Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-28
The Divine Right of the Dollar.

There is no reason on the part OF
any man to despair of the ultimate
triumph of Democratic principles.
Monopoly and their special privileges
have always been overthrow when
their expressions have aroused the
common people. The efforts OF the
beneficiary of monopoly have always
been to keep the people in ignorance
as to what is going on behind the cur
tain. The ultimate end of the monopo-
list is power over his fellow man.
That is the sole reason for the vast
accumulation of wealth in the hands
of single individuals.
Think of it a moment! How long
would ten million of dollars last a man
If his rate of living were a hundred
dollars a day; or a hundred million, if
it were a thousand dollars per dayP If
all power over one's fellow man should
be divorced from money, men would
seek no more of it than would satisfy
their daily wants. Men desire to be
kings and princes solely for the power
they acquire over fellow men. They
hedged their monopoly OF power about
with divine right and kept it through
the ignorance of the men that acknow-
lodged them as the Lords anointed,
resistance to whose slightest demand
would cast them into hell. Common
men were not to discuss high affairs of
State. They were to be left to the
anointed one the Lord had placed over
them.
As men increased in knowledge in
certain parts of the world the incubus
of king was lifted. but another fetish
was instituted. The divine right of
the king gave place to the divine right
of the dollar. 1t was found, as com-
merce increased, tina: all men must
buy money with their wares, in order
to exchange them with celebrity. 1t
was ascertained that men who could
control the money of the world would
have q greater power than the most
powerful sovereign that had ever
listed upon the face of the earth. They
could control kings and nations. They
could bless or curse the ends OF the
earth at their will. To the man ex-
ercising such power much of the pomp
and circumstance attending it is de-
MED, as yet, but the process of break
ing the whole world upon the wheel of
Mammon is going steadily on, and
there is no telling what may happen
before the next century, OIL how abject
men may become If the present trend
is not arrested.
As was the case when men desired
to understand something of the prin-
ciples of government. so it is now.
Matters of finance are too deep for the
mind of the plain citizen. These mat
ters must be left to the banker who is
versed in them, and who is much bene-
fted by his knowledge.
Nothing is so obnoxious to the pluto
crat as a general discussion of the
money question. Every method is be-
ing used, short of shutting the mails
to that kind of literature, to prevent a
correct knowledge of finance from
reaching the people. That such
can be given to the people
only after a very long educational
campaign is very certain. A recent
exchange asks: .How many people
,an tell you after q ten years. discus
sion what a dollar now is, or what con-
a cent?"
The REGISTER has commended from
.he beginning that the heart of the
anti-monopoly fight is to be found in
he money question, because money
,nmeshes the business of the whole
world, and the men who control the
money supply are like the fishermen
Who drag the net. The money ques-
ion must be brought directly home to
he people. Educational work among
hem will prove the salvation of the
from very grave dangers now
Every Democrat should
MORN himself as to the facts about
money and banking. If every mau in
he country could be informed as to
III the facts In regard to these two
ubiects, the danger that now threat
ms US would disappear; so, also,
would the divine right of the dollar.