The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-20
YE GODS. WHAT ROT.

were not for Europe? for how much
would the United States count but for
England?
Nothing; absolutely less that moth
ing, as everybody knows
But for Europe, what would we do
for penniless bIue-blood dudes to con-
sort our gold-bug daughters? What
for patterns to model our breecheS by:
What for aesthetic literature and for
standards in refined morals, modelled
after Oscar Wilde, and that ineffable
Sodomite horde Of Lords and Dukes,
headed by England's libertine Heirs
Apparent and Presumptive?
Its English, you know!" Which,
being true, why will any American
render himself ridiculous in the eyes OF
superior intelligence by presuming to
claim that the United States of
America could alone adopt and main
tain so important thing as none
tary system Of its own, independent of
England?
Echo answers, "why" and the re-
iiecting wall is Lombard street, Lon
don, and the 'why' answer is: 1--WE
want you; we own you: we own your
whisky trusts; your brewery trusts;
your fiouring-mill trusts; your tobacco
trust; we have controlling finger in
all your Industrial enterprises, hand
upon all your brains and a cinch upon
your executive, legislative and judicial
departments; England is your mother
and your Empress, and Oscar and
Albert Edward are our scions; America
is but our ostler and cad; Columbia your
wrestler; we need you in Our business
and in the meantime we will take care
of your business
That is the echo which comes back
only too distinctly, and that is the way
England thinks, talks and acts.
General Grant after successfully
leading the greatest army Of modern
times, against an equally great one, to
victory, and after administering the
affairs Of this nation as its president,
fell under the spell and influence Of
the American end of Lombard street,
known as Wall street, New York. I'M
pressed with the far-reaching and
seemingly unlimited influence and
power of money, he made the speech
of his life, the only real impromptu
speech he ever made. 1t was at Des
MOines, Iowa, wherein he declared that
the only hope, the only safeguard to
freedom and national perpetuity was
in universal education. After his Wall
street experience he wildly realized
that in the absence of universal en-
lightment, the mOney-power would
come to rule this country through its
presidents, congress and courts, as
surely as that power rules other coun-
tries through crowns, caste and armies.
America is great in everything great
and independent in everything, save
and except in money, being weak in
which she is weak in every way.
Europe, which owes to the genius Of
America, every modern facility and
Improvement of value, will soon own
also our brains of conception and cum
ming hand. The steamboat, the steam
railway. the telegraph, the telephone.
the electric power and light, and nearly
all that modern triumph boasts is Of
America. They were all invented, har-
vesters and typewriters, power-presSes
aId palace-cars, sewing machines and
type-setting machines, by Americans
and in America, and but for which all
Europe would be today but an i'm
proved Orient of hand-methods and
slow-plodding.
And yet and Notwithstanding, and in
the face of it all, the seventy million
descendants of the three millions who
in their poverty and weakness whipped
England out Of her boots, stand around
today and say that America is moth
ing, can do nothing, can be nothing,
and that her people who have given
the modern world all there is in 1t
worth having, cannot even say what
their money shall be in the absence OF
England's consent and Europe's CO.
operation.
This is International Bimetallism."