The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-09-21
THE QUESTION OF MONEY.

never given the field of industry a mat
ter Of thought. Do these people who
make these outcries ever stop to think Of
the aggressive, comprehensive, seductive
and absorbing schemes Of capital?
Not one word is here intended against
capital as such. without it there would
be no need Of workme1u; it'll it the world
progresses as it should. But men who
are educated in finance, who study the
intricate problems Of how the labor Of
the world can be utilized 10 their adj
vantage, use their utmost endeavors to
befog the ordinary people as to cause
and effect in all matters pertaining to
money. If the people who do not or can.
not give their attention to the study Of
financial questions produce now and then
from their ranks a thoughtful man who
has grasped the situation and is able to
expound it, what a tantalizing sheer goes
up from the enriched students of finance
as they belabor the efforts of the man or
men who dare to have a thought Of their
own upon the question Of money.
The vast majority Of the seventy mill
ions Of people in this country are mere
children on the question Of finance. A
man in a hundred thousand gets repu-
tation for a study of the question and
then the vast majority Of the thinking
people in that direction bow down and
worship him. During the progress OF
this idolizing delusion the bankers and
money-thinkers who change and control
the financial affairs of the nation to suit
themselves look serenely On and smile at
the puny efforts of those who are, in the
tolls, and all for the benefit Of those who
understand the insidious encroachme nts
of money. ls5 "a. y:
It will not do to say that the question
is an open one and that each individual
may study it. Astronomy is equally open
to all and yet comparatively few COM
prehend it. And white it is admitted
that the philosophy OF the money ques-
tion is IN the hands of the few, that is no
reason why the few should use 1t to crush
out the many and then offer lugubrions
explanations to calm the multitude while
under the cover Of law they are putting
their hands into the multitude's pockets.
Perhaps it has been ever thus since the
earliest history of money but in these
modern days new ideas are springing up
that cannot be stifled.. National thought
is slow Of movement compared to the his
tory Of the world, but there are men to-
day pushing financial ideas to the front
who cannot be put down by the CORFU
gated brows Of the banker or the adverse
clamor Of the interested politician.
There is one thought the generality Of
people cannot get over: The country
the world, In facts teerning in wealth.
Why is there not a sufficient number Of
dollars in circulation to represent it? 1t
will not do to PROFOUND an ai1struse t1nan-
cial theory in opposition to this and talk
about the acquisition Of property and the
distribution of wealth. We have all
heard that q thousand times before.
What the people want the generous finan-
ciers to do-fnanciers who say they have
the welfare of the people at heart as well
as The welfare Of themselves is to de-
wise some means whereby the masses who
labor, earn and bequeath wealth cannot
be benefited in fact instead Of being in
juriously cajoled by theory. When that
period arrives the bankers, whether Of
Wall Street Lombard Street or the CON
tinents or in the colonies, will be entitled
to a5respectful hearing, but not before.