Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
THE CONSPIRATORS.
WHO ARE CALLED MONETARY
COMMISSIONS
They Arc Like the Fourteen Men Who
swore to XIII Paul-An Their Claims
Have Been Refuted and Exploded
Long Ago.

There is an account given in the New
Testament of fourteen men who bound
themselves together by an oath that
they would neither eat nor sleep till
they had killed Paul. They did not
succeed in killing the apostle and were
necessarily compelled to break their
wicked oath. The reason why these
fourteen conspirators desired the death
Of Paul was that he was preaching
against idolatry and other receptions
that were practiced against the people
by q corrupt money class who misled
the people with false doctrines.
This band of ancient conspfrators
have something like prototype in the
eleven conspirators who banded them
selves together at the instance or the
bankers indianapolis convention OF
Sound money" deceivers, and spent
weeks in Washington in secret con-
clave, devising plan to destroy the
liberties of the American people. YER
monts discarded ex-senator at the
head Of this band Of conspirators. Their
work has been laid before the public,
and is probably the most ingenious
piece Of sophistry, false assumption
and cunning, innocent appearing as
sertion, ever produced. The false the
cries of money invented and practiced
by bankers and hoary usurers, and that
have been exposed and refuted by I'M
deniable facts a thousand times, are
all mustered with inimitable skill. This
class base their hopes on the old adage
that lie we'll stuck to is as good as
the truth.
It would be as tedious as improbable
to follow their long meandering trail
through their dissertation on money,
and particularly the government money
of the United States, which Is pro-
nounced as bad" except Its gold
coins. The whole contention OF the
band of conspirators is for standard
money, and that standard money must
be gold, and the continuation OF the
present gold standard. They attempt
| to give no reason why gold is stand
| ard" money or should be a standard,
and the only standard money and not
silver, except that 1t is more handy than
silver. Silver was as much of stand
dard money for thousands OF years
before 1873 as gold, simply because the
minis of all countries were open to its
coinage, and there was always de-
mand for the metal beyond the supply.
Open them again and the same condl-
lions will produce the same results.
There would be the same demand for
silver as for gold. Close the same
minis against gold and it will fall in
} price in the bullion market the same
| as silver has fallen, only great deal
more.
The monetary scheme concocted by
the eleven conspirators of the Indian
apolis bankers convention, in principle
and object, is the same as the concoc-
ton of Secretary Gage and President
McKinleys greenback retirement plan,
only the former is more ingeniously
presented and worked out in detail.
The fundamental falsehood on which
they are all built, is "a standard OF
value" There is no standard of value,
never has been, and never can be.
Value is the relative difference between
articles of merchandise or things con-
trolled by the fluctuations of trade. The
value of the same articles changes al
most daily, influenced by demand and
supply, whether that demand be natural
or artificial. Money is a medium OF
exchange and recorder of prices, and II
is nothing else unless its legitimate
function Is abused by cornerers, usurers
and spectators. The whole object oil
the class for whom the eleven con-
spirators speak, is to make money
scarce so they can corner 1t with facili-
ty. Any commodity that can be cor
nered can be given an artificial price.
The conspirators tell us there are
two kinds of money, or rather there
are two distinct functions for money
One is the STANDARD Of value" the
other medium Of exchange" that
gold is the only standard-of-value
money, and they imply that no Other
commodity-they acknowledge thai
gold is a commodity-is endowed by
the intrinsic power Of constituting
standard money. The exchange func'
ton they claim inheres in all Other
kinds of money composed of silver, pa.
per. etc. Gold, while possessing the
sovereign power Of standard" money
has also the function Of exchange in
common with it's subject money, as Of
course the sovereign should have.
1t will be noticed that the divine
right" is at the bottom Of the gold-bul
theory of money. Gold is king, ant
money created Of any other substance
nust owe its power to exist to the will
of the sovereign. All other money!
formed of baser clay must have thu
consent Of the sovereign to exist. Tit
imperial gold must stand ready to ere
deem" this halfway or purgatory
money from perdition.
The gold-bug idea Of government l!
monarchical, the gold-bug idea o
| r,onon 10 ,,,0na rchina1 and tho onId