The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-06-13

together. we arc VI yip6 Y"
the powers of oppression and dis
aster. IL is your fqht. Are you
helping any?
Is THE EARTH THEIRs9
The masses of the people are dis
cussing and debating the financial
question with great vigor and intense
esrnestness. 1t is getting time to
act. This announcement ought to
be made in thunder tones. Again
we say that time can come when it
will be too late to act in peace.
While the people are talking and
debating, the money powers are 81
lently but effectively extending and
tightening their grasp. They as
sumo that the world and the full
ness thereof is theirs and they are
securing title to it by law-by such
arrangements called law as the pow
er of gold can effect.
The people of this country have
been told how the gold power struck
down silver in 1878. They have
told and have seen the sad and dis
astrous results Of that action. They
have seen that it has been impossi-
BILE to remedy that evil through the
congresses of the old parties or by
law, though it was through the con-
dresses Of the old parties anil lars
made by them that this colossal fraud
and evil aoas perpetrated IN this conn.,
try.
Having captured this country
having brought it to that point
where the Secretary of the Treasury
confessed that 1--WE are at the mercy
of the ban kers," the gold power has
begun an extension Of its domain. A
few days ago the following dispatch
was published in all the Democratic
papers Of the land:
SANTIAGO, June 3, 1896.
"Chilean Minister, Washington:
at is very gratifying to me to in
form you that after seventeen years of
the regime of paper money Chile has
returned with satisfaction and conf
dence to the gold standard. The law
is In force. FERNDINEZ.
Minister of Finance"
There was no special comment on
this news. Goldbug papers Haunted
it with big headlines, as though it
were something to rebuke the "silver
craze" in this country. Nobody-no
paper stated why Chile had gone to
the gold standard.
Chile is South American repub-
lie with constitution very similar
to that of the United States. 1t has
nearly three million inhabitants, and
for the last fifteen years has been
prosperous, though it has been shak-
en- by . short civil war by which debt
was created. This occurred in 1891.
Then while the people were recover
ing from the shock. the men to whom
the public affairs were trusted sold
out the country to the Gold Power;
and it went under the gold standard.
How and why?
You will notice that the above
dispatch is dated June 3rd. People
who read and try to keep pace with
current events were puzzled over it
They did not see why that country
should 60 to a gold basis. But
before they were puzzling over it, 6
letter came across the ocean. 1t wa,
q London news letter. It was alst
printed in many papers. That lette,
was dated June 1st, and the last twt
lines read thus:
"CHILE HAS CONCLUDED A LOAN
OF $10,OOO,OOO WITH THE RoTHs
CHILDs."
Aha! On June the first tina
vigorous little republic is mortQaqet
to the Rosthchilds by issuing bonds
On June 3rd it goes to the golt
standard; and the perpetrators O
that scheme say that the republi,
returns to the gold standard "witI
satisfaction and confidence" Salts
faction and confidence to whom? Il,
the people? Not much! Like tb
people of this country we're immedi-
ately after the civil war, they ar
not familiar with the question oil
finance. They are trusting thei
leaders too much, just as the peopl
Of this country did. And they ar
being placed under q system which
will bring depression and ruin upo1
them without knowing it.
Now these Rothschilds and theil