Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1893-09-02
WHO ARE THIS REAL SUPPORT.
EMS OF THE GOVERNMENTS

WHO ARE THE REAL
ERs OF THE GOVERNMENT
A fair illustration Of the distribution
Of wealth and the burdens Of taxation
was given by Mr.. Pence Of Colorado in
his speech in Congress. His authority
is i~ndispotable, being derived from the
census report Of 1890 under the auspices
Of the political party which has con-
trolled legislation IS years out Of 81
since 1860. He takes the single
State q Massachusetts, on one hand with
an increase in wealth during the decade
from 1880 to 1890 and cites Nebraska,
iowa, Indiana, Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina and
Illinois during the same period. The
gain in Massachusetts, for those ten
years was $3.50. 900. 900, while in
the other nine. containing fourteen
times as many people and 6~fty-eisht
times - many land far more ~fertilel
acres, the total gain was only s559.0 oo.-
900, while at the same time they were
assessed 10 more than double the
amount Of property. The pernicious
legislation for the past 30 years was
never more forcibly brought 10 light
than by the above census report. II
shows that the rich have been constantly
getting richer and the poor poorer; tina.
in one State il has created more non
taxable wealth with less than one-hslf OF
taxable property than the nine empires
with more than double the amount. 1t
shows that only for the dsmnAbls lesis-
lation the assessed value Of those nine
great States should be Gnssead Of doublel
twenty times greater than that Of Mas
sachusests; that while untaxed capital
has been accumulating in the latter
State, in the former States properties,
heavily taxed. have been declining con-
stantly for the last % years until loaded
down with mortgages and other incum-
ORANGES due Eastern money lenders, they
are on the very brink Of passing out Of
their owners hands unless something il
done for their relief. Yet with
oil this legislation in favor Of concen-
trated capital since the demonstration
Of silver in 1878. and against any and
all other kinds of properties. these
Shylocks and untaxed money lenders.
like the horse leech, are never satisfied,
but, vampire like. keep sucking the life
blood of their helpless victims even to
the last drop.
Honor and patriotism have no abiding
place in their putrid hearts. Greed and
avarice are their study by day and their
dream by night; money, q blessing If
applied for the benefit OF mankind for
which il was created, but . curse il
welded in the hands Of these Shylocks.
is the goal Of their ambition-their God.
Feeling secure in their position by the
support Of . recreant and powerful sd-
ministration; Of . President who has
proven false to the people who nomi-
mated him; TO the platform he Endorsed
and to the people who elected him and
who uses his patronage to corrupt repre-
sentatives in Congress, many of them
the degenerate sons of illustrious sires,
who to-day are betraying their constitu-
ents and selling their ~birthright for
Doodle. Feeling thus secure these
money lenders still persist in their un.
relenting demand for more money and
power. They seem to take no warning
from past history; they seem to have
forgotten that there ever existed q
Brutus. IN Oliver Cromwell, . Robes
pierre. . Washington, or even later,
Abraham Lincoln, all of whom were
called to lead for reform, not from the
GLASS that were the rulers of those days,
but directly from the people oppressed
by such rulers. And what can they in
reason expect from . people wronged as
have been the people Of these United
Statesi When the head of this Gov.
eminent. who, with uplifted hands, and
calling God 10 witness that he would
uphold and defend the Constitution and
obey the laws made in pursuance
thereof. wiilfully, no matter from what
motive. refuses to carry out the laws for
the relief he SO solemnIy promised the
masses. what can he and the money
power he is SO anxiously serving expect
1t the people. driven TO desperation, and
in their endeavor to protect their homes,
liberty and independence, should call
from their ranks some Lincoln, Crom-
well, or perhaps worse, q Robespierre
or . Brutus to lead them and in their
mad revels take away from those con-
spring Shylocks by force that wealth
which by venal and corrupt laws they
have become possessors Of, and return
the same to those whose toll and labor
has created it? Yet such r~etribution
would be just and deserved. It will
surely come unless . different course
will be pursued.