The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-02

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United Staf les nor our ability to pay,
so much as they fear the independent
| intelligence of the masses of her peO-
| pie, their combined enterprise and
knowledge of fundamental principles.
But'these Britons know, by experience,
that debt, that interest bearing, undis-
charged financial obligations, will
crush a people where armies and ma
vies would fail, and that the control
of the avenues of commerce, added to
that of money, and no people can rise
superior to such situation SO Egypt
and India have become the Industrial
slaves of England. their bonds being
riyeted as much by the existence and
supervision Of the Suez canal as by
English arms. SO the commerce of
Canada and OF western America has
been hampered by the Welland canal.
States 10 England being admitted, the
interest ION which debt. under a single
gold standard, has not only become
burthensome, but which in its ulti-
mates is either directly or Indirectly
demanding Of every American citizen
a portion of all he earns, and which
therefore threatnS every producer,
every laborer of every character, with
industrial slavery, is to be made good
and fixed ete1nally by the same system
of clamps that hold the peoples of
Egypt and Of India. The administra-
ton Of Cleveland together with all his
gold-bug followers, of whatever parry.
in their systematic conspiracy to
farther pauperize the poor, and to in
crassate the rich, by making that only
money which the poor have not and
cannot get, and in repudiating the
Monroe doctrine in the interest of their
English allies and conspirators. are
but forging another link to the dam
nable chain in the opportunity afford
ed the British government of another
foothold in Central and South America.
whereby the control and dominancy
of another great interoceanic canal. be-
ing constructed by American money
and enterprise. By like policies Eng
land has been enabledto take posses
sion Of the ports of Egypt and of India
and to collect their imports to be ap
piled in paying interest on English
gold. which gold England originally
largely got from the same peoples.
See Corinto, its inha bitants fleeing
their homes, its ports shadowed by
British ships of war. In the mean
time Cleveland and Gresham and all
their horde of cuckoo statesmen and
gold-bug journals apologizing, explain
ing and declaring that it is all right.
Unless might makes right, it is all
wrong, wrong for England, wrong to
the people of Nicaragua and wrong
upon the part of our own adminstra-
ton.
The ariStocracy of money is greater
than that of blood or of lineage, greater
than that of the army or of states
manship. Money buys. owns and
supports all of these.
Although never before in the history
of the world did any ruler or any
people declare an international agree
ment necessary 10 fix the parity of
gold and silver. TO declare the value of
any given kind of money, or to even
decide what money is, Yet should
America rehabilitate silver and offer
TO pay of her English debt in this oldest
Of oldest monies, England, ruling our
entire northern frontier and dominat-
ing Central and South America. would.
in placing her collection officers in the
custom house at New York. find Cleve-
land, Gresham, Bayard and the whole
cuckoo gang and goldite power declar
and maintaining it To be all right,
and that we must pay the dollar which
England decides is the only honest
dollar.
II the American people DO not re-
pudiate the selfish assumptions Of the
present administration. its subsidized
danglers and its purse pampered sup
porters. by taking the whole matter
in their own hands and conducting the