The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-09-21
A Letter From The Devil.
HADEs, July 4, 1894.

John G. Carlisle, Walter Q. Gresham,
Richard p. Bland, Senator Morgan.
and to all boOdlers, cOrruptionists,
political demagOgues, thieves and trail
tors, greeting;
/ take this method of expressing
my thanks to you for the valuable
services you are rendering me in
extending my influence and my
reign in that dominion. i have
just been looking over the last an
nual report of my chief secretary
and find more recruits that have
joined my army and are now
marching along the broad road to
Hades than has been furnished by
any other planet.
After a thorough and exhaustive
trial ! find that poverty on the one
hand and riches on the other are
the most effective means | hare
ever tried to enlist recruits for my
dOminions. 1t beats snakes all to
pieces. AT one time / despaired
of ever making any Roadway on
earth. Everybody was employed
at good wages, and were too busy
to stop and consider any of my
methods. Everybody seemed to
be happy and contented. AT this
time Baron Rothschilds, who is my
most efficient agent and able adj
wiser in that dominion Il bought
his soul many years ago., advised
me to adopt scheme that would
make the masses poor and the few
rich. consented, and through
MIR. ROthchilds, secured the aid Of
John Sherman in the United
States. We then issued the Ha-
Zard Circular to catch the bankers
and capitalists. They bit beyond
all our expectations. Then we is
sued the Buel Circular to obtain
control of congress. We succeed
ed. For thirty years 1 have had
better control of the American
congress than / have of the Great
Sanhedrim here in Hades, which is
composed of defaulting bank presi-
dents and corporation lawyers.
When the United States govern
ment issued greenbacks we had
congress to declare it good money
for the poor, but not for the rich
capitalist. We then had the gov
eminent to issue bonds for which
we could exchange, at face value,
this greenback stuff, which was
good enough for the soldier and
the people who had to work for a
living.
We ridiculed this money until we
deprecated it in value, and then
we bought it up and exchanged it
for bonds bearing coin interest.
With this interest 20 bought
some more paper money and ex-
changed it for more bonds. Then
we had the government to pass a
law allowing MS to deposit these
bonds and draw some paper money
national bank notes. Of our own.
We exchanged these notes for
greenbacks and then traded the
greenbacks for more bonds. De-
posted the bonds for more bank
notes; traded the bank notes for
more greenbacks; and the green
backs for more bonds. We kept
up this racket until we got all the
bonds, and then we had the gov
ernment to pass law to destroy
most of the greenbacks, and an
other law to pay the bonds we held
in coin.
Then we got congress to demone-
TIE silver.
We now had almost complete
control of the currency according
to the programme laid down in the
Hazard Circular.
We put the screws to the people
and produced the panic of 1873.
Prices of property sank lower and
lower.
My agents had the money and
they began loaning it out at usury.
When the national hank charter