The Penn's Grove record., 1896-08-28
The Battle For Liberty
OfTl,e Common PeOple.

EDITOR hECOhD.-1 SAW ny your
later issues that you were on the side
of the common people comprising the
toiling millions of these United States
10 which in November we will settle
by the ballot whether it is class legisla-
ton for the few or whether it is for the
masses OF common people. The money
Question SO few people seem to under.
stand or il they do they will not tell it
straight so the common people can un-
derstand and vote iRtelligently in the
matter. The people of the United
states are being deceived, most woeful-
ly deceived, on this money question,
and the owners of money, gold and
money payable in gold, and bonds and
securities payable in gold, are running
a corner on you by which they are be-
coming wner of you.
You are being sold into bondage to
the pawnbrokers of Europe to-day by
this monetary policy. The reason why
the gold in the gold dollar is worth a
dollar is because the government.stamps
and makes it a dollar. The reason why
the silver in a silver dollar is only
worth $50. is because you are not meas
uring it in itself-it is no dollar, it is u
token-and you are measuring it by
the gold dollar, that is the measure Of
value. We are to day lighting the bat
tie of liberty 10 this country. The men
who are controlling the financial legis
lation in the United States and England
are men like the Rothschilds and Wall
Street bankers, men who are dealers in
money, and whose property is fixed in
incomes. They are the gilded light
and influence around our capital. HUI
man nature here is to pander to the
rich. If a man is rich, one feels as it
were like sinking his opinion and defer.
ring TO that man for his judgment, and
when the time comes, that man whose
Judgment is deferred to, is going to cast
his judgment on that subject in his per-
sonal interest. The man who defers
to him is in the same condition as the
lamb which undertakes to lie down
with the tiger, If their interests conflict.
You take a slave owner before the
war, who sat upon his elegant front
porch with its white pillars. His poor
neighbor deferred to him, and it was
his opinion that dominated that neigh
boz. Now we have a class Of people
controlling in the world who are dsal'
ers, not slaves, but in money, and as
they grow rich and opulent, and you
grow poor and seek them for their mon.
ey, you grow obeisant, and those rich
men are controlling the legislation OF
America and the old world, and there
is no plan by which European c~iviliza'
ton can rise from under it, and wheT
we have passed four or eighth years
further along there will be no way fol
us to rise from under it. We are MAX
ing in the u. s. to day the last stand
of freemen in the civilization Of the
world. That same money lending in
huence arose two thousand years age
and seruck down civilization. 1t i:
again dominating the world. 1t now
raises it head in this country, and un
less you arouse yonr manhood and exerI
your intelligence it will absorb you il
it influence and destroy human libert,
here In America.
When we have passed a few year.
further along, and you have been mad,
to know more fully that property il
worth more than humanity; and aglob
ule of gold is worth more than a drol