The record-union., 1894-03-26
that despotism, oppression and slavery
Were the fate of the human race.

that despotism, oppression and slavery
were the fate of the human race.
There have been no Washingtons,
Jeffersons, 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 are banks and bonds. His
servants are administrative and legisla-
tive bodies. The army you are collecting
used the ballot to put the Army, Navy
and Treasury Department under the
control of banks and bondholders, and
place in the halls Of Congress Representa-
tives to do the bidding of money
changers.
The ides Of November are approach
ing. An opportunity for the people to
strike for liberty will again be presented.
The old parties which have surrendered
the rights OF the people to the rule of
concentrated capital will ask for a re-
newal OF their lease Of power at the ballot
box. Every movement of the people to
obtain relief outside the forms of law will
be denounced as anarchy. The purse
strings of the nation are held by Con-
gress under the dictation of the Ameri-
can, and the President is Commander-in-
Chief OF the army and navy of the
United States. The attempt of starving
multitude to march toward Washington
viii furnish an excuse for using the
power of the Government of the States
and of the United States to put down
anarchy and insurrection.
The yigor with which the laws will be
executed against starving people will be
an argument in the next election for con-
tlnuing IN power concentrated capital as
a necessity of maintenance of law and
order. The sut1erings of the people are
the result OF electing the men to office
who do the bidding of the money powers,
which have destroyed more than one-half
of the metallic money of the world by
legislation 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 a
few and enabled them to seize the tele-
graph the press and nearly every other
avenue through which the people can OBJ
tain Information of the cunning devices
by which the parasites absorb what the
masses produce. There is but one battle
field where the forces of liberty on an
equality can meet ard overthrow the
enemy of human rights. There is not
law on the statute books authorizing the
President of the L United States to march
an 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.
Leu your dEuly Dc reinforced Dy the
millions of unemployed and by the
wealth producers of the nation, and be
thoroughly modified for the battle in
November, when victory Tor the rights
Of man against the despotism of banks
and bonds is passed. Abandon the folly
OF marching an unarmed multitude OF
starving laborers against the modern APP
pliances of war under the control Of
souiless 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 safety Of the ballot supremacy of the
armed forces of the moneyed power at
the polls. The Constitution of the United
States is our charter of liberty. 1t has
been subverted by an oligarchy of con-
centrated wealth. False agents of the
people have betrayed the trust and
brought misery and want when abund-
ance and prosperity seemed assured
Traitors to human rights have usurped
the power Of the Government through
the machinery of the party and the arts
of the demagogues. Hurl them from
power. Trust no man who has once de-
ceived you. Let the Government of the
United States administer for and not
against the people. Use the ballot to pro-
tect liberty, justice and equal rights, and
not to elevate to power the agents of
banks and bonds to perpetuate the rule
of an oligarchy of wealth. Yours very
truly, WILLIAM NJ. STEWART.