Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-08-01
EIGHT PAGES
TUESDAY, AUGUST /. 1899.
MONEY IS EVERYTHING.

Do free opinion, free speech ana n
free press really exist in this country
as they formerly did? DO they really
exist at all? There never before were
so much opinion, speech and prcss rs
now: but where is the freedom they
once possessed?
"Gone glim'ring thro' the dream of
things that were:
A school-boys tale the wonder of an
hour"
In your haste, you say that you have
free opinion and free speech: but on Il
very little consideration, you under
stand that you attempt freedom in
either at your peril; and that If you do
actually exercise free thought ana eX-
preston. you do so al the slave enjoys
liberty-with the lash on your back; or
as the patriot defies PROFESSIONALISM
the gallows In full view. There is no
longer II real public opinion; it is sup
pressed by bull-dozers; or is falsihcd by
bribery and corruption.
The crime of 1S73-thc stealthv and
fraudulent decentralization of silver
was grand larceny ana n StupendOus
robbery; yet these were the least of its
offences. In plain, gross and fasrant
violation of the Federal constitution. il
not only stole one-half of the money
and values Ok the people. but deprived
them of free coinage, free money, free
currency, and took from the States one
half Of the legal tender constitutionally
pledged to them; and. by establishing
the gold monopoly, destroyed all free
nd liz
labor all free employment, all free
material. all free production. all free
consumption. all free business of every
kind: and put all men and all things
in the exclusive control of the money
monopolists so long as that act of 1919
remains In force and the Republican
party continues In power.
Thank God that there is an escape,
without resorting to bloody revolution.
but 1t is the sole escape. though so
many men are judicially stone blind Ia
1t: the repeal OF the act of 1873. Or,
RATHER. THE RESTORATION or
THE FREE AND UNLIMITED COIN
AGE OF THE STANDARD SILVER
DOLLAR. WHICH CAN BE ACCOM-
PLISHED BY RESTORING TO OUR
MINT LAWS THE FEW WORDS
STRICKEN FROM 1T BY THE GUN
MING CONSPIRATORS OF 1873. oh. it
was wonderful triumphof the cunning
of hell. and must have been inspired by
the Devil himself when on special duty
In his favorite character as Mammon,
god of money and the love of it, BY
merely striking out half-dCzen words.
or less. from our Mint Laws. the most
stupendous transformation was effect
ed In the twinkling Of an eye. and n
free. happy and prosperous people have
been delivered to abject slavery and
servile fear, to misery and adversely in
all their affairs and relations. and toI
q destiny of drudgery and want.-under
the foot of the viicst, cruellest ana
most interruptions of tyrannics-that
Of money. YET MEN REFUSE TO
SEE THAT AS THE ACT OF 1873
BROUGHT THEM INTO THIS pITI
OF WOE. THE WAY OUT is THE
REPEAL OF THAT ACT AND TIE
OF WHAT IT DE
FRAUDED THEM!
How strange. Does money hypnotizc
us? Fifty years ago. when hypnotism
was known as animal magnetism, or
s.Mesmerism," or Electro Biology" a
popular lecturer and experimentalist
was a Din Williams, who used coin, or
come bright disk, in throwing the sub
1ect Into the mesmerc state; but the
coin, unIuckily for the gold theory of
hypnotisn, was silver coin! Yet fifty
years ago 1t was silver. not gold. that
etoSd for money Gas argent" in
French. means both money and silver