People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-22

a vt sweat, suffer and die Som the
Tx galhererS fall 10 raise the So,
0)).0O0 per annum. There is an an,
lual deficit in the payment Of int, r.
e t.. This is rank Reputation, sly.
lock must have his pouud Of flesh,
British tax collectors raSe the place
Il the natives Whips and bl>tina.
dne> are use to urge The payment OF
taxes. We are told:
lhe fpllaheen were blstinadned as
hoy never rad 1ren before. and The
Ye> ,err rnllecled in advance. Mr.
Romano proposed t. reduce the land
* 81 IN t the people might live:
hajOr Barring On behalf of the bond.
l"lders refused to allow it.-Apule-
nu'' Annual, 1882, p. 235,
Finally, pnar. untaGght, starving,
Needing humanity can bear no more.
Fine foreign tax gatherers are al.
acked BY their victims and some OF
Them ale killed Great Britain can
'r"ok no such insult. laundering
'OncladS and British soldiers ire
ent to avenge the inSolence. and to
enforce the claims of British sub
iects" Alexandria Is bombarded.
Its streets Dire drenched with limo.
cent blood, Human life is DESTROYED
Is no d'namiter, communist or nihi.
list would have the heart to do. His
t"ric buildings, valuable libraries and
he homes Of the people melt in the
flames, while hecatOmbs of human
ives are sacrificed TO this new sla-
very, containing among its ingredi-
hts not single element Of mercy.
This is Il picture of bond slavery in
Egypt.
The Egyptians have long ago paid
the iull face Of the bonds in interest
They have paid in the form of inter
PSI more than twice the amount of
the money borrowed but the bonds
still live without diminutiOn: they
still cry, Give! give" And men are
blown to atoms with gunpOwder and
shot down like dogs to enforce the
continually increasing demands of
the bOndhOlderS, No education, no
rest, no comfort, 40 certainty of life,
for the Egyptian tax payers, with the
sharp teeth of British uSury perpet-
ually gnaw ng at their vitils. A sim.
liar avery has been instituted and
Is now enforced by British arms and
with SevereSt rigor among
the millions of India. Yet we are
tod by a leading magazine, already
quoted, that, for fifty years there
have ben no slaves permitted under
the fay of Englandm
There are many forms, mOdiflca.
tions and processes Of bond slavery
| am now considering that variety
which comes through gre t national
debt which may be fraudulently ere.
ated and increased from time to time
During the late war the bonds Of the
United States were sold for half price
currency. In 1869 these cheap cur
rency bonds were made payable il
coin, thus vastly adding to their value
and to the burdens of the taxpay ers
In 1863 silver was dropped from the
coinage, making all coin bonds and al
coin debts of all sorts payable in colo
coin only; thus practically making
them much more burdensome by cut
ting off half the means of pa, ment.
In 1863 there was established il
this country a national banking sys
TEN, based on United States bonds
under which s35O,O0O,OOO in the form
of bank notes, was handed out of The
treasury to a preferred class of CAPT
talistS without value received. They
were authorized to loan these notes
to the people at high rates of interest
By these fraudulent and usuriou,
methods billions of dollars hav,
been drawn from the people in thu
form Of interest alone. Billions O
dollars have been, also, paid on thu
principal; yet now the remaininl
principal, through currency contrac
tion and falling prices, is of create
purchasing value than was the cur
rency originally borrowed.
The burdens borne by the American
people would have destroyed half
dozen Egypts. 1t has not quit,
ruined us, on account of the exuber
ance of our soil and the wonderful in
dustry, intelligence and energy of on
people. 1t has, however, on the on,
hand, reduced many thousands O
honest laborers to pauperism; and OF
the other hand, it has created large
and increasing class of dangerous mil
lionaireS whose intrigues are dali,
menace to our free institutions
Many thousands of our people hav,
fallen into rags and hunger until the,
can no longer enter the free schools
but exist and suffer as chronic enc
mics of society, ready to break ou
into open violence for bread wheneye