The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-17
MONEY FOR McKINLEY,

AS the campaign progresses evidence
accumulates to prove the oft-asserted
statement that the monopolists and
usurers both of America and Europe
are arrayed together to defeat the elec-
tion of Bryan: that it is battle for
the supremacy of wealth over the
masses, for a concentration of the
power OF corporations in the manage
ment of the government. Even the
great Oregonian places itself, unwit-
tingly of course, in evidence along this
line.
A man styling himself Baron Charles
II. de Courtier, representing to be a
liking of capital" was in Portland,
and the Oregonian quotes him as say
ing:
'iWe are hardly in position to say
much of our plans and movements, as
they will depend entirely on the No
vember election. The syndicate we
| represent may be termed international,
being comprised of leading capitalists
in Amsterdam, Germany, France and
England, whose aggregate capital will
exceed S45, ,009,000 This vast sum is
today at a standstill, as the result of the
I present financial disturbance in this
country. and l am under positive in
structions to stop pallinvestmeuts until
the result of the election is known.
Further than that [ am under orders
to cancel all contracts and withdraw
all Investments in the event of Bryan
being elected, and, on the other hand.
to close all contracts and make further
investments if Major Mckinley is elec-
ted.
81 am now investigating the ques-
tion of state legislatures. both. in Ore
gon and Washington, with a view to
determining what their several COM
plexions will be after the election.
Any state in which the syndicate is in
terested whose legislature is shown to
have a majority of populists will nec-
essarily be stricken from the list of
states with which the syndicate will
deal, and all the investments in those
states will be withdrawn
What are we to learn from this
statement of the "baron?" If McKin-
ley is elected. a policy of government
will be pursued that will be solely in
the interest of the foreign bond holder
and money loaner. If Bryan should
succeed, the interests of another class
are to be subserved. If McKinley's
gold-standard policy shall prevail the
'baron" will invest his foreign capital
(loan it at the highest possible rate of
INTEREST," and who will it benefit, those
who -mortgaAe e their property and
future posterity, or the ''baron" across
the water who draws the wealth of the
country away in interest?
Thereis something more to learn
frem4this ';money kings" statement.
In states whose legislatures are under
control of the party that has always
beenfavorabie-to themoney syndicates.
he will invest, because he is assured of
a continuation of legislation favorable
to them.
To-day Oregon, and in fact every
state in the Union, is suffering from the
'investments" of these foreign syndi-
Gates. The masses of the people are
ground down paying interest upon the
foreign capital that has been placed
here by such syndicates as this "baron"
represents. The less of their capital
Invested" here the better. If there
has to be capital loaned in this cou ntry
let it be home money. 1t is easier for
the people to pay interest on American
money than foreign money because the
interest remains here, hence it is more
profitable. Nevertheless this does not
detract from the fact that the money
syndicates of Europe and America are
deeply interested in McKinley's sue
cess, and that Baron de Courtier s.
Go. are lending their aid.