The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02
The Anti-M0nop01ist.

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mate results. 1t exhausted Spain by
wars, extravagances, and corruption.
With Philip II. it commenced it's
Perlon OF decay. One by one it lost
Mexico. Peru, its possessions in
america, Portugal, and the Islands of
the seas; In fact all that made it's
name great. its power to be respected.
and its enmity to be feared. until her
throne has become the football of
europe, and Spain but a medicant in
the great drama of national powers.
tIold has been it's curse. Possessing
lands filed with
Rocks rich in gems and mountains big with
mines" 20
us glory is of the past; it's riches are
put shadows OF the departed; and its
power the story of other days. The
reason is too obvious to be mistaken,
ana too instructive to be lost as
lesson Tor our instruction. She had
no national policy to equalize or dis
tribute her wealth.; her gold flowed
into no general channels; individual
power monopOlized it. Her people,
little better than mere dependents.
power kept them subdued and igno-
rance kept them in darkness, till they
nave become the mere sluggards of
superstition. Riches have corrupted
her nobility, without improving or
elevating her people. The policy
which led to the decay of Spanish
nationality is the identical repressive
power which Belmont's New York
World proclaimed for the laboring
people of the United States-that is,
that they must no longer expect to
rise into the comforts of home. the
rewards OF labor, or the citizenship of
equality. but must be contented to
bow down to capital, yield to its cap
tlvlty, and accept the fate of the
European laborer.
Such is not the policy for American
freemen. The progress of all and the
good of all have been the elements of
our prosperity. The education of all
is our philosophy; the equality of all,
IN rights, is our civilization: the pro-
gress OF all is the basis of our politics;
the education Of all into Christianized
brotherhood is our religion. There
has been no period in our progress
when individualism has attempted to
control our legislation, our finances,
and our policy as to the public lands
till the era of Railroad combinations
and National Bank monopolies. That
era and that issue is now forced upon
US.
There is but one way to meet the
enemies of Equality. We must have
a perfected National Paper Money,
founded on the resources of the
nation. With this we can kill the
individualism of money, and that
must be killed or Liberty will be
killed.
With National Congress sworn to
uprOot the great corporation frauds
which are attempting to monopolize
the money and steal the land of the
nation, we can secure perpetuity to
Freedom, but if we yield to the Bank
Association and the Pacific Railroad
thieves we are more than slaves-we
are towards. With the Greenback
freed from all its exceptions, a legal
tender for all debts and obligations, las
the sovereign money of the nation,
issued as the sole circulating paper
medium, in quantities regulated by
population, adequate to equalize
values, remunerate labor, encourage
production, and stimulate industry,
we shall have a National Policy such
as will defy attacks and Nationality
Of money such as equality demands
for the protection of rights and the
elevation of the people.
n national policy of Finance indie
pendent of Europe. independent of
Jews or Gentiles, of Shylocks and of
usurers, will bring us to the equali-
ties Of justice. to the religion Of right
and to the humanity of progress. Let
us adept it. Let us cut loose from all
usury. from all foreign borrowing,
from all loans except from our own
people. When necessity demands
money for the public welfare, for the
preservation Of the nation. or for any
great work of general utility. let the
nation create it for the nation. This
is to have National Policy. This is
to be able to sustain labor and to
restrain capital from its Incidence and
beggary from its necessities. This is
to have Nationality of Money.
STEPHEN d. DILLAYE.