The representative., 1899-11-23
"The Cipher In the Plays
and on the TombStone''
Mr.. DONNELLY,S New Book.

ideal unifying force. Here was the
germinal point of present conditions.
We cry out against trusts. We have
good reason to cry. Yet they are only
the fruitage of this monopoly of ex-
change. 1t is here, through this won
derful product of human genius, a force
mightier than the sword for the enslav-
ing of the world, that the trusts gather
their life and nourishment. They
flourish under the shadow of the gold
standard.
Now, so far, what has been the out
come of this diabolical scheme? Look
first to India See what her experience
has been in moving from the silver
basis at the forceful dictation of the
f1nancier. It is well known that for
ages the accumulations of the natives of
India have been in silver alone. The
demonetization of silver meant to these
people financial ruin. Millions of them
may even yet have failed to comprehend
the source of their misery. No doubt
many are, even here in America, still
wondering at the far-reaching and wide
spread ruin OF India. It was not famine
Of bread alone, but superadded to it was
the indirect robbery of the Golfers of the
whole Eastern world. A large percent
age Of the accumulation of ages was at
one fell stroke annihilated. An honest
investigation will clearly reveal this
fact that the demonetization of silver
was closely associated with the famine,
the plague and the general ruin of
India.
There, as we'll as in America, the few
have gained by the change. The end
proposed In that respect was reached.
But the masses of the people have suffer-
ed. Those who have gained by the rob-
berry Of their fellows stand we'll to the
front today and make loud cries over
the success of the gold standard; those
VITO NATE lost 60 quietly on their way
and may be counted by the million.
If we can credit the report Japan is
fast approaching the same ordeal. She,
too. must suffer as America has suf-
fered. Millions today are bitter over
this process. AS time goes on more and
more clearly will the people come to
understand the real cause. And woe to
the perpetrators when the people do
understand!
While we are ready to cry out against
trusts, we ought to remember that these
trusts would have been comparatively
A..A -
nursing under the wings of the money
trust.
AS far as their object was concerned,
it is clear that these men made no mis-
take in seeking to unity the exploiting
forces of the world through a unified
and curtailed system of exchange The
gold standard was the royal road to
this object.
While the reconciliation of silver
may not be as important a question as
many now seem to think, it is still far
more than a local one. Indirectly it
aims vital blow at the real source of
all monopoly. Hence so for at least, it
is real and live issue.
l believe thoroughly in the initiative
and referendum. 1 believe fully in the
control of all public utilities and
monopolies by and for the people in
some way. believe in all that the doc
men implies without either an "or' or
an 'if' and yet am ready to travel by
any reasonable road that will help us to
pierce vital point in the present sys-
tenn of monopoly.
Free silver has been advocated by a
strong and aggressive party, but very
few of the advocates nave seemed to
realize the relation of the whole matter
to the worlds monopoly. AS the whole
contest has developed from month to
month, not few have been made to
feel as though the leaders were very
earnestly seeking for some way mot to
do it,
The leaders of both. old parties evil
IDENTIFY realize that they will have very
soon to meet and consider this all per-
vading discomfort The : conditions
have thrust themselves So far to the
front that they cannot be ignored
The issues will have to be met. We
have nothing hopeful to report from the
actions of the past or present admins
tratiOns. Obviously something will
have to come out of present conditions
besides mere talk. Talk" makes
great many of us tired" A fight, for
free silver is all right, as far as It goes,
because it aims a blowsat the money
trust. But silver is only the entering
wedge. s,.>. s,.
Public utilities belong to the people,
they will have to be restored. Half
way. measures will not rise to the level
of the hour. Ss
Trusts are. absorbing everything.
What is to come of all this? Here is
case just reported in one of the daily
papers A combination is formed with
capitalization Of 81, $500 On. this
basis a trust is formed of $4,000, 900;
$40,o00,0oo Of this II preferred etock.
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