The herald., 1896-08-30
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\ THE ERR OF
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BY JAMES q. CLARK
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Men are making records today In this
conflict between humanity and usury OF
which their posterity will either be proud
or ashamed.
The sheep and the goats are being sepa-
rated by the hand of the Great Shepherd.
and existing creeds, either political or re-
liglous. have little to do with their final
classification. While men like Waterson
and others are vainly trying to occupy neu-
trail ground and be neither sheep nor goat,
old, long established Republicans like Tel
Ter. Stewart and Jones, are leaving party
ties behind and taking sides with the people
and against expressions.
On the other hand. men whose ancestry
and names would lead us to expect better
things. are being hypnotized by Wall street
operators into attitudes and actions
which on.- would not look for in their nor
NAL condition.
one of the latest subjects" Of the latter
sort is Col. Fred Grant, who in reply to Q
letter from Attorney General Ketcham of
Indiana, vouches for his fathers atti.
tude on the currency question, more es-
pecially. on the question of his fathers
knowledge or ignorance tending the true
inMardness of the demonetization crime Of
1873.
After indulging in the usual lament pc
culiar TO kothschilds' agents over the poor
wages at the end of the week should be
absolutely certain that there would be no
question as to the value of tho currency
needs" etc, etc. Colonel Grant closes his
letter with the following remarkable para
srsa}P'hn; s}'hs co,pass act Of ,s7, do.. ~. .,,,,,
nate the silver dollar from the coinage. In
feet, the United States has coined since
coined during the entire period of our ma
tional existence before, and most of these
coins were made during his lifetime. 1t is
therefore. not probable that General Grant
ever said that he would have vetoed the
act of 1s71.if he had known that the silver
dollar would be dropped from the coinage;
that he heard my father make such re-
mark"
Grant to write another letter and explain
what he means in the foregoing paragraph.
II certainly Is matter of record that tho
or abducted from the coinage actin other
words, dishonored, discarded and disin-
herited In the rouse Of her friends her fam,
this uncalled for outrage has never been
atoned for,that the child whom selfish,
outside midnight conspirators succeeded
in dragging from the family circle has not
visitor. tc re-enter the old home save by
special invitation and without the most
violent protest on the part of those who
first prostituted her and then scoffed at her
for her degradation.
The only visible truth contained in Col.
Grants closing. paragraph is the one small
fact with which he vainly tries to cover a
ing one of the small boy who tried to hide
under his coat a stolen fish that proved too
long for the garment; and when detected
was advised by his father to wear a longer
coat or steal shorter fish"
If Col. Grant means anything in his state
ment that the coinage act of 1873 does not
eliminate the silver dollar from the coin
age" he means to convey the impression
that the silver dollar was not demonetized
by its omission from the act.
If such Is the case. why all this tumult
over fiction?
Why does the Hanna a-McKinley-wall-
street Republican platform insist upon
maintaining the present gold standard
until bimetallism can be secured by In
torney General Ketch-'em angle for let
ter from Col Grant. and why does the lat
ter answer it?. The small fact with which
street fish is embodied in the statement
that the United States has coined since
during the entire period of our national ex-
istence before" But he neglects to saw
that every dollar coined since 1873 has been
coined under two special silver acts that
were framed and passed by the friends OF
free silver as protest against and as pal
liation for the crime of demonetiz and
because the return to specie payment i'm
peratively demanded silver to save the peo-
pie from the jaws of the Wall street shark
that was demanding the pound of flesh
In gold.
Even the Bland act was passed over the
veto of Rothschild's tool who was count
ed in for the express purpose OF vetoing
the bill. The Sherman act was SO manipu-
lated by it's honest" folks under instruc-
tions from the money lords, that 1t failed
to accomplish its original ends and to give
the public satisfaction. Neither of the
bills restored to silver It's stolen debt-pay-
ing power and the standing It enjoyed pre-
vious to 1873, but they did relieve and post.
pone a monetary contraction that other.
wise would have caused earlier and in
creased bankruptcy and misery. Hence.
all these dollars of which we hear so
much just now. have been coined against
the wishes and open protest. of the very
ola wi
weak foolish, contradictory and designedly
misleading letter. The fact Is. the Grant
letter is only one of large and continuous
"hatch" of economic tadpoles that are just
now being fathered by the Rothschilds and
spawned at the Wall street froggery under
the midwifery of Henry Clews. who fire.
quently sends the little ones out premature
ly and before the elimination Of their tell
tale tails and the evolution of legs which
would enable them to hop into deep water
and thus hide their nakedness from public
gaze that is daily growing more critical
and suspicious. And still the farce goes
OH.