The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-25
THE FINANCIAL PRosLEM.

-&lAfIeS MdGk3y.
THE FINANCIAL PRoBLEM.
j. Eugene Jordan Discusses the Matter
From a PopuIist stand point.
What a shame Is the social condition
Of mankind today Here is a family of
human beings. blood or the same blood,
flesh OF the same flesh. environed by
nature to the same hahitation, and by
the same tie to their common mother
earth: They all so with open palms TO
the earth. 10 show that they can take
nothing with them from this life, and
yet while here they grasp at all things.
the earth and its sustenance. tramping
their brothers under foot in their insane
eagerness 10 possess themselves of all
things. Gorging like vultures they close
their hearts and ears to the meanings
OF the lacerated victims. This is the
attitude from a moral standpoint that
men Of this generation bear TO each 9TH
er as a result Of conditions which our
laws have forced US to. Industry is
stricken down by capital in the battle
which our laws have made inevitable.
while under more benign system a
brotherhood of interest should exist be-
erful. feels its strength and with ma
lures instinct has no mercy for its
stricken enemy. The few days grace
now extended by capital to industry is
Ike the respite cat gives the captured
nlouse-just playing with ii. The cat
parrs with contentment. 1t is an incar-
nation of true conservatism. 1t desires
nothing altered. Present conditions are
IA .IaC ~ fu
i've. is radical Why, pray. should
the cat desire a change? Is not
the mouse beating its heart out
against the vietors cruel teeth? Is not
the mouse legitimate or legal prey? Is it
possible TO overdraw the picture depicting
our social conditions? The question may
then be asked why does society submit?
Because the bond demands 1t and the law
allows 1t. The money of our country.
the measure of value. IS turned over.
farmed out. and surrendered to the IA
vored few to make them millionaires.
while they in turn tramplze the millions
desiring to toll.
Outside the legal aspect OF the situation
the element of custom and fashion APP
pears and makes it endurable. These fac
tors are raised more by the timid acquies-
teal authority than from any other cause.
Waen a crime IS committed. whether I'M
der guise OF municipal law or not. from
the pulpit first should come the warning,
But now. on the curse Of usury. the sin
of the ages. the pulpit is silent.
True humanity --Christianity--is dead in
the hearts Of its devotees. Now and then
is spasm Of righteous indignation ex-
Ns.xs tysx as Is
70 arise from selfish rather than char
table impulse. The memory Of that scene
where lie drove the moaey changers from
the temple Is obliteratod. Hollow phrases
stlll abound. but the incense tt-t = used
in the sacrifice is a mockery. Where is a
Calico. Giorlano Bruno to-day? Where
Is an immortal moak who would stand in
the bloody circus. and dcnounce- before a
Roman emperor the cruel giadiatorial
games? flushed is the voice Of the
preacher Who is paMl The poor cannot
pay: the rich d and dictate. While the
bread Of the nation is being gsmbled
away "on change" the pulpit talks Of
the heather in Tirnbuctoo, Working wo-
men by the thousands toll in noisome
holes Tor is cents day. while We listen
TO sermons oq Daniel in the lions dent
Why does not the pulpit aid IN the grand
labor of the laborer trying 70 redeem him
selfg The trinity that has enslaveG man
IN the past. the present and VIII probably
in TIE future, is Ignorance, Superstition
and Hyqocrisy and TO them should be a
monument greater and granGer by far
than the Pyramids. as they are mishuer
than all the Egyptian dynasiies and have
done more 20 ensgave humanity. In writ
ing "a the question OF what legIsRE.-n is
required. Il seems 70 me that none effec-
t7sal can be obtained untA The religious
,.,.s,ers of our land are awakened TO the
crimes ana sins OF n1sl-iegiSlacon, and
,osn with the people Ia their stEusgle FOR
liberty.
one Of the granaest ana most impor-
tant functions 81 government - that 10
facilitate fn.erc3urse and trade between
IT'S rser.eers-or citizens. The phcaom-
NAL increase IN the wealth q cur com
,rv ia primarily attributed % the perfect
frrs,sso-n in trasIA whsch has existed be-
tween our forty common , esiths
Not only have cur laws leveled al tariS
ba~rsers between the states. bat the
won8 errul railroad construction OF this
generation has s.il further improved AID
opened an avcuaes and means - inter-
iE1tAAt ttf&4 tslaAs tAttEAt-Ns +h-ftA1
With these two great controlling factors.
the volume * ouc national currency
snault have bcen Increased proportion
atesy vita tbs population and business %
cur cegutry. Wlgh FREE trade. a low rall-
road sariT. ard cheap money q. e. 50
plsatiFul THAI interest rates naust te low
o,sr oennse~csai state would now be IN
ssce a spgeglEtor % prosperity as eur caee
I haapv. condition vas bat a suggestion %.
IL IS conceded or sN sides that the
/ T'opulsSls were correct IN their mentions
I q approaching disaster as both old par
tias now Vie With them as calamity hoNi-
crr whew General Weaver stood alone
+ II congress. over a score az years ago.
I and waruea ffe country against the
( danger Of contraction the finger ~ rbdi-
I eals was poszste3 az Ism BY both political
( Parties. Bux ucw Democrats aa1 Repuh-
/ lseaHs sire alike demanding relief froHa
/ the Inevitable reaa8 og thear false system
( @ finance. TIE financial E-o1sex ~ Jefler-
I $685. Jaeksos1. C,afAoGE. Llrcgan. Tad
I Stevens. itozssio Seymour and Alan q.
Thurman - fepnd hy TIRE sinls<ns - cccn-
/ Vsuas 20 be wasAt Weaver IL = and the
oua4l-A Platform IL - advocated. De-