The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-22
SLhVERy.
HOW ENGLISH USURERS HAVE
ENSLAVED EGYPT AND
INDIA.
The Doom Hanging Over the
United States-Read and Think.
(By Hon. John Davis of Kansas.)

Bond slavery has its origin and pow
er for evil in financial injustice and
| usury. Let me illustrate: Instead OF
using private ship supplied with the
implements of war and manacles = for
human limbs fitted, up in secret and
escaping by stealth from secluded
harbors, we usually find a British
steamer proudly moored in the docks
of Liverpool. Bearing the agents OF
English and French capitalists it
steams out into the ocean gailY, in
broad daylight, bound for pleasure
| and business trip let us say to the
land Of the Pharaohs. These agents
are gentlemen Of leisure and respect
ability. They will have welcome ac-
cess to the highest court circles of
Cairo and Alexandria. They are on
| mission of civilization and business
from Christian and enlightened peo-
pie who have spent millions Of money
and sacrificed thousands of lives in
abolishing the African slave trade and
branding it as piracy. They are from
a Christian island whose soil cannot
be pressed by the foot of slave!'
| and whose very air "melts the
shackles from the limbs of slavery"
These high born Christian men are
| on a pleasant visit to half barbarous
Egypt. They study the thoughts and
aspirations Of its poor, weak, but am
bilious prince. He aspires to shine as
the owner of an imperial palace; he
would muster splendid army with
gay equipments and trappings. The
inmates OF his harem and the
chargers in his stables are dust and
| ashes compared with what this weak
| proud man would possess If he could.
He dreams Of canals for irrigation
| and commerce; of railroads and
bridges like those of Europe; light
houses in his harbors; and more hon
orable title to be bought of the Sui
tan of Turkey; of thousand things,
useful and ornamental, none of which
can be procured without the use of
millions of money. His weak poin is
are studied and his ambitions stimu-
lated by the willy agent of the Euro
pean capitalist. Without money,
however, his dreams and aspirations
must end in modification and
| misery.
Here now is the harvest of the
| tinanciers. The proposition is made
to furnish the viceroy all the money
he wants in exchange for the bonds of
tanning blank bonds-printed in Lon
don in three languages-English,
French and Egyptian. "Fill out,
legally execute, and deliver these pa.
pers," say the agents, "and we will
pay you in hard coin, or it's equivalent
in exchange on London or Paris, so
cents on the dollar of the face value
OF the bonds to the amount of hun
dreds of Millions" 1t is a Golconda!
1t is an Eldorado! 1t, is a greater
"fnd' to the poor half barbarian
than were the mines of South
America and Mexico to the kings of
Europe. He snaps the bait, and, in
the end, $4O0, ,OOO. 900 are borrowed.
In this financial transaction the
| farmers and taxpayers of the land of
the Pharaohs have all been captured
and manacled in day, as it were. and
reduced to an abject bondage worse
than chattle slavery, embracing no
element of mercy. Every man, wom-
an and child of the present and future
generations: every acre of soil, and
every hOofed animal and domesti
fowl, have been involved in the cap
ture, and are to be sacrificed to the
greed of unmerciful task-masters.
From day to day, from month to
month, and from year to year, beneath
the burning tropical sun, under the
spur and lash of the gather rers, the
fellah and his wife and little ones toll
from daylight to dark; they live in
mud huts, dress in the merest rags.
andSubsist on refuse unfit for chattle
slaves. The earnings of the slaves and
the products of the land go beyond
the sea to the Golfers of the masters,
who, living in London and Paris, are
making new investments among the
thoughtless nations of the earth; not
in flesh and blood-that would be
piracy and slavery-but undying pro-
ductive bonds, wherever princes, mon.
archs, Congresses or Legislatures can
be cajoled, bull-dozed or tampered
with.
Egypt Is reduced to bondage. No
single master owns any single slave.
There is no Investment in flesh and
blood. No master will suffer loss by
the death of slave. The investment
is in bonds drawing interest by day, by
night and on Sundays; bonds which do
not die. The labor and lands OF
Egypt are bound for the bonds, while
its pauperized Inhabitants toll and
sweat, suffer and die. Soon the tax
gatherers fail to raise the $40O, 600, 900
per annum.N There is an annual de-
ticit in the payment of interest. This
is rank repudiation! Shylock must
have his pound of flesh!. British tax
collectors take the place of the ma
tiyes. Whips and bastinadoes are
used to urge the payment Of taxes.
We are told that:
4 1.-THE fellaheen were baStinadOed as
they never had been before, and the
taxes were collected in advance. Mr..
Romaine proposed to reduce the land
tax so that the people might live; Ma
jor Barring on behalf of the bond d-hold-
ers refused to allow t."-Appleton's s
Annual, 1882, page 235.
Finally poor, untaught, starving and
The foreign tax-gatherers are attack
ed by their victims, and some of them
are killed. Great Britain can brook
no such insult. laundering ironclads
and British soldiers are sent to avenge
the insolence, and to 'enforce the
claims OF British subjectsn Alexan-
dria is bombarded. Its streets are
drenched with innocent blood. HUI
man life is destroyed as no dynamiter,
communist or nihilist would have the
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