The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-06
THE EVILS THAT HAVE BEEN
ACCOMPLISHED.
Americans Should Arouse Themselves to
the Monstrous Spoliation of Their In
dustries Through the Attempted Firm
Establishment OF the Gold Standard.
(By Hon. j. w. POrler.)

corporate and private debts, and for
the support of the costly governmental
establishments fixed upon money
cheaper and more abundant? The peo-
pie of this country are morally respon-
sible to the world for the continued ex-
istence Of the gold standard, which has
placed such untold burdens upon the
producing classes of other nations; for
the bimetallic law, which provided for
the unlimited use of all gold and silver
as money could not have been broken
but by American action, nor could the
sole gold standard be maintained now
without American concurrence. hls
is SO we'll understood abroad that every
effort has been made to prevent Amer
lean action, which would sound the
death knell of gold monometallism.
When under the impulse of the Sher-
man purchasing act silver rapidly rose
as soon as it's passage was assured, and
was morally certain to reach coin par,
there was by some secret work of un-
seer hands abroad, no doubt aided and
abetted by traitors in u un-American
Wall street, action taken to those ap-
peareG 4 large quantity of silver pur-
posely shipped to break u markets,
not only for silver but wheat and cot
ton, which advanced with the gold
price of silver. This rise in silver,
wheat and cotton, u great American
staple products, was really a fall in
gold.
Why, the financial magnates abroad
aided by their ever ready allies in our
great mart, could afford to spend mill
lens to defeat the will of the American
people in this matter.
In that one year they saved more
than $50, 0O0, 900 by the forced decline
of wheat and cotton, or in other words,
reversing the decline in gold and ad-
vancing it-for the decline of silver
since 1873 mas been really the appre-
citation of gold.
Nothing vas easier to do. To ship
our silver coin of even par value under
the laws Of all continental Europe. 1t
needed not to be sold nor even melted,
but only offered, to bear the American
market. Aided by their American pals
in the gigantic plot, they easily affected
their purpose, and silver again fell and
gold went up.
For ought we know the silver ship
ment may then have been returned to
its use in Europe.
Though not primarily responsible for
the original wrong-the act of Febru-
airy IL, 1S73-an act Of treason to the
people OF this country, inasmuch as it
aided and abetted the enemies of our
country, more effectively than would
the marshaling of armies upon our
borders: cur people are responsible to
the world for so long condoning the
wrong after it's whitening exposure in
the halls of congress prior to the pas
sage of the Bland-Allison act of 1878,
and in the great debates since. Egypt,
hopeless and powerless under it's three
fold burden of it's debt to the Roths-
childs, and Portugal with it's debt Of
yer $500, 900, 900, owe their miseries
tc Americas action. Portugal affords
a noteworthy example of the terrible
oppression of this octopus of an appre-
ciating standard. A brave and frugal
race, numbering but little more than
the people of Ohio, with revenues
pledged to the Rothschilds as trus-
tees, in London, for the payment of in
terests they are struggling with con-
stantly falling prices for their export
able produce, and are being reduced to
the verge of despair.
The condition Of all southern Europe
il almost as bad; and Americans may
we'll reflect upon their responsibility to
free the people of other lands as we'll as
our own fair land.
We fell unwittingly into the scheme
of the, c~onspirators, the first and most
powerful in of all nations.
Independent action by our country
would not only redeem the world from
this CALLING bondage, but would place
our country in the forefront Of nations.
The humiliating spectacle of plead
ing at European capitals for permits
sion to utilize to the full legal extent
the God-given treasure of silver as
money would be spared us.
AS we'll might we appeal to them for
an international consent as to orr
tariff and have a commission appoint
ed to arrange it. Indeed, our tariff poll
cies appear to affect many foreign ma
tions intimately than our fnan-
cial policies, for they threaten repris-
ais which they did not do when we dis
cardnd both gold and silver and nro.
pered. too. under a greenback regime.
This gold craze originated to crafty
the lust for wealth and power. Sufa-