The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-24
The old killing Standard Oil method
tend itself. Every bank in the country


tend itself. Every bank in the country
will become its gillie. There will be no
limits to its sway. Its powers will find
their last extension in the frontiers of
the possible. It will loose and unlOose
credit. It will fix the price of money,
and censor the markets to the last item
of value. It will pick up the national
debt, and hold the country between it's
thumb and finger. It will demand bonds
and get them. Or it will force payment
for them. 1t will stand at the spigot
of loans. 1t will flow money on or of
at it's selfish interest of caprice. All
other businesses will sit like begagrs at
its gates. 1t will be the Dives of trade,
and commerce will become it's Lazarus.
If it loves you, you may have money; if
it hates you, your ruin is within it's
reach. In short, controlling, as it will,
the tides OF credit in their ebb and flow,
this bank trust will rule the mart. An
autocrat, it will respond to nothing but
itself. There will be none greater,
none stronger. Congresses will exist
by it's consent and presidents wait hat
in hand for it's orders. 1t will have
power of life and death in business; to
lift up or strike down, to plant or up
root. Between the upper and the neither
millstones of it's operations all men
are to be ground, and all will be grist
to it's hopper. Elections will be at it's
mercy. 1t will produce in Office it's own
paid, sworn follower. 1t will draw
within the train of it's control every
element of government You may
change your White House every four
years, your congress every two; yet,
once this trust of the banks be rooted,
you'll never change your ruler. You
will bow eternaly before this never-dy-
ing, changeless, dynasty of money.
On the reelection of Mckinley (Han-
na), Rockefeller, Morgan and the
Rothschilds, as they get ready this
trust of the banks, count with calmest
confidence. They never doubt the COM
ing of Republican triumph. Incident
ally, and to clear the way for their sue
cess, they plan Silver, Sixteen to One,
as a declaration of Democracy. To
beat down Bryan on that issue, they
rest themselves safe. They fully weigh
the strength of the almighty dollar in
politics. With Silver, Sixteen to One
as slogan, they argue that Democ-
racy's treasure chest will be empty as
drum. 1t took nineteen millions to
put Mckinley where he is. They say,
if needs crowd, he can have forty mill
ions, eighty millions, all he will, to gain
a second term. Their war plans are
laid and made. They will waste neith-
er time nor treasure on the individual
voter. But registration is to be bought;
for election day, judges are to be pur-
chased. They will not change Bryan
vote. With registration wide enough,
as counts proceed, Mckinley ballots
will be furnished by thousands to over
creep and top the utmost Bryan ex-
preston. That's what was done in '96.
Bryan was elected then. Nor, to defeat
him, did they count him out The
black Hannaites won by the simpler
system of counting Mckinley in. 1t
made less noise; offered a narrower
foothold to attack. Out of curiosity, If
not for your instruction, look to this:
In 1892 Cleveland won. Four years
later Bryan lost" Yet bend a glance
to these tables, and some CLINT of the
frauds which put Mckinley where he is
may then De glimpsed. Here ar ta-
bles to show in sundry states the Cleve-
land vote, which succeeded, and the
Bryan votes which found defeat"
THE VOTE OF 1892 AND 1896.