The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
A DEED OF SECRESY AND
DARKNESS.
How the Value of the Farmers
Productions Were Reduced One
Half and the Burden of the
Mortgages Doubled.
The Greatest Conspiracy Against
the Human Race Ever
Inaugurated.
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This paper has more than once pub
tished the details Of the work where
by silver was demonetized in 1873.
But since that time our circulation
has quadrupled, and many of our
present readers have never had an op-
portunity to examine the facts. 1t
must not be forgotten that while the
question of free-coinage Of silver is
now agitating the whole world, and
tearing the two old political parties of
this country to pieces, the work was
accomplished so secretly that, as Mr..
Harvey showed in his speech in St.
Paul, by producing the original files,
Of the daily papers Of the TWfn- cities,
The day after the vote was taken, did
not have the slightest allusion to
what had been done-and yet it was,
for the people, tie most important
piece Of legislation in a thousand
1ears.
We quote the following summary of
What took place from the admirable
little compendium Of St. John Cole, EN-
titled, d,-"COLD FACTS" 1t will be
tound on page u.
The total debt of the United States
fully 1, 1873, was $2,234, ,993. 20 and the in
:erest was $9S,049, 8O4, all Of which was
payable in coin,-silver or gold
On page $685. Finance Report for 1873, it
Is shown that there had been destroyed
Of the peoples money since 1861, $751;
S4S,O54.3S.
About this time vast deposits of silver
were discovered, which,, under the coinage
law or 17e2 the owners could have coined
hat CHI
In all payments whatsoever"
The Hazard Circular said:
slavery is but the owning of labor,
and carries with it the care for the la
borer. The modern or European plan led
on by England, is capital control of labor
by controlling wages. This can be done
by controlling the money. 1t will not do
to allow the 'greenbacks, as it is called to
circulate as money for any length of time,
for we cannot control that"
After reading the above, the money
mongers saw that if they would con-
tinue to live upon the fruits Of others la
for, 1t would not do to allow the silver
dollar to circulate as money, because, like
the greenback, they could not control it.
A consultation was held and the result
was the approval Of plan to demonetze
the silver dollar in the United States, and
thereby perpetuate the modern or Euro
pcan plan of wage-slavery, by compelling
the payment of all debts contracted to be
paid in coin, in gold coin.
Senator Daniel of Virginia. in a speech
delivered in the senate. May %, 1890, said :
II take from the Bankers Magazine of
August 1873, little extract. 1t says: In
many. England, Holland, capital Of
100000 ($500.00W was raised and Ernest
Seyd was sent to this country with this
fund as agent for foreign bondholders to
effect the same object. The demonetiz-
alton Of silver.-Congressiona Record,
lro
How well Mr.. Seyd did the work as
signed him, may be found in "An Act Re-
vising and Amending the Laws Relative
TO the Mints. Assay-offices. and coinage of
Science of Money, says "surreptitousy
dropped the silver dollar from the COIN
age Of the United States." and reads in
part as follows:
.'That the gold coins of the United
States shall be a one dollar piece, which,
at the weight of twenty-five and eight
tenths grains shall be the unit of value. -
THAT the silver coins of the United
Etates shall be trade dollar, half or
efty cent piece. quarter dollar or twen-
ky-fiye cent piece, dime or ten cent piece,
and said coins shall be a legal tender at
their nominal value for any amount not
exceeding five dollars in any one pay
ment."
THAT no coins, either gold or silver or
minor coinage, shall hereafter be issued
from the Mint, other than those of the de-
nominations, standards and weights here
In set forth. III statutes, 424.
A resolution passed in July 1876, pro-
yided: s'That the trade-dollar shall not
hereafter be a legal tender
It must be remembered that there were
only three kinds Of money issued (see
chapter Ill, Ante) in the United States
that you could legally use in making a
be used in payment of interest on the pub
lice debt or duties on imported goods
these obligations should be paid in coin.
The public had just had their credit
strengthened" the servants of the pub
lie having pledged the faith of the United
states to the payment in coin. of all the
nbIigations of the United States, whether
bearing interest or not. and the act au-
thorizing the "Refunding of the National
Debt" provided for the payment of the
bonds issued under its authority in coin,-
Kold or silver.
The money -mOngerS, after the servants
nf the public had agreed to pay the pub
iic's obligation in coin.-silver or gold
furnished money to pripe the puoilcs SER
rants to contract the peoples money one
half by demonetizingt the silver dollar
-,hich had been a lawful tender in all
nayments whatsoever, since April End
i792 so that when the people were ready
to pay the debt. there would be only one
lind of coin and the money mongers
MCV THE SIVER DOLLAR WAS DE
MONETIZED.
Judge Kelly: of Pennsylvania, Congress
,,onaI Record, volume z, part 2. 45th con
rregs second session. page 1.6O5, said:
..In connection with the charge that
.dvocated the bill which demonetized the
standard silver dollar. I say that. though
srairrnan Of the committee on coinage,
was ignorant of the fact that it would de
monetize the silver dollar of of Its drop
;nr-the silver dollar from our system o
rprs,rs a.s were those distinguished senators
Uessrs. Blaine and Vorhees, who were
thsn members of the house. and each O.
rhnn,. 4 few days since, interrogated th'
shsr: Did you know 1t was dropped Whel