Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-11-14
PLUTOCRACY ROASTED.
An Open Letter to the Editor of
the GlObe-DemOcrat.

tlIO olVuC bVIiOtIdts
My Dear Sir and Friend-Your
very kind letter of the 3rd instant
was duly received and its contents
noted. You request me to assist
you in extending the circulation
of your paper. This seems to be
a reasonable request; but why
should l assist in extending the
influence and power of a paper
which has for its avowed object
and determined purpose the ruin
of my business; my home and
happiness I! In as much as l have
taken your paper and paid for it
in "honest money" for almost a
generation, will you permit me to
talk little plainly, and tell you
kindly my opinion of the great
city press, and of yours in par
ticular!
Of one thing there is no doubt
in my mind: The printing press
could and should be the most po-
tent influence for good in the land.
But is this the casel l must
answer no. 1t is the most power
full engine of evil; and you are too
honest and intelligent man to
deny that the great city dailies
and wecklics are run in the inter
est of monopoly of capital-in the
interest of England as against the
United States, in the interests of
corporations and trusts as against
the people. More than that: 1t
seems to me that you do not con-
duct your business in a straight
forward, manly way. You seem
to falsify and degrade what you
must know to be the truth in every
way possible to injure and oppress
labor and build up the money
power. You even become angry
and impatient because, forsooth,
the House of Lords in America
(the Senate), refuses to do King
Growers bidding, and demone-
tie silver at once.
Demonetize silver and you de-
stroy one-half of the money of
last resort, and double every debt
in the world, and render payment
ten times more difficult. You as
sert over and over again that the
people demand the demonetization
of silver. This is a bare-faced
falsehood, and you know it as well
as l do. The people, as rule,
the unreading masses (and too
many belong to this class), know
but very little about this matter.
In fact the laboring people, under
the present stress, the result of
your policy and teaching, are too
tired to think or read much about
it. Something to eat and wear
absorbs their attention. l don't
know Of single farmer, no mat
ter what his politics, who is in
favor of the demonetization of
silver. Even those great Gilman
ciers,' Sherman and Voorhees,,
claim to be in favor of silver.
So was Judas when he betrayed
his Master, and received as the
wage of traitor the thirty pieces.
The modern Judases get their pay,
l suppose, in gold or bonds, but
they are actunted by the same
principle, and history will place
them in the same catalogue.
Indeed, your crime is greater
than that of Judas, for he was a
devil, from the beginning, while
you are SHINING not only against
the people, your masters, but
against light and knowledge.
You say you want an "honest
dollar - What do you mean by
that An honest man gets none
but honest dollars. A thief gets
the other kind. The law makes
but one kind of a dollar, and
that contains one hundred cents,
no matter what substance the law
is printed or stamped upon. 1t
may bepaper, gold, silver, copper
or nickel, but each dollar legally
so made is an honest dollar, and
will buy just as much OF the
necessaries of life and pay just as
much debt or taxes as the other,
and you cannot be ignorant of
this fact.
You argue that the paper dollar
is only a promise to pay. That
may be true as to its words, but
its legal effect is to actually pay,
else the millions of our flag S
defenders in the late war are still
unpaid as well as most of the
debts that hard labor has thought
it liquidated during the last thirty
years.