The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
A STUPENDOUS LIE.
THE CRY FOR SOUND MONEY A
BRAZEN FRAUD.
It Means Bonds and an Additional
Burden Upon the People. Which
They Are Expected to Pay.
1T is A DECEITFULS SOUND FROM
THE BOWELS OF HE'LL.
The People Detr oft, Mich.


plished except under plea that had
on its face the appearance Of honesty.
Chattel slavery had it's defenders,
and ministers OF the gospel brought
the precepts of the Bible forward to
prove that it was right.
That was a little more than gen.
GRAFTON ago. Now this generation
stands aghast at the cupidity of that
one, and men wonder why they
"fought, bled and died" to protect the
property (?) Of slave holders who
would not give them drink Of water
when weary and thirsty from and long
continued marching.
The plea was the "vested rights of
property" and the famous Dred Scott
decision affirmed it. The Supreme
Court of this nation announced to the
world that one human being had a
right to own another human being,
and carry him wherever he choose to
60, irrespective of the laws Of the
country into which he carried him.
Only one short generation has passed
since that decision, but we stand
aghast at it's inhumanity, and the
enormity of the national crime stands
out in all it's hideousness.
In those days there were abolition
lists who we're called cranks, lunatics
and agitators.
They were dragged through the
streets and mobbed under the very
shadow of Bunker Hill monument.
But chattel slavery was wrong, and
all the laws and court decisions. and
sermons from the creation of Adam to
the death Of the devil could not make
it right.
The slave power would not permit
it to be legislated out of exis tence, so
the people rose up and shot it to death
the last resort, and one in which the
people always succeed.
The n came the Inauguration OF
new form Of slavery. Horace Greely
had said that: wherever opportun-
ity to labor is obtained with difficulty,
and is SO deficient that tn e employing
class may virtually prescribe their
own terms and pay their labOrer only
such share as they choose OF the pro-
slavery" Knowing this to be true,
the money power of Europe and
America issued the following cir.
cular;
slavery is likely to be abolished by
the war power, and chattel slavery de-
stroyed. This, l and my European
friends are in favor Of, for slavery is
but the owning Of labor. and carries
with it the care for the laborer: while
the European plan, led on by England.
is capital control of labor by control
ling wages. This can be done by con-
trolling the money. The great debt
that capitalists will see to it is made
out of the war, must be used as
measure to control the volume of
money. To accomplish this the bonds
must be used as banking basis. We
are now waiting to get the secretary
of the treasury to make this recon-
mendation to Congress. 1t will not
do to allow the greenback, as it is
called, to circulate as money for any
length Of time, for we cannot con troll
it. ."-HaZZard's S Circular of 1862.
Whatever may be said of the gen
uineness Of the above circular. no one
will pretend to deny that it has been
the policy pursued by both old parties,
and that Cleveland recommends put
ting in the capStone Of the arch of
the foul conspiracy, in his recent mes
sage to Congress.
All this is to be accomplished, under
the plea of Sound money"
Countrymen beware!
This cry is a dcceitful, hollow sound
from the bowels Of hell. The bank
ers held the government by the throat
and shouted it while million men
we're fighting and bleeding for the
preservation of the Republic and TAX
ing their pay in money which the
bankers now want destroyed.
They say that the money which paid
the soldiers who preserved the plag is
dishonest.
If it is dishonest, then the soldiers
we're never paid.
Under the plea of "honest money"
they crippled the greenback. Under
this plea they secured law paying
the bondholders. who had bought
their bonds with greenbacks, in gold
and silver. Under the same plea they
demonetiZed silver.
And now with the same foul lie Gun
der slightly changed name) upon
their lips they seek to destroy the
greenbacks.
1--WE must have sound money" they
say.
What is sound money, as they con-
Strue ID?
Notes OF the bankers, which they
loan and charge interest for. A plan
by which the banker can collect inter
est on what he owes.
10 issue note, eau it money, and
collect interest on it.
What makes it sound?
Why, the government stands back
Of it.
So does the government stand back
of the greenback.
But the grecnback is the people
money and the banker does not make
anything on them, hence lie wants
them out Of the way.
A part Of the conspiracy to enslave