The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
LIS. MINI, WEDNESDAY, OCT, %, 1888.

CHIug necessary 10 our happiness WlGn-
out stint or limit. Plenty Of all that
heart could wish is piled up around
US. Mountains Of food enough for all.
None should go hungry. Oceans of
clothing. plenty Of coal and the boun-
teouS earth ready to yield an abund
ance, with thousands OF ready and
willing hands to produce. yet not al
lowed to do SO. They are compelled
to look on and helplessly, hopelessly
see their wives and little ones starving
for food and begging for clothes and
shelter to protect them from the win
try blasts.
We have asked what has produced
this condition, and in reply to our own
question positively assert that it has
been brought about by the wicked
system of legislation under which we
live-legislation which has been ad-
vised and directed by greedy wealth,
by the gold Shylocks which have
bought up our w-makers and COM
blned to make as slaves. 1t makes
no difference to us whether these bad
laws have been made by the one or the
other adminiStra tiOn, whether Demo-
cratic or Republican. Let them share
the glory Of their acts: there is no diff
ference in them. They are agreed on
all leading questions, and they are
both controlled by the mountain Of
wealth, by the same Shvlock of gold
which reaches out and holds them in
its ravenous grasp. and together they
exult in their power and in the ruin,
devastation and deSOlaton which they
have wrought.
On the 18th day Of February Just
passed, the day that the great crime
against humanity was enacted in
Washington negotiating millions Of
bonds to the Shylocks Of Europe at a
rate of interest so high as would make
Douglas Street pawnbroker' Or a
chattel mortgage shark in national
bank building on Farnam street green
with envy. mortgaging this nations
pOsterty for something like Is per
cent and giving the negotiators some
thing ike eight million dollars on the
side for their wives to use for pin
money, eight hundred men in starv-
ing condition in that city applied to
the relief committee for work: two
hundred Of them were given temper
ary employment cleaning the streets
at % cent a day, just enough to hu-
initiate and insult human nature, and
six hundred Of them were turned
away to starYe or beg or steal.
1t was then that King Cleveland
rode up Pennsylvania avenue in his
royal robes and looked down in
naughty contempt on the handiwork
of his pertidy, and then there was
weeping in heaven and jubilee in
hell. 1t was affluence and penury,
wealth and indigence, master and
slave. The one struggling to sustain
life, the other on his way to sell his
country to syndicate of foreign
aris tocrats, the gold kingsof Europ e
and the world.
And what is this all powerful agent,
gold? 1t is inanimate; it has no heart,
it has no muscle. no blood, no brains,
no soul A bushel OF it would not 5us-
tain life day. 1t will not keep out
the cold nor keep off hunger 1t a
hungry man had it, he would ex-
change it for sack OF corn or loaf
Of bread. Gold could not be exchanged
for hope Of heaven nor true happiness
on earth. There is not enough gold
on earth to satisfy one selfish man,
but gold has gall and can be used as a
means to take blood and muscle and
human life. 1t takes food from the
hungry and the starving; it robs the
farmer of the product of his toll the
widow and fatherleSS children of their
food and their rights; it buys virtue;
it impOveriSheS a nation and people;
used in the hands Of the unScrupulous
rich, it is the curse of the human
race.
1t is the combined and concentrated
power of gold in the hands of Shylocks
that is fast plunging the civilized ma
tions Of the earth, Germany, France,
Rngland, and all Of Europe, Asia and
Africa, as well as our own beloved ma
tion over which floats the grand old
stars and stripes, into ire trie va bic
ruin and despair-unless its power be
stayed. JESSE WHITE.
Omaha, Neb.