San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-09-29


who may rob the poor. OF all the
thousands who have been robbed
by the present depression. have you
not noticed that no arrests have been
MADE, no warrants sworn out, no at
tempts at making restitution? Have
you not noticed that millions of dol
lars of the hard earnings OF the poor
have been literally stolen by thieving
bank officials, and that all the time
this was going on no one thought of
calling out the militia, the regular
army or even the Pinkertous to stand
between the robbers and the robbed9
said robbers, and what l said is
true; for those engaged in the manip-
ulation of money are the ones directly
responsible for the loss of confidence
which precipitated the crash. They
desire a single gold standard; they
cried down silver and scared the la
borer. The laborer withdrew his de-
posits in some instances, failed to
make deposits in others, and 1t then
became the time for the money-chang-
ers to get scared, and the scare came
when the run on the bank began.
We have gone far enough into the
depression to notice that the same
..watchful care'' that is executed
when the property of the capitalists
is in danger is not exercised when the
earnings of labor are being juggled
with, and it strikes me that the time
is ripe for the Introduction OF a meas
ure which will aim at the establish
ment of the postal savings bank by
the national government. Among the
things that your meeting should de-
mand is the establishment of the pos
tai savings bank, an institution in
which the small deposits of the poor
may be secured from the thieving
speculations of rascally money-gam-
blers.
If the gold standard is establish
ed, every man who owes a debt will
have to pay it in gold. Those who
own gold viii then be enabled to
charge higher rate Of interest for it,
and he must be fool indeed who can
not see that this interest will have to
come out of the bone and sinew of in
dustry- That gold Itself will have to
be used in the transactions does not
follow, but that debts will have to be
paid according TO the gold standard
is true, and, as a consequence, those
who owe debts, those whose homes
are mortgaged and all who have
money to pay will have to pay with
one-half the money that existed-as
legal tender-when the debts were
contracted. You know what that
means for the workers and for those
who hold the mortgages. One will
go down in the struggle while the
other will grow richer.
When Mr.. Gompers went to the
mayor of New York the other day and
asked that public works be thrown
open so that idle men might earn
bread he was ridiculed by the money
power, or its organs rather, and was
tod that This is not paternal gov
eminent Mr.. Gompers knows bet
ter than to believe such a thing as
that he knows, as We all know, that
this is and has been the mos paternal
of paternal governments-to those
who did not need paternalism. Who
can look upon the Pacific railroad
transaction and say that this Is not
paternal government? Who can look
at the banking institutions of this ma
ton and note that we've the people
pay interest on the bonds first and
interest and on what the bank loans
US afterward and say that this is not
a paternal government Who can
look at the way the public highways
and franchises of this land have been
lavished on the wealthy and say that
tits not paternal government? Yes,
it is in the strictest sense Of the term
paternal government, and that
paternalism has up to this day been
squandered upon the rich and well-to-
do. upon the politicians and their pets.
It is high time that paternalism
should either stop or 90 far enough to
include those who create the wealth
that the paternalists Of to-day enjoy.
Demand that railroads and tele-
graphs be made the property OF all
the people and that they be managed
by the government. That cannot be
called paternalism. for it includes all |
the people and not class. Demand /
the postal savings bank, for that
guarantees the safety OF small depos-
its. Demand the issue OF full legal /
tender paper currency direct to the /
people without the Intervention Of any
bank or banker, or. in other words. /
declare your faith in a government Of |
the people to issue its own money in
accord with its constitution and your
faith in that government. Declare
that you believe our government to be
greater and stronger than any num-
Der of individuals, no matter how
wealthy they may be.
Above all things. ask the meeting
to issue a declaration OF independence.
Have it to be declaration Of indie
pendence of Party and Party Bosses.
Last fall the people OF this nation
voted for a change and they got it,
but they want more change than ever.
We are on our knees in supplicatioD
because we did not stand erect in in
political manhood in years
gone by, and we do not deserve any
better treatment than we are getting,
il we do not resolve TO vote independ-
emily as American citizens should.
Allow no apologist Tor the single
gold standard to voice the sentiments
Of the meeting. even though he may
have a promise OF position from the
national government Allow no an