The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-12
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
It's Methods and What It Hopes
to Accomplish.
Discussed by Jas. G. Clark-The Franco
Russian Alliance Said to Be Com
bination Against Money-Loaners.

GRANTS PASS, Or, Oct. 1.-The conviction
is becoming more and more general and fixed in
the worlds moral and mental consciousness
that usury is the chief SQUIRE of all the inequali-
ties. despotisms and ills that affiict civilized
society.
old is "the root of all evil" is conceived, born
and nurtured in usury, and the evil can only be
abolished through the absolute destruction of
its source. To destroy this ever increasing con-
tagious and corrupting cause and source is the
chief mission of the present agitation which in
spires the worlds producing and laboring
classes, which virtually invites all the different
manual and brain workers under one banner,
and which in the United States is last crystal
izing in the Peoples party.
Except Tor the undue power and influence
derived from the practice of usury, kings, no
bles, lords and moneyed aristocrats the world
over would find their prestige and occupation
gone, and would be compelled either to earn
their living by personal effort of mind or
muscle or to relapse into the realm designed by
nature for many Of them, and become tramps
and beggars.
1t was Lord Bacon who said: "The Insurer
trading upon certainty and all other men
on uncertainties, in the end of the game all the
money will be in the box"
The American public has recently been in
formed by that corrupt and dangerous educa-
tional bureau, known as the Associated Press.
OF which Jay Gould is general superin.
tendent, that it is religious intolerance which
is now driving the Jews from Russia.
LIS nothing of the sort The Russian peasants
care but little more for a mans religious opin-
ions than they do for his tastes in eating and
drinking. The fact is, the Jew, with all his
compensating withstand they are many and
conspicuous-has from the time Jacob swindled
his brother out of his birthright and blessing,
been born usurer in spite of his own inspired
laws against the crime. And Christian persecu-
ton has tended constantly to develop and in
tensify in him this inherited passion for money
boarding and money loaning. writer in the
North american ReUie1C backs his own opinions
and statements concerning the true fnwardness
of Russian ill feeling and persecution with
quotations from the most trustworthy and COM
petent authorities who speak from the ground
and from personal experience and observation.
Vice Consul Hartford, at Sebastopo, says that
the Russian peasants have in them none of the
spirit of intolerance and persecution on account
of religious views differing from their own,
which have so often impelled the Roman Catho-
lies to like prosecutions; and that they are en-
tirey Indifferent as to whether foreigners wor-
ship ''God or the moon He says further that
the Jews runs the liquor saloons, and houses
of ill-fame, lend money at exorbitant rates OF
usury, rent land III large bodies and sublet it in
government and other jobs, ont OF which
they make excessive profits, and in
thousand ways speculate, upon the
become owners of all the property. The
peoples chief enmity is against the Insurer, and
the remedy for the evils and prosecutions of
which he complains rests with the Jew himself
''who, If he will not refrain from specializing on
ignorance and drunkenness. must be prepared
TO defend himself and his property from the GER
tain and natural results OF such policy. Mr.
Gould said of the Russian peasants: she
doubted whether there was happier people
under the sun so long as they are out OF the
~. ..,F - As
as he (the Jewl gains settlement in q village
the peasantry become poor"
Alliance between Russia and France and the
expulsion of Insurers from Russia mean one and
the same things. l. e.. determination of two
great powers, radically ditferentin governmental
form and spirit. but united in financial policy
and in determination to emanepate them
selves from bondage to gold and usury bandits
anS issue currency based on the wealth and
credit of two great domains that contain within
themselves all that makes currency OF any
Significance or value. IL is easy to foresee that
such an alliance against decaying dynasties,
which are lying fettered and crippled at the feet
of the golden calf, viii be invinelble. Russia
found her object lesson in finance in the out
come OF the Franco-German war.
France, after being conquered and robbed OF
two of her best provinces aud 81 ,1O0,O00,000 in
gold. emerged from that war with credit unim-
paired before che world, and her people hopeful
and prospecting, while her conqueror, loaded
with stolen plunder, but tied up to her old gold
basis superstition, came out poorer than her
vanQuished foe, and her peopie so loaded down
and oppressed with mort .age indebtedness, that
twenty five Germans have since sought refuge
and exile in the United States for every single
Frenchman.
This is a lesson in favor of fat money as
against the "houest dollar" that always sneaks
away when most needed, TO hide its cowardly
and treacherous face III the vaults OF the ext0r-
toner. And il is a lesson not recognized II our
college and seminary text books, simply because
our institutions of learning and our learned
professors who write the books, are largely
more largely than by tuition fees-suppofted by
usury.
Among other presidents too numerous TO
mention is the Bank OF Venice, which lifted
civilization out OF the dark ages and existed Tor
626 years It's notes were current wherever
commerce was known, and at times command d
a pr MUM over gold OF 50 10 40 per cent IL
i423 the interest on The notes was ABOLISHED. No
coin was kept on hand 10 redeem" the notes,
aud yet the bank continued 10 exist 374 Years
after that, making Venice the most prus porous
country in Europe, If not ia the world, until
conquered and wiped from existence by Sapo-
leon.
The American Encyclopedias in its article on
banks, says: This money was the chief facility