The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-09-28


Let Us repeal by all means. Certainly.
| We must. 1t is the price. We have no
choice. But let US in due take effective
| measures that ShvlOck NAV not own us
| body and soul.
Third-The significant effects OF the
present panic are further indication OF
| its true origin.
INTERNATIONAL.
! The distress has not been local or
! nationalist has been International.
! The cause was international. The
remedy likewise must be international.
We must have an international agree
ment about money. There must be a
| federation OF man in which national lines
shall disappear if the people are to main
/ tain their life against the encroachments
| OF an arrogant plutOcracy. The pluto
| cracy OF the closing days OF the nineteenth
| century is an international affair. The
masses OF the peoples OF different nations
must federate for the protection OF their
! lives and the progress OF the race.
! The intensificatiOn OF capital has been
vastly increased by the present panic.
| There will be fewer business establish
melts after the wreck. The rich will be
much richer and the poor much poorer.
VOICES OF THE PAST.
Let Us lrear the voice of history. This
/ can not continue with Il climax OF revo-
! luton.
Daniel Webster said: The freest gov
| ernm,nt can not long endure where the
tendency OF the law is to create a rapid
accumulation OF property in the hands
of the few and to render the masses OF
| the people poor and dependent"
Garfield said: Whoever controls the
! volume OF money OF any country is alb
| solute master OF all industry and COM
| merce.
! abraham Lincoln said in 1868: Il
see i'll the near future a crisis approach
! ing that unnerv"s me and causes me to
| trcmble for the safety OF my country. As
Il result OF the war corporations have
been enthrOned, and an era ofcOrruptiOn
| i'll high places will follow, and the money
| power of the country will endeavOr to
prolong its reign by working on the pref
| udices of the people until all wealth is
| aggregated in a few hands and the re-
| public is destroyed. affirm it as my
conviction that class laws placing capt.
| tai above labor are more dangerous to
| the republic at this hour than was chat
| tie slavery i'll the days OF its haughtiest
| supremacy. | feel at this moment more
anxiety for the safety of my country
| than ever before even in the midst OF
| the war.
It is said that
When Egypt went down, , per cent of
! her population owned 81 per cent. of
| her wealth.
When babylon went down, = per cent.
| OF her population owned all the wealth.
| When Persia went down, per cent OF
! hon. r,nrlnlat ion orpn1 tho lopI
! When Rome went down, l 800 men
! owned all the known world.
| There are about 40, 600, 900 people in
England, Ireland and Wales. and 1OO,-
| 700 people own all the land in the United
lkingdOm.
( For the past 20 years the United
Estates has rapidly followed in the steps
!of these old nations. Here are the fig
lures:
In 1880 capitalists owned 37s per
cent OF the nations wealth.
In 1873 they owned 63 per cert
In the 30 years since 1878 this cOncen-
tration Of money into the hands of few
| has been greater in proportion than at
any previous period OF our history.
| What will be the future Of these vast
fortunes? Who can calculate their
! power?
sHlLOCK's TABLE.
1t is said that if when Judas betrayed
Jesus for 30 pieces OF silver, each piece
| valued at ; centS-9O cents in all-that
sum had been put at per cent. the year
| following it would now amount to S2O7-
| $50, 900, OOO, OOO, 900, OOO, 900, 900 OOO,-
900. This would make a solid globe OF
pure gold as large as Il, 900 such planets
| as the earth.
Napolean said when computing the in
terest table 1t is astonishing that the
deadly fact which lies buried in this table
has not devOured the whole human race.
Let Shylock and his followers take
warning. The day OF the Lord Will come
at last There is point beyond which
the dumb multitude will not endure. The
animal will bear much, but when the
deep sense OF in Justice takes possession
OF the wounded and downtrodden man
hood then let the fool who has ventured
too far beware. His gold and his silver
will be cast into the streets. They will
not avail. God has said it.
THE ANIMAL AND PAIN.
1t is one OF the most pathetic things
i'll all nature how the animal endures
pain. The horse struck in battle after
the first shock OF the wound makes no
sound. The dog carries a broken leg
for days wistfully, but uncompainingly
The cat stricken with a club or stone
craWls to some secret place and bears
in silence its sufferings. The sheep takes
the butchers knife without a sound. The
plOver shot to death flies straight as an
arrow to the farthest limit of the power
lett in its wings, and in the remOtest
corner OF the meadow it can reach pours
l.,
deer wounded speeds to the thickest
death. SO animals bear pain.
SO man in his animal ignorance and
helplessness has borne pain through the
ages. But man is emerging from the
mere animal. The average life OF the
race is now too high for the mere sub.
mission OF the animal. Let Shylock have
a care. The great, silent, suffering null
titude has dawning within its bosom the
solemn and awful sense of wrong and in
justice, and the day of the uprising Of
the race draws nigh.
| Shall it be evolution or revolution? Ii
must be one or the other.
Let ShylOclE beware, The people may
suffer long ard hOpelessly and helplessly
but the day Of the Lord draws nigh. And
they shall DE delivered, God said it
Robespierre abused thepower intrusted
to him for awhile. He laughed at GOD
and man. But at last they dragged him
through the streets he had polluted tC
his own guillotine. 1t is said that a>
the death cart passed through the streets
with RObcSplcrrc standing in chains. his
hair disheieycd. his face covered with
blood and his jaw shattered by a pisto
ball. an old man hobbled up to the cart
and pointing his finger up to him cried
Yes. RObespierre, there is a Cod
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