The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-07
SATAN'S SHAME.
The Present Attitude of the
Republican Party
Had an Angels Record Once,
Says W. s. Jay.
DIV II A0 EAT IN
PARTY HAS FALLEN.
Now Allied to the Money Chang
ers and Wall Street.
Scathing Letter of an EmpOria
Capitalist.

T7nDoria Jr1Tv Colonel H. c. Whit
Iey's bolt of the gold plank in the Re-
publican party has been followed by
that of w. S. Jay, prominent
In political and financial circles MI
jay saws in a letter to the Emporia
Republican:
The action of the St. Louis conven-
ton in adopting a platform of mono
metaIllsm as the true policy of this
country unless and until Europe reha-
bilita- IS silver, is, fear, a serious mis-
take. I am willing to admit that val
ues or what pass for such, can be
legislated into, or out of, commodities
and what is known as intrinsic value,
that is value independent Of use, does
not exist 1 am willing to admit the
discrimination against silver by the
legislation of this country for the last
twenty years or more, followed by the
continental countries of Europe, has in
these countries deprived silver largely
of its money value, and by reducing, as
far as these countries are concerned,
the money of final redemption to one
half its former volume in spite of a
rapidly increasing commerce, both IN
ternatiOnal and national has rapidly
appreciated the value of the interna-
tiona1 measure of values as now con-
stituted.
The action of the St. Louis conven-
ton in cOndOning this crime against
the nation and accepting It's cOnSe-
quences at the behest of the money pow
er is equal to that which in 1850 called
the Republican party into existence
and which gave it mission Sub
serviency to a southern Oligarchy and
acquiesence in human slavery resulted
in an awakened public conscience and
the overthrow of the Democratic party
THE twin relics of baTbarism." OD
position to which was the slogan of
the Republican party. are no greater
evils than d system of finance which
makes the wealthy master and poor
man serf.
BY its action at St Louis the party
has allied itself with the successors of
those money changers who made the
temple of the Lord a den of thieves,
and who cornered the Jewish shel1el.
the only legal tender of Israel, and
thereby preyed upon the necessities of
the poor, whose taxes were to be paid
in such coin.
For the purpose of this argument
care not a fig about the present com
nlercial value of the s9-called precious
metals. Silver was stabbed in the dark,
and neither congress nor the president
knew how it was done.
The Republican party, by its action
at St. Louis. has sold itself to the cor
porate creditor class as completely as
the old PraetOrian guards used to sell
the Roman empire to the highest bid
der The Republican party has a rec
ord that an angel might be proud Of
but its present attitude is one that
might shame Satan.
International agreement, interna-
tiOna1 humbug. Did you ever hear of
q Shylock wanting any less than the
pound Of flesh when the pound of flesh
is offered? If the creditor class, repre-
scented by what we call Wall street, had
Its way, there would be no money of
ultimate redemption, no legal tender
power in anything, not even in gold.
Almost everything we produce or
handle, except debts, is marketed on a
silver basis. This country is on a mon
Ometallic basis, and that base is gold
The Republican party in the nation
has fallen from its high estate. The
Republican party in Kansas should re-
pudiate, as far as possible. the gold
plank of the St Louis convention, or
certain defeat awaits US.