The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04
THE NEW DEPARTURE.
An American Policy.

the worship OF gold and silver. Iney
have been the idols and the curses OF
civilization. Glittering with the os-
tentation of power from the earliest
records of civil life, they have been
the instruments of tyrants to enslave
labor. To keep men ignorant, women
debased and childhood degraded; has
been the policy of the few who con-
trOlled the metals. 1t is time these
idols of the past should yield to intel
ligence. They have begotten royalty,
which is authority springing from the
false. They are the sworn enemies Of
credit, which is the science of associ-
ated effort springing from the real.
Gold is darkness, hooding mankind IL
to slavery by it's worship. There is
no wrong it has not engendered, no
murder it has not committed. For
centuries (the earlier the darker)
down to printing, it not only kept ma
tions as subject slaves, but was the
never-failing instrument Of Oppres-
sion. Slowly it has lost many ele-
ments of it's power. AS books multi
piled, as schools increased, as men
learned to think, and by thinking
came to action, it's force weakened.
But the huge stealing of the rebellion
the gigantic frauds of railroad mo-
nOpOlies, and the colossal impudence
of the associated national banks, in
their threats to bride, frighten, and
control our legislation, have brought
us to the point where we have to do
one of two things, that is, submit to a
moneyed aristOcracy, or openly and
boldly rebel and put down the monop-
olies it has created. The national
banks are moneyed royalty. They
declare their power and exercise it.
Their stealing monopoly and liberty
are antagonisms. They will subject
the people, or the people must subject
them. They are $4,000, 100000 Of
money arrayed in Trades Unio SUBJ
mission and boldness to keep up the
outrage by which the rich yearly rob
the poor of $30,OO0,000. Their AFRO
gance is rs despotic as kingly power.
Wey would keepSthe people with no
more regards to their rights than as
it they were SO many sheep, growing
their wool to clOthe, and their flesh
and limbs to feed their lordly mas
terS. The old doctrine was that, like
the sheep, the dependent people had
little, if any, more use for money.
This was the condition of the great
mass of living and breathing HUMANE
ty.--
UNTIL THE CRUSADES.
Travel, contact and friction awak-
ened and stimulated men to action.
The rich by thousanes went to fall on
the great highway of death in pursuit
of the Holy Sepulchre. They return
ed no more, their land and their riches
were dissipated and divided. Free
cities arose. The feudal system was
organized. Men slowly began to
think and act for themselves. And
yet ignorance reigned supreme
among the masses. Kings, and now
and then mobiles, were educated. the
people never. Printing was at last
discovered. 1t was an apocalypse to
man. 1t was the first star in their
heavens. Men slowly learned to read
Reading became Il revelation. Till
then time was blind, the past grave,
and man but a machine for the royal
few. All common life commenced
and ended in servitude to man and to
God. TO man. in labor, action, am.
bition. TO God, in worship, in beau
ty, and in hope. The cathedral was
the one epic in the poetry of poverty;
there the poor worshiped. External.
ly it was their illiad of beauty; their
life of love; their illumination OF
hOpe--their religion. Internally it
was their alter of prayer; there they
lifted their souls to God: there the
angels whispered to them: there the
heart Illuminated itself. through the
theOcracy of the transcendent into the
democracy of the true. The cathe
dral was the marble book of the Di.
vine. Art Illuminated its walls, each
stone was hieroglyphic in the
thought-world of the poor. Archi
lecture was the one bible of the soul
it was the threshold to the immortal
it was the picture where the genesis
of the great l Am realized itself and
held the only torch which lighted III
the way to Heaven.
THE ART OF PRINTING.
Printing magnitied this book int,
books. where each man found himself
book. being. 4 soul. Il part of the
great democracy of life. AS book.
SitW. Stttttl ltlttttStN. thoughts nc
cumulated, life became enlarged. an,
liberty appeared. In 1910. thes,
grew into acts-Strange. wild. revo
lutionary acts. Acts full of the fa
naticism of hate, rs they were of tn,
evangelisms of Liberty, and vet the,
full OF progress. not of religion. &c
clesiastically considered. not OF Just
ice. but of boldness. of audacity-tha
kind of audacity which heheadet
Charles |. in the name of political
Liberty. and murdered with a butch
ers intamy the three thousand u
Drogheda. in the name of Religion
10 Religion. what crimes have beer
committed in thy name - But tn
calm ana defiant indifferences witt
which the people radiated about tn
throne. around parliament. in tn
church. in the streets. everywhere
tearing down the first. beheadiny it
king, scattering the second. dictatin,
religion and reigning in the crowd
created defiance for the past and
boldness for the future. which awak
ened the world. Ii the excuses o
excess frightened the fiuid *ha~ ~,