The Washington times., 1894-06-10
MONEY TALKS.

A Newspaper With an Opinion and Not
Afraid TO Express It.
What coming together Of money bags and
monopolists. millionaires, and mortgage
sharks YVES that anti-income-tax meeting held
In Carnegie hall. Now York, Friday night! 1t
was q veritable conference Of Dives and
CrGsus and Pluto-an emergency council
ofthe frightened leaders Of the cohorts OF
Class and Coin called to consider some means
by which they might escape payment OF the
just tribute demanded OF them BY the
sovereign People.
And with what unction the plutocratic Re
publican journals recount the names OF the
excessively rich men "pressnt and taking
part" The Tribune, that gold-worshiping
local organ OF Capital, Glass, and Corporation,
in its news dispatches fingers lovingly over
o list comprising John A. Mccall, president
Of the New York Life Insurance Company;
John Clatiin, president OF the Fl. B. Clafiin
Company; John P. Townsend. president OF
the Bowery Savings bank; Evan Thomas,
president OF the produce exchange; Edward
King, president Of tho Union Trust Company.
and Col. Strong, president OF the Central Ma
tionsl bank. After heralding these names,
resonant of the chink OF golden coin and the
crisp rustic OF greenbacks and bonds, the
Tribune emphatically remarks that:
The speakers who took Part represented onor-
nous interests, financial and commercial, en-
brncing banking, life insurance, commerce,
commission, groceries, hre underwriting; ana
community and bearing directly upon the busi-
ness interests at large.
That is just what they are doing, "bearing
upon the business interests Of the country at
large with the awful, irksome, dead weight
Of vampires, Of old men Of the sea--bearing
on the country's business interests with the
ponderous and relentless force OF q hydraulic
press, squeezing from it all Its life and vital
ity. A careful scrutiny OF the list will fail to
show a single producer Of any useful COM
modify. Not farmer, not q miner, not
manufacturer even among the lot. All spec
ulators, usurers gamblers on the necessities
Of others. money-sucking vampires, who
draw tie very life blood from the body poll
tic; who live in opulence by the exertions of
others; who, having usurped natural monop-
olies, charge their less fortunate fellow men
for the privilege Of enjoying their inherent
rights.
A truly representative gathering Of Gotham
mi)lionaires was this one-a convention OF
hnrpies met together in hall the very name
of which smacks of plutocracy, monopoly,
and subversion Of the rights Of man. And
these representatives OF money bags and class
interests had gathered there for the purpose OF
pooling their powerful forces to defeat the
income tax-for the formulation Of plans to
eV6uo payment Ol tuoiE JUDI suHIo vi tHc cA-
penses Of the government which has protected
them in the acquisition Of their golden boards,
and is now protecting them in the enjoyment
OF their i'l-gotten gains. An honorable gather
ing certainly, and for a noble and philanthro-
pic purpose this; q conversation forsooth
which would inspire the poet songs OF exulta-
tion and the admiring populace Of cheers.
No wonder the servile organs OF money
bags interest wax enthusiastic In describing
this meeting; no wonder the sounding
phrases Of these great men are quoted and
commented upon at length. Do they not
represent wealth. which can crush or re-
ward2 Money, which is, after all, the true
god whose prophets these journals aim to be?
1t was an ideal symposium OF plutocratic in
terests and ideas which was held at Carnegie
hall Friday night, and its ponderous denun-
Citations OF this pernicious legislative meas
ure. which feloneously aims to make the mil
lionaire pay taxes just as II he were a COM
mon, contemplate, poor man might well fall
upon the ears OF Republican editors who
worship at the shrine of money as law, gos-
pei, and the prophets all combined. But the
income tax bill will become law notwith-
standing the denunciRtions OF these money
bags tax dodgers and the echoing blusterings
of the wealth-worshiping journals which they
control.-Chicago Times.