Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-06-15
The DEVIL FISH.


THE DEVIL FISH.
Nothing Else Affords Fitting Comparison
to the English Banking system.
The cartoon which we present this
week is one that every voter in this
country should cut out and keep posted
upon the wall where he might study it
every day in the year. It is whole
history in itself and tells its own story
INA silent tongue that should reach
lsSeae to the hearts of the American
pesF.le.
Victor Hugs! in the Toilers of the
Sea, describes one of the monsters of
the deep.
He says: 1t is difficult for those who
have not seen it to believe in the exist
ence of the devil-fish.
Compared to this creature, the ancient
hydras are insignificant
If terror was the object of its creation,
nothing could be imagined more perfect
than the devil-fish 1t has no blood, no
bones, no flesh. 1t has no muscular Or
ganization, no menacing cry, no breast
plate, no horn, no dart, no claw, no
tail with which to hold or bruise, no
cutting fins, or wings with nails, no
prickles, no sword, no electric dis
charge, no poison, no talons, no beak,
no teeth. Yet he is, of all creatures,
the most formidably armed.
What then is the devil-fish? 1t Is the
sea vampire.
The above is but a partial description
of this terrible monster of the deep. He
says it is with the sucking apparatus
that it attacks. The victim is oppressed
by vacuum drawing at numberless
points; it is not a clawing or a biting,
but an indescribable specification.
A tearing of the flesh is terrible, but
less terrible than the sucking of the
blood Claws are harmless compared
with the horrible action of these natural
air-cups. The muscles swell, the fibers
of the body are contorted, the skin
cracks under the loathsome oppression,
the blood spurts out and mingles hor-
ribly with the lymph of the monster,
which clings to its victim by innumer-
able hide9us mouths. The hydra in
corporates itself with the man; the
man becomes one with the hydra. The
| specter lies upon you; the tiger can
| only devour you; the devil-fsh, horri-
| bic! sucks your life blood away. Nc
one can read the description of the
| devil-fish but with feeling of loath-
ing and disgust, and can but wonder
why nature created such horrible
monster. But there is an ideal octopus
| or devil-fsh of mans creation that is
far more terrible. The natural devil.
| fish preys upon individuals that fall
within it's grasp. The ideal devil-fsh
has its home in London, and has thrown
out its tentacles over all the nations OF
the earth and is slowly but surely suck.
| :ng the life. blood out IF all the people
of the earSl. It's body is credit, its only
motive is avarice, its weapon is usury.
| 1t has extended its credit into all the
nations in which it could get footing,
and with its only weapon (usury) it is
gorging it's insatiate appetite with gold
its only food.
The great mass of the people in
every nation are compelled by necessity
to incessant suffering and toll from the
cradle to the grave to procure gold with
| which to feed the accursed monster.
Look at the picture of the monster on
| our first page, with it's arms stretched
IL,
armed with thousand tentacles, each
one pointed with its terrible weapon
''usury," which like the air cups of the
| living devil-fish, with which it sucks
| the blood of its victims, sucks the life
blood of nations money from all ma
tions, depriving them of the strength
| to resist the attacks of the great enemy
| of labor (credit).
Credit implies usury, that is, interest,
and all usury falls, eventually, upon
| labor, and reduces the laboring classes
to the lowest depths of poverty, and
| enriches and pampers the bloated
usurer.
The great English devil-fsh is draw
ing from almost every nation, all of its
| gold for usury, and this gives it a mon
opoly of the gold of the world; and all
nations for the purpose of sustaining
their credit are compelled by necessity
to go to this accursed power to buy
| gold with which to maintain their cred
!: and upon such terms as the great En-
glish devil-fish may dictate. This
proud republic of ours with all its
boasted wealth, will, within a few
short months, have to humble itself
again and beg of this accursed devil
fish to buy its bonds, payable both in
terest and principal in gold, to save it
from bankruptcy.
The usury the devil-fish draws from
the various'nations in gold gives it, prac-
tically, monopoly of the gold of the
world, and all nations must, to main
tain their credit, borrow gold upon such
terms as this avaricious devil-fish NAV
| dictate.
viii the people of this great republic
submit to the rule of this accursed mon.
ster, or will they declare for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver?-Den.
yer Col 1.-The Road