The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-01-10
INTO SLAVERY.
Master Workman Sovereign Pre-.
diets a Dark Future for Labor.
Bonds Are a Gross Outrage On a
Liberty Loving People.

AAOCAty LON1H6 1SOpASs
General Master Workman Sover-
eign has been i'll at his home at
Des Moins, Iowa: Prior to his de-
parture for home he prepared an
address to the rank and file of the
order denouncing Secretary of the
Treasury Carlisle, for requesting
congress to grant authority to issue
5000, 900, 900 in rest-bearing bonds.
The following are extracts from the
document, which is long one:
The issuing of bonds is an outrage
upon liberty-loving people.
Bonds and slavery are synonOm-
Gus terms
Recent authentic statistics prove
that sum of money equal to the
entire circulating medium of this
nation must pass from the hands of
the people Of this nation into the
Golfers of the interest-takers at least
once every six months, and that
means that on an average of once
every six months the people must
re-borrow the money from the in
terest-takers with new securities
thus the compound power grows
with graduating power and, it not
checked, will absorb all wealth and
leave labor in
AFFECT SERvITUDE.
Society and government must take
the profit out of the money, and put
it into labor and products. AS it
now is, the profit of the dollars at
interest absorb the profit Of the dol
lars at production, and as dollars
have no power to create other dol
lars, the profit of the dollars at in
terest must be paid out of the dol
lars at production, and as soon as
the dollars at interest absorb the
dollars at production Gods Green
earth and the fullness thereof has
to be mOrtgaged to the dollars at in
tereSt to induce a few dollars to re-
turn to the fields of production, only
to be reabsorbed by the dollars at
interest. Each time they draw
great amounts of land and products
over to the interest taker. Finally
the dollars at interest absorb all
elements OF increase.
Instead of an issue of bonds Mr..
Sovereign advocates the issue of full
legal tender nOn-interest-bearin
money. He then calls upon the
workingmen OF the country to petit
tion congress not to grant the sec
rotary OF the treasury authority to
make the proposed issue OF bonds.
Every man." he continues, ICON
nected with the disreputable trans
action should have his name branded
with
ETERNAL INFAMY'
He is, he says, in receipt of letters
from the agricultural districts of
the west and the cotton regions Of
the south, declaring that the issuing
Of interest-bearing bonds by the ma
tiOnal government will be considered
sufficient prOvOcation to justify a
call to arms. At the first attempt
Of congress to grant the authority
asked by the secretary of the treas
ury the Knights from Maine to Cali
fOrnia, he says, should
HOLD INDIGNATION MEETINGS
And send uneQuivocal protests to
their respective members in con-
gresS.
Millions of our people are in beg
gary and starvation because labor
has been robbed year after year by
a merciless money power, that has
grown naughty and despotic on the
bonds of the people.
It is the duty Of labor throughout
the length and the breath of the
land to put it's foot down so hard on
the present scheme to increase the
national debt that the very capitol
at Washington will tremble with the
thunder OF it's
RIGHTEOUS PROTEsTATIONs.
Let us be dupes and fools no longer.
Let us meet the 100000, 900 propo-
sition with the power and fellowship
Of our entire organization and stay
in the fight until we force a relax
alton in the power Of money to rob
the endustral masses.