The representative., 1894-12-26


unfavorable to the common people.
A government that throws no restraint
over the invading capitalist power of Eu-
rope and suppress the unpatriOtc leeches
that are fastened upon our social system
1a1lS to do it's duty. \ government that
fails to protect the fields of industry is
not long acceptable when the natural con-
dltlonS are such as to render a rapid ac-
cumulation of wealth in the hands OF
| few and to render the great masses of the
| people penniess and in want. 1t would
seem to be the part of political wisdom to
bring about a system of government that
Will have tendency to remove those evils
| and reward those who create wealth by la
| bor, and not allow it to be absorbed by
| those who labor not but hold some special
| legalized privilege.
Ihe history of other Republics teaches
US that a restraint monopoly and
JUS; division of its wealth. and a nation
unhampered free holders give health and
stability. system Of laws that will have
the tendency without violence or injustice
TO produce and preserve fair distribu
ton of property will give strength in the
affections of the people.
just finance emanating from a just gov
ernment would enthrill the public bosom
with JOY and Send industry bounding over
the path of prosperity.
Eut an unjust finance emanatng from
those who combine to enforce a system of
extortion strips the field of industries and
i0d"cS tdIk veil OIL UlStfSSS over the
country.
Our social system is chafing under the
unfair distribution of wealth and the un-
favorable conditions are aggravated by
the low price OF industry while the many
feel the sting of depression a few whose
wealth lays in gold enjoys a harvest of
increased profits from the public distress.
Brokers, dealers in money and money
lenders aunt humanity TO the last degree
Tor their revenue.
Farmers, business men ana laborers
must al suffer that a few may heap up un-
told fortunes
This gold capitalstic agnet has - per
cent of the people in its meshes.
Ihey feel its weight, but their misguided
minds look to those who hold the net for
relief.
The people in the last election like a
school of suckers, rushed in this financial
net, that is transferring the wealth of all
industries to the money barons.
Statistics show that four-fifths of the
total wealth of the United States is held
by 2oo,C0o persons and one-fifth is divided
among 12.J00,U0 persons.
1t Is certainly clear that fortunes rolled Up
into millions in few years do not represent
wealth created by moral and legal industry
of the Individual but it represents an un-
Just diversion of wealth, created by honest
and legitimate industries Those great for
tunes in the hands of a few menace
to our public safety. What will be the
suit II we continue to drift in this political
current-When is the struggle to end? 1t
cannot end while those who represent in
dustries delegate to the gold barons the
power and right to fix the value on their
!s.bor and property.
The masses Of the old parties are consci-
entious ana sincere, but the organized lead
trs of a party constitute their character
They represent the interest of the common
people the lion looks upon the lamb
Their avaricious spirit thrills with joy in
anticipation of a financial feast that is
made fat by Soll system.
The people having their political ideas
moulded by a capitaistic press and paid
emlssarleS move along the plain of sup
posed freedom, travelling a political path
marked out by European influence ana cap
ltaL The common people are thus made un-
knowingly political slaves to work under a
system that Will build up great moneye,i
power. whose increase in power will tighten
the political bondage of the American pea
pie.
If the ordinary mind will trace cur iinan-
cial history back to '61 and note the con-
SreSsional acts that gave birth TO condi-
tions if they will trace the long train of
political abuses that have honeycombed our
financial history. they will find the cause
and founda ton of the present depression
On every financial act of congress- yCu can
uace the finger marks of The gold bdropS
In % they consunmated thu destruction oG
oar silver standard and planted upon our
the profits of all industries ana draws
to Wall street and Europe the wealth ere
atel by American labor. Does not this
record and the conditions point out the
cause of our distress?
The Hon. McClearv The. expounder Of
finance, deluded and made the people be-
lieve in the last election thai the conspiracy
alleged in %, to destroy the silver standard,
was humbuS and only Populist' cry. |
submit one out of many Congressional
a . tbat fh.,
crime against the American people and con-
demned by the following congressman who
have placed thmselves on record: Judge
Kelly, Pennsylvania. Congressional Record
volume :, FortyFifty Congress, page 1905.
Mr.. Bright, Congressional Record Vol
ume I. Forty-fifth congress, page ;,S4 Gen.
Grant, see page 20S Congressional Record.
Dec. A. 1871 Senator Beck Congression., Al
Record, Jan. 11,1S19, page 25S, said: I know
that the bondholders and monopolists of
this country are seeking to destroy all the
industries of this people in their greed to
enhance the value of their gold. | know
that the act of 1873 did more than all else
to accomplish that result and the dcnloneti-
Zatlon act OF the revised statutes was an
illegal and unconstitutional consumnlation
of the fraud. l want to restore that mon
ey to where it was before. and thus aid in
preventing the consummation of their de
signs.
Can man cast Republican vote in the
face Of such record? Public safety, hon
or. and justice demands that when the peo-
pie find their cause, their interest BETRAYED
or Wontonly trified away by disloyal con-
congressman, who have confedera 1ed and
sold the country to the gold barons such
a crime. such an act conta .nina ting the
temple of freedom should oe wiped from
our statute by popular tide of indi.nation
and the free coinage of silver reinstated to
the position that it held from Washin.ton's
administration up to 49,
Manhood and Americansm will rebuke the
party of political evils, but partisan spirit
in his blind devotion is unable TO read the
record OF his party. but iii his Zeal pets the
viper that will sting him and his country
Ihis is "a debtor nation. American indus
tries are paying over $1,000, ,000 a day to meet
the interest charges imposed, besides we
have four American crown heads who hask
under their diamonds as the roval money
kings of America-N anderbilt Gould Astor
and Rockefeller.
Those mllionaires draw from labor So
100000 annually.
The demOnetizaton of silver increased the
value or gold, it forced new customers in
the field to compete for gold. The cold
barons pursued financial principle that
would force the people to bid high for gold
This condition is called Il tight money
market or hard times. The people do not
stop to inquire how or who is turning tlis
financial wheel They do not realize that
the gold barons keep the people under a
single standard of value. Gold thus Great
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