The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-10-07
The Currency Question.
A MoNARCHIcAL CONSPIRACY.
Treacherous Plot Of Gold Standard
Managers IN Europe to FOIst
Their Rotten System Upon Us.


Britain, directed their Efforts to dis
integrate and destroy the republic Of
the United States byforce, and through
other methods that were scarcely con
cealed. Indeed the generally under
stood and accepted belief, up to that
time, was that these mouarchicaI gov
ernments were using their most earn
est endeavors to overthrow the repub-
lie, so that II might be emphaticaHy
declared that the people could not
rule themselves; that they needed a
monarch to rule over them.
But finding that the blood of demo-
cratic martyrs and the persecution Of
our democratic form of government,
were really strengthening the repub-
lie, at some period between 1865 and
1865, the opponents in Europe Of the
republic secretly concoeted the scheme
Of securing by misrepresentation and
stealth that which they were unable
to accomplish more openly. 1t was
then and there decided that destruc-
ton Of republican form Of government
could not be accomplished under BIZ
metallism, and that as a preliminary
the United States must be brought
under the single gold standard. They
entered into a secret contract with
the gold standard managers in Eu-
rope. we say they did this, because
events justify that statement. The
laws Of 1865. 1870, 1873 and 1875 fol-
lowed. How many venaI congressman
were purchased by European gold to
secure the passage of these laws will
probably never be known.
But in 1873 the people had discov-
cred the onspiracy-which discovery
drew from John G. Carlisle, then a
member of congress from Kentucky,
the following emphatic and eloquent
declaration:
The conspiracy which seems to have
been formed here and in Europe to de-
strOy by legislation and otherwise three
seventies to One-haf the money metal Of
the world IS the most gigantic crime Of
this or any other age The consummatio
Of such a scheme would ultimately entail
more misery upon the human race than
all wars, pestilence and famine that have
occurred in the history Of the world"
Carlisle did not overstate the facts,
nor Overdraw the picture. He
had not dropped onto the true
inwardness of the scheme, so far
as il was expected to affect the
form of government of this cOun-
try. That was discovered later
and is becoming more and more ap-
parent every day. But the scheme
was checked by the passage through
the house Of representatives of a free
coinage law, and the demand by the
people that 1t should be passed by the
senate. The conspirators huttered
and collapsed. All that they had toiled
and sinned for was vanishing, bimetal-
hsm would be restored and the repub-
lie preserved.
Crawling on their bellies like snakes,
the paid agents of the cOnspira tors
against liberty and democratic gov
ernmental freedom, plead and be-
seeched at the doors of senator's for
the defeat of the law. Through some
means, which could not have been holy,
a compromise was substituted, and
the Allison amendment was added to
the Bland bill, which crippled it. But
even the BIand-Allison law was a tenn
pOrary defeat for the mOnarchists.
The record of 1890, 1893 and the few
years that have interviewed are fresh
In the memories Of most of our read
ers. The mOnarchists in Europe and
here have been working indefatigably
10 overthrow any approach toward
genuine bimetallism, and 10 fix firmly
and irreyocably the single gold stand
ard upon the land. They have accom-
Llished much in this direction, but still
find obstacles that must be over
thrown. They are directing their eff
forts now toward retiring the green
backs, and toward making the Bland
standard dollars mere token money to
be redeemed in gold.
When that time comes. then viii be
seen fulfilled in the United States the
predictions Carlisle made in 1878.
Then viii "a government of the peo-
pie, for the people and by the people"
be a mere dream of the past.
The republican party of today
seems to have fallen under the com
plete control OF the cOnspirators
against the republic. The leaders and
their organs are all or nearly all adj
vOcating the measures advanced by
the mouarchists of Europe. They have
even gone 50 far as to gull and try
and satisfy the majority Of their party,
that has always believed in bimetal-
liSm, by stating that they would en-
deavor to secure the consent Of the
monarchs of Europe" to have IT estab-
lishedI As If these monarchs were
not the main cOnspiratOrs in the
scheme to destroy the epublic!-Illi-
nOis State Register.