Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-25

composed Of the worshipers Of wealth
When the members of this faction rise
| to make their nominating speeches we
see that the speakers teeth are all of
| gold, and their arms are of gold, and
their hair is of gold, and their legs
are of gold Their fingers are of gold,
though they have gold rings upon
those fingers. Their necks also are of
| gold, though the collars around those
necks are of pure gold. Their feet are
of gold, though the shoes which cover
those feet are not made of leather but
| of gold. By the old Roman law a
| man could not vote unless he was q
property owner and his property was
| valued, | believe, at something like
| $1,000 in our money Today there is
a tendency not SO much to restrict the
vote in presidential elections to the
| property owner as to those who either
| own gold or can be Influenced by the
prospect Of getting. gold
| If gold is not becoming a great fac
tor in American political life, what
was the meaning of the sudden change
of American sentiment in reference to
war NucU III 1871 1TONeF CleNoIdQO,
| president of the United States. drifted
dangerously near to war with Great
Britain? When the presidents demand
that the British government submit
| it's dispute with Venezuela to arbitra-
ton was first learned. there was an
outburst of approval of his daring
course. But the next day there was
a fall in the price of stocks in Wall
street, the money markets of the world
were convulsed. and the millioniares
| joined with ministers of the gospel and
wise patriots throughout the land in
| urging the president at all cost to
avoid war with Great Britain. What
was the cause of the sudden change?
Why was the policy applauded ON one
day deprecated on the next? Were
the principles of the Monroe doctrine,
which the president was praised for
championing, discovered to be fall
lacious? Was Venezuela any less
worthy of our protection on one day
than on the other? Was it not rather
| that the money power of the country
realized that war would involve ruin
| to some and loss to all? So the good
| men and wise patriots who had de-
nounced the prospect of war at the
beginning on righteous principles were
unexpectedly REINFORCED by men who
know no god but the golden calf.
Do you profess to believe that gold
| yellow gold-as a would be bramble
king is not trying to get possession of
| this government? Do you for one mo-
ment profess to believe that the United
States would be as quick to declare
war against England or Russia or Ger
many or France as it was against a
| poverty stricken nation like Spain?
! Touch the nations pocketbook and in
many parts of this land you will make
! the word PATRIOTISM written in let
tiers of gold, turn as black as the heart
| of selfishness and deceit One Of the
| great dangers threatening the welfare
of our land is the power of the great
i money combinations. 1t is q rapidly
| developing power, and it is ever aim
ing to seat in the presidential chair Of
| this free nation its bramble king, gold,
as the supreme ruler of this great peo-
| pie. When the great railroad trusts
and the oil trusts and the tin can trusts
and the beef trusts and the sugar
trusts and the steel trusts can dictate
who is to be president of the United
States let US beware! Take thy cloven
foot, o yellow and would be King
Bramble from off the front doorstep
of the White House. Thou didst de-
stroy the Roman and the Grecian gov
ernments when their national power
passed into the hands of the few cap
italists. Thy foul breath is now hot
upon our cheeks, but by Gods help
| thou shalt not be allowed to destroy US.
King Alcohol as Bramb1e.
But again we find the destroying
bramble canvassing for supremacy in
American politics in another way. He
| now appeals to the diseased and in
famed appetite of man for strong
drink. But though, if a man may
look at this bramble long enough, he
can see him changed into the wriggling
coil of snake; yet, like Melusina, the
most famous of all the French fairies,
when first he appears he looks like a
beautiful god, instead of like a devil.
His hair is cluster of luscious grapes,
rich as those of Eshcol, which the spies
carried back from the promised land
to the Hebrew encampment. His
cheek has not upon it the pale look
of corpse, but it is flushed with what
looks like the redness of health. He
comes to US not as a pauper In his
pocket he jingles the coin of his taxes
as he says: you cannot, you dare not,
do without me. 1 am King Alcohol.
There is not political convention in
all this land except one that has dared
hurl a defiance at my scepter. My den
may seem to be the saloon, but my
throne will yet be built under the great
dome in the rotunda of our national
capitol. l shall yet be publicly recog-
nized as king in American politics as
l am everywhere in secret recognized
as King Alcohol now"
Is not the defiant assertion true?