Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-30
Ancient ROm6 I!
Modern America +!

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famish, and their storehouses cram
ed with grain; make edits for usurv,
to support usurers; repeal daily any
wholesome act established against
the rich and provide more piercing
statutes daily to chain up and restrain
| the poor. 1T the wars eat us not IN.
they will; and there's all the love they
bear us"
These words of Roman citizen.
referring to the patricians, in the days
Of Cariolanus,are 4 most striking illus
tration Of the saying, History re-
Ipeats itself" America is following
exactly in the steps Of corrupt Rome.
Win our end be similar, or shall we be
wise enough, and determined enough
to profit by the warming: learning in
time, that, as every nation has been
destroyed from within, and always
by the same cause, the silent, prepet-
ual motion Of usury, we as people
can only be saved from disgraceful
ruin by totally destroying usury.
Reader, you are being crushed by
usury, or you are crushing someone
by usury, there is no alternative: in
terest has got in its deyilish work so
that every person in the world who
uses any article produced by the aid
of machinery. or hired Labor, comes
under its baneful influence.
History records no great man since
Jesus the carpenter, and his greatest
act was that Of whipping the money
changers out of the Temple. He did
this single handed, and for this the
money power plotted and accom-
plished his death.
The habit Of calling men great is
false. If the word Is applied to Nero
it must be great brute: if TO Napoleon
great ambition: Weyler great but
cher: McKinley-gre fraud; even
Garrison and Plimsoll-great mis-
takes: for the white slave that has
succeeded the black slavery is much
more intensely cruel and heartless.
! Plimsoll's heart was stirred over the
coffin ships" falling to pieces, dan
gerously overloaded and insured for
much more than the value of the YES
| sci and cargo, that were sent to sea
! by owners reckless of the lives of the
crews. He framed and presented a
] bill in Parliament, to save the sailors
from the damnable greed of the ship
owners. This Bill was rejected by
majority of three only He then so
aroused England that the government
was compelled to bring in a Bill of its
own, but on July -, 1875, Disraeli the
Premier. announced that for want of
time the Bill would have to be
dropped. Plimsoll shouted II am de-
termined to unmask the villains who
send these men to their graves" and
disobeyed the Speaker order to with
draw tie word william" if applied to
any member of the House, rushed to
the table and laid piece of paper
beside the mace as his protest against
the conduct Of the government: then
shaking his fist at Disraei and the
government he left the House saying:
Good God. Don't you know that
thousands of men are sent out to
drown" This caused the government
to pass the Bill,
These two noblemen failed to see
the real cause of the evils they wished
to prevent: they devoted their lives
for the salvation of two or three mil
lions. or two or three thousand; where
as if they had thought deeper they
would have discovered that legal
tender" with legal Understanding
attachments, was the sole incentive
for holding slaves, and drowning sail
ors, and degrading men and women.
1t is a mistake to keep on tinkering
away at purifying society, by AIRY
plan that leaves the spring poisonous.
We have tried the metal standard of
values long enough, and if we had
any reasoning powers we could draw
an inference from the Chinese. for
they have been on the metal stand
ard about 400 years longer than we
have and the prospect is not enticing
to Americans.
We now await the coming of the
second great man, or the second COM
ing of the first great man, we care
not which-and his mission is to throw
out usury from the temple of human
itv and Haaven will he beUun bv I n :
Dor being the only right to lite, there
fore the only standard of value. The
man that brings this about will be an
Anarchist, because his motive power
will be whatsoever We would that
men should do unto you, do We even SO
to them. II. Alfred Kinghorn-Jones.