The weekly intelligencer., 1897-08-14
THE people,s Turn to Hammer.

| From the Kansas City Times.
What is to become of that "44-cent
dollar?" the boot-licklng newspaper
! hirelings of the Gold Trust are bowling.
What there is left of it to the people
in the six hundred and odd millions OF
silver dollars that are still in circulation
continues to be received at par for all
domestic debts and obligations, and if
the coinage restrictions were removed
from all our uncoIned silver, and it
was restored to the rights OF free min
tage which it enjoyed till robbed OF
them by the most infamous and colos-
sal conspiracy ever perpetrated since
the dawn of history every 416 grains of
silver would be worth % 8 grains of
gold. Every standard dollar of silver
would be interchangeable with every
standard gold dollar and redeemable in
itself.
The hammering down of ostraclsed
and disinherlted silver until its recent
bullion price, measured by the weight
of the metal, IN silver dollar, is but
40 or 4G cents, is no strange or nnac-
countable performance when the meth
DDS and morality of the agencies at
work are considered and the almost
unlimited power they exercise. The
money trust practically controls and
has the power to regulate all of the
property values in the country by virtue
of lis controlling the basic medium of
exchange, the monometallic gold stan
dard-by which all property is measured.
When the gold syndicate of Great
Britain conceived the brilliant idea of
driving silver out of use as a primary
money metal, more than a fifth OF u
century ago, it inaugurated ITS plan
with every move studied and every act
necessary to success skillfully prepared.
With the bonded obi cations of the
United States and those of other
governments in their vaults the British
bankers proceeded TO work out the
scheme which would double their profits
by doubly enhancing the purchasing
power of the money in which these !
obligations and the accrulng interest |
on them were to be paid. AS a first
step Germany and other countries of
Europe were bullied and
coZened by the great creditor nation
into suspending the coinage of silver
Next followed the double trickery by
which the people of the United States
partially through the connivance and
particularly through the criminal igno
rance and stupidity of its congress and
were robbed of the plenary
use of one-half the primary money
metal of the constitution. The closing
of the mints of INDIA against silver and
the inducing of Japan, one of the
largest silver using countries In the
IN fh hn 10 or har rA
were the latest, but not the final moves
of the gigantic gold trust TO foreclose
on the universe by utterly depriving
The only competitor that gold can ever
have OF its functions as a medium of
exchange and thereby controlling the
only metal in which all property values
in the universe are measured.
. The next move of the gold trust will
be to drive silver out of Mexico, the
South American states and China.
After that it may be expected, so far
United States is concerned, to take
away from silver It's limited function as
Ioken money, aud force the people to
transact their business exclusively in
such currency as the national banks see
fit to issue both as 10 quality and
Iuahtiy
Every blow struck by the international
gold trust in hamering down silver will
have the reactionary effect to bring
more clearly into the view of the
American people the colossal proper
ions and the appalling extent of the
robbery that has already been perpe-
rated upon them and the magnificently
7ast plan the robbers have set in motion
or continuing the pillage.
Let the goldItes hammer away.
W Whenever general election comes
around it will be the peoples turn 10
hammer, and they will utilize 1t by
knocking the crowd out OF power that
las forced gold monometallism on the
country, and electing president and
congress who will place the silver
iollar of our daddies on the pedestal
rom which it has been thrown down
~ the money power and its official
lirelings.