Tombstone prospector., 1896-09-04
THE HONEST DOLLAR
Of the Plutecrats-MOre Facts
 For Freedom.
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~N- ADiA'A '-At A1y soSAS phS iishsd in your paper lsss week, think l demonstrated that. up to the present time, the bond holders had received Ia interest and probable lose of national bank notes the STE, of $535 for every $50 paid in to the United Ststes for the.s bond-, ,nsking II pro for $lOo; and that by ,hs operation of the act of congress of 1873 demon.tiz- ing siivsi thsss bond holders got sn- other advantage by xhich the value of their bonds end in.sres. was doubled in comparison ts other wealth; that is . standard of money was established which decreased the value ot al! other wealth, measured by that stsndsrd. and thus they have received iustS2, LAO in wealth for every $lOO they loaned the government. and the govern ment still ows them no ninally $2OO for ever hundred lent, but what is really equal to x4O0 Tor every hundred ss compared with all other wealth.
 Now. the history of the human race consists largely. if not entirely, ol the struggles of the few on the one side, through force, fraud and cunning tn make the many labor tor their benefit, and of the many on the other side generally in past times, unsuccessful to escape from the slavery imposed, because the cunning few svsiled them. selves of every imaginable device to control the many. and make them obedient under their burthsns. A, first brute force wAs used and when this was found inadequate then the Right Divine" to govern wrongly, and this again was supplemented by the preachers of an imaginary or in vented theology by which people were persuaded and oommtnd d under thrests of eternal torture 10 "obey their rulers," and briosd to that end by the pron.iss of "croWn of glory" and golden harp" in future world e cure reward .or privstiop, suaer- ing dpd ioil in th.s, though the teach ers and their. advocates were them selves sure to avoid earning the re- ward. But through the combined op. eraiion and effect of the American Declaration of Independence, tls United Staiss Constitution and the teachings of Thomas Paine and othe, free thinkers, these humbugs of -'Di- vine Righ,.' "Lord's Annointed," "Crewns. "Harps' and External Tor. ture"' have lost sfl their power except win she most ignorant and unreason- ing and, there. hu nanitariahs and thinkers of all chimes, and particu- isrly of America. had hoped to see the problem drmonssrsted-thst man kind xas fit for self government.
 But the selfish and cunning few were not dead. they lived again in [ new brood. and after more than hsii . century of 6 government by :he peo. pie. it was discovered that finance wa, the way to make men slsves and keeY them so. and thus our so-callet National Banking sys.em ard tho bonding of the people, and the nation thereby wac invented.
 If Satan, with all the powers of cun' ming, fraud, chicsne and cruelty st- tributed to him by the Christian ehureher, can inve, A scheme better calculated to impo.eiish. oppress anc enslavs c nation for ali eternity thar .his nstioral-bsnk- bond honest dol,a, scheme, pause so hear from him, or any other advocate of the system.
 | This is my last letter on this sub. ject. In future letters, if have time I propose to show why the People,, party will not, and sho1ld not be eat isiisd wiiS ihs reforms c.crosed by