Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-11
POWER OF WEALTH.
FIFTY GOLDBUGS IN NEW YORK
CAN PARALYZE INDUSTRY.
what the Financial Policy of the
Government Has Brought Us To.
Seventy Million Of People ut the
Mercy of Half a Hundred Gold.
hnUG.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Chauncey NJ. Depew of New York
has a national reputation as scholar
an orator and Republican politician.
This great ability is universally recog-
nized, and but for his identification
with railroad interests he would have
been the formidable candidate of his
party for President of the United
States.
He never speaks without knowing
or believing what he says to be true.
In recent interview by the Inter-
Ocean, he said:
"There are fifty men in New York
who can within "a hours stop every
wheel on all railroads, close every
door of all manufactures, lock every
switch of all the telegraph lines, and
shut down every coal and iron mine
in the United States. They can do
so because they control the money
this country produces"
If this is true, and we have no evil
dence that the statement is false,
how lamentable and deplorable is the
condition of 100000 people? There
can be no doubt that whoever con.
trolls country's money controls its
industries and commerce, whether the
number be fifty or as many millions.
What q travesty on the declaration
that this is government of the peo.
pie, when fifty men in the nations
metropolis can make beggars and
slaves of 100000 people in "a
hours. 1t is no marvel that the
patriot Lincoln in anticipation of the
possibility of such a final result
should have had greater anxiety for
the safety of his country than during
the darkest hour of the civil war.
The Enquirer asks with earnestness
"iiu oihSOiitS, IL ~ 10 iiOt tltlc tudl
the people were more interested in
the supreme issue of the hour2 II
fifty men in New York have such al
mighty power, there was more truth
than poetry in the remark OF Bryan
when he said on his journey to New
York that he was going into the
"enemy's country"
We have no roster of the names of
the fifty New Workers who hold in
their hands the destiny of the mil
lions, but we can state with much as
surance that there is not a silver
money man in the whole list. This
single fact ought to arouse the
patriotism of every voter.
Every friend of a peoples govern
ment ought to realize that the ques.
ton to be decided at the polls in No
vember Is not whether a Republican
or Democratic President and Con-
gress shall exact and administer laws.
The perpetuity of the government is
in peril. Are the masses of the peo.
pie capable OF self government? The
control OF money, Depew truthiully
says. clothes its possessors with abso.
lutte power over a cOuntry's industries
There is something radically wrong
in the administration of any govern.
ment when fifty men are permitted
to exercise control over the industries
and commerce of 10000 900 people.
Inc Enquirer has an abiding faith
IN the honesty, ability and patriotism
OF enough men in all political parties
IN every State in the Union to drive
from power the worshipers OF gold
and restore the financial system I'm.
der which all industries prospered.
The common voter is not anxious
to consult the wishes or ask the con
sent of any foreign power before de.
termining the financial status of hi.
own country.
The demonetization of one-half O,
the constitutional money of the
United States was accomplished by d
conspiracy composed of foreign syndi
Gates and our national bankers. The
conspiracy has been sufficiently sue.
cessful to clothe fifty men with abso
lutte power over the industries.
Real estate owners, farmers, me.
chanics, merchants. manufacturers
wage earners, skilled and unskilled
labor, all producers of wealth have
been the victims of that conspiracy
The scheme of the conspirato.s em.
braces the entire subjugation of the
masses to the money power. Never
in the history OF the world has
there been an example of such rapid
creation OF wealth, and such wonderful
absorption in the hands OF the few.
The quotation from the interview
OF Mr.. Depew ought to set men to
thinking. 1t should decide the voter
to enlist in the ranks of the common
people.
This Is is not conflict between old
political parties. The contestants are
20 decide which is the stronger in this
republic, the rich mans money or the
poor mans vote? Bulldozing, fat fry.
ing, intimidation, bribery and lying are
the weapons of the fifty. The simpl.