Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-10-11
nj YORK LETTER
Hand Of 40 .Avenging Deity in the
Affairs Of Men.
Tho scramble for Cold an Over
Europe ana tho Hope or tho Jug
sler.- Foroen,t Of the rinnncia,
situation.
New York Industrial Exchange
Editor Virginian-Pilot:

October 8. 1899.
Editor Virginian-Pilo
The hand of an avenging deity is
more and more evident just now in the
affairs 'or men and the finances OF the
world. There is u scramble for gold"
all over Europe, and the Bank OF Eng
land to say nothing OF the Imperial
Bank OF Berlin, is as badly Oft as in
the Barring game.
The jugglers will now set to work to
"juggle" some gold from Russia and
France as in 1880.
And in this country there is also a
vast expansion OF credits and bank eX-
changes which show the country has
outgrown its financial and currency
system. Il is the CULVER among the
denizens of Laputa
Thus, Mr.. Editor, it will be seen that
the ghost OF Banquo will not down.
The curses of the crime OF "a still at
flict mankind. and will until the e1uili-
brium is restored between silver and
gold by law, for money is the creature
Of law" In this country that great
crime against the people. the debtor
| classes and Christ's poor, has opened q
Pandora's box of evils on the innocent
and unoffending masses of the people,
and some OF the acknowledgements
tors who stabbed silver in the dark as
BruSus and the Romans dipped their
assassinating knives in the blood OF
Caesar, are honored, and still move in
respectable society. and they are all
rich. Future generations, however, will
eNecrate their memory, for they betray-
cd their countrymcn to the perfllious
British gold standard and sought to re-
duce their country to 4 British prov
ince.
hniy tai ,,In n
cross of gold, as Mr.. Bryan insists. may
appeal to the God OF Justice, for we
have not, alas! done With the long
train of curses which follow that crime
of the centuries. Consequences are
pitiless. Among them are contraction
(risor mortis, and this with forced
liquidation, is the most terrible of them
alD; then comes MISREPRESENTATION
owing to the poverty of the people from
the scarcity Of money; then that fierce
competition, which causes and creates
the monster trusts: then the apprecia-
ton of gold. and failing prices" and
unemployed labor. and 8: land filed
with criminals, suicides, lunatics.
broken hearts and tramps. Most of
these evils we have already experienced.
The next will probably be Il money
famine. the result of the scarcity of
gold and legal tenders, and the hoard
Ing of the currency by the United
states treasury and the few monster
banks which compose the money trust
"a money famine which the Hon. John
G. Carlisle and William Mckinley, in
the House of Representatives, said was
worse than pestilence in the destruc-
ton OF lives and property. If the Single
gold standard system can be carried to
it's logical conclusion without n world
wide crash, a new. era has dawned in
the financial history of the world.
Meantime Wall street waits to see
whether the bank reserves will continue
to decrease by the call for money from
the banks of the interior II they do.
there will be a Scare" which will
cause the priests. parasites and devotees
of the Gilded Calf to indulge in wecp
ing and wailing and crashing of teeth.
However. ] do not think Nesuvius Will
break loose until next summer, when
Rothschild will pull in gold.
EUGENE BLOODGOOD BEEBE.