The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-08-15
How do Foreign BOndhOlders Influence
Legislation.

Legislation.
A correspondent in Pennsylvania
asks in behalf Of large number of
miners in this vicinity:
How is it that foreigners in other
countries, holding United States bonds,
can influence American politics or legis-
lation in their behalf?
Exactly the same as miners in Penn
sylvania influence miners in Illinois,
Indiana, or some other State, by send
ing delegates to talk with and operate
on the minds of those they would infu-
ence. Money is powerful in its reach.
The Rothschilds do at the present day
hold more than one thousand million
dollars worth Of United States bonds,
pay no taxes in this country, draw in
terest in gold on all the onds they
hold, and are very anxious to have
their calf continue its sucking Of the
American COW, so to speak.
Therefore, they set apart a portion
Of their profits and appoint their agents
in the United States, chief of whom
is August Belmont, who for years was
Chairman Of the Democratic National
Executive Committee, to look after
the interests of those persons who hold
bonds. They send agents to Washing
ton to influence members of Congress.
They pay money in large sums to the
support of such newspapers as advo-
cate measures that VIII tend to still
further enrich the nOn-taxpayers, who
are the Bondholders. They employ
lawyers, speakers and others to work
constantly in all possible ways-frst,
to control legislation to the collection
of interest and other revenues that go
to Bondholders, and then in all posi-
BILE ways to demoralize public senti-
ment and to prevent the people organ
izing as a Greenback party, or as any
other independent organization that
does not receive orders from the Bond
holders and money monopolists, who
operate through both Of the old par
ties, exactly as man who sits in a
wagon with rein in each hand, pulls
first on one and then on the other to
keep his horse in the road and have
himself propelled forward.
Our correspondent must not think
that everything happens by chance in
this country, nor must he think that
! legislation is conducted for the benefit
of the people, when the condition OF
the country at the present time proves,
/ beyond any argument to the contrary,
that all legislation in the interests OF
the rich and against the poor has
brought this country to a frightful con.
ditiOn in all that pertains to domestic
peace, tranquility, public prosperity
and the carrying on of lsudable enter
prises.
The truth of the matter is this
For 100 years the people Of the United
States have been operating financially
on a false basis. They have been held
to this all these years of sorrow, suffer
ing and misfortune through the efforts
of the agents of those who in foreign
countries are waring against Republi
can institutions. We are suffering
now from lack Of boldness and clear
ness. of sight at the effort Of those who
in years past, have assumed to be the
benetactors Of America as they are
the legislators and directors Of Con
gress and its powor. Norelief can evel
come to the people of the United States
that will be permanent and beneficial
until we root out everything in the
shape of United States bonds and de
stroy the seed thereof so far as the ides
is concerned. Tender to the Bondhol
ders, no matter where they live or wht
they are-let them come forward anC
receive afull legal-tender paper none,
for all their claims against the Gov
eminent. This stops the drain of in
terest that the American labor is nov
giving toward the support Of foreigl
aristocracy. Such policy and prin
ciple viii permit the profits Of Amer
can industry to remain in the Unite
: States, either in the shape of the PROF
= erty that farmers and workingme
: generally produce, or it Will be her
in the shape and form Of propert
= brought from other countries in ex
4 change for the surplus of our own Pre-
: ducts.
b. Our profits now 90 abroad as inter
/ est on the public debt and bring nOtf
n ing III IGluI4l. IL - " StO u Lilo bCL1
/ BILE drain Of blood and life and hop
e and all that leads to prosperity, froI
J the people of the United States tina
we demand in behalf Of long outrage
and oppressed labor, that everythin.
in the shape Of a United States bon
:, be paid Immediately in that creation c
a law known as a full legal-tender greer
4 back money, one dollar Of which sha-
e always, through all the coming year
o that our Government shall endure, b
a legal tender for the payment Of on
A.. dollar Of debt and thus always at pa
. with geld, silver, OF any kind Of none
and always at par with its face promis
, because it will always have the powe
to do in the law that for which none
= is created to do-to pay debt.-E1
Anthony Ramsey, colored, has cotto
= opening.
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