The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-05
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ne Peoples Post Ihinks II Il Bs1al =
Come and tAaS Il WIN Be AanAea1
Waterloo.
Financial failures and disasters aEo
On the increase. In all directions are
heard the sound and crash Of failing
banks and tumbling stocks.
All right; let the good work 60 O.
Let the financial storms increase till
they all unite in one grand cyclone that
shall sweep from existence every ma
tional bank and every great corpora
ton and industry that has robbed
laborers and producers to create mil
ionaires
I. Then let the people arise and con-
fscate the great landed estates and re-
store them to the public domain and
build a new and righteous social struct-
ure on the ruins of the old. ALI the
financial failures in christendom cam
not destroy the green, rich, productive
earth; nor conquer human energy,
necessity, and activity, for these are
born of God and will live and assert
themselves age after age, and after tho
"gold basis" fraud and the men and
the systems resting upon it are num-
bered among the myths, the robbers
and the memories of the past.
One would think in listening to tho
noise made by the newspaper tools,
like 'Gath," ingalls, and other asso-
ciated weathercocks who are paid for
cackling, that if all our gold should DO
suddenly exported to the sun and all
our silver to the moon, the inhabitants
of this planet would be beggared and
converted into race of tramps seeking
in vain for food or employment.
To claim that civilization must limit
its action and measure it's wealth and
power by the amount of gold that
gang of sneak thieves, led by the old
robber chief, Baron Rothchild, can cor
ner and hide away in their vaults, is
like claiming that the waters of our
great lakes can be gagged and limited
and dispersed by six-inch pipe.
It the precious metals should be sud-
denly demonetized-and that is just
what the present agitation is tending
to, for humanity cannot be fooled for
ever-does anyone imagine that tho
temporary shock and loss would per-
manently affect the activities of socie-
ty? In fact it could not but be to our
ultimate and supreme advantage to re-
move from our midst an element Of
evil which unprincipled men have al
ways manipulated for selfish ends and
for the inconvenience and oppression of
the many who have been taught to
lean upon it as circulating medium
that refuses to ''circulate" when most
needed because kidnappers are holding
It captive for ransom fees.
A year ago the Wall street organs
were saying that money was scarce
and for that reason more banks were
necessary" This is equivalent to farm
ers saying in time of drought, grain
Is going to be scarce and for that reason
we need more grasshoppers to eat what
we have"
Our gold standard liars and hypocrites
talk as though the heavens would cease
to give down." the universal atmos-
pheric udder collapse and dear old
Mother Nature abandon her children
and go on an everlasting strike if Shy
lock should be deprived of chance to
gloat over his gold ''ducats" and to
"cut the forfeit
Worst of all, many of them-includ.
ing our national senators-who have
the most gold, and make the noisiest
clatter over its Importance and infali-
bility, know they are trying to fool and
mislead the people and are solemnly
weeping crocodile tears over the antici-
pated woe which would affect the
"toiling Masses if they were once per-
mitted to escape from the web of loan
spiders.
Money was made for men; not men
Tor money. Let bank and business
failures continue to increase, faster and
faster.
Let both gold and silver 60 What
does it matter so long as we still have
left the country, the national resources
of the nation, and the brain, muscle,
energy and enterprise of the most en-
lightened people on the earth?
Let the shadow depart. Who cares
to retain it so long as we hold the sub
stance upon which all money is based
and which alone gives value to shad-
ow that is constantly dwindling into
smaller dimensions until it has ceased
even to be representative in character?
We have long ago shaken off that
other myth and superstition, the "di-
vine right of kings"
Why not Danish the more useless,
fallible and despotic myth of the divine
right of gold, based entirely on the di-
vine right of usurers to rule the world?
Surely if fiat money" based on gov
eminent wilton the mutual consent
of great people-can carry nations
safely through war where one-half are
engaged in destroying the other half,
it will carry them along in times Of
peace and prosperity when men are CO.
operating on lines of fraternity and
mutual enterprise.
Why not? Will Shylock answer?-
James G. Clark, in Farmer and Labor
Review.
The Reason Given.
We are often asked what reason we
have for believing that the peoples
party will do more for the la borer than