Natchitoches populist., 1898-07-08

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Now that we have the Spanish war
these Vultures of usury are wheeling
and circling over US as they were dur
ing the civil war. They are in power
at Washington. The secretary of the
treasury is there because they put him
there. The President of the United
States Is the personal protege Of their
agent, Mark Hanna, of the Steel trust.
The speaker Of the house is their tool
ready to resort to any desperate means
to gag protest against them. They
have entrenched themselves in the
Supreme court They are ready with
government by injunction and govern
ment by bayonet, if need be, to compel
acquiescence And being so, they cry
out now that objections to their de-
mand for more bonds is unpatriotic.
1t Is not worth while to argue that
point. It is better to state and re-
state, as often as possible, the plain
fact that these men are thieves, who
make business OF wholesale larceny,
and that they stand ready to loot the
national treasury as they did in the
civil war-or, for that matter, as they
did in the only too recent past, when
they had their beneficiary Cleveland in
power at Washington.
Plutocracy is corrupting the coun-
try, not only in politics, but in social
life. It leads to 4 base sensuality,
which shows itself in art, literature,
even In religion. The churches where
plutocrats most abound have carriage
entrances as the most conspicuous fea-
lures of their architecture-as If My
Lord Dives, enriched with the plum
der of the earth, and swollen with lux
urious living passed the possibility of
climbing the steep and narrow way on
foot, could drive up to heavens gate
in his equiDage and order the keeper
OF the keys to let down the carriage
steps for him.
And these men are wicked in the
most literal sense Their pride is in
tolerable. Their contempt for human
rights is supreme. Their determina-
tion to retain control of the country at
any cost Is desperate. Their alliances
are with Europe, and their sympathies
are with European monarchies rather
than with America. They are impe-
rialists. haters Of popular government
and popular liberties. They are pre-
pared for any fraud, for any bloodshed
they think necessary for the mainte-
nance of their power.
These plntocrats have worked for a
year or more to force some kind of a
bond deal In connection with Cuba.
They are directed from the back rooms
Of the Rothschilds in London, and the
New York newspapers which best rep
resent that interest are now working
to force new bond issues enough to
give the Rothscbild banks in this
country control of the currency on a
basis of corporation notes instead of
money Of the rnints.
They will get their bond issues and
everything else they demands from
this administration. But IL the Dem
ocrats Of Congress have the courage
to force issues on them by demanding
the opening Of them into and the i'm
mediate submission Of an income tax
amendment to raise money for war
purposes, the people will rise In such
revolt against plutocracy as has never
been seen before. They will rise, at
any rate. And they will win their
fight in any event All they lack now
is leadership from men as sternly hon.
est in their purposes, as uncompromis-
Ing In their methods, as are the forces
Of progress to which these reactionists
are opposing themselves. And this
leadership. too, the people will have.
w. V. BYARS.
Beauties of Private Ownership.
~ IL.