Natchitoches populist., 1898-07-22

Lines Are Being nrawn for the Conn
Ing Strugglo-Described by the Editor
of the Journal of Agriculture.
In the last three weeks the Wall
street fRanciers 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:
u) They have voted down preposi-
tons to tax the plutoeracy for war pur-
poses; to coin silver for war expenses;
to print treasury notes bearing no in
terest for war expenses.
90 They have prepared for an is
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.
lS) They have begun appointing
gold standard Democrat" 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
piutocracy Is forced to this course by
the logic Of its existence. 1t intends to
vote half billion frcm the treasury
70 pay the expenses of its next national
campaign. 1t will 90 this partly on
war contracts" but chiefly by issu-
ing national bank notes as presents to
IT'S favored campaign contributors to
whom 1t has already issued bonds.
Fnls done, it will play for a 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 it's chief
American agency in New York city,
invaded the South and using, now the
oayonet, 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 a plutocrat at close
range, you see that he Is insane-that
his financial sense" is merely the un-
scrupulous, irresponsible cunning of
the lunatic. Nothing could be sadder,
nothing more dreadful, than the spec
tacle of some world-renowned million
aire 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-sueh a man
Is borne hither and thither by every
gust OF passion, keeping his identity
only as result of his master passion
for money. This makes him hard,
cruel, blood-thirsty, willing to risk or
to take thousands Of lives in the in
terest OF his investment" and the in
yestments of his class. Writhing 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 fox 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 a Grant still scorned
thraldom to Rothschild. The South
broke from their control, drove out the
carpet-bag, Wall street governments,
and fepudiated 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
cid 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 a CEN
tury, during which these bond-dealing
owners Of slaves and SPECTATORS In
souls had their way at Washington.
Then at last they were met by q
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
we're not willing to trade or to truckle
They appealed to the West against
Wall street. They asked for leave IN
be Americans, and the West declared
they should have 1t. The vote Of IIli-
nois and Kansas meant that, and moth
Ing less. 1t meant the last Of Wall
street bulldozing at the South. 1t