Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-07-05
DEMONETIZE GOLD.
The Peoples Poet Thinks 1t Is Bound {
Come and that 1t VIII BE Mammon

The Peoples Poet Thinks 1t Is Bound to
Come and that 1t VIII BE Mammon's
Waterloo.
Financial failures and disasters are
on the increase. In all directions are
heard the sound and crash of failing
banks and tumbling stocks
All right; let the good work go on.
Let the financial storms increase till
they all unite in one grand cyclone that
shall sweep from existence every ma
tional bank and every great corpora
ton and industry that has robbed
laborers and producers to create mil
lionaires
Then let the people arise and con-
hscate the great landed estates and re-
store them to the public domain and
build new and righteous social struct-
ure on the ruins of the old. All the
financial failures in christendom can
not destroy the green, rich, productive
earth; nor conquer human energy,
necessity, and activity, for these are
born of God and will live and assert
themselves age after age, and after the
gold basis fraud and the men and
the systems resting upon it are num-
bered among the myths, the robbers
and the memories of the past.
One would think in listening to the
noise made by the newspaper tools,
like Cath" Ingalls, and other asso-
ciated weathercoclis who are paid for
caclSling, that if all our gold should be
suddenly exported. to the sun and all
our silver to the moon, the inhabitants
OF this planet would be beggared and
converted into a race of tramps seeking
in vain for food or employment.
To claim that civilization must limit
its action and measure its wealth and
power by the amount of gold that a
gang of sneak thieves, led by the old
robber chief, Baron Rothchild, can cor
ner and hide away in their vaults, is
like claiming that the waters of our
great lakes can be gauged and limited
and dispersed by six-inch pipe.
If the precious metals should be sud-
denly demonetized-and that is just
what the present agitation is tending
to, for humanity cannot be fooled for
ever-does anyone imagine that the
temporary shock and loss would per-
manentiy affect the activities of socie-
ty? In fact it could not but be to our
ultimate and supreme advantage to re-
move from our midst an element of
evil which unprincipled men have al
ways manipulated for selfish ends and
for the Inconvenience and oppression of
the many who have been taught to
lean upon it as a circulating medium
that refuses to circulate" when most
needed because kidnappers are holding
1T captive for ransom fees.
A year ago the Wall street organs
were saying that money was scarce
and for that reason more banks were
necessary" This is equivalent to farm
ers saying in time of drought, grain
is going to be scarce and for that reason
we need more grasshoppers to eat what
we have"
Our gold standard liars and hypocrites
talk as though the heavens would cease
t. give down." the universal atmos-
pheric udder collapse and dear old
Mother Nature abandon her children
and go on an everlasting strike if Shy
lock should be deprived of a chance to
gloat over his gold ''ducats'' and to
''cut the forfeit
Worst of all, many of them-includ-
ing our national senators-who have
the most gold. and make the noisiest
clatter over its Importance and infali-
bility, know they are trying to fool and
mislead the people and are solemnly
weeping crocodile tears over the antici-
pated woe which would affect the
''toiling masses" if they were once per-
mitted to escape from the web of loan
spiders.
Money was made for men; not men
for money. Let bank and business
failures continue to increase, faster and
faster.
Let both gold and silver GO What
does it matter so long as we still have
left the country, the national resources
of the nation, and the brain, muscle,
energy and enterprise of the most en-
lightened people on the earth?
Let the shadow depart. Who cares
to retain it so long as we hold the sub
stance upon which all money is based
and which alone gives value to a shad-
ow that is constantly dwindling into
smaller dimensions until it has ceased
even to be representative in character?
We have long ago shaken off that
other myth and superstition, the 'di-
vine right of kings"
Why not Danish the more useless,
fallible and despotic myth of the divine
right of gold, based entirely on the di-
vine right of usurers to rule the world?
Surely if fiat money! based on gov
ernment wilton the mutual consent
of great people-can carry nations
safely through war where one-half are
engaged in destroying the other half,
it will carry them along in times of
peace and prosperity when men are CO.
operating on lines of fraternity and
mutual enterprise.
Why not? Will ShyloclS answer?-
James e. Clark, in Farmer and Labor
pauiarv