The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-18

sinks into insignifcance for cold-booded robbery Of the people, in the in
terest of the moneypower when we look at the
GIGANTIC STATUE OF SILVER WINDOW.
Mr. Window, Secretary OF the Treasury, is the agent who in n short,
the great National Banking Tyranny. And, as profound as is this con-
spmacy against the nation and the word-as terrible Is it will prove in
impoverishng labor, we have not yet heard a solitary alarm published to
the people Itis time, now, that
THE PEOPLE RISE UP IN THEIR POWER
and crush this last scheme, eer it masters them, or draws them into the
dreadful dangers of an uprising proletariat. Yesterday, a s we sat writing,
one OF the conservative labor mn came in and said, "Mr. Editor, do you
know how near we are to a revolution" mo. How near?' Give
years!' was the low and ominous response. 1T will not be met will not
be you-it will be the proletariat." < &8E
The "proletariat' is the low-growing multitude, who go hungry and
hanS3ad in the cities, and who are losing homes in the farming districts.
WHAT is THE PLAN?
It'll this: Under WINDOWS Silver Bill" any National Bank an buy
silver and put it in the hands of the United States. On this silver the
United States will issue silver notes to the extent OF the market value.
These silver notes n certificates can be used by the National Banks in lieu
OF bonds, and issue money upon them
TO LOAN TO THE PEOPLE!
This will not only perpetuate the system which makes the people pay
interest on all currency, to the banks, but it puts that interest bearing cur
'rency, now,
NOT ONLY ON BONDS, BUT ON COIN!
But worse than that-the people are now using $2e3 ooo,o 900 OF silver
certificates which come direct to the peope-bear no invisible interest to
the banks. These silver certificates will cease to issue from the govern
ment, but will thereafter issue from the banks
AT FROM EIGHT TO SIXTY PER CENT PER ANNUM!
Fellow citizen OF the middle classes-examine this matter well. Ex-
mime the claims already on your commerce and your oil! LOOK we'll
earnestly, honestly, at this matter. See 1000 men own onehaf the
wealth under the bonding sytem-see the poverty spreading over a glori-
GUS country-looku upon your political debauchery-s if the Buell. Circular
has a grip upon the newspaper-and if satisfied that the time has come,
Strike!
Strike at the ballot box. Talk no bayonets or dynamite-revolutions
or revenge. But strike s o your agents shall understand that treason to
you is treason to your country.
Read some of these statements which come to Us from the past:
Jefferson said:
II sincerely believe that banks arc more dangerous than standing
armies. Put down the banks, and ii this country cannot be carried
;ar "s with the ne sppgsse d e. agi fnow NJ o R %y coun tnsms r'n00' "a
jackson, in his farewell address, said in relation to the United States
bank:
"The immense capital, the peculiar privileges bestowed upon it, enabled
it to exercise despotic sway over the other banks in the entire country.
From it's superior strength, it could seriously inure, if not destroy, the
business O any one of them which might incur it's resentment, and it OPEN
ly claimed for itself the power of regulating the currency throughout the
United States. In other words it asserted land undoubtedly possessed) the
power to make money plenty OF scarcea at it's pleasure at any time, and in
any quarter OF the Union.
In the hands of this formidable power, thus perfectly organized, was
also placed unlimited dominion over the amount of circulating medium,
GIVING TT THE POWER TO REGULATE THE VALUE OF PROP
ERTE AND THE FRUITS OF LABOR IN EVERY QUARTER OF
section of the country, a might best conlport with it's own interest or
policy"
- And now the national banks IRE united in one body.
There are, of course, nen who will dicredit u statement that there
was and is a genuine conspiracy against the people. This discredit OF a
terrible truth is our danger-danger that we will 60 on, and on, until the
energy of the race has been slapped, and every strong man is a tool and a
hireing.
Why, the New York Tribune, an organ of the Plutorats, said exultng-
ly. the other day:
"The time lis nea at hand when they (te banks) will feel called upon to
actstrOngly. Meanwhile a very good thing has been done. The machinery
is furnished by which in IN emergency the financial corporations of the east
can act together at a single days notice with such power that no act Of
congress a overcome # resist their decision"
Before the revered name of Abraham Lincoln W e all sink into an
earnest and weightful mood. Just before assassination he gave the follow
ing fa@ful prophecy:
But see in the nea future a crisis approaching that unnerves me
war, corporations have been enthroned, and an "a OF corruption in high
places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to
prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudces of the people until wealth
is aggregated n a few hands and the Republic is destroyed