The Progress., 1893-09-23

Z tlOn OF men. ne men VINO nave con-
victions are the men who build the
worlds temples.
THE NEW YORK PRESS SCORED.
Fourth-We need as n nation to know
at their real value the opinions of the
great newspapers in our financial cen
ters. They are the firebrands in the
hands of the anarchstic money conspira-
tors behind the scenes. The editors of
these great sheets, alas! are the puppets
of the money power back of them.
There is no independent press in Amer
lea save the county press. Shylock owns
the metropoltaHpress of the world body
and soul. They are run on policy, not
principle. The editor of great daily in
New York is n silver man-the sheet he
edits is rabid monometallist organ. Re-
publicans are hired to write Democratic
editorials Democrats are editing Repub-
lican papers 1t is simply question of
money and the money power. The
editor has no convictions. He is ma
chine for recording the opinions and pur-
/ poses and schemes of the conscienceless,
goddess plutocracy from which he must
| get his living
Our great dailies have become for this
reason the most colossal liars and per
verters of news the world has ever seen.
/ Whenever these sheets set up great
howl on the money question, the masses
of the people should take their opinions
and advice as they would arsenic-under
the direction of a competent teacher who
knows their motive as the physician
knows the properties of poisons. The
trouble with us is that thousands of our
people yet hold the delusion that these
sheets represent honest. patriotic and in
dependent convictions. There may be
exceptions; but, as a rule, no greater
mistake could be made Less Wall
street newspaper scare and news manip-
ulation and more common sense and in
dependent thinking.
MORE CURRENCY NEEDED.
Fifth-We need moro money.
A money famine is an inexcusable
crime on the part of any government
Why does a government cumber the earth
but to protect its people from such mon
strosity? A premium on currency is an
advertisement that the government has
literally made an assignment to Shylock.
History shows beyond doubt that since
silver was demonetized in 1878 and one
half the worlds money practically with
drawn from its legitimate uses as full
tender money, the nations thus affected
have suffered continuously industrial
distress, bordering at times upon revolu-
ton and civil war. We need and must
have all our gold and silver as money
and much more besides.
Lct our government Mt once take pos
session of every gold and silver mine in
the nation and eliminate this question
from sectional politics and lift it to the
plane of international settlement If
gold and silver have intrinsic value as
money, as is claimed, private individuals
have no more business owning and con-
trolling the mines than they have own
ing the government plates from which
our bank notes are printed.
When this has been accomplished, it
will then be time to ask ourselves tho
question, What business have either gold
or silver in the the mechanism of ex-
change? Is their use not in fact sur
NlNal OF DarDarlC manI
They have been useful in their day
certainly. but have we not found in our
national bank notes based on govern
ment bonds something much better for
the measure of values? Our fathers used
the horse and OK as carriers, but is not
the locomotive better? Our grandmoth-
ers were expert with the hand needle, but
fl,n Il l....I L A.
the sewing machine. We began naviga-
ton with dugout canoe, but the Cunard-
er is surely an improvement.
A days labor is the unit of real value,
not so many grains of gold. Let us
hasten to find here the true standard for
the measurement of wealth. If you say
that England finds no need of much
gold has been her only
standard for years-let us remember that
England has invested abroad not less
than SIC, 900, ,000, 900, and that she never
adopted the gold basis till she became the
money broker of the world. Let us also
that the London press report
ed a speech of one of their great men on
July 8, 1885, as follows:
Sir Richard w. Fowler, NJ. p, the London
banker and ex-lord mayor, said the effect of
the depreciation of silver must ultimately be
the complete ruin Of the agricultural export
interests Of the United Stale a,S .he devel-
opment Of India as the chief wheat and cotton
exporter of the world.
A CALL TO THE PEOPLE
Sixth-We need less class legislation
and more government of the people, for
the people and by the people. The Hon.
John H. Eckels, comptroller of the cur
rency, says in recent article that the
present panic is to be traced to class
The ailment from which our financial sys-
tenn is suffering, he says. did not commence
with the passage of the Sherman silver act,
nor with the passage of the Bland act. 1t
found its origin long before either was enacted
at time when congress first assumed IL TO be
the chief end Of legislation TO make through
enacted laws certain individuals rich. IL was
with this end in view Il at protective tariff laws
were passed, and for tabs purpose was brought