The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-18
A BONDED WORLD.
The Nations Of the Earth Staggsr-
ing Under Heavy Debts.

sufrerngs and struggles of nations whose
peoples are in the grasp of the money
power. We will start at Japan and travel
west
Japan is on the verge of financial
panic. japan has only recently become
Civilized, "sand has never enjoyed the
pleasures Of boom followed by a panic
and years of depression. AS a prelimi-
nary the land Of the Mikado has adopted
modified gold basis. and we may conf.
IDENTIFY expect depressing news from that
section of the globe.
China is asleep, hut the European
money lenders look with longing eyes
upon this vast and inert nation Four
hundred millions of people could pay ill.,
terest on many bonds. To develop and
bond China is the dream of the interna.
tional usurer. 1t can and will be done.
India is starving. Millions of her peo-
pie who have been taxed for generations
to support an English aristocracy have
died in their rack rented corn fields from
lack of food. The stencil of the dead and
dying has reached the drawing rooms of
London, and in the holy name of charity
pittance is taken from the blood money
and sent back to the unfortunate natives.
Two hundred thousand British and ma,
tive soldiers stand guard over the fam.
ished lana and collect tribute ut the
'AioHSiS vi ehO SttuHOu. TISyDU Is In DGCCer
health and is paying her rent to England
with cheerful regularity.
AT the command and instigation of the
Christian powers the Turk has struck
down Greece. Greece was not in debt to
tile Rothschilds. Turkey was. The i'll
terest on the Turkish bonds was due and
must be paid. How? BY crushing Greece
and compelling the payment of war in
demnity. The blood of Armenians was
yet fresh on the swords of Turkish butch
ers when English and German intrigue
ordered them to the plains of Thessaly.
They were commanded by Germ an and
Austrian officers, and their expenses paid
by the sale of bends issued from English
banks.
The gunboats of the Christian nations
blockaded Crete while the Moslems cut
the throats OF Christian Greeks on plains
made sacred in the struggle for liberty.
Greece is conquered and the .Rothschilds
and other bankers will advance such a
sum as the survivors can pay interest
upon. The money will pass from Athens
to Constantinople and from there back to
the banks of London, Paris, Berlin. vi
emma and ST. Petersburg.
In Africa England proposes to subiu-
gate the Boer republic These hardy pro-
pie owe no bonds. They are hard workers
and could pay large sums annually in in
terest While they are of German
descent, it need not be expected that Ger
many will make any serious protest if
fair arrangement is made with the Ger
man banking interests. The gold hounds
are hunting in pack these days. ANY
nation not In debt Is their legitimate
prey.
In tn, South American republics the
old familiar trick Is being.worked. En-.
ropean bankers NEGOTIATED large issues of
paper money. For years they have de.
preciated the value of this script. When
1t became almost worthless they bought
itup. They are now putting these coun.
tries on gold basis. The paper which
cost them from five to twenty--.ents on a
dollar will be redeemed lin gold. How.
BY bond Issues. They will lend the gold
to Brazil and Peru, the Argentine Re.
public and other nations, and accept in
payment gold hearing bonds. They will
then present their paper money for re-
demption and draw out the gold. which
will go back to the banks of Europe.
Simple enough, is it not? These coun-
tries viii! then be on a gold basis. Their
money will be honest Their credit will
equal their capacity to pay interest on
bonds.
The gold-owned press of the United
States halls these events with great ulee
Since the election of Mckinley five ma
tlons have changed to a gold basis. Has
1t improved the condition of the United
States: Elas it FASTENED the dawn of
prosperity?
Cuba. No honest American can sneak
that word without r blush for his coun
try Who employed .Weyler to butcher
Cuban patriots: The money power?
who turned the press of the United
States into syndicate for the subjuga-
ton of liberty and made journalism n
system of literary prostitution? The
money power.
What Influence nerves the gaveI in the
hand of Speaker Reed and makes nun.
pets OF Senators and Congressman every
time that wall from Cuba slaughter
pens goads some unpurchased American
to voice protest in the name of hui
manityE The money power.
BY whom has William McKinley. Pres
ident OF the United States, been gagged
that he dare not utter the sentiments
which thrill the heart of every honest cit
izen of this republic? The money power.
III there he God who watches over the
destinles of nations, and who rewards the
just ana Furnishes the unjust. His curse
will fall on the United States for its
lme in this matter. BY the official acts
OF our representatives we have drunk the
cup OF shame to its bitterest diegs Come
what may we can sink no lower in the
scale of national degradation
The recognition of Cuban belligerency
would Affect the bond market-hence we
stand supinely by or encourage the mon
archy of Spain to drown in blood the re-
public of Cuba. If there were one spark
of manhood left in the American people,
as officially represented at Washington.
our gun beats would have battered down
the forts of Havana and OR troops have
swept Weyle RS butchers into The Gnlf If