The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR,

| A Splendid Letter From DR.. johnson.
| Editor representative hear it often
quoted as the quintessense of Democracy
governs least" That In fact, our govern
ment exists simply tosprevent it's citizens
1 from hurting each other by physical wea-
pons-from coming to blows. The class Of
statesmen who sre continually dining
this partial statement of truth in our
ears ignore entirely that actual physical
warfare constitutes 1small portion Of hui
man misery; that thousands of ways ex-
ist and are practiced OF "mans inhumanity
to man" aside frUm physical assault that
starvation, wants ana mental worry is
more fatal than bullets and the sword.
| me bullet and the sword is in fact the
most merciful kind Of destruction of man.
Kind It's process is short, sharp and ter
| inmates the period of suffering. But suf-
| fering of mankind NOWADAYS due to greed
| avarice and other legal forms of decimat-
| ing the children of men, is the descendant
Of the ancient racket wheel, iron boot and
| slow burning stake. 1t is more refined
| perhaps, but even more cruel than the me-
| dleval torture. 1t exempts no class nor
| condition, nor age, nor sex. The gnaWing
of an empty stomach respects no person
| 70 see their offspring in need of the nee
| SooLi iCo VI HE without power TO noID is
the potion that maddens the brain of the
| bravest of parents. There is only one
| snleld from this modern torture-the al
mighty dollar. Almighty dollar! Yes,
! TINS Is the acme of this nineteenth century
| craftsmanship! Brain, Drawn and philan-
| thropy groveling in the dust, dying of
want and starvation by the road SIDE and
the almight dollar, a few inert grains of
metal. earth, at the finale of glory and the
possessor of all earthly good! No matter
l q I'M.
possesses no moral nature, it does not
| choose the honest, the Industrious, the
| great or the good; but rather the dshon-
| est the heartless, the unfeeling sharper.
whose mental stock consists of a little
mother wit to drive smart game of
cheat, of getting something for nothing
| from someone more honest than himself
| Ana this is the aim and end of modern
craftsmanship! The dedication of a few
grams OF mother earth; making few grains
OF summing gold the great God of state of
this nation, to whose majesty everything
must bow! The gloriflcation of the miser
| the avaricious, the shylock, the millionaire
the chief objects of legislators! The main
end OF statescraft! Where is Justice and
| the general welfare" spoken about in the
| preamble of the constitution? In the mud
nder the wheels of the juggernaut Of
gold Our statesmen aboard the car and
| riding rouehshod over justice, welfare, peo-
| pie, constitution and everything else! Free
| country? Free institutions? Yes for the
| sharper to cheat the simple, for the big
| manufacturer to mercilessly slaughter his
| less powerful competitor, for the trust to
| rum the little dealer, for the big fish to
| undisturbed devour the little fish, and for
| the almighty dollar. the money devilfsh, to
| swallow us all! This is the freedom our
| statesmen are advocating and practicing
| today. Freedom to do evil. Freedom to
| Cypress. Freedom to steal. Freedom to
murder justice and bury the general well
| rare of the common people. The American
| people have yet to learn that freedom with
out justice is worse than open des-
P pna ,o,; a wolf in Sleeps clothing
| And now they'd propose to raise a
| militia to protect3 thenY in their nhuman
freedom to trampfe down every noble in
| stlnct OF humanity, to protect their ill
gotten gain, their million-dollar mansions
| and their decayng careasses from a rising
public sentiment of justice. They realize
that deception is about played out, and
| that force will soon be necessary to pro-
| tect property to (which they know they
| that he holds most of his property on a
| simple technicality of law contrary to
| equity. The time Is now coming that the
| people are apt to demand equity and dis
regard legal bubbles of corrupted legis-
| lators and lawyers May we not hope that
the time is coming when manhood shall be
| valued above a few grains of gold? When
honesty, genius and goodness shall be at
least at par with the dollar? When free
| dom shall mean freedom to enjoy life lib
erty and happiness, and not freedom to
murder the noblest aspirations of humani-
| ty? l do not believe that the moneyed in
terest can raise an army to fight the peo-
pie But If our present money policy shall
last for any length of time there will be
a peaceable, but thorough, revolution in a
rev years hence. A majority of our peo-
pie can, If united, repudate debts and CON
| hscate for public use railroads, telegraphs
and other corporate property without much
trouble. The people now are learning few
tactics from John Sherman and Grover
Cleveland. They may be apter scholars
than those gentlemen and their Wall street
clients suppose. They (the people, are be
ginning to that debt may be Increased
or diminished by an act of congress; that
contract may be altered by law in spite
of the constitutional prohibition to the CON
trary. Let the moneysd men keep right on
| for little while longer, and they may find
| to their sorrow that 1.-THE people can play
the game of legal robbery we'll as them
selves. At the rate the world is going in
| debt it is only a question of time till the
debt of the world will be repudated
| Moneyed men should think a little for
| themselves, and not be led by shylocks
| and get shylocks fond of flesh Let capital
| be fair and capital will be protected Let
| them mix their capital with the corrigents
| of justice and mercy, and it will act as a
healing balm to the people. But let them,
as now, continue to mix capital with the
NORWOOD and gall of oppression and in
justice, and the people will vomit out the
nauseous potion and slay such inhuman
doctors of finance. Such is the law of ma
| ture. No man or set of men, however
smart circumvent avoid it,
CHRISTIAN JOHNSON.
New London Mimi