The advocate., 1891-11-04


we are under a new dIspensatiOn, when
money with It's mortgage tap-rOot planted
In the center Of farm win grow, and be
the years ever 30 ralnless, or markets 30
low, yet the honest dollar, worth q hun
dred cents, will stool, and spread until il
is no more an evidence Of debt, but Of
wealth.
If We accept this theory the concentra-
ton of capital is the greatest of national
blessings, and loan syndicates our great
est benefsctors. Does righteousness ex-
alt a nation, or is sin a reproach to any
peopleY Let God answer and the people
say amen.
Can gold-worship, or the slavish lauda-
ton of wealth-snatchers, be by any just
law construed into righteousness? or the
wholesale robbing of the hireling of his
wages anything but slns A guided car
riage drawn by two beautiful horses may
command the admiration of the beholder,
showing the skill of man and the handi
work Of God; but should proud owner
demand that his poor neighbor stand un-
covered while he is passing, the brother
hood of man and fatherhood of God is
past recognition.
Such is the demand of the money
power; q relentless tyrant claiming the
unpaid service and slavish alteration of
the producer of the wealth which It con-
trolls. A pirate on the high sea of ma
tional life. When will law of nations
that stays the hand Of the naval outlaw
restrain the inroads of this financial ma
rauderY Having robbed the world of its
own with satanic audacity, and It's hand
on the key Of its vaulted treasure, de-
mands homage from it's victim, and as on
the morning of temptation, promises to
reward from the goods 1t has stolen. It's
deyotees are the councils of the nation,
and 1t Is intrenched in the laws of the
land. Secure so long Us it controls
legislation, it trembles in view of the
franchise of free people. Possessed Of
boundles wealth, 1t believes itself irwin
chile. The power Of the love Of money
In the human breast it believes to be
paramount, and Its ruthless war will be
waged with the weapons of mammon.
The industrial hosts are studying the
character and defenses Of the enemy, and
are aware that q thing done by Congress
can be undone. They know how to
choose Representatives, and how to retire
Senators. They know that in union is
there strength, and their war slogan Is
charity in sentials-unainching
unity In things essential.
The love of money and the serVile
covering before the power that 1t yields,
gives the nom entum Of q luckless de-
sent. No more benefcent act for human
happiness could be performed than to re-
move the cause that disturbs it. The
vitality, or that which gives money It's
speculative value Is the generator Of an
insatiate love of it. When the worlds
money can be covered as in '62, or its
volume contracted or expanded by the
fat Of corporate power, as Is done by the
national banks, a vital mistake has been
made. No nobler acknowledgement was
ever made than that of Secretary Chase
concerning his establishment Of the pres
ent banking system. A bonded none
tary system with It's speculative value,
because Its volume Is under the control
of national money-mongers, will hatch
brood of gambling spectators who live
to prey upon the body polite, leaving il
to languish and die. The inebriate no
more surely suffers from distressing re-