People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-12-20
A NEW DECLARATION.
WE MUST GET COMMERCIAL IN
DEPENDENCE.
England Must Be Wang uished at Every
Point-The Enemy of Silver Is a
Traitor to His Countrywide Tories OF
To-Day.

working people of the United States
TO assert their financial independence
OF Great Britain. and to assume among
the powers Of the earth that equal and
separate financial station, to which the
laws OF natIre and of natures God en-
title them, decent respect to the
opinions of mankind--the dupes and
victims Of the money power and
'''r:.!ng press-requires that they
should declare the causes which impel
chem to assert their independence.
We hold these truths to be self evil
dent; that in free government the
producers and wage laborers should
have voice in determining the prices
they are to receive for the fruits of
their labor; that their representatives
in congress should not be allowed to
openly and defantly vote for measures
ruinous to their interests. Otherwise
republican government is failure and
a farce.
When long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces design to reduce
the masses to an absolute bondage
under money power despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to revolt
peaceably, at the polls, if may be,
loreibly, if need be,-against the
American agents of such plut ocracy.
Though great have been the suffer
ings Of our people, they are still peace
ably disposed; but as the long train of |
financial conspiracies, briberies of |
legislation and robbery of the people |
causes the spirit of all true Americans
to revolt, they will certainly, before
submitting to financial and industrial
slavery, provide new safeguards for
their future security.
The history of the conspiracy of the
gold trust Of Great Britain is history
of repeated injuries and usurpations,
all having in direct object the estab-
lishment of an absolute money power
tyranny over these states.
To prove this let facts be submitted
to Q candid world,
! The British trust. composed of
money lenders and bankers Of Europe,
has acquired its present world wide
organization during the past fifty
years, with this purpose in view-ta
absolutely control the gold Of the
world and to make gold, in which it
demands is debts paid, the scarcest
-
coin. |
During this period it has so consol-
dated its power as not only to have
enslaved the people Of Egypt, Ireland
India, Austria, Argentina and Austria
liza, but it is rapidly, by the single gold
standard, confscating the siXty-fve
billions of the property of the people
of these United States
This trust has by bribery and con-
spiracy inspired the greatest crime
since the crucifxtion of Jesus Christ,
in the subtlety of the secret demone-
tzation of silver in 1873, when John
Sherman, as the agent Of the ROths-
childs, struck the silver dollar from
the coinage code, thus rendering him
self Infamous as Benedict Arnold for
all time to come. /
This trust has, by its baneful infu-
ence and sinister power, induced our
congress to sacrifice our whole country
west of the Mississippi, and by destroy
ing silver in closing the mines of the
Rockies and minis Of tnGia has re-
duced our farmers and miners to hope
less poverty. And now it seeks to
sacrifice the whole country east of the
father of waters in order to open new i
markets for foreign capital in foreign
industries, s..
This greedy and terrible trust, !
whose members are the Gneal de-
scendants of those money loaners and
usurers who blotted out Greece, Rome,
the Netherlands and all civilization in
the early and middle ages, now by its
sinister influence, by subsidized
press, and by bulldozing the law
making and executive branches of our
government, has stricken down one
half the metallic money of redemption,
compelling our people to pay twenty
billions more value than was nomi-
mated in the bonds, and reducing them
to such abject slavery that they must
labor like the serfs of Pharaoh to pay
forty billions of debt with five hundred
millions of gold.
This trust has reduced the prices of
our farm products 60 per cent, and by
the manipulation of silver has estab-
lshed an average of prices for wheat
in London which gives the western
farmer little more than the Indian
farmer, who works for cents day.
This band of British conspirators
which has a most potent weapon,
terrible demon of destruction, con-
cealed in its usurious cent per cent in