Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-09-26
THE ANACONDA'S COIL.
FARMERS, MANUFACTURERs, LABoRERs
AND MECHANICS ARE BEING
CRUSHED TO DEATH BY
MONSTER.

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Wealth producers use it as they do other
tools, to enable them to acquire property.
There IS another class of men--not
wealth producers-wh live by monopo-
lzlng and renting to labor this most es-
sential tool-money. The scarcer money
is. the higher rent it will bring; 50 the
money renters strive to contract the cur
rency into as small compass as possible.
The rent of money is not measured by the
rate of interest paid for it. That is often
nominal. The great profits of the money
renter are derived from his ability to ap
sorb the increase Of production. His NOM
inal interest may not exceed six per cent;
but in consequence of the deprecated and
shrunken value Of property this six per
cent takes 1t all, and is, therefore, as good
to the renter as if it was fifty per cent. 1t
takes all the borrower makes, and 1t
could do no more at a higher rate.
This money renting class have got pos
ession of Congress, and manipulate leg
islation to suit their avaricious schemes.
They are few in numbers, comparatively;
nut strong in organization, discipline, and
money.
They control Congress.
They manipulate legislation.
They nominate and elect Presidents
They even control petty and unimpor-
tant local elections, in order to keep the
partv in subiugation and discipline.
They oganizc and lash partisan slaves
into obedience, or disgrace with political
ostracsm all men who possess the man
hood and self,respect to think for them
selves accordingly.
The last Congress was composed OF 2oO
professional non producing lawyers ana
bankers, and 20 representing the usefsl
classes.
When we take into consideration She
fact that bankers and lawyers are as av"'
aricious for money as any other class OF
nen, and that all they get, or expect to
ret. they worm out of the producing
lasses by some legal process, isn't 1t the
ost natural thing in the world for them,
when the power is placed in their hands,
TO create such laws as will serve their pur- /,
poses the best2
A banker, usurer, or any other man
Who lives upon the earnings and mlstor'
tunes of his neighbors, has no more right
,r business to represent the working
classes in Congress than the thieves and
robbers of our country have TO administer
Justice in our courts. No more fit to
mono police the positions they occupy
han Satan is to represent the gospel OF
Lyme truth.
Our present Congress is composed oil
,ankers. lawyers, merchants, manufac>
turers, doctors and one mechanic, and not
me single tiller of the soil.
Composing the great bulk of the wealth-
producers of the nation, having mere at
stake and much larger Interest to pro-
tect than all other classes combued, why
is it ,that our farmers are less represented
md their interests more neglected than
INV other cass2 A nation should be rep
.esented by its dominant industries, aud
IS agriculture is the dominant interest IN
the United States, it should be most
argely represented instead of being
neglected.
Farmers must arouse to the dignity.
md Importance of their calling. They
must organize more thoroughly and
,se their organized power more effec-
sually. A thoroughly organized and
yeN drilled battalion ot soldiers can
march through, burn and plund or
hlckly populated, ,unorgaoized community
So can, and so do few thousand
thoroughly organized bankers and
LAWYERS, make fearful raids upon the un-
organized industrirl classes. As long
~ farmer- suffer them. selves to be repres-
nted by men who have, no interest in
common with themselves, whose ad-
yantage it is to have the laws as COM
| ,licated and obscure as possible; farmers
! cannot hape that their interests will re-