The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-01-31
THE NEFARIOUS SCHEME.

monetization of silver in 1878; the last
and eliminating acts are those of 1898,
shutting off the supply of money for all
India and the United States from silver.
Under the first act the value of the
money standard had been we'll nigh
doubled, and property halved. to the
great gain of those whose holdings are
in money or bonds or other forms of
debt that call always for the same num-
Der of dollars, regardless of their value,
and to those receiving fixed salaries.
But great as has been the change in
the relation of money to other forms of
wealth, and especially to the products
of land and labor, the contamination of
the original conspiracy. by the closing
of the minis Of India and the repeal of
the silver purchase law in the United
States, is the beginning of greater and
more rapid change over the world than
that which followed the act of 1878.
This may be considered unnecessarily
alarming, but let us look the situation
squarely in the face.
By the coinage laws passed in 1878
by the United States and Germany, and
by the subsequent acts of the states of
the Latin union in closing their mints,
the free coinage of silver was discontin-
ued in Europe and the United States,
while Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland,
Norway and Sweden adopted the gold
standard. But several of these states
have never been able to retain much
gold and have been obliged to resort
largely to paper for their home circula-
ton. France continued in circulation
her store of coined silver, while the
United States, before resuming specie
payments, provided for an annual sup
ply of silver money, presumed to be
somewhere nearly commensurate with
the increase of population. This sup
ply. derived from the purchase and
coinage of silver on government account,
was materially increased by the act of
1890. India, during all this period of
90 years, kept her minis open to all
corners to have silver coined into ru-
PEGS at the ratio of Is to /. and from
this source derived her annual supply
of money.
But now comes the eliminating act
in the greatest conspiracy ever con-
ceived, conspiracy that took satanic
genius to devise, a conspiracy to get pos
session OF the worlds wealth by the
stealthy method of changing the money
standard, the worlds pricing instru
ment from gold and silver to gold only.
The order in council closing the minis
of India and the repeal of the silver pur-
chase law of the United States not only
shut off money supply for all India and
the United States from silver mines.
about $40, 100000 annually for each,
but at the same time added these coun-
tries to those heretofore competing for
| gold. In the same year Austria-Hun-
| gary, under the domination of the same
money power, decreed the gold stand
ard. Thus in single year more than
800, 900, 900 of people were changed
from one side of the scale to the other
and made competitors with gold stand
ard countries for gold for money supply
This was far greater change than
that of 1878. Indeed no such change
in the monetary condition Of the world
in SO short time ever took place before
in all its history.
The prophecy Of Mr.. Alfred de Roths-
child at the Brussels conference was but
logical deduction from we'll under
stood economic conditions. Although
strongly advocating the gold standard
for England, he said:
eff this conference were to break up
without arriving at any definite result,
there would be depreciation in the
value of that commodity which it would
be frightful to contemplate and out of
which monetary panic would ensue,
the far spreading effects OF which it
would be impossible to foretell''
Already has this prediction begun to
be verified, and the end is not yet.
Is everything in the end to be swept
into the Golfers Of those who know no
country and no interests but their own?
Are all races to be made bondsmen to
one? Such money power never before
existed as that which devised and is
now carrying out this nefarious scheme
to plumber the world.-A. j. Warner
in New York Sun.
Make Way For the Respectable Party.
If the Democratic leaders have any
serious intention of wiping out the pro-
tective system, they had better do what
they are going to do this winter They
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