The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-29

a better distribution Of property that
the common laboring men of this coun-
try under gold legislation enjoy mora
of the comforts of life than any other
people to be found anywhere under
Gods burning sun. applause on the
gold side of the house9
Mr.. Harvey-Mr. Horn calls my at
tention to the fact that have located
some pure men in England.
want to say to you people in Amer
lea that there are pure people in Eng
land in France, in every portion of the
world, but their hopes of liberty and
civilization are not what yours are.
(Applause.)
Battle of Liberty.
We are today fighting the battle OF
liberty in this country, and that society
that I mentioned in London is cheering
US on with words of good will. (Ap-
plause.)
"A human heart will beat with the
same emotions in England that it will
here. The men who are controlling
the financial legislation of England are
men like the Rothschilds, men who
are dealers in money ana whose prop
erty is fixed incomes. They are the
gilded light and influence around the
throne; they absolutely dominate it
and control it in all kingdoms and
monarchies.
Human nature there, as here, is to
pander to the rich. If man is rich
one feels, as it were, like sinking his
opinion and deferring to that man for
his judgment, and when the time comes
that man whose judgment is deferred
to is going to cast his judgment on
question in his own personal interest.
The man who defers to him is in the
same condition as the lamb who under
takes to lie down with the hungry
tiger, if their interests conflict.
You take a slave owner before the
war, who sat upon his elegant front
porch with it's white porch pillars; his
poor neighbors deferred to him, and it
was his opinion that dominated that
neighborhood.
Now we have a class of people con-
trolling in the world who are dealers,
not in slaves, but in money, and as
they grow rich and opulent and you
grow poor and seeking them for their
money, you grow obeisant, and those
rich men are controlling the legislation
of America and the old world, and
there is no plan by which European
civilization can rise from under it, and
when we have passed four or eight
years further along there will be no
way for us to rise from under it.
We are making in the United States
today the last stand of freemen in the
civilization of the world. (Applause)
| That same money-lending influence
arose two thousand years ago and
struck down civilization. While exert
ing it's prejudice and it's powers, it
struck down the purest men of those
days-it struck down Jesus Christ
himself
Dominates the World.
It is again dominating the world: it
now raises it's head in this country, and
unless you rouse your manhood and
exert your intelligence it will absorb
you in it's influence and destroy human
liberty here in America. (Applause.)
When we have passed a few years fur
Their along and you have been made to
know more fully that property is worth
more than humanity, that a globule
of gold is worth more than a crop of
! blood, as you have been taught in the
last twenty years and are being taught
now, you will find that your dearest
constitutional rights will be trampled
down by the martial tread of troops,
while confusion and restIessness pre-
vail with the lack of prosperity all over
our land, causing men to do things they
would not do if they we're prosperous,
causing riots and strikes, you will find
| that these men who harbOr wealth and
| bend their knee in supplication to
wealth, will not stop to consider what
there is in civilization that is wrong,
that has brought this on, but they will
say that property must be protected"
| The bullet will be the whistEng mes
senger of peace, and they will know no
| law but power, and then you will have
! lost your liberties guaranteed to you
| by the constitution.
First will come the loss of free speech;
next the loss of a free press, and lastly
you will be intimidated until you be-
! come virtually slaves, as they have be-
come already in Europe. (Applause)
We are to-day repeating the history
of the money-changer of two thousand
| years ago, and the true secret of it all
| is that you worship money; that you
worship a God here on earth that to
you is more sacred than the rights of
| humanity. (Applause)
That workingmen are out of employ
ment, that three hundred men in Coal
Valley, Illinois, have offered to bind
! themselves in slavery for living in the
last few days, does not excite your COM
| passion for a moment. What does?
The mad pursuit of money. If you
| can only say that you are worth one
million dollars you regard it as of more
benefit to you than if you could say
that you had given prosperity to thou
sand men who are now tramping your
streets without place to find employ
] rnant And with this Worshiping of