Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-01-12

century. The sword had decided
against us and we have been tax.
ing this celebrated remedy for our
political ills Tor thirty years as
prescribed by the professor--"e edu-
Gated scrubs, but the patient
grew worse from day to day until
at last the public stomach has
vomited up the whole remedy only
to find that il was Hamiltons com
pound sugar-coated remedy for es-
tablishing a strong government on
the ruins of the republic. IL has
created a monied aristocrocy and
concentrated property in the hands
Of the few till we have the element
in our society out OF W hich a house
of lords might be created with the
title of dukes, earls aad barons,
surrounded by all the trappings and
equipage of royalty as was intend
ed by Hamilton, their celebrated
author. These educated scrubs"
have given away to railroad cor
porations enough public land to
make ten states of the American
Union. They have fastened upon
us the old British system of
finance that has depopulated IrO
land and monopolized the lands of
England till twelve men own one
hall the kingdom and it is fast ac-
complishing the same thing here
1t is said now that twenty-five
thousand men own one.half the
wealth of the United States and
have a respectable mortgage on
the other half. 1t tills the rich
mans field by the sweat of the
poor mans brow. 1t robs the
poor to give to the rich. 1t con.
centrates wealth in the hands of
the few at the expense ofthe many.
1t has filled our land with million
aires and pauper, it has sold our
highest Offices at private auction to
the highest and best bidder rs was
the crown of the Caesar in the cor
rupt days of the Roman empire.
Ii has corrupted our elections, and
when beaten in a fair election il
stole the presidency with the aid
of the supreme court to make the
larceny respectable. 1t has clothed
our banking corporations with the
extraordinary privilege of issuing
the money of the country, pre-
rogative that belongs exclusively
to congress under the constitution.
They have fastened upon us an
annual public debt of two hum
dred millions of dollars for the
support of a standing army in time
of peace This has all been the
work of the professors educated,
though not brilliant scrubs" But
while we We're defeated and over
run by vastly superior numbers,
we have never ceased to battle for
the true principles of political
economy. A tariff for revenue
only with a treasury note receiv-
able for all debts, public and pri-
vate, as advocated by John G. Cal
houn, the most far-seeing states
man OF his day, aud when over
run we appealed our cause to the
tribunal of human reason and in
telligence, and after years of pa
tient waiting and watching we
gained a peaceful, bloodless VIC
tory on the first Tuesday of last
November more far-reaching than
that Of Marathon or Morengo, and
only equaled by that of Charles
Martel, when he met the infdel
hordes at Tours in France in a bat
tie that was to decide the fate of
Christendom. This terrible bat
tie ragged for three days The earth
had never witnessed such a des-
perate conflict before. Three hun
dred thousand Turks bit the dust
and the banner on the cross waved
in triumph, while the routed army
of Turks was driven pell nell
across the Pirenus and over the
straits Of Gibraltar. Christianity
had gained a victory that gave her
uudisputed sway over all Europe
which enabled her to dictate its
laws and its institutions. So in
our contest the fate Of republican
institutions was the prize. If we
won they were assured, if we lost
they were in doubt, The prize is
ours, and the opportunity Of hand
ing them down unimpaired to fu-
ture generations. Our republic is
on lirmer basis to-day than for
the last Fifty years But Prof. Nc
! Carthy tells US that we are
democratic only in name, because
our per capita of school taxation is
50 how. After being over.run and
pillaged a. we have been what as
lonishes me l. that we are paying
as much as we are; but he tells us
that the north is really and truly
democratic because of her high
rate of school taxation. But the
professor has been searching so
diligently Of late for the mistakes
that Moses never made that he has
fallen from grace and thrown away
his bible and adopted history in
its stead as an instr uctor in right
eousness, and fear he is going to
make a shipwreck Of his democ-
racy in the same way. He waves
the bloody shirt across the bloody
chasm aud threatens TO strike
South Carolina from the star
spangled banner unless her rate of
school taxation is suddenly in
creased. This is strange talk for
a democrat; / know Of no state in
the Union that has done more for
the cause Of education than South
Carolina. Her public men have
always occupied a front rank in
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