The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-05
THE SPOILS OF WAR ARE HUMAN
LIFE FOR HUMAN GREED.

Editor Repre- Sentative-That the mas
ses of the people are born and reared
to manhood and WOmanhoOd for the sub
jugat.on and sacrifice of the few is a
startling fact, but such was the history
of nations before the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ, who proclaimed a new era,
being able by the divine nature united
with the man nature in him to see in
the natural man selfish ambition de-
sire to possess the world and the things
of the world, at the sacrifice of the rights,
privileges and lives of his fellow men,
and this ambition, born of hell, is full
developed in man by his every day en-
vironments with his endorsement War
is the greatest curse of the ages and be-
gets Within man total recklessness, de-
stroying all sympathy for his fellow
man. The boast of the nations, Chris
tan though they claim to be, is that they
cost the blood Of millions of men, a sac
rifice of human life to perpetuate human
oppression. Before the war of the Re-
bellion in this country the people knew
comparatively nothing of war or the
ruin that follows in it's path, but the
spirit it begot in our statesmen is proving
the downfall Of the nation. The war
was protracted for money making pur-
push on to victory were held in the
swampy, malarial regions and persisted
by thousands, while their officers were
specializing In Southern products and
laying the foundation of future fortunes.
The sacrifice of human life seemed only
pastime for them, and at the close of the
war, with hearts dead to human SYM
pathy schemes were laid to build CO.
lossal fortunes ON the ruins of the coun-
try.
And the masterpiece of their hellish
designs was the assassination of the peo-
pies money. The base of our past and
future prosperity, the peoples safeguard,
first last and all the time, was our abil-
ity to pay. The agricultural and mineral
resources of the country were ample to
meet every demand and the national
debt was small. The issuing of sixty NIL
lions of treasury notes, greenbacks, in
1861 to take the place of coin money
demonstrated the fact that with this
kind Of currency we could carry on COM
MERGE with other nations, meet the de-
mands of war and redeem our notes with
the productions of our mines and farms.
But behold the ruin wrought by taking
the vitality from the peoples money,
destroying their confidence In their own
dollar, that its big brother, called U. S.
Bond, might be born, the property of
Shylook and not Of the people; then with
interest added the deception was COM
plete. The people, the country and the
future wealth of the land was secured to
the holder Of the Understanding treas
ury bond. Now the traitors are jubilant;
the people are at their mercy: the treas
ury note, not taxable, Is made the foun-
dat.on of a scheme to sell the people
money, and for the cost of issuing, the
holder Of the peoples treasury note re-
ceives from the people his own note
which he sells in limited amounts to
them for interest bearing mortgages on
their farms and homes, that they may
pay taxes to support the government
Then the treasury note is made payable
Ito the Shylock HOLDER principal and in
terest in gold; then a gold standard for
measuring the values of labor and its
productions, demonetizing silver and
burning the mutilated greenback, thus
closing every avenue for money or wealth
to come to the people, telling them that
the treasury notes cannot be made cur
rency for them. While they draw all the
gold into the hands of their owners and
maintain the entire system that robs the
masses of all profits of their labor, of
their liberty and of their lives by forcing
them into poverty and starvation
Cannot the people see that the best
money in the world today is the United
States treasury note, worth a premium
over gold, the standard money Of the in
ternational robbers, and to secure these
notes premeditted murder curses the
land. Robbery in open is pract.ced
by the legislature and judicial bodies of
the country; homes not secured to Shy
lock by mortgage are beng secured to