The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-18
In the Shadow Of a Throne.

Since 1916, when England stopped
the coinage of free silver, she has
sacrificed honor, truth and good gov
eminent and virtue to force her finan-
cial system of the gold standard upon
the world. Blood, deceit, corruption
and trickery have been so successful
ly substituted for right and justice
that she has at last succeeded in dom.
mating the nations of the earth to
tneire own undoing.
Some of the people of the United
states, dominated by the froth of par
tisanship and hypnotized by senti.
mentality, do not see the pernicious
character of the financial scheme of
England, but the nations of the old
world have recently become alive to
the financial situation brought about
by the gold standard. They have been
asking each other, through their min.
lister of finance why war in South
Africa inaugurated by England should
create such an enormous financial
stringency in the continental money
markets and give rise to economic
disturbances of the most alarming
character.
The governments of the Car and
Kaiser are uneasy, and do not hest.
tate to declare that the money strin-
gency is due to the drain by England
upon the gold resources of the world
to meet the enormous expenses, now
amounting to nearly 100000 in gold
i coin per day, and that the continu-
! ance Of it means widespread indus.
; trial ruin throughout their dominions.
That the situation is serious one
may be inferred from the considera-
ton OF the question whether the con-
! tinuance of the war between Great
Britain and the Transvaal would not
prove infinitely more injurious to
Russia, Germany and France than to
England herself, which has thus far
hardly been damaged at all, in an
economic sense, by the struggle.
This is the very plainest denuncia-
ton of the gold standard, the abso
luteness Of which, and the supply con
trolled by England, as the great cred.
itor nation of the world, brings ruin
on these great nat ons of the world,
a ruin so complete that they are con-
templating a pers nal struggle with
England as the cheapest manner Of
preventing it.
Buoyed up by lrid proclamations
of fictitious prosperity, prosperity
which means nothing to the masses
and everything to the money lenders,
the people of the United States are
prevented from looking behind the
Anglo-American alliance to see the
chains which England and the Nc
Kinley administration are forging up
on the limbs of liberty. We are
standing in the shadow Of a throne
and becoming dominated by power
that possesses neither conscience nor
justice; the pound of flesh is being
exacted, and when our gold, our be-
loved standard, is drawn away to sup
ply the worlds creditor, England,
who suffers no damage, because she
draws upon her victims for her ex-
penditures in the grand cause of civil
ization and commercial extension and
more loans, we shall see the blood
follow the flesh, as do the other ma
tons of the earth.
AS nation, we are permitting Eng
land to exploit her financial schemes
through the domination of small,
struggling nations and we are help
ing her pay the expenses and to reap
the profits. We are almost in the alb
ject condition of a debtor who dares
not resist his creditor for fear of
foreclosure. 1t is a condition brought
about solely by the gold standard.
and our lost gold, running up into the
hundreds of millions of dollars, gone,
no man knows whittier, together with
the drain now goin; on, must convince
the people that their subsection to
the English throne is not as desirable
as it has been arc ed to be, nor fiat
tering to our intel gence.