The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-05-25
Holding to party.

politics of our people. is the tena-
city with which they hold to their
party, utterly regardless of the fact
that the policy pursued by the par
ty is exactly the reverse of that
which many of them believe would
be best for themselves. Seven ont
of every ten Republicans. / mean
the rank and file of the party. viii
tell you If you ask them that they
are opposed to the banks having
the privilege of issuing money, and
in favor of the government Issuing
all necessary paper money. Never
theless you find them voting to up-
hold the party which is making the
most strenuous efforts to secure to
the banks the full monopoly of
furnishing the paper money and
to give them entire csntrol es cur
circulating medium You also
find many Republicans who are in
favor of the .'free and unlimited
coinage of eilver at the present Ie-
gal ratio, in fact nearly all who
believe that the government should
retain control of our circulation
are believers in the free coinage of
silver. What is it, then, that con-
tinually induces such men to vote
against their own political convic-
tions? It must be with blind
prejudice or a lack of confidence
in their own judgment as to what
is best for them. But whatever
the reason, the fact that this state of
affairs exists is evidence conclusive,
that our liberties are in great dang
er. when the people persist in
blindly following their party lead
ers and wilfully refuse to see their
cunningly devised and but par
TALLY yelled schemes to fasten upon
our necks the yoke of slavery to
the money power whose headquart-
ers are in London, and whose
agents are the National Banks of
our own country. Where in the
name of common sense and reason
shall we look for help to repel
these aggressors and common enc
mics of humanity? What can be
palmer, especially to a man who
ever borrowed money upon an in
terest bearing note, than this fact.
The more money the banks are al
lowed to issue the more of the
products of labor they will absorb
in payment of the interest on this
bank circulation7 And if they are
given full control of the circula-
ton how long will it be until they
so manipulate the supply of money
as to absorb the entire wealth pro-
duced leaving but bare pittance
to the producer.
Remember corporations have no
consciences. they do not die, and
SO have no fear of punishment in
the future, while individual men,
bers die, the corporations lives on
forever, and contrary to the natu-
raj order of things. the longer it
lives the more powerful it becomes.
And unless the people awake to
sense of their danger they will real
ize one of these days that the time
for resistance is passed. and that
they are bound hand and foot with
the chains of slavery to the bank
ing corporations, and that their
efforts to free themselves are as
the efforts of an infant in the hands
of a giant.
o, that the people could be
brought to a realization of the
dangers that confront them! And
that some deliyerer may soon arise
with the ability to inspire the peo-
pie with confidence in his integ-
rity and disinterestedness, and
point out to them in manner they
can fully understand, the disas-
trous consequence of their ten
acious partisanship. What is it
to be partisan but to be slave
to voluntarily take upon yourself
the yoke of slavery to your party
leaders or bosses?
What man lives, born upon
American soil, who would not
resent the imputation of being a
slave, and resent to the last drop
of blood in his veins. any covert
effort of any party or power to re
strain his Liberties or control his
actions in the free exercise of the
privilege of the ballot? And YET
many men who are quick to take
up the gauntlet against challeng-
ing their liberties in any other