Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-15

Speak.
"Yes, We may all congratulate our
selves that this cruel war is nearing n
crisis, 1t has cost vast amount OF
blood and treasure. The best flower OF
American youth has been freely Offer
ed upon our country's altar that the
nation might live, 1t has been, In
/ deed, a trying hour for the republic
But see In the near future n crisis
approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to trembe for the safety OF
my country. As q result OF the war cor
poratlons have been enthroned and an
era Of corruption In high places VIII
follow; and the money power OF the
country will endeavor to prolong It's
reign by working upon the preJudices
of the people, until all wealth Is ag-
gregated in few hands and the re-
public is destroyed feel at this mo-
ment more anxiety for the safety OF
my country than ever before, even In
the midst Of war. God grant that my
suspicious may prove groundless' -
Abraham Lincoln.
my agency In procuring the pas
sage of the national bank act was the
greatest financial mistake OF my life'
1t has built a monopoly that effects
every interest In the country. IL
should be repealed, But before this
can be accomplished the people WHY
be arrayed on one side and the banks
on the other, In contest such as we
have never seen In this country. Sal
mon p. Chase,
Put down the banks, and II this
country could not be carried through
the longest war against her most pow
erful enemy without ever knowing the
want of dollar; without dependence
on the traltorous class of her citizens;
without bearing hard on the resources
of the people or loading the public
with debt, know nothing OF my coun-
trymen. And | sincerely believe with
you that bank establishments are
more dangerous than standing armies,
and that the principle OF spending
money to be paid In futurity, under the
name of funding, is but swindling fu-
turity on a large scale,"-Thomas JEFF
ferson.
Resolved, That congress has no
power to charter United States bank,
that we believe such an institution
one of deadly hostility to the best in
terests of the country, dangerous to
our republican institutions and the
liberties Of the people, and calculated
to place the business of the country
within the control OF a concentrated
money power and above the laws and
the will of the people, democratic
platform, 184O
Monarchy itself is sometimes hint
ed at as a possible refuge from the
power Of the people. In my present
position could scarcely be justified
were l to omit raising n warning voice
against the approach of returning des-
potism. There is one point to which
ask brief attention. 1t Is the effort
to place capital above labor in the
structure of the government, Let them
beware of surrenderlng a political
power which they already have, and
which, II surrendered, will surely be
used to close the door of advancement
against such as they, and fix new dlsa-
billtics and burdens upon them, till
all of liberty will be lost."-Abraham
Lincoln.
What will the lawyers and bankers
and their dupes say in reply to Lin
coin? Why they will accuse every
one who dares to expose them of be-
ing an alarmist, and rustic" like the
devil after souls, for votes necessary
to bring about the very condition OF
affairs Lincoln warned lis against,
Read what Honest Abe" said over
again and think.
Can you not see the effort being
made before your very eyes ito place
capital not only on an equal with, but
above labor in the structure of gov
ernment?"
Was Lincoln a fool? Did he not
know what he was talking about? Did
not the danger he spoke of exist? Was
not this conspiracy" Lincoln said
this In 81, before a single slave had
been liberated. He spoke to white
men. The Republican party was
formed to accomplish a great work,
which 1t did. Now 1t is in the hands
of wreckers and is used by them to
drive the whole industry Of the coun-
try into the Unsuitable nav of monopo-
lies and trusts. The once lively body
is nothing but corpse animated and
possessed by devil. Instead of Lin
coin and Palmer, its leaders are a set
of blood-suckers leeches and thieves.
Trusts and monopolles have full pos
session Of the party now, and every
man that has the love of country and
the welfare Of the industrial classes at
heart will step out and not be led into
the pit.
The final end and result of legisla-
tlon in the interest Of the monled class
can be nothing Int the complete deg
Of humanity; and yet we
find men who are willing to vote to tax
themselves that other men may have
greater and greater power to reduce
humanity to a worse condition than