The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-06-03
THE PEOPLE ROBBED.
How MilliOnaIres are Made and the
People Robbed by Their
81 Servants.
THE MONEY POWER OR THE PEOPLE2
John Sherman, Grant, Garfield and
Harrison Tools OF Lombard
and Wall Streets.

erican blush with shame when he come
to learn how we were sold into slavery
by our honored and trusted represen
tatives.
How did it happenP
GLOW were tn e.,mighty fallen an(
the weapons of war perishedP" Tit
republican party claims, and we will
not rob it of any mead of righteous
praise, the prestige of the successful
conduct of the war for the preservation
of the union, and the emancipation o.
the slaves.
Giant it if you please; but, as Hon
Edward H. Gillett of Iowa, in a speecl
delivered in the house of representa-
tives, in January, 1880, said: 1.-THE
greatest exhibition of power evel
shown in this republic was in speaking
freedom to four millions of slaves. In
one supreme moments this people, Sam
son like broke through the cob-webbs
of court decisions and precedents
and red tape, and their combined voice
was truly the voice of God. For one
moment we rose up, shook off the
shackles of class, of combinations of
the rich and powerful and did justice,
only to relaps into the tolls of an ana
conda more dangerous than slavery,
because more wealthy, more stealthy,
more subtle, and less sectional. Oh,
for supreme moment now, in which
congress shall speak freedom to the
fifty millions of people from the domi-
nation of centralized capital in all its
formsN'
He was speaking in favor of the res
olutions introduced by Hon. James B.
Weaver, that the government should
issue and control its volume of money
directly, and not through bank cor
porations of the country, and that its
interest bearing debt redeemoble in
1881 and prior thereto amounting to
1882, 100000 should not be refunded
beyond the power of the government
to call in and cancel said debt, but
should be redeemed in standard silver
dollars and such other coinage and
lawful money as it possessed, "accord-
ing to contract
James G. Garfield had characterized
these resolutions as dangerous cen
tralization, Us Cesarism, as wild
dream; as reputation, as a monster
as u beast.
Garfield stood for the national banks,
for the money power; Weaver and
others stood for the people, the gov
eminent, for its constitutional provis-
ions, and for paying the debt "accord-
ing to contract"
Secretary Chase said, near the close
Of his career: "The national banking
law (which he drafted and recon-
mended] was the great financial mis-
take of my life" Jefferson said sthat
the national bank was more dangerous
than standing armies" and that ,'the
power to issue money should be taken
from the banks and restored to con-
gress and the people where it properly
belongs"
Senator Shannon. and Joseph Cook,
the great Boston lecturer, have both
said, in plain English, that, "before
the national bank aligarchY can be
overthrow, together with the party
that created it, this land will be again
deluged with blood"
Now you can trace every act of leg
islation whereby the American people
have been impoverished to the money
power, to the national banks, to Wall
street, to Lombard street, and to the
Rothchilds banking institutions of
Europe.
The exemptions on the greenback,
the refunding scheme, the national
bank law, the contraction of the cur
rency, the bogus resumption law, the
credit strengthening act, and last but
not least, that sum of villanies, pur-
chased by the use of British gold as is
proven beyond question--that crime of
the century-the characterization of
silver, may be traced to the same
source.
Now what party lent its power to
these measures? The republican party!
When this act of treachery was perpe-
trated the Republican party was in
power in the senate, in the house OF
representatives, and that great mill
tary chieftain, U. S. Grant was presi-
dent.
The vote on the Weaver resolution
stood as follows: Yeas. 85-democrats,
Y; nationals, u; republicans, Ibis
name was Bedford. Nays. 117-repub-
licans, 81; democrats, 30; not voting 90.
The republican party is owned body
and soul by corporate greed, and con-
trolled by that dynasty of uncrowned
kings, the money aristocrats. The
democratic party has been nearer right
on the great financial questions of late
years, but many of its foremost leaders
like Cleveland. for instance, have been
on the market as a drug, and have
publically hawked their wares on the
open street.