The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-18

day, and OF the transcendent
fabric of our forefathers nothing
will be left but a heap ofdust.
I found the other day in a Min
nesota country paper, the Pelican
Rapids Pioneer, an address to
Farmers" from which I make q
few extracts:
Farmers, have you ever serious
~ considered what the result of
our present system reproduction
and distribution will be if q radi-
cal change of the system be not
at once made? You are fast
drifting into a state of servitude
that, to say the least of it, is
simply appalling. Money is the
power that is making you slaves
of the few who are fast gaining
control of our currency. Areyou
aware Of the fact that German
and English syndicates own II,
100000 acres of the most valua-
able land in the United States,
from which vast sums OF money
are annually derived and taken
from the circulation, to be again
invested in a manner to rob
labor OF the fruit of it's tolls?
This plumber is repeatedly used
in the same way, every turn en-
larging the power Of the syndi-
Gates and weakening yours in the
same ratio.
British gold has accomplished
what British bayonets were un-
able to do. By a lavish and I'M
scrupulous use of it they have
bribed your legislators, taken
possession of the land and all the
means OF production and trans
portation on which your exist
ence depends, and have sold your
children into bondage, even unto
the third and fourth generations,
by longtime, gold-bearing-inter-
est mortgages and bonds, which
reduce you and your children to
a condition ofwage slavery worse
than the chattel slavery Of a few
years ago. By it's uSe they have
gained control of all the trunk
lines Of railroads and all the
breweries. Large amounts are
invested in our iron, copper, sill
yer, gold, tin, lead and coal mines.
British gold controls the thread
that is manufactured in this
country, there being about 49,
100000 invested in thatindustry
alone. The profits of these in
vestments are immense, a large
part being withdrawn from cir
culation, making money scarce
in proportion. The remainder is
used to further enslave the people
by means of Investment. The
same power is working to secure
cort.ol IF our TOURING mills, and
all patents on farm machinery
and to gain possession OF the salt
works, with good prospects OF
success. ="
The misuse Of English capital
has reduced a large part OF
the population OF the British ISL
ands to extreme Indebtedness.
The Scotch crofters, the evicted
Irish peasants, the swarming,
starving laborers of London, the
impoverished farm-tenants, OF
the agricultural region of Eng
land, all testify to this. Now
they propose to come here where
liberty and fair play, even par
TALLY developed, have produced
some considerable degree ofpros-
perity, and fasten themselves up
on that.
I make one or two other ex-
tracts from the same address:
"British gold is a power that
will soon own this country. 1t
controls our general elections.
None but it's tools are allowed to
hold positions as law makers in
our national senate house
of American millionaire lords.
The press of this country is con-
trolled by it, and when any paper
is being published wholly in your
interest, there are some means
found to silence it, with very few
EXCEPTIONS
These may seem like extrava-
giant statements; but it is well
known that the last Senatorial
contest in this state was simply