People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-15

deposited with you. The whole city
knows how you got out of the way
the only slave who was acquaint-
ed with the fact, and then not only
denied the claim, but also suborned
witnesses to prove that your cred
itor had borrowed six talents Of
you" B. 72.
Note:
"The passage which affords any
clear insight into the method of book
keeping pursued by the bankers, is
Demoth. 1886"
The infamy of their extortion, is
perfectly astounding. AS high as
two hundred fold premium was ex-
torted whenever the opportunity
offered and they could grind it out
of the oppressed and dependent peo-
pie.
There was an ''agio" to be paid be-
tween all the different kinds of mon
ey. And upon this premium they
built their superstructure of robbery.
And in ali ancient times, up to the
beginning of the New Era, the place
above all others, in cities, towns, vii
lagos, at the great groves, surround
ing the theaters, the circus, was the
place of the tables of the money
changers.
Plato, in his Apol, trying in some
measure to extenuate the crimes OF
his time, looks upon the class which
Christ denounced, as the ones most
culpable. And when gazing upon
the market place, with its thousand
forms of wrongs, mixed with right,
good mixed with evil, he seems to
forget all else, as his eyes catches
the seat and center of wrong COM
pared with which all others seem in
nocence.
And as he beholds this Macbeth
can pot bubbling with thieving and
robbing, he cries out:
Gen agori cpl trapezon." 291 B
This great philosopher cried from
the depths of his heart:
"Look in this open public place, at
the tables of the banker" -and read
the ruin Of Greece!
There falls from his Ii ps the same
sentiment, when contemplating the
money-changers, that did from the
Master, when viewing in the outer
court of the Gentiles and both alike
charge the 'etrapezites" with turning
the temple of worship and the tenn
pie of Justice into den of thieves.
Think of the money changers sell
ing half shekel (forty-nine cents),
for two hundred fold profit heka-
ton DIDO ergasia Elk nomisma takos. "
Iso. Ira, II.
Is not such an one ''thief?"
Is not such an one a e'robber ?"
And would not a temple where
such transactions were carried on, be
properly termed 9 den Of thieves? =
Christ, Mark XII, 10 quoting from
lisa. wi, Z, Heb:
"My house shall be called a house
of prayer for all nations, but We have
made it den Of thieves"
Prophetically looked at Ger. vii,
~ the same thing has been charged
els this house, which is called by
my name, become den of robbers
Business was corrupt among the
ancients in all matters Of memory
Extortion in dealing was seen every
where.
Coast your eyes to the right, on
the haggard man in the fish market,
with matted hair, who sides about,
not having anything himself, but
watching every one else; he is a
most dangerous sycophant, and
glides about the market like a scor-
pion, with his venomous sting all
ready, spying out whom he may sur
prise with misfortune and ruin, and
from whom he can most easily ex-
tort money, by threatening him with
an action dangerous in it's conse-
quence." B. Ira. Is.
He made his fortune
cen arpax epi-nomisma." That is,
he made his fortune by robbing peo-
pie of money. Did it by law! See
him: In the market place, at the
open space of trapezita, sly as a
scorpion, seeking victim to extort
money from.
Extort: Extortion comes from the
Greek. Tob. Or. Lex. arpax. craven
Gus" "ravening," ''of wild beasts -
'robber," "extortioner." Mat. vii, IS.
1t goes further: The arpax, eek
tortioner," shall not inherit the King
dom Of God. l Cor. vi, 10.
"Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkard, nor extortioners shall in
herit the Kingdom of Cod
The extortioner is described thus
"You won't see him speak or asso-
ciate with anyone, but as the painters
encompass the shades of the wicked