St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-26

JeHerS0n, JACKSON ana Lincoln. Sucl
use of the ballot sent terror and dismay
10 tyrants. des2ots and plundering
oligarchies throughout the world.
The enemies of justice and human
rights predicted that the success
of the ballot was temporary;
that man was not capable of self-gov-
ernment. The destruction of ancient
the people to govern themselves were
cited in proof of their contention that
despotism.
OPPRESSION AND SLAVERY
were the fate of the human race.
There have been no Washlngtons. JEFF
fersons, Jacksons or Lincolns elected
president OF the United States in the
two decades. A soulless despot of alien
origin is monarch of the commercial
world. His name is money. His in
struments of oppression are banks and
bonds. His servants are administrative
and legislative bodies. The army you
are collecting used the ballot to put the
army, the navy and the treasury de-
partment under the control of the banks
and bondhOlders, and place in the halls
OF congress representatives to do the
bidding of money changers.
Thhe Ides of November are approach
ing. An opportunity for the people to
strike for liberty will again he pre-
sented. The old parties, when have
surrendered the rights of the people to
the rule of concentrated capital, will
ask for renewal of their lease of power
at the ballot box. Every movement of
the people to obtain relief outside of
the forms of law will be denounced as
anarchy. The purSe-strings of the
nation are held by congress, under the
dlctatIon of the administration. and the
president is c0mmander-in chief of the
army and navy Of the United States.
THE ATTEMPT
of starving multitude to march to
Washington will furnish an excuse for
using the power Of the governments of
the states and of the United States to
pitt down anarchy and insurrection.
The vigor with which the laws will be
executed against starving people will
be an argument in the next election for
continuing in power concentrated capi-
tai as necessity for the maintenance
of law and order.
The sufferings of the people are the
result of electing the men to Office who
do the bidding Of the money powers.
which, by legislation and administra-
ton, have destroyed more than one-half
of the metallic money of the world and
cornered the other half. Twenty years
of uninterrupted rule of banks and
bondholderS has concentrated the wealth
of the world in the hands of the few,
and enabled them to seize the telegraph.
hn arIr
nue. through which the people can OBJ
tain information of the cunning devices
by which these parasites absorb what
the masses produce. There is but one
battlefield where the forces of liberty
and equality can meet and overthrow
the enemy of human rights. There is
no law now on the statute books auth
orizing the president of the United
States to march all army against the
people at
THE BALLOT BOX.
Every attempt to place the ballot
under the control of federal authority
has thus far been successfully resisted.
Let your army be reinforced by the
millions of the unemployed and by the
wealth producers of the nation, and be
thorour hly mObiliZed for the battle in
November. when victory for rights of
man against the deSpotism OF banks and
bonds is possible.
Abandon the folly of marching an un-
armed multitude of starving laborers
agai nst the modern appliances of war
under the control of soulless money
trust. Such folly will augment the
power of the oppressor and endanger
the safety of the ballot itself. Disorder
is all that is required to insure the SUI
premacy of the armed forces of the
money powers at the polls. The con-
stitution of the United States is our
charter of liberty. 1t has been subvert-
ed by an Oligarchy of concentrated
wealth. False agents of the people
have betrayed their trust and brought
misery and want, when abundance and
prosperity seemed assured.
Traitors to human rights have usurped
the power of the government through
the machinery of party and the arts of
demagogues. Hurl them from power.
Trust no man who has once deceived
you. Let the government of the United
States administer for and not against the
people. Use the ballot to protect lib
erty, justice and equal rights. and not
to elevate to power the agents of banks
and bonds to perpetuate the rule of an
oligarchv of wealth. Yours very truly,
WILLIAM Nj. STEwART.