The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-08
REVOLUTION INEVITABLE.
Hut 1t Must Come Through Evolution
Qry Methods.


The interest bearing debt of the civilized
world has become so vast in amount as to
exceed the ability of the people to pay;
therefore the situation with which we
stand face to face is one of rare freedom
1rom or race slavery to-, debt and usury
revolution is even now impending
which must be- peacefully through evo-
lutionary methods or suddenly through
much of blood and suffering and loss i'm
measurable, and must ultimate in lifting
the race to a higher plane and purer
and better civilization or turn it back
wards in the direction of savagery.
Whether it ultimates in barbarsm or a
higher and better civilization may we'll
depend upon whether it comes through
piooo or peacefully. The passions, pref
udlces ana hatreds engendered by inter-
necine war, even if the struggle end in
the overthrow of plutocracy, offer no sure
pledge of sufficient wisdom patient for
bearance endeavor and brotherly love re-
naming with which to build anew, and
better than before our social fabric.
II is better and wiser to exercise the
forbearance and brotherly love and to put
forth the earnest endeavor now, than to
wait the coming of revolution through
force, better and d wiser and a surer
way out of our difficulties and such a
way must be found or made, and it is
with this determination, and upon this
brief statement of conceded facts and rea-
sonable conclusions based upon those
facts, that l Offer plan for organization
education and final peaceful, as we'll as
comparatively speedy, evolution from the
OLD INTO the better new trusting that
twenty years of service in the reform
ranks, nearly equally divided between the
North and the South, will be accepted as
a guaranty OF good faith on my part and
secure to the propositions at least a
thoughtful reading and consideration.
1t will be observed that the plan pro-
posed does not interfere with existing
organizations or propose to replace them
IN any degree, but will rather assist them
by performing kind of recruiting service
through the education of the masses upon
economic questions.
The plan is the most simple, most in
expensive and. l believe, most effective
means of educating the people possible to
devise, and offers a reasonable promise of
preventing a revolution through blood and
of working a peaceful and complete solu-
ton of our troubles-the final and uni
versal emancipation of the race from slav-
cry through debt.
And this is the plan:
l. The organization of
CLUBS OF INVESTIGATION"
to be nearly informal possible, to
avoid all local expense, to meet in social
way in private houses, the total cost to
be fee of cents at enrolment and
cent quarterly due, both to go to the ma
tional head center.
This, small as it is to the individual
member, will if the enrolment equals my
expectations, be sufficient to maintain the
expense of keeping up communication be-
tween the clubs and the head center, pay
for the necessary printing and help sus-
tain, for the time being, those clergymen
who would gladly preach the gospel of
human rights if they, like the rest of man
kind, were not bound with the slave chains
of the money power.
l propose to free such wish to be freed
and set them at work within the church.
that they may show to the people the
truth, that our teaching are those of
Him whom the orthodox world calls Mas
ter. That there are many men and wOm-
en- Of wealth whose hearts are not hardened
and whose understanding is not closed to
4 perception of the dangers which threa ten
our civilization, who will gladly contribute
to this work, l do not in the least doubt
and in time and in turn the clergy sus-
tanned in their work temporarily will be
come fund raisers for the further prosecu-
ton of the work of liberatng the race
everywhere from slavery to debt and usury.
Into these clubs of investigation will
come all who wish honestly to consider the
causes for existing conditions, and the alb
sence of all formality and the trifling ex-
pense attending. will l believe make five
cent contributions of at least million of
men and women within a twelve months,
who while thus educa ting themselves and
each other will be furnishing the means
by which will reach other millions
through other means and mako of all in
telligent actors in the final struggle for
supremacy between the powers of God and
mammon, of light and darkness, of pluto
oracy and democracy.
2 Out of the membership Of the clubs
of investigation will be gathered without
further cost, present or prospective, except
ing a cent enrolment fee, all who will
pledge themselves to frown down all at
tempts at violent revolution of whatever
nature and who wish to unite when such
enrolment shall have reached a total suf-
ficient to compel the attention of the world,
IN electing delegates to a conference which
shall fix the time, some years in advance,
when all debts of whatever nature shall
be considered outlawed, the year of jubi-
lee ushered in and all interest bearing debt
forever abolished
Such action will be more and no less
than the passage by the voice of the peo-
pie, which is the voice of God, of a bank
ruptcy act the provisions of which will in
clude all debtors instead of particular
class and such an act is made necessary by
the inability of the people to pay, and that
they be not further oppr essed and wholly
enslaved through usury.
And these, among others, are the reasons
why the proposed plan is wise and must
appeal to the good sense of all classes and
why it must succeed.
Because very lafge number, a
very considerable per cent of the people,
already believe in the abolition of interest
bearing debt. provided it can be done with
out provoking sudden and violent shock
to our productive, commercial and social
systems, is desirable, and will enroll them
selves a once as so believing.
The simple act of large numbers so
enrolling will have the effect Of frightening
the money loaning classes and the smaller
ones will, as opportunity offers, invest in
productive enterprises instead of relOaninE
on usury. The volume of interest charges
will thereby be reduced to that extent, and
the smaller debts will be paid, larger ones
are, and as the movement gathers force
and head the day of final outlawry of all
debts still being some years away, paper
securities of all kinds, and especially long
time government bonds, will begin to
change hands rapidly and always upon
falling scale of prices, those who come first
to believe in the inevitable selling to those
who have less faith in the ability of the
people to free themselves. they in turn to
others who will be the last to abandon
faith in the power of money to rule the
world, thus distributing the loss among
many, and bankrupting none, until when
the time set forth for deposing the old and
enthroning the new shall have finally come,
the old will be found to have already abdi-
Gated. the new to be reignng in it's stead,
and the people will have broken their