The herald., 1896-09-27
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BY JAMES G. CLARK.


.'Tbe farmers to whom we have loaned
money are not getting enough from
their crops to pay interest, but they are
having off their mortgages py making
them larger, and, of course, this means
foreclosure at last, unless, through silver
reconciliation or some other means,
currency becomes more plentiful. and
that without much delay. While l am
opposed to the banking system ana tne
gold standard, I am in the business ans
must make the best of 1t, ana II the Iarm>
ers are fools enough to vote for Mchin~
ley and the Republican platform, they
need the education they are acquir1nes
and deserve to suffer for their stupid AL
legiance to a money policy that Is pau
perizing them. In the meantime. though
engaged in a business that is prolific
cause of hard times am doing my best
to abolish 1t by electing Bryan"
No reasoning mind can fail to see that
this increasing practice Of paying OF
mortgages by making them larger" must
necessarily end In wholesale foreclos-
ure and in reducing the former owner to
tenants. But the fact does not occur to
the minds of most people-especially
those who vote for McKinley-that the
same end Is reached when we extend
and apply the same principle to this
body polite which is only q complex in
dividual, and that the inevitable result
is the enlargement Of national indebted
ness into perpetual gold interest-bear-
ing mortgage, for no honest and intelli-
gent man or woman will even pretend
that with gold standard, which allows
interested parties to corner all the gold,
|, we can possibly pay the principal Of our
bonded debts. Hence endless refunding
would be the order, and this would mean
the endless national payment by Ameri.
cans of rent for the occupation Of the
globe.
And this is precisely what the worlds
usurers are aiming to accomplish, no
matter what they may profess In ali
over Sound money" national honor"
etc.
The gold standard is the last straw
laid on the industrial camel's back Its
sole object is the monopolization of the
currency, which represents all of the
numerous interests. products and in
dustries that touch human existence
and make life desirable. 1t means the
universal slavery of all non-stockholders
in bonds and syndicates to the compare
lively few who control the currency and
own and operate the trusts and corpor-
ations that have cornered the world and
killed competition, through the aid Of
special laws and government favor. 1t Is
the last effort and determination of the
non-producers and managers of wealth
to build and perpetuate an aristocracy
of elegant ease and extravagance, based
debasement and bondage Of those who
toll FOR and produce wealth. This Is
why the one class Is so determined and
relentless and unscrupulous In methods
and means to the one great end, and the
other class SO earnest-with an earnest
ness akin to madness-in resisting the
further advance and pressure of a gi-
gantic force without a Soul to gov
ern it. A king or queen on the throne
has human heart, to which the subjecr
may appeal, but enthroned capital is
without heart, soul or conscience, and
recognizes no law but the relentless law
of Interest" and of "dividends."
The war is declared and it is a war for
supremacy and final occupation, and
from the very nature of the contending
forces it can only end with the uncondi-
tional surrender Of one Of the two sys-
TENS that have closed in final life
and death grapple. The Wall street in-
stigators of the gold-headed Democra-s
cy. which has recently afforded us ans
other "object lesson" at Indianapolis,
are aware of this.
That convention was, from its first in
ception, inspired by the spirit of seces-
sion and of blind madness and malig-
nifty. 1t was to be expected that John
P. Irish would act as the automatic
double action, revolving kicking ma
chine Of the convention, and the expec-
tation was more than realized: He an
mocracy was in the field to denounce
right and left;' that both the regular
Democracy and the Republicans are CO.
conspirators and enemies OF the plain
people-twin daughters Of the horse
leech"-and that Bryan 10 a paid syn
dicate agent, travelling the country and
footing for customers"
1t is but Justice to Mr.. Irish to credit
him with sincerity, for no one can look
into his face without realizing that it
Is the vacated shell of an ancient moral
and mental conviction. He regards as
absolutely vicious and destructive ev-
cry innovation and even every new birth
and expression of an old truth.
He has for years been the retired po-
litical and journalistic "broncho" Of the
Pacific coast, shying and lodging in
terror at the sight and sound Of every
reform. He tries to control the world
by clinging to the tail of the past and
loses his temper because the great body
polite manages, in some way, to waa
along without him and in spite Of him.
Mr.. Irish, like BoVrke Cochran, the
Belmonts and other advocates Of cur1
rency contraction, processes great inter4
est in the plain people" while in the
very act of plucking from them what
few ornaments they possess by contfnu-
ing financial policy which forces them
to sell all their products at falling, silver
bullion prices and to pay their taxes and
in appreciating gold standard money.
Oh, yes, they love the plain people,"
as Satan did the Son Of Man. It is q
significant sign accompanying the sea
cession, Democratic, one-third rule con-
vention that General Sickles has issued
circular to old soldiers informing them
that civil war will follow the election Of
Bryan.
General Sickles was a brave soldier
and has won the nations love and grati-
tude for services on many battlefield,
But he is pro-monopoiy man as he was
pro-slavery in 1860, when he and the
same class of conservative Democrats
predicted secession and civil war in case
of the election of Abraham Lincoln Of
whom worse things were said by the
Belmont-John p. Irish faction than they
have yet said of Bryan. Lincoln was.
nevertheless, fairly and constitutionally
elected, and it was not the victorious
majority but the seeding minority that
fired on Old Glory and assumed the re-
sponsibility of pro-slavery civil war
which ended in the defeat and surren-
der of the aggressors and the extinction
of the civilization for which they re-
belled and fought. There Is lesson in
all this we'll worth needing now. Some
of us remember how gallant Daniel q.
Sickles swallowed his pro-slavery pref
udices, fought under the anti-slavery
flag and shared the honors Of victory.
And if the pro-monopoly secession, Wall
street rebels, in case Bryan, like Lin
coln proves to be the choice of the ma.
jority, inaugurate another civil war
believe that General Sickles would again
take sides with the oppressed. Other