Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-11-04
A MoNARcHIcAL CONSPIRACY.
Trencherous Plot of Gold Standard
Managers in Europe to Foist
Their Rotten System Upon Us.


Managers in Europe to Fotst
Their Rotten System Upon Us.
From 1875 to 1865 the monarchical
governments of Europe, led by Great
Britain, directed their efforts to dis
integrate and destroy the republic of
the United States by force, and through
other methods that were scarcely con-
cealed. Indeed the generally under
stood and accepted belief, up to that
time, was that these monarchical gov
ernments were using their most earn
est endeavors to overthrow the repub-
lie, SO that it might be emphatically
declared that the people could not
rule themselves; that they needed
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 1868 and
1868, the opponents in Europe of the
republic secretly concocted 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 preliminary
the United States must be brought
under the single gold standard They
entered into secret contract with
the gold standard managers in Eu-
rope. We say they did this, because
events justify that statement. The
laws of 1868, 1870, 1873 and 1875 fol-
lowed. How many venal congressman
were purchased by European gold to
secure the passage of these laws will
probably never be known.
But in 1878 the people had discov-
cred the conspiracy-which discovery
drew from John G. Carlisle, then
member of congress from Kentucky,
the following emphatic and eloquent
declarations:
"The conspiracy which seems to have
been formed here and in Europe to de-
stroy by legislation and otherwise three
sevenths to one-half the money metal Of
the world is the most gigantic crime Of
this or any other age. The contamination
of such 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 fa7
as it was expected to affect the
form of government of this coun-
try. That waS discovered later
and is becoming more and more APP
parent every day. But the scheme
was checked by the passage through
the house of representatives of free
coinage law, and the demand by the
people that it should be passed by the
senate. The conspirators futtered
and collapsed. All that they had toiled
and sinned for was vanishing, bimetal-
lism would be restored and the repub-
lie preserved.
Crawling on their bellies like snakes,
the paid agents of the conspirators
against liberty and democratic gov
ernmental freedom, plead and be-
seeched at the doors of senators for
the defeat of the law. Through some
means, which could not have been holy,
compromise was substituted, and
| the Allison amendment was added to
the Bland bill, which crippled 1t. But
even the Bland-Allison law was tenn
porary defeat for the monarchists.
The record of 1890, 1898 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
to overthrow any approach toward
| genuine bimetallism, and to Ak firmly
and irrevocably the single gold stand
ard upon the land. They have accom-
plished much in this direction, but still
And 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 will be
seen fulfilled in the United States the
predictions Carlisle made in 1878.
Then will "a government of the peo-
pie, for the people and by the people"
be mere dream of the past.
The republican party Of to-day
seems to have fallen under the COM
piete control of the conspirators
against the republic. The leaders and
their organs are all or nearly all adj
vocating the measures advanced by
the monarchists of Europe. They have
even gone SO 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 1t estab.
lishedl AS If these monarchs were
not the main conspirators in the
scheme to destroy the republic!-Illi.
nois State Register.
Must Not Pay.
Des Moines, Ia, Nov. 2.-The state
board of control of state institutions
has issued proclamation notifying
all employees of state institutions that