The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-23

IL Is proposed to conduct the business
OF all the worldl IL is the most mon
strous scheme ever known In history.
The public and private debts OF the
American people amount to about for.
ty.five billions OF dollars. or this
debt less than ten per cent is held
abroad. Most OF the foreign holding Is
In Great Britain Yet by the bond OF
this ten per cent the United States has
become an appanage cf Great Britain.
The independence which we thought
we had achieved hundred and twenty
years ago, and which We supposed we
had confirmed fourscore years ago,
has been reconverted into miserable
dependency which might suggest to a
pessimist that it would have been bet
ter never to break with our good
mother at ALL
The present aspect OF the world is
that of one centralized power, having
its seat in London, with outlying DEEPEN
denotes. India with nearly four hun
dred millions Is another dependency;
Canada with six millions Is a third;
the United States with seventy millions
is fourth; the states OF the Latin
union are the fifth. Germany and Rus
STA are fattered with the belief that
they are members of the league; but rs
matter of fact they are only Cam
baceres and Lebrun in the consulate.
The first consul-and the only one OF
any importance-has his headquarters
in the bank Of England. =
1t is now only question how the rob-
bers who have despoiled mankind in
the two civilized continents by means
OF the bond and the dollar are going TO
| ar x.,;tk thAtx Thnu
have little time and opportunity. In
nations with pleasing decisions and fan
cies. One OF these fancies is impeding
universal war. War is an exciting
circumstance, and the prospect OF war
serves TO distract the attention OF peo-
pie from the wrongs which they have
suffered. The rumor of worldwide
war is the substance OF the daily news.
People read it and believe 1t. Shylock
Is ia ecstacies over the success OF his
ruse, and il he thought he could sell
more bonds he would plunge all ma
tons into bloody and DISCRIMINATING
conflict Another one of the illusions
is the Fictitious discovery OF gold. The
propaganda having its headquarters in
London and its American branch in
William street, New York, has been
engaged during the year 1895 in the
dissemination OF the news OF gold dis
coveries in all parts OF the world. South
Africa is teoming with gold; the noun.
tains OF South America are founded
on gold and the outcroppings OF it are
seen in many parts; the Australian
hills are made OF gold; the Alaskan
mines are also rich in gold; the very
sea- bottom on several coasts reaching
out for leagues is mire OF gold; new
discoveries are made in Colorado and
| Arizona and New Mexico and Georgia.
Added finds are heralded with every
mail. Soon it will be that gold shall be
a drug in the streets; 1t shall be heaped
in crates, from which the passerby may
help himself and his friends. The price
OF gold will thus be brought down, and
we, the managers OF the enterprise,
will have to adopt strenuous measures
to prevent the er-coinage of gold as
money Strange that all this ineffable
lying should be propagated by the press
and be believed by an intelligent peoplel
Another pleasing fancy OF the godites
is the great prosperous revival OF bust
ness. Why, here is marvellous para
dox. Business, according to the great
disinterested organs OF public opinion,
revives and does not revivel Manu-
features flourish again and do not flour
ish again Enterprise once more goes
forward with bound, and enterprise
does not bound forward at all, but re-
mains inert and dead The farmer with
his fat-lean kline rejoices and weepsl
The collapsed bins OF ten thousand
farm-yards are bursting with high low
wheatl The gold organ performs this
paradox for the reason that il must.
According to the organ, the adoption
OF the Wilson bill in 1893, in place OF
the war tariff schedule that had been
aggravated to an Inflammation by the
Mckinley law, Frustrated all enterprises,
ruined all industries; ard neither can
the one revive nor the other ever flour
ish again, until the flamboyant protec-