The representative., 1896-02-05

Under the pressure Of this English
German gold interest bearing mortgage
glacier millions of our citizens have been
pauperized and many of them crowded
from happy homes or paying employ
ments to recruit chain gangs
Before this gigantic crime, in which
the president has himself been the most
prominent and effective agent, the Vene-
zuelan boundary line, and even the Mon-
roe doctrine, with all that it involves
and implies, sink into insignificance.
But presume our English literary
friends. like many of our American
statesmen. have not studied foreign flnan-
cial encroachment and invasion from the
standpoint of the Monroe doctrine"
Yet why not?
But there Will be no war because Roth
child-who, il not on intimate terms
with the prince of peace is the prince of
usurers-forbids it.
He has never been known to deprecats
war when by the shedding Of blood he
could place nation under gold interest
bearing bonds Of Indebtedness 1t Is only
when the mortgage Is firmly and securely
fastened and when war would mean re-
pud.atfon that he prays for peace, to the
end that all the laboring men, women
dNu CIlluItu IIAdy Ut opdT6u 10 WOTk
out their salvation with fear and tremb-
ling" and keep up the annual payment OF
interest
Rothchild, like other loan "constr1c-
tors" and like all trust and corporation
autocrats. is firm believer in that eco-
nom.c creature styled laissez faire. The
term lassez fa:re is polite foreign alb
breviation of leach one for himself and
the devil take the hindmost'
LaisSez faire in the economic realm and
in pioneer stages, when there was an
abundance of unoccup:ed land and some
thing for everybody to do, meant a sort
Of pell- healthy and exciting race
for competency. 1t now means hand
to-hand, -and-death battle for bare
existence ON the part of tOiling and pro-
d,lcing millions who in the United States
alone create eight billions of wealth an
nually, three-e. ghths OF which they re-
tain for their own use, while five-eighths
go to enrich managers" middlemen and
usurers who have cornered not only the
results, but the means of production.
The latter class call this business"
and finance" but the thoughtful people
OF all classes are coming to regard 1T as
industrial slavery on the part of the
masses and systematized extortion and
oppression ON that of the classes.
The primitive expression and growth
of competitive commerce were 10 less
natural and lawful than are the begin
n:ngs 'of great rivers, which, though at
the source owned and controlled by pri-
waite parties, at last widen and deepen
into public waterways and become parts
of the commonwealth. as the great in
dustries must finally do.
Competition is the alpha and omega
the root and the fru.t-of the war spirit,
and, in the last analysis, is war.
The same spirit that will cheat and
rob, and, without regard to abstract
equity, cvtct and drive a fellow man from
home, under the protection Of the Flaws
Of contract" is the spirit that will not
hesitate to murder the victim when the
fear of the penalty is removed This is
why generations are ever ready to de-
fend, not their power ecally, but their
stocks and surplus gatns-acquired
through legalized robbery--with grape
and canister and wholesale slaughter.
This is why that eminent divine. Joseph
Cook, proclaimed some four years ago in
a public lecture in Portland Oregon on
the Single Tax and Socialism, I'VE are
ready, if need be, to meet the landless
mems mouth" This is way Gen. Miles,
in the true murderous military spirit,
calls for fifty thousand soldiers to put
down strikes" This is why Gen. Howard,
that ''model Christian hero suggested
that in lease Of strikes the militia should
be sent into cites and localities remote
from their homes in order that they
might not be compelled to shoot down
their neighbors and friends but be on
abled to murder strangers in the interest
of corporations. This is why the public
press, both sides of the ocean, in Discus
sing the chances of war between this
country and England over the Venezuela
question. devote their columns to the
great commercial interests involved,
while they hardly refer to the prospective
slaughter of tens of thousands of human
beings.
Modern commercialism necessarily in
wolves the absurd proposition that the
property rights" of the corporations are
more sacred than the inalienable right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
on the part of the masses The natural
evolution of Christian civilization to-
ward social democracy has been tempor-
arily ARRESTED and it's altruistic spirit
partially paralyzed by private combina-
tiOns, organized and protected by laws
backed and enforced by policemen S
clubs and Gatling guns.
Nevertheless, if civilization is to expand
or even continue to live the private trust
and corporation must surrender to the
commonwealth.
This is the white socialistic elephant
that just now claims the attention of
Christendom and the att:tudinizing of
both the American eagle and the British
lion cannot conceal the creatures dimen-
siors nor suppress its ominOus trumpet
ings and it's steady onward tramp.
In conclusion let me recall the time
when Rothschild did not raise his voice
in behalf Of peace. But that was during
our civil war, and before his class had
succeeded in converting fraternal blood
into a perpetual gold interest bearing
mortgage on the United States.
james G. Clark.