The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-13

every ono:
silver and Communlsm.-Fctis im -
,,ccullar TO the lowest stage OF ih'eh'e
tualitv recognized as human, ana IL
characterized by the pcrsonillcauoh y,
inaniuate objects Every river, W.
tree every stone. II PERSONNEL py tho
DEGRADED savage. Traces OF inns sui'.so
I'm the act OF the child, VINO iioius '"o
"n.uohtv'' chair he has stumbled over
and In the act o. the man VINO s"e"io
vchen.ently at the wind that ploWs H'S
hat on and the train he was too SO" 10
catch. But these survivals are brlei anu
In hot blood; fetishism as perinahc"'
mart OF the mental furniture, coh'Hu-
ouslv controlling the feelings ana '"o
conduct is TO be found within the area
OF civilization only among the peop'o
who believe IN cheap money. Inc person
incation OF the greenback ana the p'a'oe
OF its patriotism, the perso llhcauon -.
tho silver dollar and the culogy or us
fondness for the poor and the downtroa-
den. the personiication Of gold ana me
deuuuciauon of its cowardice ana 10
vices. are all on the intellectual lever OF
the Papuan, who shuns rock that - I'D
enemy, and puts unlimited confidence J"
the friendly disposition OF deau Dus
When coin" says in the current Norm
American Review" Money has no pa
triotlsfn. IL has DO moral rrincipies' il INC
life Of the Government were III cd"S'i
tomorrow as IL was i'm leol-'O'' 'he mont
never would holG IL up by the throat
ne IS personifying an inanmate INNS ~
the same way ard for the same reason
mar a Hot;entot persOnines STOCKS ana
stonos and q Chinese Identifies as 'fuhs
sbuov" the trscen influences that ailecs
his life. -.
i, is to be noticed that that which IS
taboo" TO borrow term fcm the
Pacific Islanders. among whom CON
u,lgnt have reached his intellectual stat
IRE. IS not simply gold money. rcr even
metallic money i'm .he broader sense hul
all money, including gre"nbacks ana
wampum. This IS important because IL
shows shat the real, active SILVER mon
are no. aking war upon a single klnu
OF currency, but upon CIVILIZATION ana
commerce. Not only is money eencrically
denounced i'm this article, but interest Is
denounced: and there are allusicrs TO
kind of currency that shall be effective
I'm making purchase but useless fer hire
n conception that shows COINS intel
lcctual status cutie as plainly as ms
fctisLism does.
The cIover hoof or rather the loren
| and bomb. appear still more PLAINLY III
| "coin's' article where he says that "tho
ortv. and 20 produce distress among the
reoplc. is not a divine right. and should
not be guaranteed by human laws The
right 10 accumulate Unnecessary property
should not be guaranteed by human laws.
This is simple c0mmunism it is an attack
OF property OF every kind and practi-
cally in any quantity. for thousand dol
/ lars IS an unnecessary accumulation III
| the estimation Of very many and the
! possession Of decent homes and SUM-
cheney OF food may easily be imagined 10
innict distress upon tramps and sturdy
beggars.
1t Is entirely natural and logical that
the silver movement should be al attack
upon private property and upon civlliza-
ton; these are established by long and
wide human experience. but the silver
man doncs all human experience regard
| ing the currency and he cannot be ox-
| poctcd to feel much respect for n in any
other direction. II is important That the
public should understand that the silver
agitation is a covert attack upon private
| property upon accumulated wealth, ana
upon interest in any form. There Is no
use i'm discussing bimotallism with these
people: they have got to be put down, or
every mans right TO the results Of his
! own labor will be at the mercy. first OF
!
whom a mob always generates.
In the same article "Coin" represents
that Chrsts expulsion OF the money
changers from the Temple was rcbuke
to the Money Power and protest against
interest. His methods here are worth
noticing. for they are those Of the liter
airy "fakir." and afford a measure Of the
value Of anything he saws. The persons
scourged from the Temple were dealers
ia oxen and doves. III douhtedly legitimate
trahickors. as well as money-changers,
and these were not bankers and they
took no interest. they sold the half
shckel Of the sanctuary to persons VINO
came from diataTce AMI had only Ko-
man or other foreign coins. There is no
trace of anything but merchandising
that vas going on i'm the Temple, and no
evidence that the business Was rcIrcher-
sitle except for the place where II was
carried on and the probability that the
riiccs Of oxen and doves. as well as OF
half-shokels was unreasonable II Coin
had pursued his Biblical studies farther
he would have found the man 70 whom
one pound was intrustei and who would
neither trade with IT nor put 1t out at
interest. robukcd a. these " Crds. Where
fore. then. gavcst thou not my money
into the bank that AT my coming 1 might
have required mine own with usuryY
These are the words of the Founder Of
Christianity. OF whom "Coin" says that
"hc said that the system OF trading and
trafcSing i'm money and hiring 1t out
for pay, usury. which means interest-oi
which there was no trace among the
money-changers Of the Templc-"would
inevitably end I'm the destruction OF all
other industries"
Having been exposed I'm his use OF the
names Of Chicago business men in his
Financial School," Coin says: mo one
who has capacity 10 address himself to
tie principle involved ever cared whether
Uncle Tom and Logrce ever lived or not
or whether a little boy I'm knce-pants ever
taught "a school in Chicago. the pupils
OF which were such men as Lyman j.
Gage. John IL. Walsh. and other bank
presidents and business men" Yet II is
very certain that the Financial School"
was written for the ignorant, and not for
people who Ia &c capacity 10 address
themselves 10 the principles involved and
that among these ignorant people a very
great part Of the success Of the book
which Las enabled its author TO accumu-
late unnecessary property. was due "a
their suppositon that IL was true and
that Gage and Walsh and the rest mad
been refuied by little boy I'm knee-pants.
People WITHOUT capacity to address them
selves to the principles involved could
understand a plain statement that tho
biggest Chicago business men had en-
countcrcd the little boy in knee-panis
and had been defeated by him; and it wa.
this that gave the book ills vogue and