The independent., 1903-09-03
vvIIRRGGIIhhIA VIRGINIA P0PIUjILIISSTTSS
National Committeeman HaIe's Views Ex
pressed Prior to the Denver
Conferences

committee, prior to the Denver con-
ference, but owing to the press OF
matter was temporarily crowded out.
1t is so full OF meat that little delay
in publication does not affect it'd.
Ind)
Editor Independent: ] am greatly
pleased with the political sentiments
OF your valuable paper. In fact, / am
in full accord with views you so ably
and forcibly promulgate.
l read great many papers, and
have long since come to the conclu-
sion that nearly all dailies now pub
lished in the United States are subsi-
died by the money trust; their very
existence depends upon their strict
loyalty to bankers and capitalists OF
Europe and America. In the language
OF Whitelaw Reid, They dare not ex-
press their honest opinions" hence it
is a great source of patriotic pleasure
t. read closely the two papers which
/ receive from Lincoln, Neb.
The great issue now before the peo-
pie Of the United States, and on which
/ verify believe rests the perpetuity OF
our republic, is: Which is to govern
this nation, the financial corporations
of Wall street abetted by London
bankers, or the loyal representatives
OF the people. Shall the men repre-
senting about one-twentieth of one per
cent of our population (about 40,C
who have accumulated over half OF
the immense wealth of this nation by
fraud, corruption and special privil-
eyes, be allowed to continue to rule
and to dictate all laws by which we
shall in the future be governed; or
shall the bone and sinew of the ma
tion, the classes that in all danger to
the state rally as one man for its pro-
lection, representing in numbers TO-
1000 of the nations population, rule
and dictate laws and policies for the
protection and betterment of all
classes in the United States?
Upon this issue, yea, upon it exclu-
Bively, hangs the destiny of this ma
tion. Upon the proper settlement of
this question all other economic ques-
tions now agitating the body polite
solely depend. The men who are rul-
ing and have been ruling this nation
for the last 80 or ~ years are men to
whom in no wise can be attributed the
greatness that this nation has attained
during the last quarter of century.
Every law which they have succeed
ed in engrafting upon our statute
books, especially the financial laws,
have been stimulated by avarice and
self-aggrandiZement. No law has been
passed during the time above referred
10 except such as has largely contri
buted to making the rich richer; but
what has tended to concentrate the
wealth of this immensely wealthy ma
ton into the hands of the few.
Of these laws, the masses who are
vitality interested are strangely and
grossly ignorant. The people have
been kept purposely uninstructed.
This is, however, becoming an era of
general enlightment. The masses are
doing more reading and are more anx-
ious to know the true history of the
PAST. They are anxious to know how
1t has been possible for $4,000 persons
In the short time of 33 years to ac-
rumulate the greater half of the i'm
mcnsc wealth Of this great nation.
The wealth of this country is esti-
mated in money values to be so bill
lions. They want to know how this
handful Of men t5S,000) obtained over
80 billions of these values in SO short
a time. Through your paper it can be
made known.
From 1888 to 1894 many people were
instructed along this line Yet there
were a great many (now anxious) who
would not read and in measure were
rot allowed to read, the true history
of past legislation.
How was this immense wealth !
transferred from the bone and sinew
of this nation, the wealth-producers |
who forty years ago owned over so per
cent of it's wealth? This seems to be
great national puzzle to the masses.
Yet it is easily explained and now is
the time, propitious time, to unravel
this puzzle; to let the people know
how and by whom they have been
fraudulently but legally plundered. AS
Mr.. Bryan says today, Who are run
ming the masked batteries?" Who
has been for 40 years in charge of
these masked batteries" that have
despoiled the people of their once
owned accumulations? To ward the