The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-06
SOME COLD GOLD FACTS.


from circulation, is as firing as it is I'M
convincing. Gold is not in circulation,
that anybody outside of the banks is
aware of. But admitting that gold
would disappear from circulation, in
the world, as money, the logical thing
to do, in such an event, would be to
'.let her CO." and having disappeared
then demonetiZe it. If no longer cir
culating money, the polite thing to 90
would be to knock it ous as money and
let it go for what it would bring, or
left to be held by its Owt 3rs for what
they could get for it. II gold were &c
monetized it would not hurt one-tenth
as many people as the demonstration
of silver did There is more silver
than gold, and if gold was relegated to
the economic conditions Of other met
ais. silver could much better, alone,
meet the money demands Of the world.
Specie is never a currency, only IN
limited way. 1t is but basis. the
value of final redemption. If gold
were demonetized silver would I'M
doubtedly appreciate. But the appre-
citation Of silver means benefit to a
world of men, and of human interests.
The appreciation of gold, upon the
other hand, only enriches the rich
while it impoverisheS the poor.
The above is our reply to monopo-
list frined in New York City, man Of
wealth, who writes us letter calling
our attention to the tables showing, re-
spectively, the annual production of
gold and of silver, to which he appends
the cry, '.gold will be driven away"
We desire to say, further, 10 our
friend, that while there is God in
Heaven, the devil is on the earth.
Alone, God reigns, but the devil has
been Incorporated, and where the devil
fails of depressing struggling human
ity as monopoly, he, as a combine,
brushes it. His spirit is greed, his in
strument gold. Gold, which has en-
shaved the industrial classes and de-
spairing masses of Europe for centur-
les, is seeking to subject and enthral,
in a like serfdom, a nation of free men,
who having founded government of
the people, are losing the control of
their makers, of their judiciary
and their executive officers.
Permit us to call the attention Of our
money friend to the fact that the law
maker, only, who lends his influence
to strengthening the monopoly or to
serving the corporation, is held to be a
statesman; that only the courts which
sustain the interest Of money, are up
held, and not that the executive who
refuses to become the tool of the
greater corpora ton is deposed. We
unhesitatingly declare that the people
Of America are being robbed by their
servants, who in the guise of represen-
tattves, and in the name of honor, pass
the laws which are inspired by the
salaried agents of corporations and
combines, and which laws are enforced
by triculent officials, as the mandates
Of courts, whose judges are too often
but the promoted attorneys of the in
terestS which originally prompted and
dictated the enactments. 1t has come
to pass that no law effecting the
material welfare of the people can be
passed by either congress, or state
legislature, whose provisions are not
primarily in the interest of masterful
monOpOlies of wealth, or of cold-blood-
ed combines of corporations. The only
laws with whose enactments these cor
porate powers do not interfere are
mere statutory by-plays, relating to
how the people shall act towards each
other. what they shall eat and drink
and how habililate and conduct them
selves. So the power which is enslav-
ing the American people, although or
iginally the bulwark of their liberties,
has been insidiously stolen away, and
they, the people, and their children, are
being left as mere hewers of wood and
drawers of water.
These tremendous truths, my friend,
are but beginning to dawn upon the ap-
prehenSion of the American people.
and which were not seen until the poor
mans money had been destroyed and
half the value of all he possessed
wrecked in the interest of the rich
mans money. And even Yet the ma
jority of the American people. whose
fathers grew enough TO found a gov
eminent upon eternal truths and the
inalionable rights Of the individual, be
stow upon these posing pretenders,
who assume to be their defenders, re-
putationS for being wise before their
generation, only because these paid
tools with a glow or superior virtue and
great honesty. stand up and pirate
about 1.-The honest dollar" meanwhile
they. the people. toaSting. and fiatter.
] ing with their suffrage the states
man % who in boaSting OF the Sacri