Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-28
REVOLT OF PLUTOCRACY
Wealth Arrayed Against Con-
 stitutional Government.
MONEY MElTAoB8 THE PEOPLE.

MONEY MElA0B5 THE PEOPLE. The aIilianalres Of This Country Openly
 Assert ghst Property Has the Divine
 Right ts ReIs maahood triumph of
 Gold Mean the ssryitude of the Masses.
 No single issue ever raised in the his tory of American politics exceeds in im- portance that of opening our hints and re5leeming cur currency from the con trol of those foreign and domestic cor perations which seek to infliet on us as a permanent system their usurpation of the sovereign power Of issuing and reg ulating Che circulating medium.
 The cnly single evil greater than cor poration control of the taxing power is this of corporation control of tho cur reney. 1t is greater because when the people are robbed, whether by direct or indirect taxation. the results quickly appear But when the robbery is carried on through contraction of cash and the imitation of corporation credit paper they are brought to bankruptcy before realizing the cause.
 The entire plutocracy is in revolt against our system of popular censtitu- tional government. So menacing a movement Of class against people has never occurred before in our history not even when the same class. under the leadership of the Biddles of the United States bank. captured the adnlinistra- tion of John Quincy Adams and so in- trenehed themselves in ceat9ol of the government that they looked with con- tempt on the attempt made by the peo- pie under Jaekson's leadership to dis lodge them and restore popular govern ment.
 The wealth of tho plutocratic class of that day was trivial compared to the holdings of the same class now, but nevertheless the points of similarity between tEo campaign which won against them then and that which has now been inaugurated are striking in their suggestiyeness of the way history repeats itself both in eaHses and results.
 John Quincy Adams had been elected
 
 party, repu,. ,.Iated the principles to which it had pledged his administration and endeayored to revive the Federalist- ie party, whose fundamental maxim, as defined by Daniel Webster himself, was that all stable and orderly govern ment must be based on property.
 As the fundamental tenet of Democra- s4, I51 based on manhood right and on the consent of the governed, the masses of the Democratic party felt the same hot resentment against the Adams admins tration which they now feel when they see federal offieeholders controlling the action of conventions called at the in- stance of Mir Whitney of the Standard Oil company and Mr. Belmont, Ameri- can agent of the Rothschild banks.
 Andrew Jackson but voiced this just resentment of the masses when in his inaugural address he declared that it was tho right of the people to eject from office those officials who had used office in an attempt to dictate the result of elections. Itwas because the people had seen federal offices used to control state legislatures, to dictate nominations, to interfere at the polls, that Jackson de- nounced life tenure ill office as foreign to the spirit of America and declared that whatever the evils of changes they were less than those of the permanent tenure, which breeds ill the officeholder the spirit of insolence and of despotism.
 He was again the exponent and cham pion of the masses when he followed his attack on federal bureaucracy with determined assault on the national bank and its control of the treasury and of congress. For this he was denounced in New York city and Boston as no other American president had ever been de- noanced before. But he did not swerve With supreme confidence in the peo. pie and in his own integrity, he forced the fighting, keeping the aggressive al- ways and not stopping to defend him. self until overwhelming victory show ed that no man who really represents the cause of popular freedom need fear to appeal to the masses for support of the principles on which their freedom and progress depend.
 On the issue as it was then presented appeal has once more been made to the people. The plutocraey has once more usurped control of the government. De- mooracy has once more been betrayed by those it trusted Once more the mil lionaires of the country are in the field openly asserting that property has di- vine right to rule manhood and that it is treason to deny it.
 They have drawn their lines of class and caste and drawn them hard. Those of them who once called themselves Democrats do so no longer They call the Democracy of Jefferson and Jack son, as they do the Republicanism of Lincoln, an evil thing. They say that the rule of the people is anarchy, and they threaten the country with the worst they ean do against it unless they are allowed tn name the next president