Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-03-26
NOW FOR TIE REMEDY,
For the Conspiracy TO Rob the Cox.
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where mn eternal paying goes on, but the
debt is never paid. Those who have fixed
great national ihhls in pepstua ON the
present aud coming generation are enemies
OF the human race aud ought TO suffer for
tl~ir crime committed against unborn
children. This sham plan OF funding n, a
luwer rate Of Interest is false. The object
is 10 put the debt beyond the reach Of the
people aud never pay ii, and At last settle
down to where England is-A PUBLIC
DEBT NEVER TO DE PAID-and arisocracy
lorling it over the poor. Labor degraded
to serfdom capital deifed 10 be u robber
god.
THE SIXTH sTEp
In the remedy should be to abolish all
distinctions between gold and silver as
money. Free coinage Of both should be
the law.
THE SEVENTH STEP
Is to stop forever, under penalty of death,
the nfamy Of suspension of specie pay
ment and then resumption OF specie pay
ments.
Who set these traps of the devil? The
brokers, who profit by them the bankers,
who speculate upon them. Who is robbed
by them The people. What Is con.
tractionand resumption2 1t is robbery
What is specie payment system? A lie.
Who is the author The banker. Who
is the father of the scheme I? The devil
Who operate II Legalized pirates.
The immortal Webster said in 1887,
when the banks were suspended and get
ting ready TO resume "a specie paying
system, if iasued, is a contrivance invented
TO cheat the laboring classes OF mankind"
| This Is true as the gospel. There are other
steps in order to a full REMEDY, which /
will now notice.
All class laws must be abolished. The
railroads must be put under control OF laws
that are in the interests OF the people.
Run as they how are by corporations, they
are engiees of oppression against the mass.
es of the people. These monopolies must
be broken up and these mighty highways
become the property of the people as the
seas, lakes and rivers are. The public
highways are incident to sovereignty and
must not be jpbbed out, but held and con-
trolled by the government with no inter-
vening agent. So must the monopoly OF
money be broken up and the issue of all
money be by the people. The centralizing
and aggregation of property by operation
OF law must be broken up also.
Corporate persons are the great danger
OF our times. The right OF the individual
person is forgotten IN the clamor for the
right OF the corporate person. All the laws
are framed that have to do with personal
and real property with direct reference to
the advancement OF corporate persons and
to the injury OF individual persons. These
laws being thus framed create the capital
clam and the labor class And the mon
ster thing thus given legal life stands re
vealed the LAND MONOPOLY AND MONEY
MONOPOLY OF modern tlmes--a menace Il
the life of our christian civilization.
Having discussed the question in group
and Mngly it remains TO urge the suprema
cy of labor over capital, in order that civ
ilization may live, and then show that th,
land question is the one in which labor i
the enfranclised. The right OF man to ar
inheritance in the soil il Divine right
On the labor problem we will give tw
authorities-two great and good men
President Lincoln in his second messag
said; "Labor is prior to and independent
of capital. Capital is only the fruit of la
bor and could never have existed il lsbo
had not first existed. Labor is the super
ior OF capital and deserves much the highe
consideration"
affirm it as my conviction that elias
laws placing capital above labor endang
era the republic more fatally this hou
than did chattel slavery in the days OF it
haughtiest supremacy. And this convic-
ton becomes certainty TO Inc when
read the warming voice OF the mnrtyret
President-ihe immortal Lincoln-on thi
very question, "the efRnrl to place capital
above labor will shake the repuclic an,
when the attempt grows into law it will b.
used to fasen till greater burdens upOi
the penple until all liberty Is lost"
Daniel Webster in speech in 1887
said: "Sir, say it is employment thu
makes the people happy. This great trnl
ought never 10 be forgotten. 1t ought Il
be placed on the title page Of every bool
on political economy intended for Ameri.
ca. II ought to head the columns of ever,
farmers magazine. II should be pro-
CLAIMED everywhere, that where there i
work for the hands there ia work for tn,
tooth. Where there IL employment there
will be bread. And in country lik,
ours above all others will this truth hol,
good. If they can obtain far compensa-
lion for their labor they will have goo,
houses, good clothing, good food, and thu
means Of educating their families. Labo
will be cheerful and the people happy
The great intent Of this country is labor
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labor, labor"
AS measure of remedy let me give ,
word OF warning to The dreadful and grow
ing crime of land monopoly.
During the past decade and half o
years there has been given TO persons ant
corporations government lands sufficient
10 create eight states as large as Ohio
Such crime in land monopoly eXceedi
anything in history. An empire Of land
stolen IRON the living and yet unborn, and
all done at the command and dcialion Ol
consolidated capital.
Says II distinguished statesman in refer
ence 10 the decision of The Supreme Court
OF the United States ON this land monopoly
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