The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-25

some time, to convert the Govern
ment Of the United States into
powerful oligarchy of wealth. The
millionaires, the plutocrats, the
trusts, the monopolies, and the
syndicates seem to be supreme and
legislate for their own interests. The
yeomanry Of our country will soon
be reduced to condition of indus
trial serfdom more pitiable than
ever existed before in the history
of the world.
The money power, the trusts. the
syndicates, and the favored few of
the lard threaten the perpetuity of
our free institutions by subsidizing
the pulpit, buying the press, seating
well-paid attorneys i'll legislative
halls and courts of justice, stirling
free speech and the right of lawful
assembly and stretching out their
tentacles to the colleges to crush
professors who have the courage to
tell the truth.
To crush the trusts, now and for
ever, is the highest duty, and the
true mission to-day of the Demo
cratic party. In this war ofexterm-
lnation against the octopus which
is enslaving our industrial masses,
and destroying our free institutions
we should invoke the aid and the
support of every lover Of liberty.
Let us as firmly resolve and pro-
claim the rights and liberties Of the
people must and shall be preserved
from the insidious encroachments
of aggregated wealth.
| l am opposed to the Government
dele eating away its powers to the
national banks. The Democratic
party should vigorously oppose
comforting any additional powers
on or granting any greater privil'
eges to the national banks. In my
Judgment they already possess ell
tirely too much power. They are
doing precisely to-day, only to ;
greater extent. what the United
States bank did i'll the days o
Andrew Jackson.
The right to coin and issue none,
is one of the greatest prerogative
, Of the Republic aud one ofthe high
, est attributes of its sovereignty.
: should not be delegated, transferre'
or set over to any national bank
! to any trust, or to any monopoly
AS Democrats and believers in tn
: meaning of this day. we shoul
! resist the encroachments of natioua
, banks on the liberties of the peopl
with the same zeal and the sam
e courage that Andrew Jackson re
sisted the audacious claims of tn
Il United States bark in his day. An
: when the national banks imput
II emily declare that the governmer
: should go out of the banking bus
e ness, we should answer that tn
IS banks should go out of the govern
/. ing business.
J. There is bill now pending
l. Congress which gives to the nations
It banks of the country far create
= powers and privileges than wei
If ever enjoyed by the United Stat'
Is bank. 1t is Republican bill. an
" the Republican party stands spons'
le for it and is committed to its passag
If it should become law it wi
in give the monopoly of issuing mo-
D ey to the national banks, and hem
st the right to expand or contract Il
L. currency Of the people whenever
I'd suits their convenience. No CO
t. poration should have this power
I'd make or destroy. Il would depri'
ne the Government of one of its grea
of est attributes of sovereignty al
r. give to the national banks the rig
ty to paralyze at their own will eve
g. industry in the country. 1t is t
en- most daring attempt the ban
lg have ever made by law to seize o.
r. of the greatest weapons for good
,st evil known to civilized man. F
the Government to surrender Il
It. prerogative and delegate away Il
he power would be crime against {
n cry citizen in this land and work W
or and misery to millions yet unbol