Republican policy.
The Democratic party is divided in
Ohio. Indiana, in Illinois, in Wiscon-
sln-indeed all through the north
west and the southwest it is adopting
the Greenback and labor doctrines.
But in the east hard money and Bel
f,r
its creed.
Labor has to fight its own battles,
and If labor will not battle for labor,
capital will crush it. Universal ac-
cord for universal relief is the only
solid foundation on which the Green
back can support labor and labor sup.
port the Greenbaek. Their interests
are Identical. With it labor can he
distributed according to its needs, and
supported according to the require.
ments OF manhood and of justice.
The highest duty of man IN society
is TO keep his fellow man from every
suffering. Ii he is unfortunate. solace
and aid him; if he is poor. see that he
is fed and kept from misery; If he is
intempeoate, reform and encourage
him: If he is idle. vicious, or wicked
force him 10 labor, force him to be
just.
The true philosophy OF all reform
is to remove all the causes OF poverty
of crime. Of dissipation.
Employment is the first requisite
wages the second: both of these de
pend upon an adequate supply of cur
rency. Force legislation to supply it
: Not banks, not brokers. not tina,
cursed of God, and hated of man, the
usurer. but the government.
Pay all bonds to kill all interest
for interest is the rich man 5 weapon
it is the poor mans master. Stop it
kill it. Make it impossible. Let M
man be forced to support another il
idleness by paying tribute to money
This scourge has made more slaves
. caused more suicides. more crimes
and more misery in the long cata
lo-ue of human misfortunes than al
other causes combined. Let laho
raise its Hercuiean arm and crush il
Ii any man dares TO tell you tina
we must go back into that heather
slavery TO coin. called specie payment
mark him as a tyrant, brand him as a,