The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-29
BUZZARDS WATCHING.
PLUTOCRACY GETTING READY
FOR ANOTHER RAID.
to the Danger Line" and Another
Bond Issue Made Necessary to Protect
the Credit of Our Currency"

another systematic raid on the public |
treasury. The shameful manner in
which a few men were permitted 10
privately goo0ic up the last bond is
sue-pocketing thereby several mil
lion dollars IN IL few days-sharpcneo
the appetites OF the vuliures and en-
cOuraged them TO attempt new infa-
mics. The gold reserve that blessed
monetary "buiwark' now stands at
Il comfortable figure: but can at any
time be forced down TO the danger
linen by a conspiracy on the part of
half dozen men, another bond issue
made necessary 10 protect the credit
Of our currency another hundred
millions or so added 10 the interest
bearing debt OF the nation in time
of protund peace. and while the cue
koos are splitting their sweet throats
chanting pgans OF praise TO the
Stuffed Prophet as the good angel VINO
has induced "a return of prosperity
This buncoing OF the common people
by bond iobbers, aided and abetted-
consciously or uucousciously by fat
headed president and his idealess auto
nations. is becoming al unbearable
nuisance and must be abated. even il
it be necessary for a greater than
Coxey--even Cromwell to march
on Washington aud put his plebian
feet on the grass sacred to the shoe
leather OF insolent otficialism and its
friends. Did the American sovereign
possess nundrcdth part OF that in
telligeuce of which he boasts, he
would not suffer himself to be so
hoOdooe aud humbugged, but would
kick large segments of sawdust out OF
such braZen nsham-perchance make
the climate uncomfortably torrid for
certain Cagliostros now fattening on
the fruits OF premeditated fraud.
Any man possessing the rea-
soning faculty and exercis-
ing it ever so little, must know that
the gold reserve is an Internal fraud.
| He must know that national bull
wark" that can be swept aside by a
handful of bond-jobbers is no bulwark
At all, and that every copper cxpend-
ed in maintaining it might as well be
cast into Symmes' Hole-or even used
to buy Bibles for the buck niggers of
Central Africa, whose one great need
is a bath. He must know. further, that
If the gold reserve were at ali neces-
sary to protect the credit Of our cur
rency," the men who for years past
have persistently warred upon
it would NO more touch it
than they would scatter Goals
in a powder-house. Who, in the
DEVILS name, will be most injured
By a radical depreciation OF our cur
rency? Who would be most injured
by decline in the price-the pur-
chasing power-of silk undershirts?
Not you, my Democratic friend with
your sunburned back, toiling blindly
in the wake OF partisan andwagon
and cursing every critic OF your polit-
ical boss. The men injured would be
those with stocks OF silk undershirts
to sell-the larger the stock the
deeper the wound. Those injured by
slump in the value OF the
dollar would be those who have
the dollar-the more dollars the
deepcr the hurt. Yet here we are
bribing the money barous with big
boud issues which they buy in on
private bids-not to deliberately cast
half their cash into the depths OF the
sea- not only bribing them to refrain
from bankruptcy. but actually return
ing thanks to one G.. Cleveland for
the blessed privilege. Verify man -
at least the Democratic species OF the
genus homo-is but "a poor forked
radish, with fantastically carved head,
stuck on purely for the sake OF con-
formityn' Featherless geese-the
feathers having been pluckcd
away to make soft pillows
for the plutocracy - assiduously
saving a new Rome! Suppose that
the presidential head was filed with
something other than rusty bait-cans
the bait itself having become putre-
scent and fy-blown-and he should
say TO those fellows: There is the
gold reserve. You insist that the
credit of the currency depends upon
1t. Very we'll. Then touch it IL you
dare. You get no more bonds, my
sweet Shylocks-no more bribes TO
refrain from disemboweling your
selves. Out with your knives and
commit hari-kari when you like; the
debtors of this land can stand it if the
creditors can" What then? Either
the gold reserve would be proven
a sham, or the money kings
would guard it as the apple af their
eye-and ask no wages. The cold,
hard fact is that the moaey kings
with the help of Cleveland and CO
terie of editors who may be arran'
knaves. but are more like hopeles;
damphools who order thNr ideas from
the east in barrel lots as they do theil
ink-are playing Uncle Sam for
sucker. Some Gay the old gentleman
will tumble 10 their cut-throat game
and then there will be-as Sam Jonel
= wou1d sov in hia e1aoant pulpit YER