The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-11-22
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Editor OF The Advance.
1t j., ~ il"nt If present Indications
cou.l; for anything that Abraham
!.inru,.I reIeinut>.>l apothesun that
this is a government Of the people
for IT," people by the people is; 10
longer tie vogue because it has
De"u'n" L government Of
monopoly for mono.. oily by monopo-
~ supplemented by courts Of in
junction which are backed by the
iron hand Of the military to day our
financial system is in the hands Of a
gigantic trust
An intipxiblp gold sStandaru has
been established by the fiatis1n OF Il
a lmtclnulistic government the
feduciarvy money such as green
backs and treasury notes have been
seuu,~teretl and placed out of circu-
latiun while one of the most infa-
NOUS laws ever made by Congress
which is class Legislation in toto has
placed our bank note issues in the
hands Of the bankers who will play
fast and loose with the currency
just as their interests may dictate a
robber. Tariff has walled out foreign
compe tition has made it possible
for the theivish trusts to exist and
by system of sand bagging our in
FAINT inductores are enabled to hold
up the people and make them stand
and deliver and this sandbagging is
brought about the more readily by
issuing industrial stocks half water
or common and half real orpreferred
and then by putting up the prices
of commodities from Is to so pei
cent higher than they ought tx. be
they are enabled to pay large di-
vidends both upon watered and pre-
fe1red stocks and that is what l call
sand bagging the people though the
trusts call it by the euphonious
name of profits arising from infant
Industries and SO by system of rob
berry these infant industries that
have become as thievish as daw
and dis mischievious as a monkey
can plunder the people with i'm
punity' being free from any legal
restraint. What ever and above all
the country is being dominated by
aggregated wealth butJusticeHarlan
Of the supreme court has well said
that there is no good reason why the
business interests of the country
should. be dominated by aggregated
wealth any more than that the pro
perty of the country should become
a spoil to the law less and Justice
Brown of the supreme court in
speaking of the descission of the
supreme court on the income tax
law said trust that this not Of the
first step toward the submerging
the liberties Of the people in a sor-
did disposition of wealth. VIM.
Mckinley said money is the master
everything else the servant but this
was before he ameHannaized and
halnpered to degree by the monop-
olists. Wendall Phillips said the
great contest Of the future will be
between money and legislation and
unless our children are more cOu1ag-
Gus and more preserving than were
those who fought against slavery
institutions will go down
before the money power rich men
die but banks are immortal while
the corporations never have any
diseases and so in the long run
through favoring legislation they
are sure to win Abraham Lincoln
in letter to friend just before his
death said speaking of the wal,
VS. the war is nearly over but can
see in the near future crisis ap-
proachin & that completely unnerves
me and makes me tremble for the
safety of my country as a result OF
war monopolies have been en-
throned and an era Of corruption
will follow and through bribery an d
corruption the people will become
1ebauched and librety will he destroy
ed feel greater anxiety for the safe
ty of my country at this moment
than ever did even in the midsto f
war; God grant that my suspicious
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old inspired by God ever gave
truer forecast of coming events than
did this wonderful man mOnopolles
have been enthroncl and an era OF
corruption has set in AMI through
bribery and corruption - people are
being debauched and Ii ,er+y will be |
destroyed and lastly, II " N
Depew than WON nc hone Ter
man can be. found in a party the
was famous under Lincoln but
which has become less famous under
said, any man that an
masses an immense fortune
for his own exclusive benefit is do
ing more to propagate anarchy than
most and all the men that
we're hung in the city of Chicago
known language could not have stat
I'd in fewer words the case; it is
The summation of the evils of i'm
nense wealth done in nut shell