The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1891-12-18
HOdern Toryisn.


colonies with the mother country,
there sprang up two political parties,
the wings and the tories. The for mer
repealed the aggressions of the crown
and commended against taxation with
out representation. The latter were
the servjle, crynging, fawning crowd
that were willing to submit to any
thing to keep peace with England,
and sought any advantage that friend
ship with the enemy Of the country
could procure. They even would be-
tray their ueighbors ard fellow citi-
zens into the hands of the insolent
and barbarous fee.
The war of 1912 was only a con
Guiding episode OF the war of indie
pendence. Our seamen were inn
pressed and the national capital
sacked by the British. In the war
of the rebellion the British furnished
arms to our enemies and fitted out
privateers to prey upon our commerce.
But what she could net accomplish
by overt acts of warlike treschery,
she has nearly accomplished by sub
tie schemes of finance. Here Is the
scheme as presented in the famous
Hazard circular sent out from Lon
don to the bankers of this country in
1852. "Slsvery is likely to be sbol-
ished by the war power, and chsttle
slavery destroyed. This, 1 and my
European friends are in favor of, for
slavery is but the ownership of labor,
and carries with it the care for the
laborer; while the European plan,
led one by England is capital con-
troll of labor, by controlling wages.
This can be done by contr olling the
money. The great debt that CAPT
tslists will see is made outIof the war,
must be used as a measure to control
the volume of money. To accom-
plish this the bonds must be used as
banking basis. We are now wait
ing to get the secretary of the treas
ury to make this recommendation to |
congress. 1t will not do to allow
the greenback as it is called, to circu-
late as money. for any great length |
of time, as we cannot CONTROL that"
We have never heard the genuine
ness or authenticity of that ''Hazzard
circular" denied. Subsequently
legislation shows how explicitly
these instructions were carried out.
First the government bonds were ex-
empt from taxation. What right,
under the constitution, moral or
otherwise, had the congress of the
United States to except from taxa
ton billions of dollars of rumunera-
tive property, made good by the
loyalty and sacrifices of the peoplep
None whateverl It was worse than
taxation without representation"
It was taxation with unjust discrim-
nation. The burdens thus taken
from the shoulders of bondholders
was put upon the sholders of the
common people. The next move
was the exemption put upon the
greenback. and the payment of the
interest on the national bonds in
coin. Then the refunding scheme,
the national banking Law, the credit
strengthing act the resumption of
specie payments, and finally the
browning villanY, the denomination
of silver. All this was done at the
suggestion and request of English
of Lombard street, and of
Threadneedle street, London, and by
their confederates in Wall street.
1t appears from the Congress
sional RECORD of April 9, 1872, At
page 2,O32 that durin 2 the time that
the bill for the characterization of
silver was pending, one Ernest Seid, /
. London banker was closeted with
the committee on coinage, and after
examining the first draft of the bill,
'made various suggestions which the
committee adopted and incorporated
In the bill" The administration ell
the government of the United States
for the last twenty-five years has
been run at the dictation of tories
and aogiomani&cs. Bob IngersOll
says, "that such statesmen ought TO |