The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-04
THOSE CONSPIRACIES.
HamiltOnianism Rampant - Does
Not Recognize the Right of the
People to Rule.
"TI G RESS RETURNS WITH
VIII ELPS.
Americans Being Enslaved by the
European Money Power, Aided
by the Bank Interest.
TCOntinued from last aceek |


bought through by English money; and
every one of them in the interest Of Shy
lock- and against the interests of the
laboring, wealth. producing class. | have
mentioned these points in order to prove
my statement. That the money power OF
Europe and this country have conspired
together for the purpose of rObbing and
enslaving the laboring men, women and
children OF the country. 1t is by this
false financial, class legislation that the
rich are becoming richer, and the poor
are becoming poorer. 1t is this vicious
legislation that is sinking our once hap
py country and enslaving the people.
desire TO have my Populist friendS-many
of them at leaSt-tO comprehend more
clearly the job we have before us. The
money power must be dethroned. 1t took
four years of blood and carnage to over
throw the slave power" and wipe from
orr flag the black stain of chattel slav-
cry. The money power is the most re-
lentless foe that ever confronted any peo-
pie. The hydraheaded monster, aristoc-
racy, which reared its head in the con-
stitutional convention, the HamiltOnian
idea, that the rich and well-bOrn should
rule, has been increasing, growing
stronger and stronger, from the days OF
Hamilton down to the present hour. 1t
has formed combines, trusts and mOnOp-
olies, it has called the courts to it's aid,
it has trampled the constitution under
foot, by denying American citizens the
right OF trial by jury; it has jeopardized
our liberties; it has brought ruin, devast-
alton, poverty and slavery to our people;
it has established wage slavery in lieu
of "chattel slavery"
SICKENING PICTURE.
Spring Valley miners in Illinois min
ing coal without compensation; miners
in the Pittsburg district have taken an
ironclad oath to forfeit a portion of their
pay if they attend labor meetings; men
refused employment if they belong to la
Dor unions; coal in the ground waiting to
mined; children crying for bread
and miners starving for lack of oppor-
tunity to dig the coal, and people freez-
ing in their cities for the want of it; two
or three families damned in one room in
New York city, and children from to Is
years of age, white and black, male and
female, lying indiscriminately upon their
beds of straw in the easements; $4,000
eviotions in that city in 1894; 10000 shoe
less children in Chicago last winter
thousands of our brothers, sisters and in
nocent children starving to death in our
large cities annually; crime on the in
crease; our jails and penitentiaries full to
overlooking; suicides and insanity on the
increase; our civilization on the wane;
prostitution on the increase; bright girls
at the tender age of 10 selling their
bodies for bread. l will pursue this sick
ening picture no further. 1t is not over
drawn; cannot do it justice. No tongue
can tell, nor pen portray the amount of
suffering, misery, tears, squalor, rags,
poverty and starvation going on in this,
our once happy country. People are fast
losing their Self-respect; fast losing conf
dence in thei fellow man. Men selling
their votes, their manhood, their liber-
ties, and damning their souls for money.
The money power has done all this
by, and through those conspiracy laws
mentioned above, by contracting the cur
rency in order to get down to gold basis,
that itmay have a market for its gold );
and, to get absolute control of the money,
to grind the people still lower.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
A gold basis; what does it mean? Why
is the money power so hell-bent on hav-
ing gold basis? 1t is plain to be seen.
No nation can have prosperity among the
masses while upon a gold basis. What
does it mean? | will tell you: it means
still further decrease in land and farm
products and wages; aye more; it means
that gold and gold only, will be receiva-
BILE for taxes. Oh no. they say, it will
not come to that. Read Cleveland's last
message wherein he says 'It would be
we'll to consider the propriety Of having
part of the taxes at least, paid in gold"
Getting there by degrees, don't you see?
My Populist farmer friends and bust
ness men, remember this: The money
power is after your farms, and is going to
squeeze the smaller business men out
OH says the man out of debt, chow
can it get my farm, it is not mortgaged?"
l will tell you: 1t will be easily done by
reducing farm products so low that you
can barely live; then when your taxes are
to be paid in gold, what then? Have you
got slowed away anywhere? No, in
deed. Well, what are you going to do
about it. Simply go to the "gold-bugs'
and buy the shining metal-such as they
made a calf with in olden time-and pay
whatever they see fit to ask. l have had
a little experience. 1 paid $3.50 during
the war for $40 in gold, and l know that
it is a squeezing process. If you have
YoV CoACS ldASo w pay, duu nave 10 DdV
500 or $3.50 to get the gold, and farm
products so low that you can't do it, what
then. Just this. Mr. Browns, Jones'
and Smiths farms will be advertised for
sale for taxes. Do you see the cat now :?
Tell me not that the money power can't
get your farms and squeeze you out
What in the name of God do you suppose
the plutocrats are after, by their deter
fn orSe
My Populist friends, don't you suppose
they are going to make all out of it they
can? Don't think for a moment there is
anything too low, vile and mean for the
money power to do to accomplish it's
ends. When we realize what the soulless
power has done, what it is doing, and
what 1T intends to do, it is enough to
cause persons blood to boil with in
dignation. One or two things will come
Plutocracy will go still higher, and the
people still over, or, the people must go
up and plutocracy go down. 1 often hear
men OF the old parties says: THE money
power has always ruled and always will. >"
BoSh. What nonsense. Are we lot of
grown up babies, or be we men? If the
great common people would arise in their
might and vote for their interests. our
wrongs would soon be righted. This we
must do. Our duty is plain. This gov
ernment cannot endure as government
of, by and for the people with a plebian
class, and class of plutocrats who con-
troll the money. 1t must become a plu-
tocracy, or democracy. In the Ian
guage OF Andrew Jackson, "By the enter
nal,' plutOcracy must be overthrown
Our republic must and shall be redeem
ed, and we of this generation must do
it. We, by our blind stupidity and de-