The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-30
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commodity In commerce. Put your god
(gold) to the test. Demonetize 1t and it,
rapid shrinkage in value in commerce will
soon give the lie to the assertion that gold
is not inflated in value, or its purchasing
power increased enormously by the
stamp of Caesar, the legal fiction Of which
makes it the only legal tender for debts.
VIII you do it voluntarily, or will you
wait only a few short years when the peo-
pie will do it for you without your con-
sent.
In the estimation of many the president
Is big man, congress is big man, the
supreme court is big man, but there is
one power higher and greater than them
all, and it will soon issue a mandate from
which there is no appeal. The citizen
stands above and superior to all. 1t may
be necessary that the scheme Of usurpation
come fully to head: it may be necessary
in the progressive development of the race
that the gold power be seated supreme
for short time to the end that all Of the
people be led to recognize It's malign infiu-
ence and rise in their indignation to crush
it beyond all possibility of resuscitation.
Are you prepared for the consequences of
your folly in that event? There is an old
aphorism Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad" 1t holds as much
potency today as it ever did.
The whole power to regulate commerce
was vested In congress by the trainers of
our constitution. This consists of but
three branches, money. transportation,
and the transmission of intelligence. How
sadly have we fallen from our high estate
for every one of these avenues have, by a
direlict and treacherous congress, been
turned over to remorseless, greedy,
corporation. The peoples government con-
ssts only Of the tax gatherer and the po-
liceman. We have only one peaceable
means to correct these evils. VIII we
have sense enough and courage enough to
use it, will we suffer ourselves to be
hoodwinked and ensaved by lot Of mush-
room, shOddy, millionaire aristocrats and
their tools; a piratical crew Of lickspittle
newspaper scribblers, who, like Juvenals
versatile omniprcscent Greeks. can easily
make black appear white and white black,
in the interests Of their senseless masters;
the whole hireling pack cutie fish like.
seek to darken the whole heavens and
lead us into slavery. The sentiment Of
every man who is alive to the true inward
ness of what is hid behind this sound money
cry is aptly expressed by Thurlow Weed
Brown: STAND by the prison door, and
as the remorseless hinge shreks after the
victim it entombs, peer through the grating
and cheer the living dead with the news
that you sold them to crime and infamy
for gold. Hail the shelterless orphans in
the street and tell them that you sold them
to be crucified; robbed them of their bread,
of education, parents, and home. for gold.
Tell the murderer you made him a muir
derer for gold. Stand by the graves of
the last 10 months and whisper to the So
COO sleepers-victims of your regulated traf-
fic-that you slew them for gold. Enter
the vestibule Of perdition and with Bib'e
in hand. read that no drunkard can inhab-
1t the kingdom of God and the fitting
ghosts of uncounted thousands charge you
with their deep damnation, comfort them
with the assurance that you did 1t for
gold. Follow your slaughtered hosts to the
Judgment, and when He who called the
first patricide to account shall call for
your brother, answer that you slew him
for gold For gold" the angels shall
echo and weep For gold" shall hooking
devils catch. up the cry and taunt earth
That in all hell there is nothing so damn
ably unrighteous' as this system of fnan-
w. H. Pavtt.