The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-14

gold bars, ready for shipment to
Europe, then they will have clear
field with all rivalry eliminated
'SThis will create a vast artlhcia1
vacuum-Which the trust VIII be auth
orized to fill with its own product-lts
Watered dollars-when it suits its I'M
perial purpose. The money trust IS a
law-made trust and it is the foster par
ent and Hfe-giver to the whole brood of
vampires that are now sucking the req
blood of legitimate prey.
1T is clear from the. circumstances
attending the origin and passage OF the
bill that it can have none Of the moral
sanction of a bonafide United States
law 1t was born in the dark, its very
existence and the purpose OF Its auth
ors were denied and concealed and II
has lurked and sneaked along every
step of its progress. Its very title is a
fraud. To define and fix the standard
of value, maintain the parity of all
forms of money, and for other puf-
poses It should be entitled: A bill to
legalize the Atlantic City conspiracy,
enlarge the radius of the endless chain,
emasculate the government, stimulate
the demand for government bonds ana
guarantee at all times bond supply
equal to the demand. Every feature OF
this bill is vicious; and all OF them
combined conspire to justify the accusa-
ton implied in the change Of title which
I have proposed. The influences which
inspired this measure aim simply at ad-
dition division and silence.
agency of trusts. it will be readily I'M
derstood, will not be reinvested in any
thing but trust enterprises, and the
policy is not to extend, but to limit
the number The same considerations
which induced them to strike down
competition will restrain them from en-
couraging the election of competitive
establishments. But they must have
some ready investment for idle accuTn-
ulatiOn, and what more attractive than
untaxed government bonds? This very
thing, outrageous as it seems, is amply
provided for in the pending bill.
This is the last great master-stroke
from a band of cOnspirators VINO started
ont more than thirty years ago to change
the current of this once serene and placid
toward the abyss of despotism Many in
dividuals who have given the plot their
were doing The same can be said of the
so-called statesmen who steered to their
h11ried in the eraveVards of nations His
tory avouches that many of them were
men of charming personality ana really
did not mean to destroy their country
But they had not learned that men who
have the united support of the powerful
classes-of monopolies and trusts-could
the rule universal throughout ali ages.
How can the country protect itself? What
When We are troubling our heads
about remedies against these evils. let
shadowing enemy-the omniverous money
trust-we have. thanks to the master
builders OF the republic. the remedy al
ready provided, full, ample and complete
in the constitution of the United States
rock fofever: The whole question is spe-
officially lodged in the hands or congress,
and congress is the creation of the peo-
pie. There can be no money trusts as
long as we take shelter under and cling
to the constitution, as it was made by our
Unless We deliberately surrender this
citadel of our liberties, We have in our
/ hands the power to protect ourselves.
| But if We are going to surrender this to
| the king of all the trusts, what IS the
| use of erecting palisades against the
| parent hive?
/ gress that will stand by the plain let
/ ter and spirit of that admirable, cOmpre-
! hensive and blood-bought instrument See
/ to it that congress provides this mighty
! country with a. money system clearly
t within the intendment of our charter,
consisting of gold, silver and legal tender
paper-an to be issued by the government.
J cOnServatively and definitely limited in
amount; and then provide postal savings
banks where the people can safely de-
post their surplus earnings and where
money sharks can not corner our cash.
/ DO this and no storm can arise with suf
ficient force to shake a single timber in
! the structure. Flee, then. to the rock of
the constitution Cling to 1t as the ship
about about him him anu tempest q A'"''DS
NJ. c. Wetmore. the tobacco manu-
facturer, of st. Louis, addressed the
conference on his personal experience
with trusts. Mr.. Wetmore declared
that the trust promoter is the worst
1 enemy of the human race The protec-
tive tariff, he declared, was the foun-
dalton of the modern trust and it's
| concomitant evils. The farmers, he as
/ serted, now feel safe from the encroach-
ment of the trusts; but there is moth
! ing to prevent the monopolies from en-
| tering agricultural fields when the
other avenues of industry have been
| exhausted.
Mrs. Helen NJ Cougar, of Indiana,
| followed. She was the first woman
speaker at the conference. She was
wildly cheered throughout. Mrs. Cougar
| said:
MRS. COUGARS REMARKS.
Trusts are here; we know by their
/ hideOus hand of power raised against
| the common welfare of the masses they
are organized greed and legalized rob-
! berry; like chattel slavery of old they
have their existence in laws which Gre
ate them; like the same slavery, they
must have their destruction in laws
that prohibit them. have no patience
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