The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-25


ton. He arraigned the bankers and
opened the eyes of the people to the
fact that bankers were as good as any
body else as long as they behaved
themselves. r. - r.
Bryan's speeches on bankers were
the first of the kind that had appear.
ed since the days of Christ. Christ
went down to. Jerusalem, according to
the twenty-frst chapter of Matthew
with large following. In his inyesti-
cation of the conditions in theyT Temple
he found the bankers, or money chang
ers as they were called at that time,
shaving money SO close that the speo7
pie didn't have any left after the bank
ers got through with them. &.0
Christ was so indignant at the skin
game that he saw going on that he
drove the; bankers out5nf the Temple.
This was high-handed piece of busi-
ness for a Socialist like Christ and the
bankers arranged with the chief
priests to call him down. They
brought up his case before Pilot who
considered the affair in all its bearings.
The result was that Pilot could see
nothing wrong in the action of Christ
in the Temple. He knew that the
bankers under cover of law were steal
ing from the people, right and left,
and he proposed that instead Of putt
ting Christ to; death, for interfering
with the bankers, thatShe be allowed
to take the life of B;irnabas well
known criminal WHO ought to die on
general principles. Pilot submitted
the case to the people, t,ut the priests
had received their ins tructions and
would hear to nothing tlf the kind. .sal
1t was Christ they wanted and
Christ's life they WOULD have, and so
in. spite Of Pilots better judgement
they nailed Christ upon the cross.
/. Ch1ist's death made 4 profound inn
preston; on the people. who were in
clinede to question the actssofs the. bank
ers after that. That was the: last
squeak heard in opposition to bank
ers. For nineteen hun nred years since
then they have piled tseir calling en-
tirely unmolested, being garded with
awe by the common people, and as a
superior race by peop IS general.
I Bryan came upon The stag and find
that the ople n eould sdatai him,
if he drew his lance on. the bankers,
he nnsheathed / his sword and went at
them. But all he complished was
to set people to thinking his difficulty
being that he was on the wrong side
of the question himself. &;
Il He never seemed to und derstand that
silver had nothing whatever to do with
the impoverished conditions of the
people. He never seemed to know
that, with ten times more. silver in the
country, the whole would be hidden if
banks failed and precipitated a tinan-
cial panic whereby people would hide
all their money, stop its circulation
and make it scarce. S.i53'.
We are sorry that Bryan cannot un-
derstand, that if the bank was owned
and operated by the government, with
every banker under bond the same as
a county treasurer or. a town collector
that then, all the gold and all the sill
YER and all the paper money would
come into the bank and. nobody would
ever take it away. Because at the
government bank as soon as the in
dividual borrowed money he, would
Immediately deposit the same, go out
and do all his business with checks. :
e Nobody would ever run on a govern
ment bank, nobody would take much
money away from ii, and thus it
would be always full OF money.
= J. Il .' a.
What nonsense, therefore, to be talk
ing about free silver, when you could
never get silver enough to prevent
people from hiding all they had if
banks failed, whereas, with a govern
ment bank-a bank that would never
fall, the bank would be always full of
money. . :
What a pity that Bryan can't see
this. If he knew this and would take
up the cause of the government BANK
his arguments would be inyincible.
But he will not. He is '.t'sot''' in his
way. The world will move on without
him. ,...J4& .EzEa.a -. '- '
How We Pay.
A statement in the New York Jour