The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02
feudality. Sixty years of slavery

feudality. Sixty years of slavery
finally crushed out human endurance;
men starved; people lived on grass
and the roots they dug from the earth.
and existed in a martyrdom to 1ndi.
vidualism. till manhood revolted; and
the pike, the sword, powder, fire. and
desolating death as their arms to kill
its tyranny, they revolutionized out
OF the darkness into liberty. It was
manhood emancipating man. 1t was
humanity in chains rising with Her.
culean strength to break its letters.
1t waded in blood to realize the one
grand hope, emancipation to create
the one great purpose, liberty. It
sublimated the people into heroic bat
talions, swearing to their God to be
free. or to die battling for tide olsen
thrallment of labor. It transformed
a nation from feuds to treemen. 1t
dissipated the night of ignorance by
the glorious dawn OF universal in
struction. Fraternity of rights was
the aim, equality of justice the pur-
pose; education the means, nationality
of money the power. Light for every
intellect, a scOurge for every tyrant !!
was the universal demand. It was the
first national affirmation of social, po-
litical, religious, human rights by
which the masses discovered their
strength and asserted their power in
the worlds long catalogue of individ-
ualized Outrages. The people sprang
into life. They aspired to be free,
with souls sworn to conquer or to die.
They had the inspiration for, and the
inspiration after, that progress which
elevates patriotism into devotion and
devotion into civilization. They
were without money; its masters,
flying before the storms of liberty,
had clutched it, and run away with it.
Individualism emigrated. The peo-
pie and liberty stayed at home. They
had no money. Gold and silver fright
ened by popular rights. had fed with
their aristOcratic owners. They had
to create money. or go back into slav-
cry. They created it. In the name
of God and liberty they issued revo-
lutiOnary national money. 1t was a
bold innovation upon the individual
ism Of gold, but liberty proclaimed it,
and this revolutionary money revOlu-
tiOniZed the world. 1t changed the
fate of nations. 1t elevated millions
out of the serfdom of feudal vassa-
lage. 1t said to the laborer, be a
man, asserts your rights, and MAIN
tain them. But the people got drunk
with success. Their wrongs, for the
time. made them forget the rights for
which. they had battled and conquered.
Their excuses conquered their sue
cess. They drowned themselves in
blood But the principles for which
they had revolutionized lived.
France adopted them; she created the
bank Of France. The bank of France
is France, financially. 1t is the ia.
ton trusting the nation; the people
trusting the people. 1t unifies and
Identifies all credit. 1t is every man
for the nation, and the nation for ev-
cry man. France, through its influ-
ence has six million land holders. 1t
has killed the monopolizers of land.
1t has taken the knife and scales from
tho SylOcks who murder credit and
kill enterprise. Is has built up indus
tries which enrich her people. 1t has
given employment to labor, and re-
cOmpense to toll. 1t has made France
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given her people the battle. 1t has
made her serfs freemen, and her
fathers ancestors Of the intelligence
of liberty.
| Turn we now to Spain, the Galconda
of gold. the stOrehOuseO silver. For
centuries the mines of the world were
her revenues. Riches poured into her
lap in an ever-tiowing and ever
increasing tide of coin. From the
union of CASTLE and AragOn. by the
marriage Of Ferdinand and Isabella,
SpaiE marched with gigantic steps to
national power and to national riches.
Her dominions were won by con.
tinents. and the Islands of the Seas
were bestowed upon her as her right
full heritage. Isabella WAS crowned
by the world with y deathless halo,
uniting her name to that of Columbus
as discoverer. and to that of Time
as y benefactress. Charles V. sue
ceeded to the throne. His career is a
chapter in civilization. He became
the master of Europe, controlling the
crown Of Charlemagne. He i'm
prisoned the King of France by his
strategy, and held Henry VIII. as his
dancing attendant. Leo. ", the
Supreme Pontiff of the Church. was
counsel and adviser. when the splen-
doris of the Roman See made all
Europe tributary to its power. Cortes
added the wealth of the Aztec kings
of Mexico to swell the riches of Spain,
and Pizsrro conquered the gold of the
Inca monarch of Peru. from the tenn
pies of Cuzco and the palaces of its
kings. to swell the pomp and add to
the power of the spanish throne.
Arms and the arts kept pace with the
wealth of the CaStillian kings. The
nobility of the civil and of the
religious power in Spain dominated
over the people. There was no such
thing as national policy of finances
for the laboring and producing classes.
Individualism displayed itself in the
ostentation of an aggrandized nobility
which regulated the whole admins
trative power of the nation. There
was no such thing as policy for
eqnalizing rights. or distributing