The Goodland republic., 1893-11-03

county can see the improvement
brought about by their management
and will endorse them by returning
Mr.. George q. Austin, nominee for
second term. 1t is simply a deserving
testimonial. We observe that the taxes
this year will be lighter than they have
ever been IN the history of the county
Do not listen to the derogatory re-
marks of your political opponents.
Vote the Populist ticket from top to
bottom and for George II. Austin, for
! commissioner of the First district
| SLAVE POWER AND MONEY POWER.
American history should be re-read
by all patriotic citizens. History is re-
peating itself, the slave oIigarchy is re-
placed by a money oligarchy. The
old prrties broke up on the issues in
volved III slavery, and the Republican
party was formed. The old parties are
now breaking up on the lineal descend
ant of the slavery issue-the money
question.
President jackson settled in order
| two great questions-nullificati and
tho national bank. The colonists, in
the early times, were opposed to the
introduction of slaves, and in many in
stances passed laws to prevent their
Importation In the time of Queen
Anne, parliment reversed these coloni-
al laws and opened every American
port to slave merchants. So it will be
seen that the peculiar institution"
was forced upon the American colonies
by English greed.
The noble mon who founded our re-
public were instinctively opposed to
slavery and provided in the constitu-
ton for the abolition Of the slave
trade. All the slave holding colonies
adopted the constitution plainly un-
derstanding this provision. Virginia
voted also to prohibit the importation
of slaves into that state, and in 1857
Thomas jefferson carried through the
Virginia legislature the bill ceding
the northwest territory to congress on
the express condition that slavery
should be forever prohibited in all the
states formed out of that territory.
Slavery lanquished and it's end was
near. Some have attributed the new
life that was infused into it to the in
vention of the cotton gin by Eli Whit
ney. But there is another way Of look
ing at it allowing some influence to
the above cause. Tho cotton gin was
invented in 1893. The first national
bank was chartered in 1871. This in
stitution was equivolent to national
purse and stimulated speculation in
slaves and in slave labor Virginia,
the mother Of presidents, became the
slave producing state, and Mississippi
and Alabama, then newly admitted TO
the union became the field of their
employment in raising cotton. Slavery
was thus capitalized labor. In seven
years, from 1880 to 1887 the state of
Mississippi increased her slave popu-
lation $1,000.
In one year-1836 it was estimated
that the enormous sum of S4O,OOOOOO
was invested in slaves to be worked in
the southern cotton fields. The inter
state traffic in slaves amounted to So
600 slaves a year.
Let it be remembered that the char
tering of the first national bank ante
dated the invention of the cotton Gin
by about three years. Notice what fol
lowed-tho Missouri compromise, the
Kansas Nebraska bill and the fugitive
law. The e,war followed and.the conse-
quent distinction of slavery and the
slave power. The naughty despotism
Of the slave oligarchy will be rememb-
cred. The murder of Lovejoy and the
assault on Summer, the arrogant claim
of superiority, the denouncing. of
northern men as fanatics, cranks and
las mudsills and greasy mechanics, will
be remembered. How is it teday?- We
hear the words hayseeds, calamity
howlers, fanatics, cranks and anar-
chists.
We have. simply changed rulers. We
,deposed the. limited slave. power and
have installed in, it's place the unlimit-
led money power The Hazard circular
oOAO ONAO J1AO war ny OH
banker to the bankersof America, is a
case in point This circular in sub
stance was that slavery was likely to be
DESTROYED by the war, this the English
bankers were in favor of, for slavery
,involEed the care and support of the
slave, They could control the price of
labor by the control of the volume of
money The exemption on the green
back and the national bank law was
the means adopted to accomplish this
end. William Pitt, at the close of the
yoIutionary war said: "E America
adopts our system of finance her boast
ed liberties viii be but phantom" :"
We arez already in the hands of the
money power and they are fast riveting
the Chains of industrial and financial
slavery upon us The repeal of the
Sherman law is the last stroke of the
hammer. -. -. -.----
Nothing. but a speedy political re-
YelHtion can break these chains, and
that not avaiEng or being timely,
bloody revolution must inevitably