The independent., 1903-07-02
BOOK 2.-Chapter VIII.
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Wherever the owner of gold coin
can discover among civilized men \
people pre-eminentiy oppressed by
enormous tax levies and judgments, he
| may take his metal and, by presenting
| il at the mint of that nation, receive
as a gift to him. stamped upon fixed
weight of h S gold, as reward for
| owning that metal, those precious re-
| ceipts which alone have power to sat
! isfy those tax levies and judgments
| lin public offices and in the courts"
OF the civilized world.
No receipt of this kind, having ex-
elusive power in those cases, most
strenuousiy and urgently required by
all civilized men, is permitted to be
! issued to anyone else, no matter what
he may offer his government in ex-
change, although they are stamped
| without limit as gift upon the gold
owners gold.
In all civilized lands statutes have
been framed which give the possessor
| Of this metal the right to demand and
receive those indispensable receipts as
"free gift" and every one of them
! thus given is an iniquitous falsehood
and fraud upon the nation.
The hungry cry of tax .evies and
| judgments the world over has thus, by
statutes of unutterable infamy, been
| transformed from cry for receipts
against tax levies and judgments into
cry for a fixed weight of gold metal
as the only vehicle on which the gov
eInments of man will suffer them to
ride.
Countless millions of oppressed man
kind toll to produce the things theic
governments ret lire for their support
and maintenance, and would rejoice
to give up portio.. of those things
1 and of their own services, as their
contribution towards the maintenance
of their governments. But, no! Moth
ing will be accepted in payment of
taxes except receipts issued by gov
/ ernment, solemnly certifying to the
LIE that the government has at some
previous time received from the per-
son to whom it was thus freely is
sued, some service or commodity CT
the quantity of value stamped upon
the face of the receipt which it calls a
"coin"
Every such "coin" stamped upol
gold ever issued from the mint of the
United States bore LIE upon its
face Every one of those coins, is
sued from the m.nts of all the nations
where the system of 'f-ee coinage
prevails, bears the same impudent liz
upon it's face The recipients gavl
rothing for them; but simply owned
gold or silver metal.
Such coins are each and all a
gift to favorite, given because he
owns piece of gold metal; and the
government solemnly and officially
lies when it asserts by the act oi
! delivery that it received anything fol
them.
Each government thus conspires
with the gold owners of the world te
deny it's people the right to delive,
themselves from the burden of ta1
levies and judgments by the tender Of
anything they possess or can produce
thus compelling them to satisfy those
remorseless edicts of power by tbs
tender of receipts, to be obtained no
where on earth except from that gov
ernment-which refuses to issue then
except as a gift to gold owner.
The gold owner thus alone having
them in possession, uses his monopol!
to extort from the taxpayer and iudg
ment debtor all the wealth his greet
may covet. ..
The statutes of every nation in th'
civilized world, where ''free coinage
Of gold obtains Ind a savage system
of taxation supported hy usury law;
prevails, are alike iniquitous. Ths
force of demand generated for receipt!
having exclusive statutory power BY
their tender to satisfy tax levies anf
judgments. the world over, is thus
made to be worldwide and imperi
Gus force of demand for gold alone