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

and as the Treasury reserve is deple,ed
| millions upon millions OF GOLD bonds
| have to be sold to replenish it, loading
our nation with debt and imr0verlsh-
ing our people Over this slender basis
of final redemption, the gold standard
gives England a practical lien on two
! billion OF American securities. three.
fourths of these payable in gold, and
places her in the position Of creditor
on call: in less than thirty days she
can drain us of our gold and complete
! " destroy our financial system.
Acting in accordance with Judge
! Brawleys theory, that in I'll financial
legislation we should seekinforniation
from the bankers, our public men have
sought advice from the great banking
princes of the Northeast, and these
representatives Of the American bracch
of the gold trust have not stick!ed to
sacrifice their country to their own
paltry pecuniary interests by recon-
mcnding and enforcing a policy Of
finance which has strangied q at in
dustries. crippled her resources and IS
fast impoverishing the masses OF her
people. 4 policy which has placed IN
the hands of English capitalists the
stability of our currency and finance.
gives them complete control over oni
foreign exchanges and the power to tix
+; the price of our exports
/ Never in the history of the world
has there been a more forcible illustra-
ton of the thinking, interested few
robbing the ignorant, unthlnklng
many These men first neutrallzed
the natural advantages of this country
by taxing with tariffs its agriculture
to bestow bounties on its manufactur-
ers; this, Mr.. Blaine in his Twenty
Years in Congress-, styled ''enlight-
ened selfshness." When, through
the masked agency Of legislative divid-
ends, they had acquired the currency
of the nation, they then joined the
moneyed interest of Western Europe to
plunder the productive masses Of the
civilized world, by striking down sill
yer and forming the gold trust. This
was nothing more or less than "en-
lightened robbery" In the language
of Sismondi. they have added the
dangerous weapons of the banks to the
we'll tempered arms of protection.
The capitalists of Western Europe.
with the Rothschilds and the Bank of
England in the van, are robbing civil
lization; our Northeastern capitalists
are robbing the South and West, Civ
! ing the lions share of the plunder to
Western Europe in the shape of 80
cents wheat and cents cotton. These
leaders of the American branch of the
cold trust at the last extra session OF
Congress. asseverated that if Congress
vould repeal the purchasing clause of
TIE Sherman act that confidence would
be restored, our local money bags un-
| TIED, European capital would flow in,
our great staple products would ad-
vance and the country regain its pros
perity. OF course, Congress did what
they said. What was the result? Were
their predictions fulfilled? Not at all.
Silver Immediately dropped as COM
pared with gold about 30 per cent,
and with it down went our great staple
products; and now with bankruptcy
and ruin staring us in the-face. they
again come unblusAingly to the front
; and declare if Congress will fund the
Treasury notes into gold bonds, give
them the interest on these bonds and
furnish them again the same amount
of notes to lend out and make q sec
ond interest, that the country will re-
| gain its lost prosperity. They go even
further and say that the great drop in
value has made the silver certificate
virtually asilvergreenback ant squint
at their retirement in the same manner
with a view of finally loading our
coined and uncoined silver on the
government to be disposed of at gov
| ernment risk in the sea Of commod!-
ties.
Their ultimate object is very plaii..
to remove from the monetary sphere
all government paper and silver and
contine our currency entirely to gold
and notes Of National banks. No one
beyond the A, &c of finance need be
/! told that this would result in a paper
despotisrl. automatically controlled by
the National banks. The gold stand
ard, we are informed by such leading
| European doctrina1ies of the gold
trust. as DR.. Broch, Alfred De Roth
scniid and Sir Rivers Wilson, is main
tained to put the price of none! up
| and the price of the products OF labor
down. to keep turning the screw on
the productive masses OF the civilized
world. Its purpose was very frankly
stated a short time since by the lead
ing exponents of the system, the Lon
don Economist, commenting on the
recommendation of the German En-
! peror to establish banking bureaus. to
assist the farmers to tide over the hard
times, remarked that the German En-
peror misunderstood the situation,
that this was no temporary crisis; but
as capital was friendly to strong gov
) ernment, it had to be sustained, and
that as Democracy found its home IN
, the rural sections, the agricultural
classes would have to be forced to
: take lower position in the social
scale
They speak more plainly in Europe,
where the masses are held down by
bayonets and double-shotted gatling
guns, and the people have been accus.
toned for ages to being despoiled and
oppressed by the mailed hand of des-
potic power; but over here where the
people are ct politically free and are
allowed to vote, they disguise the rob
berry and oppression under the sentl-
mental cant of National honor and IN
tegrity and such clever catch-phrases
as honest money" sound money,
Previous to the partial liberation of
the masses by the influx OF the pre-
cious metals from the newly discov-
cred West, Macauley divided the IN
habitants Of Europe into two classes
the beasts of burden and the beasts OF
prey. \ little over a century ago,
Thomas Jefferson spoke of them as
being divided into two classes wolves
Il Tbay- IIy-1InI INTO