The Caucasian., 1895-11-28

little body. Where is this wealth
to-dayf Half of it has gone into the
Golfers of thirty thousand men.
Eighty per cent. of the remainder
into the hands Of two hundred and
nifty thousand. How long
will it be ere a few hundred men
will own all the wealth OF this mag.
niticent countryi We can
save our American institutions.
Shall we do it, ere it is too latef"
THE MONEY POWER.
To substantiate his charge that a
money power exists Mr.. Howard
quotes Chauncey NJ. Depew, as fol
lows: Fifty men in these United
States have it in their power, by
reason Of the wealth which they con
troll, to come together within twenty
four hours and arrive at an under
standing by which every wheel of
trade and commerce may be stopped
from revolving, every avenue of
trade blocked and every electric key
struck dumb. Those fifty men can
paralyze the whole country, for they
can control the circulation of the
currency and create panic whenever
they will"
Then the writer goes on:
Fifty men, cold and heartless, who have
grown rich by the will Of others, men who
, never produced one dollar of wealth, are
| able TO throw every laboring man out of
work and to turn millions Of women and
little children into the streets to starve!
These men have accumulated their millions
for the most part by robbing honest toll Of
the fruits of its labor. Mr. Depew
has overestimated the number of men nee
essary to produce such panic. Twenty
five could spread disaster and ruin. Take.
for instance, the twenty-five wealthiest
men in this country. They are worth in
the aggregate, 81, 300, 600 OO-a sum almost
equal to all the money, gold, silver and
green backs we have in the United States
the total amount in circulation October /,
1894, being estimated in round numbers
81, ,655 600, 600.
Mr. Howard then asks the reader
to study the following table of fig
ures:
Total value railroad assets. 3ll, ,855, ,96s OO6
Capital and surplus national
Assets joint stock companies l76, 600, GOO, ,OOO
Assets life and fire insurance
Twenty five millionaires ..... 1000 600 'OOC
Total value of all miuionaires .l5, ,5S3, 70, ,OOC
"This," says our author, lis AZ
aggregate of wealth equal to the
value Of all the farming lands.
fences and buildings Of the United
States, added to the total farm prod
ucts for one year. 1t is more than
nine times the value of all the money
in circulation in this country. 1t is
five billions more in value than all
the money in the entire world. At
ter careful study of these figures,
can any thinking man doubt that
there Is money powerf +'+ For
years the people have been deceived
by the miniOns of plutocracy. -
How long will free people submit
without protest to be thus bound
hand and footi"
THE PLUTOCRACY.
Mr.. Howard despises the "so-called
Democratic party" of the presen,
day. His Democracy is the Democ-
racy of Grover Cleveland, for that
is only plutocracy masquerading.
mean the Democracy of Thomas
Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and
Abraham Lincoln"
The great issue of the future, be
thinks, will be stupendous stIug.
gle between plutocracy and Democ-
racy, between the moneyed class
and the common people. The mas
ses will rise. They (the capitalists
scoff at the idea that this question
is to enter into the politics of the
future, but while they thus scof
and pretend to feel no alarm there
is no question but what they hea,
the mutterings of the approaching
Storm"
| But the more imminent the danger the
more arrogant and insolent do the pIutocrat.
become. 1t was so before the French Revo
luton. 1t was so with Charles l. 1t wa:
so with England when our ancestors wer,
compelled to declare for freedom. 1t wa
so with the slave-holding South.
The greatest tools of plutocracy in thi
country to-day are Grover Cleveland. Presi
dent of the United States. and his trus
champion, AttorneyGeneralO Olney. Tim,
was in the days of our fathers when MAJ
J holding high office, who willfully refused
to discharge the duties which he had takeI
an oath to faithfully perform, would hav
been impeached, Upon what degenerate
times have we now fallen that the Attorne,
General persistently refuses to enforce tn
Antitrust law and is upheld in his cours
by the President? Mr.. Olney
unworthy of the high office he holds. An,
should have the decency to resign,
Laborers Of America let us fight tor free
dom as our fathers did at Bunker Hill an
Y Gorktown. 1t is battle-yea, a terribl
battle. Plutocracy is thoroughly organize
, and equipped for conflict. Let the peopl
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the battle cry of freedom. Men Q
America, let US win the battle if We can b
constitutional methods. Bu
r if we prove recreant to our duty and b,
tray the trust which our fathers have N
posed in us, then constitutional method
will not prevail. and this continent will
shaken by mighty revolution.
THE CRIMES OF PLuTOCRACY.
4 He walked through the streets Q
1 Chicago during the recent strike i
" that city and ''saw scenes of miser
and despair that would make tn
: angels weep. Oh, pluto<
: racy, thou art responsible! l charg
that plutocracy robs our girls 9
I; their virtue, steals from our littl
: children their daily bread, deprive
y them of an education and make
: them prematurely old. 1t force
$ tears to the eyes of the mothers Q
the land, pales their cheeks, bow
their forms and breaks their hearts
1t robs men of their independents,
$ the laborer of his hire and turns int
the streets a vast army of vagrant
1t fills the jails, the almshouses, tn
/ brothels and the gambling halls.
, is guilty of most of the murders an
s suicides. Itgloats over human VIC
!, and fattens on human suffering.
q = Plutocracy is on trial before tt
American people and liberty lool
a on In breathless suspense. Will tt
/ virdict be guilty or not guiityi" h
= goes on
The richest man in this country is Jot
e d. Rockefeller: who is worth $125 OO, OF
" he made it out of the Oil Trust. He is
i member of the church and has given lar