The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1899-05-03


The welfare and happiness Of man
kind are dependent upon the kinshi
Of humanity. 1t is natural law tina
men should labor and that by thei
labor they should live.
When a man is lifted above the neces
sity of labor and above dependence,
upon it, by the accumulation OF wealth
through the medium of discriminatin:
legislation. he loses his kinship to, an,
his identity with, humanity. And Or
gained Wealth knowns no kinship t,
humanity, and has no instincts, no de
sires, MODELLED, no feelings, in common
with humanity. 1t is wholly relent
less and wholly cruel. 1t is a Master
and nothing else. The Trust aud tn,
Gold Standard are brothers of the full
blood, the deformed and abnormal is
sues from the womb of Organized
Wealth, and serve as the means
through which are emphasized the
tyranny, the oppression, and the ex
! tOrtton OF their mother.
Every supporter of the trust is an
advocate OF the gold standard; and
ninety-hve per cent. of the advocates
of the gold standard are the open or
secret adherents of the trusts. You can
not afford to rely upon declarations
against trusts coming from the lips OF
men Of affairs or in public life who are
friends of the gold standard. Their
declarations are too often used only as
mask. The same principle underlies
the gold standard and the trust.
ORGANIZED wEALTH's INIQUITIEs.
Organized Wealth controlling legisla-
ton has been powerful enough to pro-
vide by law for the payment of two
dollars for one by the people to the
bond-holders; to provide by law for the
extension of the life of the national
debt, and to prevent its payment; to
bring about by legislation the destruc-
ton of one-half of the peoples money;
to create government by injunction,
for it is by reason of the dictates of Or
gan:zed Wealth that the courts have
established this process; to prevent the
levying and collecting Of tax on in
comes, by which it was sought to re-
quire the wealth of the land TO bear
some part Of the burdens of maintain
ing the government; to make this land
the home Ofinnumerable corporations,
each one tending to the concentration
of the wealth; to organize and operate
throughout the land; a system of
trusts, through which medium it be-
comes the dictator of the producer and
the owner of the consumer.
1t is not intended to denounee as
monsters all those concerned in the or
ganization and concentration of wealth.
The dictates and prOmptiDgs of human
nature cannot be ignored, and it may
Oe said that those engaged in the pro
cess by which Organized Wealth has
been placed above the government and
the law, have only taken advantage
opportunities presented for their en-
richment and they would be more than
human in falling so to do. But those
who feel the iron hand of Organized
Wealth, and those who labor is bv
process of legislation diverted to its en-
richment, are not seeking to initiate a
warfare upon Organized Wealth, or its
representatives. They are not the ag-
gressors, they are the defenders. They
are not seeking to take from Others that
which belongs TO them, but'they are
seeking to hold and to defend their own
They are not making warfare on the
interests of others but are looking TO
the preservation of their own interests.
They are seeking and contending for
the opportunity accorded to them bv
na,u al law and promised TO them bv
fundamental human law, to reap for
themselves the benefit of thei, own Ia
Dor and to prevent their deprivation of