The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-07-30
BOOK 2.--Chapter XI.
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chuel, and Indifferent to the struggles
and vicissitudes of his kind, in which
his calling does not require him to
brings misery and ruin upon the rest
CT mankind by taking as usury the
fruits of all human efforts for the
general betterment, and becomes him.
self transformed into monster hav-
ing the form of man, but deprived by
atrophy of the symnathies and quail
ties which constitute true manhood,
and deserves to be scourged from the
temple of the human race.
When the nations become wise
enough to adopt a just system of tax
alton and give to all articles subject
to taxation the power to pay tax lev
les and judgments, and put an end to
the infamy of free coinage" the oc-
casion and opportunity to lend at us
ury will be taken away, because of the
passing away Of the necessity to Dor
row. Then the governments of earth
will no longer present the detestable
spectacle of governmental power
leagued with the individual greed of
the rich in a systematic effort to re-
duce its citizens to pauperism, driving
them to crime and insuring the decay
and ultimate ruin of the people, whose
welfare that government was charged
with the duty to secure.
And these miseries are the unavoid-
able and baleful product of statutes
deliberately procured to be enacted
with the intent to produce these re-
suits.
No human being understanding their
mountaineering consequences, could
ever have brought these conditions
about. They are necessarily the prod
uct of the cold, calculating cupidity of
greedy monsters merely masquerad-
ing as men.
The result Of the concentration by
the wicked statutes of the "civilized"
world, of this Overpowering quantity
of the force of demand generated by
the universal struggle of the race
against each other for the possession
of gold as the sole means of OBJ
tanning the imperatively needed re.
ceipts against devouring tax levies
and judgments, cannot avoid produc-
ing evils momentous and destructive;
and it is solely because the exclusive
power to satisfy tax levies and judg-
ments is thus inseparably linked by
statute to fixed weight of gold. that
mankind is compelled to battle like
hungry wolves for it's possession, and
that the metal gold is in such over
powering demand the world over.
Men are tumbling over each other
in the wild insanity of the scramble
for gold. The frozen solitudes of the
Arctic circle, wrapped in the gloom
and desolation of endless winter, AMI
the horrors of half year of darkness,
and the means of an anguish that can
never be uttered, are powerless to de-
ter mankind, thus driven to despair
and made mad for gold, from crowdine
| to the Klondike like famished wolves
to a carcass.
Insane with the rage for gold, its
crazy worshippers control the govern
ments of Great Britain and the United
| States, and eclipse the Christian GU
pidity and prayerful cruelty of Cortez
and PizarTo by the superiority Of TIE
armament as we'll as the hypocritical
pretenses to philanthropy employed in
the conquest of South Africa ard the
! Philippines, over these of that othe,
band of veneered robbers, who, in the
name Of civilization and the cross oil
Christ, sought to crafty their crav-
ing for gold by the plumber and desc
lation of Mexico and Peru.
1t has now been made clear that the
power to "coin money" is simply the
power to gather at once the revenues
of future years, by giving to the peo
PIE willing to accept them, in return
for needed services and commo1itie;
received as taxes by the government
tax receipts against further tax levies
making those receipts transferable by
delivery, and a peremptory receipt, b,
their tender, against tax levies ant
judgments
No thought of supplying circulat
ing medium" could have been in con
temptation by those with whom they
originated. Just as we saw that {
money symbol" when adopted b,