Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-06-17
WAR AND TIE CRISIS.
PLANS OF THE INTERN ATiONAE
PLUTOCRATS.
Attitude Of the Bond 1srokers-How the
Lines Are Being Drawn for the Com
ing struggle--Dsscribed by the Editor
Of the journal of Agriculture.

In the last three weeks the Wall
street financiers who put Mr.. Hanna,
of the steel trust, In power at Wash
ington, have done three things which
make their plan Of campaign in the
next national election perfectly plain:
~ They have voted down PROPOSE
tions to tax the plutocracy for war pur-
poses; to coin silver for war expenses;
to print treasury notes bearing no In
terest for war expenses.
(2) They have prepared for an is
I sue of from two hundred to five hun
dred millions of interest-bearing
bonds, to be used in initiating the cur
rency with national bank notes.
| (3) They have begun appointing
gold standard Democrats" to office,
especially in the South, as If they were
Republicans in full standing.
Every one who has studied American
politics will see at a glance that the
plutocracy is forced to this course by
the logic of its existence. 1t intends to
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to pay the expenses of its next national
campaign. 1t will do this partly on
war Contracts" but chiefly by issu-
ing national bank notes as presents to
its favored campaign contributors to
whom 1t has already issued bonds.
This done, it will play for foot
hold in the South, and will use the
gold standard Democrats" to control
the negro vote.
Immediately after the war, the In
ternational plutocracy, having its chief
American agency in New York city.
invaded the Sauth and using, now the
bayonet, and now the newly enfran-
chised blacks, INDUCED in hideous
orgie of such bond deals as are now be-
ing prepared at Washington.
When you study plutocrat at close
range, you see that he is insane-that
his financial sense" is merely the I'M
scrupulous, irresponsible cunning OF
the lunatic. Nothing could be sadder,
nothing more dreadful. than the spec
tacle of some world-renowned million
alre undergoing the reaction Of his
own habits. Sleepless, with shattered
nerves, his body bloating, his eyelids
twitching, his voice, at the least ex-
element, rising to the keen and high
pitched tones Of insanity-such a man
is borne hither and thither by every
gust of passion, keeping his identity
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for money. This makes him hard
cruel, blood-thirsty, willing to risk or
to take thousands of lives in the in
terest of his investments" and the in
vestments of his class. Writing in
the tortures of an agonizing hell he has
created for himself, he loses all sense
of pity for others, and he is no more
able to spare the helpless than he is
to feel the need of justice for himself
Behind the carpet-baggers who
crowded the South after the war were
these international usurers, dealers in
bonds and bayonets. They were met
however, with forces they had never
met before. Men who had unbuckled
their swords to Grant still scorned
thraldom to Rothschild. The South
broke from their control, drove out the
carpet-bag, Wall street governments,
and repudiated. without hesitation the
fraudulent bonds they had issued.
Then began the desperate struggle
which seemed to close but did not,
when Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin and
Nebraska broke away from plutocratic
leadership.
Wall street, as the agent for foreign
money lords, held the race question
like whip over the South for two
decades. Every impulse toward the
old Democracy, every promise of re-
asserting the old rights of Americans
to free government, was met with a
threat, open or tacit, to give the con-
troll of the South to the negroes, and
to establish negro equality"
This went on for a quarter Of CEN
fury, during which these bonddealing
owners of slaves and spectators in
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Then at last they were met by a
new force-the new generation, North
and South, which had nothing to do
with civil war. At the South, these
new Americans laughed at the whip
raised over them. They had no fear
of more reconstruction" They were
willing to leave race equality" to the
workings Of the principles of the decla-
ration Of independence and the super
vising control of Providence. They
were not willing to trade or to truckle
They appealed to the West against
Wall street. They asked for leave to
be Americans, and the. West declared
they should have it, The vote of I'LL
nois and Kansas meant that, and moth
ing less. 1t meant the last Of Wall
street bulldozing at the South. 1t
meant also, however, the beginning Of
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