The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-22
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heart to do. Historic buildings, valu-
able libraries, and the homes OF the
people melt in the flames, while heca-
tombs of human lives are sacrificed to
this new slavery. containing among
its ingredients not q single element OF
mercy. This is a picture of bond slav-
cry in Egypt!
The Egyptians have long ago paid
the full face Of the bonds in interest.
They paid in the form of interest
more than twice the amount OF mon
ey borrowed, but the bonds live with
out diminution; they still cry, "Give!
give!" And men are blown to atoms
and shot down like dogs to enforce
the continually Increasing demands
OF the bond-hOlders. No education, no
rents. no comfort, no certainty Of life,
Tor the Egyptian Taxpayers, with the
sharp teeth Of British usury perpetu-
ally gnawing at their vitals. "A SINH
lar slavery has been instituted and is
now enforced by British arms and di-
the millions of India. Yet we are
told by leading magazine, (Demor-
ests Monthly, June, le84), that for 80
years there have been no slaves per-
mitted under the flag of England!''
There are many forms, notifications
and processes OF bond slavery. / am
now considering only that shade Of it
which comes through great national
| debt which may be fraudulently
| created and increased from time to
time.
l have already1lescribed the man
ner of loading the people Of the
United States with a national debt,
| and the erection Of "a robber banking
system on that debt. / will not re-
peat the matter; but it may be truly
stated that the burdens borne by the
American people would have destroy
ed half a dozen Egypts. 1t has not
quite ruined us Ont account of the ex-
tent and exubera1 nee Of our soil and
the wonderful industry, intelligence
and energy Of our people. It has,
however, on the one hand, reduced
many thousands OF honest lab0rers to
pauperism; and, on the other hand, it
| has created a large and increasing
class of dangerous millionaires whose
intrigues are daily menace to our
free institutions Many Thousand Of
our people have fallen into rags and
hunger until they can no longer enter
the free schools, but exist and suffer
as chronic enemies to society, ready
to break out into open violence for
bread whenever our millionaireS
| choose to inaugurate general panic,
forcing industrial lockouts and
| famine.
The great nd-holding millionaires
also have their hands on the throats
| of the people through various forms of
n fof "a Snin tall I,
| and railroad debts, many billion Of
which are water, costing the holder
| only the printing and signing OF pa
pers. The interest and dividends on
these bonds and stock are met by
high taxation, and by high telegraph
and transportation rates, forming a
constantly flowing river OF hard earn
ed cash from the fingers OF labor and
business into the Golfers of the mil
lionaires, who are thus our new slave
masters. They are masters of the
taxpayers, masters Of Congress, mas
ters OF the Legislatures, masters of
the courts, masters of finance, mas
ters of transportation and intelli-
gence. In the pride of their power
they snap their fingers in the faces OF
the people and say, 1.-THE public be
| damned!" and what are you going
to do about it?"
The chattle system has been abol-
ished in the United States; but, have
we abolished slavery? Ask the fac
tory girls, the sewing women, the coal
miners, the iron workers, the farmers
and all the men and women of toll
who form the great public which the
Goulds and Vanderbilts would damn
to perpetual servitude! The old slav-
cry rested on three millions of blacks,
whom it pauperized but fed and
clothed. The masters never became
miilionaires. They were brutal and
overbearing, but they had not the
means to purchase great lines Of rail
roads and telegraphs, and through
them to levy tribute whole states.
The new slavery rests on seventy mil
lions of people. 1t makes paupers
created thousands of millionaire slave
lions per annum, from the labor of the
people.
Slavery is always the result where
the master classes have monopolized
the necessities of society and the
| means of life, so that the laboring OF
slave classes can have access to them
only on the masters terms. In every
| system Of slavery the slaves must la
Dor to the utmost limit Of human en-
| durance for the merest pittance Of
| food. clothing and shelter that will
sustain life. The masters are the
| hOnored class, with power and dispOsi-
tion to inflict indignity, outrage and
wrong upon the persons Of slaves, re.
strained only by their own ideas OF
mercy and moneyed interests. In
| chattle slavery the master owns his
slaves as he does his horses, and is in
terested in their health and comfort
| Such property must not suffer mate
| rial detriment. The masters will see
| to its physical preservation and ami
NAL prosperity, precisely as he will
| take care of his animals of value
The slaves are his property.
BRAVE WORDS.
Anent the decision of the United
| States supreme court on the income tax
law, there occurred an incident that
may yet mark a red-letter passage in
some Decline and Fall of the Amer
| ican Republic" Attorney J. B. Carter
| of New York, in his argument before
| the supreme judges, said: "If you gen.
tlemen now declare this income tax law
nconstitutional-if you will thus con-
Ainue to thwart the will of the people
you may soon be driven from your places
by a social revolutionw
Those were brave words, boldly
| spoken.