The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-06

Putting Ridpath's "Plutocracy and
War" side by side with Silas Hood, we
have the solution of the fearful problem
which now menaces the world.
The money power controls the govern
ments of the world, and they are de-
termined that there shall be no war be-
tween them.
1t would jeopardizs their bonded in
terests.
This is the reason why the govern
ments of Europe stood idly by and wit
messed the slaughter of the Armenians
and the butchering Of the Cubans.
A war with Turkey might result in
the loss of the Turkish bonds which
Shylock holds. And war with Spain
might cause them to lose their Spanish
bonds.
There's divinity that shapes our
ends, rough hew them as we may" A
war might prolong the reign Of the plu-
tocracy longer than continued peace,
but they don't think so. They have the
world in their grasp, staggering under
the load Of $4,000, 100000 of national
bonds and propose to hold it there.
Meantime conditions must change un-
der the present system and become worse
and worse.
The masses, grOaning under the load,
demand OF their respective governments
to better their condition. But under the
present condition of competition and
gold standard, which the plutocracy are
determined to maintain, governments
are powerless to give relief. The money
OF every country is drifting into the
hands of fewer men every day. The land
and railroads and every kind of property
is being transferred into the hands of
the few continually. This process Is not
relieving, but augmenting the land
Here in the United States the masses
are learning fast how to better their
condition. They believe yet that they
can secure the desired relief at the bal
lot box. The reform forces will unite,
think, for relief in 1900. The plutoc-
racy will use the Republican party as
usual, and the Democratic party will
be used by them as an aid to the sue
cess OF the Republican party. The plu-
tocracy will give the leaders Of the Re-
publican party their command not to
let the people win. "Of course we Re-
publicans will not let them win. We
defeated them in 1896 by money, and
We think we can again. You furnish us
the money, no matter how much-all
we need-and after we win we will
make the dumb hayseeds pay it back.
We used $20,0OO,000 before, and it may
take more this time. If we don't win at
the ballot box, we will get up some
pretext that the election was not legal
In some state, for we must If we can
keep the law on our side. and il we can
get case before the courts we are safe,
for we own the courts. No. indeed. we
are not going to let the government get
out Of our grasp. The idea of turning
the government over to these hayseed
mudsill anarchists must not be tolerat-
ed. The government belongs to us Re-
publlcans Didn't we put down the re-
bellion? Didn't we free the niggers?
Didn't we reconstruct the country?
Didn't We establish the bonded debt
Didn't we create the national banks?
Didn't we bring the country to specie
basis and demonetize silver and estab-
lish the gold standard? Have we not
run the government for the last 20
years? OF course we have. Yes, this
government belongs to us, and we will
hold it at all hazards
What! Turn the government over
into the keeping of these cranks? They
propose to destroy our income, to re-
place the millions of bank notes that
draw Interest and put in their place
greenbacks which draw no interest and
coin all the silver bullion, making all
legal tender, both silver and paper IRE
deemable In gold? What would we do
with our gold? 1t would be worth no
more than silver and greenbacks. Then
they would pay off the bonds in silver
and treasury notes, and the 500 .OOO,-
600 reserve would be drawn out. for
there would be no money to redeem
Under the system which they propose
we would be ruined and made as Door