The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-07-03

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the European plan, led on by England
is capitals control Of labor, by con-
trolling wages. This can be done by
controlling the money. The great debt
that capitalists will see to it Is made
out of the war, must be used as a meas
ure to control the volume Of money.
To accomplish this the bonds must be
waiting to get the Secretary of the
Treasury to make this recommendation
to Congress. It will not do to allow
the 'greenback,' as it is called, to cir
culate as money. any length OF time,
for we cannot control them. But we
can control the bonds, and through
them the bank issue"
Whether this circular is genuine or
not l do not know. But l do know, and
you know, that an immense debt was
made out of the war and that Wall
street now controls the volume OF
money. You also know that this great
debt was made after the wal was over
by issuing bonds and burning up the
greenbacks-the money that fought
the war.
Hon. Robert Toombs said:
When Pendleton got up his agi-
tation in Ohio in 1867 and 1868 by de-
claring that the bonds ought to be paid
in greenbacks, because they were
bought in ~greenbacks. the bondholders
got frightened and said we must get
rid OF these greenbacks. They vent
to work and had their value destroyed
they demonetized them and got them
out OF the way by an adjudication OF
the supreme court. Then the increas-
ing production of the mines in this
country came in to swell their fears,
and SO they determined that as their
bonds said they were payable in coin,
gold and silver, or it's equivalent at
the present standard value, they must
get rid of silver"
John G. Carlisle, once the able cham
pion of the people and an honest Dem
ocrat, in a speech in congress i'll 1878,
denounced the conspiracy which, he
said, seemed to have been formed here
and in Europe, to destroy by legisla>
ton and otherwise from th~ree-sevenths
to one-half the metallic money of the
world as the most gigantic crime Of
or any other age. Said he: The
contamination of such a scheme would
ultimately entail more misery upon the
human race than all the wars, pesti-
fences and famines that ever occurred
In the history of the world" Now,
is a gold-bug-but he has not
succeeded in answering his W
speeches.
But here l go drifting off onto the
money question. 1t is mighty hard to
make a speech even to a Sunday school
the story of the golden calf.
l take it as a good sign that the peo-
pie are waking up, thinking and pre-
pairing to throw off the yoke Of an Eng
lish financial system in America.
The agitation of the money question
is to-day as bitterly sectional as the
slavery question in 1860. 1t is Wall
street against the rich Mississippi val
ley, the glorious wide West and the
Sunny South-gold gamblers against
a nation Of seventy million useful peo-
pie. The East threatens to secede.
Well, turn about is fair play-the
South will save the Union this time
but not with sword and gun. We
shell the plutocrats from the
American fortress of Liberty-the bal
lot box.
There is work for the young men of
and fighting, but not with
firearms, let us hope-as great as any
work our forefathers have done.
There are problems as grave con-
us as confronted our fore
fathers.
This is a government of the people,
and the people are responsible. Every
one of you here present is responsible
for his part of the government, and it
cowardice and treason that refuses
to-day to uphold every principle of the
Declaration Of independence.
Such people as we here assembled
constitute the United States of Amer
lea, and our actions help decide the
Of a great nation.
1t is the personal duty of each one Of
us to see that his part in this grand
peoples government is the part of an
honest, intelligent, progressive man
hood.
Washington and Jefferson and Lin
coin We're great-because they repre-
great principles.
The principles are greater than the
men, because they live forever, and are
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