Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-03-24

cOss that second one. Today we
are fighting to secure what JEFF
ferson in 1918 advised, that
circulation be restored to the
nation, to whom it belonged. !"
England, according to her pro-
mise when Peel remodeled her
banks in 1914, is discussing the
same point, with strong lean
ing, as every free country must
have, to break the yoke of wealth
and restore the people to their
rights. This is the reason why
the banks and the money kings
hate this movement so bitterly
and pour out their money like
water to kill it. They feel and
know it is a hand to hand fight
between themselves and the
people.
It is one of the last battles
between aristocracy and demo-
cracy. The most cunning weapon
they use is that of confusing the
question. They fool their dupes
and instruct their agents to drag
in the questions of paper money.
imitation, bonds and q score of
others, in order to hide the real
issue, which is simply, shall the
nation make it's own currency or
put itself under the guardianship
of capital-sheep in the keeping
of wolves? My friend, Mr..
Blaine, wonders that I and the
south should join in this move
ment. Let me tell him such
movementsast this are not of men.
Such questions ripen of them
selves. It was inevitable that,
after emancipation, the politico-
economical issue should present
itself. He must not think the
bankruptcy of this class, the
ambition Of that man, the cum
ming of a party, or the theories of
a clique, lifted this question to
the surface. AS the French
courtier said to Louis XVI:
Sire, this is not a riot, it is d
revolution" So I say to Schurz,
Blaine and Sherman; this is no
rotten party falling to pieces.
no discontented class clamoring
in the dark; this is a step in the
ages, revolution deeper than
that which was sealed at Apo
mattox. It began when con-
gress declared all men equal; it
will never end till it is settled
that the peoples are the source
of all power and safely to be
trusted with it's exercise over
every interest, and in every
direction. On one side stand the
tory and the coward; those who
hate the people and those who
honestly doubt their capacity
and discretion. On the other
side we see the men who still
believe iu the declaration of in
and are resolved
that this shall be, as Lincoln
said, "A government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the
people
| believe in the people, in uni
versal suffrage as fitted to secure
the best results human nature
leaves possible. If corruption
seems rolling over us like a flood
mark, it is not the corruption of
the hum bier classes. It is mill
ionaires who steal banks, mills
railways; it is defaulters who
live in palaces and make way
with millions; it is money kings
who buy up congress; it is de-
magogues and editors, in purple
and fine linen, who bid $4,000
for the presidency itself.
These are the spots where
corruption nestles and gangrenes
the state. If humble men are
corrupted, these furnish the
over whelming temptations. tits
not the common people in the
streets, but the money changers
who have intruded into the
temple, that we need some one
If the hills will cease
to send down rottenness the
streams will run clean and clear
on the plains.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.