The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-12-08
SHYLOCK'S TEMPLE
MUST FALL
Veteran RefOrmer Writes OF "The
Middle of the Middle of the
Road"
Coin Money Is u Relic of Barba r. SIN
Deadly Enemy to Man.
kind.
The ShylOck Twin Devils Of Gold
and Silver Must Die
Together.

There is the middle of the road, and
there is the middle Of the middle of the
road. The middle of the middle is 70
demonetize both gold and silver. The
time has come to abolish this system Of
barbarism All the wranglng in the
civilized world Is caused by this devil
ish system. 1t Is mammOn worship and
nothing else We have been, as reform
ers, monkeying around with side issues
long enough. Let us begin now to be-
siege the citadel Of the enemy. This
coin money system is the central pillar
on which the temple Of plutocracy
stands. Pull that down and the whole
fabric tumbles into ruin. Coin money
is the hotbed out of which usury grows.
Usury is the tap root evil Of the world.
All the civil governments of the world
are run in the interest of usury.
1t has already bound in chains of slav-
cry the toilers of the world 1t has
plastered the world over with bonds,
mortgages and debt until labor is gasp
Ing for breath The grip of this deadly
serpent is tightening every day. 1t
takes all the surplus, leaving only a
bare subsistence, every bushel Of
wheat, corn, oats, every pound of beef,
pork and cotton, every dollar that is
made by labor above a scanty subsist-
ence, to pay the interest on the forty
thousand millions of debts (as debt in
our country while millions of men,
women and children are hungry, ragged,
destitute and homeless; and yet he
debts grow, and like a great maelstrom
engulf the wealth of our nation
Coin or metallic money is the cause
Remove the cause and the effect is
gone. Show the people this fact, hold
it up before them by day and by night.
elevate it with the stars and stripes, and
show them there can be no freedom,
no liberty, no equality, no republic, in
our world under the reign of coin money.
Show them that money is the fiat Of
law, that the Image and superscription"
of sovereign authority stamped on any
substance, is money. Get this fact
drilled into the heads of the people,
and they will rally to the support Of
the party that demands the abolition Of
coin as money. We must come to it.
There is no other remedy for the, Ills
that vex and agitate society All this
nonsense Of making money out Of cop
per, nickel, silver and gold must go.
1t is absolutely astonishing and hu-
initiating to think that this childish,
foolish, senseless system can be per-
petuated in the light of the nineteenth
century.
It belongs to the age Of barbarism It
is perpetuated by the high priests of
mammon worship. They understand it.
They know 1t is the only way to en-
slave labor. When the war Of the re-
bellion forced the government to adopt
the true system of money, treasury
notes, these henchmen of their master,
the devil, made all haste to save theie
sinking craft by stabbing the green
back with the exception" They knew
that something must be done immed-
lately or coin money was doomed.
These enemies of God and man knew
that If this system of money adopted
by the government continued, that as
the London Times put it, the republic
would furnish it's money at COST It
would pay off it's debts. 1t would have
any amount Of money necessary to carry
on It's trade and commerce. 1t would
become prosperous beyond precedent in
the history of the civilized nations of
the globe. The brains and wealth of
all countries would flow into this coun-
try. The idea Tor truth on the money
question: would become contagious, and
other nations whose bonds were sold
Tor gold, and the interest on which
adds millions to their wealth annually
would be paid off in green paper and
lamp black, then they who are now
rich drawing interest, robbing labor)
would be made as poor as you can make
them," as poor as the toilers are.
These wicked shylocks knew all this.
They were determined that there should
be debts. They did not intend that the
United States should be prosperous be-
yond precedent" They did not want
the "brains and wealth of all nations
to flow into the United States.
They were determined that the true
Idea and true system of money should
not become "contagious.'' Hence they
made all haste to stab the greenback
with the exceptions, as the first step
to resumption of specie or coin money.
What pity our so-called great states
men didn't know enough about true
money so as to repel this deadly enemy,