Graham guardian., 1900-10-26

sharks of Europe. who were then
striving to demonetize gold for
the alleged reason that money
would become too plenty and the
people enjoy too great a prosperi
ty, demonetized all the foreign
gold and silver coin in the country.
As most of the coin then in the
country consisted of such foreign
coin, and its denomination enabled
the banks to reject it, it was fore
ed out of the country to make
money more scarce. The effect of
such a piece Of legerdemain was
deplorable. 1t was followed by
one of the greatest financial crashes
that the country had ever witness
ed, resulting in transferring humid
reds of millions of dollars worth
of property from men of moderate
means to the money vultures and
which laid the foundation deep
and strong for that grand Moneyed
Oligarchy which now threatens to
blot out our republican institutions.
After the preparation of so
heinous an act the people suffered
until after the commencement of
the war of the rebellion. But dur
ing that war the decendents of the
Tory-Federalists, began to conjurc
at the past. They took advantage
of the colamity of war to warm
into life the monstrous doctrines
of Tory-Fcderalism. Under the
pretense that the measure was only
intended as temporary expedient,
they again foisted the Tory FEEDER
al national banking system upon
the nation, and now, like the old
man of the sea, it will not down.
Through the influence of that
banking system, vast system of
robber trusts gravitate about the
banks, that banking system, itself,
constituting the most powerful
trusts on the face of the earth.
Through the rottenness of that old
system, silver was demonetized in
1873, and in March, 1900, it be-
came sufficiently powerful to de-
mand and force the passage of a
measure through congress that re-
fleets the genuine sentiments of
the power behind; measure, the
very shadow of which darkens the
hopes Of the victims of greed and
avericc. The bill embodies the
elimination Of the grand scheme
on the part Of the money vultures
to strike the people down.
Through the passage of that bill
the Republican leaders threw off
the mask of political hypocracy
under which they had concealed
their vile and corrupt intentions
for so many years on financial
questions, and now the hidra-head-
ed monster stands before us and
his true colors can be seen through
the filthy slime that covers his
form. The measure embodies all
the financial whims, notions and
demands Of the money monipula-
tors. 1t contains the hideous fangs
of the monstrous money fiends Of
two continents. The people
have for years been warned that
slowly and stealtihly there was
treading along the corridors and
halls of congress an assassin with
his blade hidden watching for an
opportunity to strike the fatal
blow. During the month of
March 1900, the opportunity came,
and beneath the dome of the capi-
tol of Washington in broad day
light the fatak blow was struck
which was intended to chain this
nation, like Prometheus, to the
rock that the money power may
plunge its golden talons into its
vitals and gorge itself upon the
suffering helpless humanity. 1t
proves that the leaders of the re-
publican party have during the
past foated false flag in the faces
of the people. 1t is evident that
under the veil of international
bimetalism they hid the gold
standard; under the veil of sound
or safe currency they hid intended
withdrawal of the grcenbacls; and
under the veil of anti-repudiation
they hid their intended repudia-
tion of the silver dollar.
That bill, by legal enactment,
establishes the gold standard and
makes every obligation, both pub
lie and private, payable in gold;
provides for the funding Of all out
standing bonds into bonds payable
in gold only; provides the redcmp-
ton in gold of the greenbacks and
treasury notes, the design being,
as was provided by the first bill
which passed the House of Repre-
sentatives, to retire the silvrr dol
lars and silver certificates and thus