The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-02-13

in :; few hands the lands Of Italy. 1t
was the appropriation OF the land as
TIE absolute property OF their chief
tains which gradually turned the des-
ccndants of free and equal Gallo,
Teutonic and Hunnish warriors into
colcnii and villains. and which
changed the Independent burghers OF
.'!avoric village communities into the
Doors of Russia and the serfs of Po-
land: which instituted the feudalism
of China and Japan; as well as that Of
Europe
1t was the gold standard of Si6tnd
the contraction resulting from the re-
sumption act OF 1915 that doubled the
wealth OF the fundholderS and reduced
tee frecholds of England from 1G0,-
0Coto SO, GOO Doubling the tariff, af-
ter The Withdrawal OF the Cotton
States FROM the Union, gave the
Northeastern manufacturers the war
obligations of the nation. These obi
cations they more than doubled in
value by legislation, and then by
joining the gold trust and striking
down silver they ,quadrupled them.
Today we are informed by the most
reliable staticians that $4,000 of them
own three ffths of the wealth Of this
country, consisting OF 3. 500, 900 square
miles and 70,000,000 Of inhabitants; :;
and under present financial conditions
it is only question of very short
time before the interest on their secur-
tiles will absorb the remainder.
The condition of this country is very
similar to that discovered by the
French officers on their march to
Cairo, existing between the Egyptians
and the Mamelukes. To their ques-
tons, the Egyptians replied as follows:
Whose garden is that? The Name
lukcs'. Whose palace: The Name
lukes'. Whose fields of grain? The
Mamelukes indeed, the Mamelukes
were the proprieters and the Egypt
ians their slaves. The gold trust
owns our railroads, our telegraph
lines, our steamship lines, our vacant
lands, our mineral lands, the mort
cages over the real estate of the South
and West and they hold nearly all of
the creditors. pubic and private. Of
the two, [ must confess to more admi-
ration for the Mamelukes; they Sc
cured their plunder at least in more
open and manly way, by virtue of
superior valor and the sharpest
swords. The gold trust prosecuted
their robbery stealthily, under cover
of legislative artifice and financial
craft, and won by hypocrisy. senti-
mental can't and simulated integrity.
and many apprehend by bribery and
corruption. The farmer, as a produ-
Ger of the raw material, stands at the
base line and has to shoulder double
portion of these burdens; and as the
dollar grows larger and larger, and the
price of his products less and less, his
chances to redeem his obligations are
being constantly dimished under the
increasing weight Of adverse legisla-
ton. They are rapidly sinking be-
meath the wave, their title deeds are
passing out of their hands, and this
government, merely to enrich the
holders of money and money obli-
cations by a vicious system of finance,
is rapidly destroying . class of citi-
zens which has always been regarded
as a nations pride and defense-the
backbone and main stay Of free insti-
tutions. Our government, in its sui
cidal policy, dictated by the tariff bar
ons and merchant princes of the
Northeast, of maintaining the Europe
an standard and placing our money
on parity with that of Europe, is
fast reducing IS percent. of Our peo-
pie to {. parity with the pauper masses
of Europe.
On this line shall quote Bryan:
To make {. money that IS common to
several nations, IS to set UP n huge
auction block, upon which prices will
ot.iciate as a heartless and soulless auc
| tioncer. The money will be knocked
down to those who bid the most for
it OF their labor or its productions.
The highest bidders for the money
will ever be those whose necessities
are the greatest I, among these,
several nations having the same kind
of money, in fact orin principle, there
is even one nation whose institutions
are such as cnslave the masses to an
aristocracv who own the capital and
the land, then that curse spreads itself
inevitably over ali the other nations.
The necessities and miserable condl-
ton of that people forces them to offer
the most of thei. labor or its produc-
tons for the money. AS the money
flows to them, their condition rises,
they prosper. But those from whom
it ebbs, sink. Nor can any human
power arrest their sinking condition
until they have reached point where
their necessities make them the high
est bidder for the money. "A
system of money common to
several nations guarantees two things:
First. that the condition of the prod
ucing and industrial classes will be
about the same in each and all, and
the condition of these classes fixes the
condition of fully S. per cent. of the
totalpopulation. Money doesnot con.
stitute nations wealth; it consists OF
its lands, its farms, its factories, its in
ternal improvements, its industries,
its bushes activities; money is merel y
the instrument that measures this
wealth and effects its interchange. To
secure the wholesome discharge of
these functions. power was given to
Congress by the Constitution tocontrol
it; but unfortunately for the public
our Congress has shows itself to be ut
terly ignorant of the true laws of fin
ance, and in its ignorance has adopted
the theory Of fudge Brawley, to apply
for information to the very parties
whose interest. Mr.. Calhoun tells us,
! is directly antagonistic to the interest
of the public. Indoctrinated with the
English idea Of finance, the leaders OF
the American branch of the gold trust
thoroughly understand the science of
money, and using this knowledge,
which they seem to monopolize in this
country, for their own selfish purposes
have realized fortunes. bvthe ruin OF