The representative., 1894-12-26
GOLD 4 GOD.
The Light of Reason Turned UpOn Ike
EMliacy.
To the Editor:

Md call this fame financial light.
The %ohi barons having secured a monop-
oily on sold, have consummated a scheme to
hold the people as subjects of revenue This
leEalizea principle is held up to the world as
the true financial light
Like the land pirates on the sea coast
that build fires to entice the ships upon the
rocks for plunder.
The gold barons With their emissaries
have taken the advantage of the financial
log that hangs over the masses, and by a
tunnlnS!y devised scneme have deceyed the
nnconScioHs people into a financial system
oi eNtortion wherein the org anized few NAV
piund,r the unOrganized many The legal
lied right - loot industry has filled their
vaults with gold. They have declared them
selves kings over our financial system
They weld the magic wand of finance
that has mys;iied the minis of the people
who have bowed and made themselves
slaves to Il principle that is hatched from
tae brains that look upon humanity as sub
jects of revenue.
1he fundamental principles of a repub-
Ecan government has been smothered by
the enthronement or sold barons. They hold
the power as King Pharoah Of the l9:h
century. They hold the last that drives hui
manity through the fields of selvitude.
The people having the freedom of taking
part in the farce of election and the phan-
TOM OF liberty Initiating their minds, travel
the mystited path. not realizing that they
are political subjects of revenue Their
true condition being hid by the artful tricks
used to keep a free people unknowingly as
tools and vd*sals Of a captalistc power
that lays behind the scenes, who holds the
political wires of the government They
pun the wires on election and the American
jumping Jacks dance to the Republican
'dhd. Ihey faMn at the feet of capital
ana kiss the hand of the gold barons by in
dorsng with their vote the single standard
of gold
This is true panorama of the last elec-
ton.
\ people thus resting on supposed politi-
cal freedom are sioW to respond to the call
OF reform and follow a Moses that would
strike the polite sea ana lead them out
from under the yoke Of Pharoahs.
Those Wh" control the money power Of
the world believe themselves the hub Of
financial wisdom ana that the lesser ii,.ht ;
OF humanity in obedience to their mandate
nave but one duty. i. e., submission ana re-
NolNe around the great orb of their finan-
Cial wisdom
they look upon it as act of treason
lof the ordinary mind to look into their
financial ark and view the character Of
spirits that animate ana set in motion the
finance Of this country.
When we lift the veil Of their financial
ark We find code of principles which is
headed with the following. preamble o
gold is king. it holds the scepter to meas,,r,
all value all other moneys must be its sub
Jects ana bow to its power for redenption
Inc people must look upon it with rever-
ence and pay ii tribute
The gold pipers send up the cry that tha
principles of finance is too complex for to be
under the comprehension of tie common
people. ana that gold is the great lumina-
ing power of SrdVitatUn to hold our com
hertial anu industrial system in it's proper
sphere. TO use silver as one of our stand
ards would throw the world off IFS avis
ana gold would hide itself in the secret re-
cesSeS beyond the reach of the people ,ay-
ing silver to debase the financial morals of
an uhsfateiul people; who by the lack of
common sense have destroyed the great
Hhahc1al cdifice erected by the phlanthroph-
lst OF Wall street and the gold barons of
EUROPE. This panorama painted by the
bfush OF wisdom in the hands of gold COM
plhations has been kept before the people
10 mould their minds and make them Ionlx
upon the system of single standard as the
central star in our finance A people that
uethrones their own right of thinking nv
DeheVeinS that the wisdom of the finance
hes IN the brain of few. places their per
sonal destiny in their hands
ThiS results from the natural laws Of CON
diions u oo'i
me aVarice spirit of man seeks his own
advancement and not that of his fellow
man. admit that the people have been
too Indifferent and have given our t;nancn
too little thought
But principles carried into effect laa,os
results that interprets to the ordinary
hihu the character Of our finance The
great narshalinG Of the money power in
VT "nat IS called linance is like the invading
army 'hat takes possession of country
us character. its object. and its results oro
"cepiE impressed on the minds of those
VINO must bow to its authority
But the invasion of the gold barone is
mere subtle and cunning.
The characters behind this gold cvctar,
feach out in the financial fog that laws over
'he minus OIL the common people, and like
II spirit hand, they take the profits of labor
me people feel their loss, but cannot ac-
count for it. Like lion in the ambush q
dangerous combination in the background
IS creeping up and promulgating prjnci-
pies that, if not checked will subvert the
financial rights of the people. VIII the zeal
OF the American people for gold cloud their
reason, and, like the miller that is chained
by the blaze of the lamp throw themselves
III the gold standard craze and be roasted
by its eNtOrtions?
History says that the golden chariots of
Rome in the hands of a few crushed the.
liberty Of It's citizens and DESTROYED the re
public
Are we not in the same path that led to
the downfall of the Roman republic? Are
we not drifting to the same condition that
caused the revolution in France? VIII not
this blind devotion to gold lead the people
out of the path of safety into a region of
pitfalls, that will, by degrees, close over the
liberties of the people and lay the founda-
tion for imperialism?
1t cannot be denied that the great po-
litical question of the day is: Shall this
government be controlled by the people, or
shall it be creature of capital?'
Shall Europe mirgle and infuSe a mon
archical and aristociatic spirit into our ma
ticnal life?
This gold standard principle is a plant of
Great Britain, and it has a tendency to
NuhNcrt the general welfare and political
liberties of the people 1t carries with it a
political current that destroys and holds 1t
bay the political powers Of the masses, and
are thus made political slaves to work
under a system that is building up a great
moneyed power in Wall street and Europe
Great Britain has fed and famed the
financial power at the expense of the Amer
scan people. Sh"uld We not pause in a po-
!itical career that is famed by an influence
coming from a monical System-a foe to a
representa- tive government, having ne in
terest in our welfare only as subjects of
revenue and a field for her investments for