The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-15
THE POWER OF GOE6-=Trs CA.
PACIrH To TAKE CARE OF 1T
SsLF.

Ii the destructives, of Kearney's
sort, were about TO get possession OF
the government, gold would be first t.
discover the fact. Gold is timId am
fugaceous. 1t tsketh wings unit.
itself. 1t discovers deep and secur
places of retreat and conceslment.
kearney scares it. Il IS watchful and
potent and resistless- II gold sought,
as supposed, the creation of a strong
government, Kesrney and the extreme
Greenbackers are the agencies Ben
Bu,ler and the rich would naturally
employ. They would hire Kearney first
to Tighten the conservatism of the
country as happens when this agrariAD
and leveler speaks in Boston. They
would have Butler jim Kearney and
the two to threaten the security OF
vested rights in Boston and in Wall
street. The next step would be to
induce the President, in order that
Greenback insanity and CommuDistlc
rage may be appessed and popular at
fention directed abroad, to declare war
against Mexico. Bountips for enlist
meDts, and farms and homes, and forty
I acres and mules would be pre- ffered
and the army of tramps, and half hat of
Greenbackers and Communists, would
rush into the army. Here men are
transformed, and, instead of men and
voters, become machines and food for
bullets. Their business is to obey or
ders. They are the arms and hands
and legs of their great leader. They
are moved by the slightest impulse of
THEN master. Fhey obey his will, hav-
ing none of their own. Such is rant
ing, raving Greenb1cker when con-
yerted into soldier, and of
such will the army consist
when the President chooses to thrust
it into Mexico. Every paper castle
reared in splendor by the plastic hand
genius at Waco will sink into OBJ
fIiviou and nothingness. The very frs
gun fred and rewards proffered in
Mexico for military service puts pc
riod to Kesrney's revolution. Kear-
ney's voters will be transformed into
Hay es's and Sherman's bayonets, and
these will be directed fret against the
Mexican and then against the Ameri-
can ansrch. The Mexican mob will
succumb in the presence of the
bayonet, and the American bayonet
in the hands of the swell mob
will become the prop for Grants
autOcracy. These ignorant people
who propose to exterminate gold and
the power of gold, who would make
money valueless and property, as com
pared with money, priceless, are Who'll
ly mad if they propose to destroy gold
or impoverish its owners. Gold If
unlike paper. 1t has real, inherent
power, while that of paper is fictitious
or derivative. Gold thinks and plots
and governs men and nations, and if
there were danger that these green
hackers are about to secure mastery
Of the country's highest offices, gold
would provide amply and with perfect
wisdom for its own security. There is
and can be, in the nature of things.
no possibility of the success of green
hackers. If the slightest danger ex
listed, quotations of tho gold market
would show that capital is frightened.
But the thermometer of the money
market shows that paper and gold still
have nearly equal values. Gold does
not assert its infinitely superior value
suct as it would have if there were
the remJtest possibility of the triumph
OF the revolutionIsts even in Texas.
Gold is tImid and wise and omnipo-
tent. Having these qualities, it stands
still, and simply because it sees that
the Greenhackers are helpless and 80
less