The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
after presenting his figures in detail, he

after presenting MS HgureS IN uetall, 10
said:
at will suffice to give some indication
of the enormous injury it (the demone-
tization of silver has inflicted, if it is
stated that the transfer of wealth from
the landed and propertied classes, and
the mercantile, manufacturing and pro-
ducing classes generally in the United
Kingdom, to the holders Of securities,
mortgages, annuities, ETC., cannot be less
than two thousand million pounds, due
solely to the appreciation of gold.
Such colossal, unearned increment as
has accrued to the holders of securities
valued in gold during the last twenty
years in Europe and the United States,
amounting to not less than from seven
unparalleled in the history of the world,
and all other public questions sink into
utter insignificance compared with it."
From thirty-fve thousand mill
! lions to forty-fve thousand mil
lions of dollars! So much clear
loot for the gold trust by demon
etizing silver. as counted to 1893 At
only the same rate it would now be
fifty billions, our own country anguish
ing and grooming under a vast share of
the burden. What was the tea tax Of
the American revolution compared with
this assault upon our lives and property?
p,,{ Io i
have done even worse than to empty
our pockets and fill the poorhouses. They
have set up on our soil vast general
Incubator to hatch American tories and
traitors. At first, when the crime of
1873 had been discovered, the public and
the press, SO far as the matter was at
all understood, bristled with indigna-
ton. Hardly more than the strictly Eng
lish papers of New York, like the Even
ing Post and the Times with their for
eign editors, upheld the abomnation.
But constant drippings from an ''un-
earned increment of fifty thousand mil
lions Of dollars-the sum steadily in
creasing, too, with "the appreciation of
gold'-have converted our average press
into as rotten a commodity as ever was
bought and sold in brothel or BARNARD.
only ten years after the decentralization
OF silver the distinguished New York
editor, John Swinton, said with truth:
There is no such thing in America as
an dependent press unless it is out in
the country towns We are the tools
and vassals of rich men behind the
scenes. We are jumping jacks. We are
Intellectual prostitutes
Meanwhile American craftsmanship
mas sunk as low as American Journalism.
1t mas Dacome muck heap of brides
and treacnery. THINK or the career of
John sherman, wnom the English gold,
oank and bond system has turned into
the political Mephistopheles OF the nine
teenth century, Think of John C. Car
lisle-who could once tell the truth. bur
who, in the championship Of Rothschilds
servants. Grover Cleveland and ]. Pier,
pont Morgan, has eaten every honest
word of any consequence that he ever ut
tered in his life! Think OF Cleveland
himself-an apotheosized hummer adver-
tised into the presidency, who has done
almost as much to destroy the free insti-
tutions of the United States as Jefferson
did to establish them! Remember Cleye-
lands cuckoo" congress, Of which the
house of representatives went SO far as
to befoul their nest as the great body
Of 1861, led by Thaddeus Stevens, did to
cleanse and honor it. Consider the So
called Sound Money League" Of New
York, purely Rothschild appendage, its
very name lie, and every issue Of it's
imprint designed to cheat, pauperize and
enslave the trustful masses of a sinking
republic. Behold, finally, the republican
party"-once the party of emancipation
for race-my party for that reason
but now the decomposed merchandise of
London Jews and the Gentle twins OF
Wall street.
To my mind nothing can fully arouse
the innocent, sleeping, betrayed people
OF my country-nothing can defend them
against enemies abroad and extinguish