The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-17

Ere they had gone tar,
Would start In pursuit In hot haste
But pa. the next day.
I've heard people say.
These words. sweet and mild;
God bless you. my child;
You have sIved me enormous expense :.
Political Economy VS.. Divine Purpose
[Communoated.l
To be Just and insure universa
happiness, the political economy o
man should be based upon the divine
purpose of God as manifested by HI,
laws as Viewed in nature. Why SC
much poverty and misery for the man,
OF Gods children, ami the idleness ant
luxury, and extravaganza for the few
1t is because OF the unti-chrlstian sys
tenn, which now prevails; it Is because
we have reversed the natural order oil
natural law. Why Is 1t that we set
those who produce all, getting moth
ing, and they who produce nothing
getting all? Thomas Moore stated it In
few short lines as follows:
THE law condemns man or woman.
Who steals the goose from of the com
But lets the greater fellon loose,
Who steals tho common from tho
goose"
In the divine purpose. we find 1
commences with land first labor sec
ond, then capital. Now, what is capital
It Is only tho unconsumed products o
labor, aud in the language of Abra
ham Lincoln. labor existed first, ant
II labor had not existed. capital would
not have existed, therefore la Dor SHOULD
be served first" Now, in the diyin'
purpose, there was the holy marriage
OF land and labor, according to TIN
divine command from Eden's gate
and also from experience, we find tina
the human family must live on tn,
land and from the land. But on
usurious system, with the cut.throa
competition to accumulate wealth, ha
divorced labor and land to certail
extent.
Now, we find great influx of emf
grants to this country, and what !
the result: greater struggle for
miserable existence; people COMM
from countries cursed with tyranny
to land cursed with land monopol
that is base for apyramld OF mono
poles. The time is coming, and nea
at hand, when land monopoly mus
istence. The finance monopoly |
|
more just, and less oppressive one
labor, that usurers, bankers and gold
owners bring on, although sad e1
perience to labor, is a profitable one
They are finding out that these panic
are device by which the rich are be
coming richer, and the poor poorer
that the Divine Father has done hi
part. and labor must do its part, no
In more production on its part. but 4
a more equal distribution, and az dis
| tribution is conducted by the finance
we will deal more with the finance a
| present.
| as 1t Is the result OF our present ant
past system of usury. We have hat
panics ever since we have the system
OF allowing corporations to issu
| their Indebtedness, eco fl q
Tickets), based upon coin, every tel
| years. Why should the government
| allow one class to draw interest oil
| their Indebtedness, and require other
| to pay interest upon their indebted
ness, as experience teaches, as the,
never pay what they promise. In 1856
we had confidence tickets Issued b.
banks, to tho amount of two hundre,
| and seventy million dollars.
Every one tore on Its face. "thi
| silver on demand" and we only had II
this country at that time thirteen mil
| lions OF gold and silver and not on
| dollar of them was ever paid in such
/ as they suspended specie payments
\ which caused panic that lasted unit
| the government Issued treasury bills
| and they were redeemed in them, ant
that is about the true history Of al
corporation Issue, Confidence tickets)
Only few years ago, silver was TIL
rarest OF the precious metals, ant
therefore was considered the standard
but the Heavenly Father inspired maj
to open his storehouse In the bowel
OF the earth, for the use of all Hi
children, md as it was being used b
the mass OF them, the usurers foun
1t cut OIL q part of their grab game O.
the producers. and began to Cry
down. and began to clamor for tn
| scarcer metal, gold, SO as to moro el
fectually rob labor OF the larger par
of their products. Production and dis
tribution are the two problems OF hu
man life, and wo have production nea
perfect, hut long way off from equi
distribution, and the single gold stant
ard or the single standard of any on
scarce precious metal only puts U
farther off.
| Suppose, and as reasonably, as
was with silver that God should II
spire some OF His children to dlscoYe
His storehouse OF gold in the bowel
of the earth, and 1t becomes as plent
full as silver, would It not depreciat
in the estimation OF those who 70
labor by financial scroundrellsm O
silver has done, then what would be
standard OF valuesH Like the yart
stick, and the pound weight. we mui
i In Oh ~ hot Il -
not iluctuate, and that cannot I'll
away, MS gold now does. Gold. {
any other scarce article, always fins
its way where 1t can command IL
, most labor or labor's products.
We find that only short time ag
tho tide OF gold turned this way al
left Europe, from whence it came
the same condition 1t left us, in RI
few months since 1t turned away fro
us, as like effects are produced by ILL
causes. To tie the business of tn
country to the gold base is to build a
inverted pyramid. We have the ba'
for all the money we need, that
sixty-hve millions OF people, capab
| of producing everything the mind ca
! conceive of, and country VOL
: seventy billions Of dollars. which wi
iluctuate only by increasing in valu
t Look at France. the most prosporoI
/; country on earth to-day, with thirt.
segen millions of Inhabitants, an
four thousand square miles of teri
tory, with one billion OF silver none.
one billion OF currency seven hundre
millions of gold, panice are unknown
her people prosperous and happy, he
debt owned by her OWN people. ht
money made Tor all her people; n
such nonsense as the money of tn
world. You do not lind Frenchme
on your streets, on railroads, or
your sewers at work. The Rothschild
do not dictate to them through Wa
street, not making millionaires an
paupers az we are.
Ill fares the land TO Fastening Ills pre-
Where wealth Rccuuulatcs and men dect
Dr.. j. B. WEIGH.
Wilmington. Del.