Tombstone epitaph., 1896-09-06
THE HONEST DOLLAR
Of the PlutOcrats-MOre Facts
 For Freedom.
NO. ..l

lished in your paper last week, l think I demonstrated that, up to the present time. the bond holders had received in interest and probable loss of national bank notes the sum of $535 for every $50 paid in to the United States for these bonds, making fl ,O70 for $lO0; and that by the operation of the act of congress of 1873 dsmonetiz- ing oliver these bond holders got an other advantage by which the value of their bonds and interest was doubled in comparison to other wealth; that is . standard of money was established which decreased the value Of al! other wealth, measured by that standard, and thus they have received iust $2, 40 in wealth for every $lOO they loaned the government. and the govern mens still owe them no ninslly $2OO for ever hundred lent, but what is really equal to $400 for every hundred as compared with all other wealth.
 Now. the history of the human race consists largely. if no. entirely, of the struggles of the few on the one side, through force, fraud and cunning to make the many labor for their benefit, and of the many on the other side ; generally in psst times, unsuccessful to escape from the slavery imposed, because the cunning few svailed ,hem- selves of every imaginable device to control the many and make them obedient under their burthsns. Al 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 commanded under threats of eternal torture to "obey their rulers" and bribed to that end by the promise of "crown of glory" and golden harp" in . future world, e cure reward for privs,ion, suffer- ing dnd toll in this, though the teach ere and their advocatss wers them selvss sure to avoid earning the re- ward. But through the combined op- sration and effect of the American Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and the teachings of ThomAs Paine and other free thinkers, these humbugs Of .Di- v.ue Right. Lords Amounted" "Crewn.," "Hsrps" and Eternal Tor ture" have lost ell their power except wi:h the mos, ignorant and unresson- ing and, there. hunanitarisns and shinkers oi all climes, and psrticu- larly of America. had hoped to see the probl. m d.monstIsted-thst mankind was fit for self government.
 But the selfish and cunning few were not dead. they lived again in . new brood. and after mo:e than hall . century of . government by :hs peo- Die. it was discovered that finance waa she way to make men slsves and keeI them 90, and thus our so-called National Banking system aLd the bonding of the people, and the nation thereby was invented.
 | If Satan, with ell the powers of cun' ming, fraud, chicsne and cruelty st- sributsd to him by the Christian churches, esa invent . scheme better calculated to impoverish. oppress ane snslave . nation for all eternity thar shis nation cal-bAnk- bond honest dollal scheme, pause to hear from him, ol any other advocate Of the system.
 This is my last letter on this sub ject. In future letters, if I have time propose to show why the People, party will not, and shocld not be sat is6ed with the reforms proposed by the Chicago platform.
 JANRs REILLY.