The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-10-03
NEIHART, MONTANA. OCTOBER 3. IS!
REVOLT OF PLUTOCRACY
Wealth Arrayed Against Con-
stitutional Government.
MONEY MENACES THE PEOPLE.

No single issue ever raised in the his
tory of American politics exceeds in inn
portance that of opening our mints and
redeeming our currency from the con-
troll of those foreign and domestic COR
porations which seek to inflict on us as
a permanent system their usurpation of
the sovereign power of issuing and reg
ulating the circulating medium.
The only single evil greater than cor
poration control of the taxing power is
this of corporation control of the cur
renoy. 1t is greater because when the
people are robbed, whether by direct or
indirect taxation, the results quickly
appear. But when the robbery is carried
on through contraction of cash and the
imitation of corporation credit paper
they are brought to bankruptcy before
realizing the cause.
The entire plutocracy is in revolt
against our system Of popular constitu-
tional government. So menacing a
movement of class against people has
never occurred before in our history
not even when the same class, under the
leadership Of the Biddles Of the United
States bank, captured the administra-
ton Of John Quincy Adams and so in
trenched themselves in control of the
government that they looked with con-
tempt on the attempt made by the peo-
pie under Jackson's leadership to dis
lodge them and restore popular govern
ment
The wealth of the plutocratic class of
that day was trivial compared to the
holdings of the same class now, but
nevertheless the points of similarity
between the campaign which won
against them then and that which has
now been inaugurated are striking in
their suggestiveness of the way history
repeats itself both in causes and results.
John Quincy Adams had been elected
as Democrat, but he abandoned the
party, repudiated the principles to
which it had pledged his administration
and endeavored to revive the Federalist-
ic party, whose fundamental maxim,
as defined by Daniel Webster himself,
was that all stable and orderly govern
ment must be based on property.
AS the fundamental tenet of Democra-
cy is that all just government must be
based on manhood right and OH the
consent of the governed, the masses Of
the Democratic party felt the same hot
resentment against the Adams admins
tration which they now feel when they
see federal officeholders controlling the
action of conventions called at the in
stance Of Mr.. Whitney of the Standard
Oil company and Mr.. Belmont, Ameri-
can agent of the Rothschild banks.
Andrew Jackson but voiced this just
resentment of the masses when in his
inaugural address he declared that it
was the right of the people to eject from
Office those officials who had used office
in an attempt to dictate the result of
elections. twas because the people had
seen federal offices used to control state
legislatures, to dictate nominations, to
interfere at the polls, that Jackson de-
nounced life tenure in Office as foreign
to the spirit of America and declared
that whatever the evils of changes they
were less than those Of the permanent
tenure. which breeds in the officeholder
the spirit of insolence and of despotism.
He was again the exponent and cham
pion of the masses when he followed his
attack on federal bureaucracy with a
determined assault Oh the national bank
and it's control of the treasury and of
congress. For this he was denounced in
New York city and Boston as no other
American president had ever been de-
nounced before But he did not swerve
With supreme confidence in the peo.
pie and in his own integrity, he forced
the fighting, keeping the aggressive al
ways and not stopping to defend him
self until overwhelming victory show
ed that no man who really represents
the cause of popular freedom need fear
to appeal to the masses for support of
the principles on which their freedom
and progress depend.
On the issue as it was then presented
appeal has once more been made to the
people. The plutocracy has once more
usurped control Of the government. De-
mOcracy has once more been betrayed
by those it trusted. Once more the mil
lionaires of the country are in the field
openly asserting that property has di-
is treason to deny it.
They have drawn their lines of class
and caste and drawn them hard. Those
of them who once called themselves
Democrats do SO no longer. They call
the Democracy of Jefferson and Jack
son, as they do the Republicanism Of
Lincoln, an evil thing. They say that
the rule of the people is anarchy, and
they threaten the country with the
worst they can do against it unless they
are allowed to name the next president
and put Messrs. Hanna and Morgan,
Whitney and Belmont in control at
Washington as their agents.
The issue against African slavery was
never SO vital nor so sharply defined as
this, for if these few thousand men who
control more than half the wealth OF
the country can use it to control the gov.
eminent it means servitude for the peo-
pie, regardless of race or color. But
they cannot win. There is not money
there are not rifles and cannon enough
in America or in the world to impose
plutocracy on America as permanen,
condition.
Against plutocracy and class govern
ment the Democratic party has made it
appeal to Cesar And in Americs
fhere IN No kiy1u hut Cansar aud No Caa