The Louisiana populist., 1897-08-13

dalliance with the grasping fundhold-
ers of Europe. The destructive policy
of contracting the paper currency of
the people by locking it up, while all
over this broad country there is such
a dearth of it as to produce the great
est hardship among all classes of citi-
zens, and taxes cannot be paid, nor in
thousands of cases can interest upon
Bonded debts be met, will convince
every one who is not a victim of this
gold craze Of the necessity of prompt
action without waiting for verdict of
the people (now in preparation) in 1898.
1t seems as if judicial blindness had
stricken the gold worshipers. Today
the sympathies of the world are en-
listed in behalf of the struggling Gu
bans and the Greeks and the Armeni-
ans, yet the policies of the leading ma
tions of the world appear to be domia-
ated by the fundholders. To the shame
of all Americans, our own administra-
tion appears to have been touched by
the hand of Midas.
Indeed, our secretary of state has
Eever recovered from that touch in
1868 which transformed him. When in
years gone by would an American ad-
ministration have tolerated, for one
month even, the atrocities heaped upon
American citizens in Cuba? All! those
Spanish bonds held In London and Sc
cured by pledge of the revenues of
Cuba!
"The powers" (the money bags
really make common cause in the
bourse of the world, in New York as
we'll as in London. There will be no
big war. That would end the gold craze,
for when was war ever successfully
conducted with gold? Honor, sympa-
thy for Armenians, Cretans and
Greeks, must be held in allegiance at
the behest Of the money bags.
The vast armament of Europe, which
has made it almost military camp, is
not maintained for war, but to pre-
vent an uprising Of the people, as Sen
ator Teller said in the senate more
than a year ago.
Americans may have the proud salts
faction of knowing that we are paying
the tribute with which Great Britain is
building her great navy and lining our
borders with fortified naval stations, as
the Irish agitator, Michael Davitt,
points out, while we, of gigantic
strength and resources, are crippling
our strength and trying to get through
congress some bankrupt bill to re-
lieve the millions Of ruined men who
are the victims of this British dogma
of gold monometallism.
This is, indeed, a picture for Ameri-
cans to look at, while shouting for
honest" money, under chief who de-
clares that the credit of our country
must be kept as untarnished as its flag,
and whose cabinet premier declared in
the senate that he would sooner tax
the poor mans shirt off his back than
permit the nations credit to be dis
honored by the payment of its obli-
cations In deprecated money!
Both, advocating now, the policy
which has done, and is now doing,
more to break American credit than
any other which the worst enemy of
our republic could devise, even If pos
sessed of satanic ingenuity and malice,
they idly prate Of the honor and credit
OF their country, with policies which
are rapidly forcing it along the road
to ruin! And they talk of the silver
craze, forsooth, adding insult to the in
telligeLce of their countrymen to the
deep and damning injury they have in
flicted. In what way can it be account
ed for but supposing it to be insanity
upon the subject Of gold-a gold craze,
in fact.
"Oh, that God the gift would give them
To see themselves as others see them"
to paraphrase the couplet of Burns.
Blind as bats, not to see the trend of
events, they must also be deaf not to
hear the rumbling of an outraged and
Indignant people.
Why they are palliating and defend
ing that which is worse than high
way robbery, for the highwayman does
not claim to act In the name of "hon-
esty" nor under forms of law fraudu-
lently put upon the statute books, nor
does he destroy the resources Of his
victims. as do those arch enemies of
the human race, who devised this cruel
scheme to plumber the world by getting
1t in bonds for one-third Its total
wealth and then seeming by trickery
legislation to make all debts payable
in an appreciating standard.
Words cannot express the infamy of
the designers Of this act, for ito sup
port it and continue 1t, falsehood, de-
ceit, suberdination, corruption through
paid writer's, the purchase and control
of the great vehicles Of intelligence so
as to cause vast numbers Of really hon.
est citizens, who would recoil. at once
from the contract were they permitted
to see the truth. Their support and en-
couragement, obtained by deception
is today all that they have to rest upon.
These mistaken supporters OF the gi-
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