Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-12-19

working people Of the United States
TO assert tsseir financial independence
Of Great Britain, and TO assume among
the powers Of the earth that equal aud
ecparate financial station, TO which the
laws of nature and Of natures God cn-
title them, Il decent respect to the
opinions Of mankind--the dunes and
victims of the money power and a
EirclinF press requires that they
-hould declare the causes which impcl
them to assert their independence.
We hold these truths to be self evil
dent; that in free government the
producers and wage laborcrs should
have a voice in determining the price,
they are to receive for the fruits of
their labor; that their representatives
in congress should not hc allowed to
openly and dchantly vote for measures
1uinous to their interests. Otherwise
republican government is u failure and
~ farce.
When long train of abuses and
,usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, cvinccs design to reduce
the masses to an absolute bondage
under money power despotism, it is
their right, it Is their duty, to revolt
peaccably, at the polls, if may be,
forcibly, if need he, 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 spiracics, bribcrics Of
legislation aud robbery Of the people
causes the spirit Of all true Americans
10 revolt, they win certainly. before
submitting to financial and industrial
slavery, provide new safeguards for
heir future security
The history Of the conspiracy of the
gold trust of Great Britain is II history
IF repeated injuries and usurpations,
i all having in direct object the cstab-
lishmcnt Of an absolute money power
tyranny over these states.
To prove this let facts be submitted
TO candid world.
The British trust, composed of
has acquired Its present world wide
organization during the past fifty
years with this purpose in view-to
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 50 consol.
idated its power as not only TO have
cnslaved the people Of Egypt, ireland,
India, Austria, Argentina and Austria
liza, but it is rapidly, by the single gold
standard, coniiscating the siXty-iiye
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 crucifiXtion of Jesus Christ,
i'm the subtlcty of the secret dcmonc-
tzation Of silver in 1873, when John
sherman, as the agent of the Roths-
chi,ds, struck the silver dollar from
the coinage code, thus rendering him
self infamous us benedict Arnold for
all time to come.
This trust has, by its hancful innu-
cncc 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 mints of InCia has re-
duccd 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 now
markets for foreign capital in foreign
industries.
This greedy and terrible trust,
whose members arc the lneal &c
sccndants of those money loancrs and
uSurcrs 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 bulldo2ing 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 abjcct 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-
lIshed 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 n most potent weapon, a
terrible demon of destruction, con-
cealed in its usurious cent per cent in
terest table, and is devouring the
world by the usury and cXtortion of
the gold basis, now seeks to confiscate
the property of our railway corpora
tions by schemes forcing them into
bankruptcy, into foreclosure, and into
their reorganization plans.
In this way such roads as Erie,
Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Mis-
souri, Pacific, Atchison, New England,
and probably st. Paul and Burlington
will be thrown into bankruptcy, their
stockholders oppressed to the verge of
ruin, and then reorganized within a
year or two by the new 'plan" of this
trust and their Wall street agents,
This vast conspiracy of usurers, own
ers of the worlds gold, who daily in
crease its buying power by making it
more scarce to redeem credits, has re-
duced this country to the condition of
British province, so that Great Britain