Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-04-23
CAN THE UNITED STATES
BE PEONIZED

The Salt Lake Tribune Of last Sunday
contained the following editorial, when
must find an echo in every thoughsiui
mind
More than one dispatch has stated 'ns'
Spain will have to fight to prevent . civil
war at home. Some one should whisper
a few words in the ear OF President Nc
Kinley, that there may be something
worse than Carlists to deal with IN the
United States If the apparent pisn 70
peonize the United States is pressed very
much longer. The Spsniards were org
inally a fighting rsce-the very foremost
in power in all this world. SPANS ar
mics swept over nearly ell OF Europe
her navy was as superior to those OF all
the world as England's now. But through
kinq-crsft and priest-craft and the man.
ipulssion of her money.changers, the
wealth Of the great country all gravitated
into a few hands /; under the stress OF
poverty, ignorance among the people be-
came general, until in four generations
the masses Of the nation descended to
the moral plane Of savages, but retained
TO add to the ssvagery the vices OF civ
ilization.
Well, for five and twenty years this
Nation has been pursuing the same road,
and one after another of our trusted men
who knew the great cause Of the change
and loudly protested against il, have
fallen down before the great idol OF gold
in worship. President Mckinley knows
whether his name should be added to
that sinister list or not. The result 10
that to-day one-thirtieth of the people
Of this country have possessed them
selves Of half the wealth of the Nation,
and are swiftly absorbing the rect. The
people have hocked to the cities to live
by their wits the land is filled with idle
men and desperate women; crimes, ever
thrown brains, prostitution, suicides are
increasing at a fearful rate, and as the
people look on now and see those in au-
thority stand, apparently abashed, before
q foe that in effective strength does not
exceed a congregation Of native buck
Indians, and see the apparent struggle
to secure a money indemnity to reward
old Spain land the men who have bought
her bonds) for the wholesale murders
she has committed, including the MUIR
der of 266 of our Nations defenders
the impression is growing that the whole
business has been but q trade among
bond holders, and that the intention is
to put q mortgage upon the men in Cuba
who have for three years been struggling
for liberty, and that behind that there lie
q purpose to peonize the masses OF the
United States. Let that impression
crystalize in g conviction, and any up
rising that the Carlists could make in
Spain would be but child's play. com
pared with what would be seen in this
Republic; for the schools are not going
TO be closed. the manhood OF this people
is not going to be branded with coward
ice before the world ; there is not going
to be . gradual scaling down until the
American people become slaves to q
shoddy. ignorant, arrogant, and in every
way offensive moneyed a~ristocracy ; and
the thought amounts to q determination
that there can be nc moneyed atonement
for the murder, in their sleep, Of the de-
tenders of our flag. No man in this gen.
GRAFTON has had such an opportunity as
President Mckinley failed to seize in his
message to Congress on Monday. There
was the opportunity for him to set his
name ringing all around this world as
the man for the hour. But when we
read il. there shines out between the
type, 9 half.told story of trade, where
manhood, national honor, intolerable
wrongs and crimes unparalleled. are ell
reduced to a money basis, and where al
do not seem to compare in sacredness to
the bonds that some thieves have bought
1T q ruinous discount, and which they
would compel the payment Of 100
per cent appreciated gold. At this writ.
lng the dispatches look as though those
n authority in Washington were forcing
delay until the assembling a great feet
II the combined powers could place Cuba
n the position of Crete, and sink the
of the United States to q deeper
evel of degradation than that Of miser-
bile Greece. or that of the unspeakable
II Wall street accomplishes this, |
hen that city had better turn its coast
~efenses away from the sea, and train
he guns TO protect the city from the
that il has so long robbed, and
now betraying.