Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-06-18
Wall Streets Threat.

The banking fraternity of Wall Street
threaten that if the people of the West
and South dare to restore the moneta-
ry legislation that existed prior to
1878, they will call in their loans, pre-
vent the railroads, which they own,
from hauling corn and cotton, and
bring on financial stripgency of such
magnitude as this country has mover
before witnessed. In other words. ii
the people of the West and South, and
the producing classes throughout the
land, dare to vote upon matter OF
public policy contrary to the dictates
of this band of highwaymen, they
will be despoiled of their property and
they and their families be made ac-
qualnted with hunger and want.
There is no doubt about the power
of these people to accomplish this.
The REGISTER has frequently called
to the fact that an insignifi-
cant number of men in this nation can
create panic whenever they please;
can stand between the producer and
consumer, and rob the one while starv-
ing the other. Heretofore their mach
nations have been carried on in the
dark. The hand that smote us was a
hidden hand; but at last they have
been forced into the open. The veil
has been snatched from the face of
and the people have beheld
the hideous visage of the Yelled Proph-
ct of Mammon before the poisoned
chalice has touched their lips.
Do these people understand that
they are playing with fire at the
opened door of powder magazine?
Do they not know that the people I'M
derstand what panic means? That
it means enforced idleness to the home
keeper, and famine and misery to
loved ones? Do they believe that our
people will calmly sit still and suffer
from the effects of panic artiicially
produced to compel them to adopt a
policy that will bind and rivet the
chains of slavery upon them and their
children? If they do, they are indeed
blind. But selfishness and greed have
no eyes to look abroad. and these men
may think that the spirit that caused
our forefathers to turn upon their mas
tiers so fiercely at Lexington and Con-
cord is dead; that the patriotic blood
of the Fathers of the Republic has
been drowned and corrupted by the
enslaved hirelings they have imported
to wipe out the American home. Let
them bring On their panic, and they
will find out!
If Wall Street can force US to take a
definite line of political action on the
money question by threatening panic,
why can it not do the same thing upon
any other? If we are to be dominated
by these people, where is the use of a
Congress?
Gentlemen of the Moneybag, you are
mistaken in the American people. The
same spirit that caused men to risk
their lives upon the field of battle to
gain liberty will enable them to risk
their property at the polls to preserve
it. You are forcing vast number of
questions to the front that had better
be let alone. You are causing men to
reflect seriously about the transporta-
tion question. They are fast coming
to see that they must in some way re-
duce the Railroad Attorney to the
ranks, even if they have to readjust
the whole railroad code of laws. You
are bringing up the land questionable
government ownership of telegraphs-
and are giving the people a bias in ia
vor of Socialism that every patriotic
American looks upon with apprehen-
sion.
You have your gun loaded with a
panic. Fire it if you dare, and anoth-
err shot may ring out that will be heard
around the world!