The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-09-22

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The farmer has made two
blades of grass grow where one
grew before and the money pow
er has taken in two dollars where
it took in one before. The farm
er has to turn over his blades of
grass and mortgage the land on
which they grew. Yet in the
name of the agricultural classes
the confederated banks plead
for continuation of a single
gold standard. The wage work
ers have seen their wages go be-
low the living point, their homes
taken from them and they crowd
ed into the army of enforced idle
rs or driven to the squalid quar-
ters of the tenement districts
while the gold power has amass-
ed untold millions and grown
naughty and despotic on the nee
essities and misfortunes of the
poor. Yet the money power
holds up gold alone as the only
hope of labor.
Every reader of the worlds
history knows that gold when it
stands alone is a coward in war,
a robber in peace and a villain
all the time. Through the medi-
UNI of single gold standard the
subjugation of labor and the con-
centration of the wealth of ma
tons in the hands of the few has
been accomplished. The system
has desoloted every country and
impoverished every people it
ever infested. There is not a
single exception to this rule.
Let labor glance at the money
centers of this country from
whence comes this demand for
single standard and there will be
found in the forefront of the agi-
tation for gold few arrogant,
naughty, domineering aristro-
Gratis who despise the name of
labor and scord the hand of an
honest toiler. Go on Wall street,
the nucleus of the gold agitation
in America today, and like their
prototypes in the Old World they
believe that a working man is
born with a saddle on his back
and themselves with boots and
spurs to ride him by the grace
of God. Let Baron Rothschild,
the czar of Russia and all the op-
pressors of the poor in England
and Europe come to America
during this campaign and would
they call on Mark Hanna +?
Would they be received by the
Belmonts and the Morgans, the
Vanderbilts and the Sages :? Or
would they call on and encourage
that matchless champion of the
people, w. ]. Bryan. The natur-
al answers to these questions
answer for labor all the argu-
ment the advocates of single
gold standard can make during
a thousand years.
The quality of principles and
policies in politics are never
above the business and charac-
ter of the men who originate and
propagate them. The principle
of single gold standard can
never rise above the character
of Wall street. 1t can never rise
above the seltishness and the
greed of the plutocratic combin-
ations behind it. The clamor of
the avaricious Shylocks and us
urers of the world for q single
gold standard is the true test of
its virtue and the only measure
of its character. The agitation
of single gold standard did not
originate with labor. On the
contrary it originated with the
.supercilious millionaire classes
who have for years maintained
an organized brigandage on lab
or be dragooned into the service
of an avowed enemy on false
promises and delusive theories {?
The money power wants q
single gold standard for purely
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