The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-10-27
Bankers Have Started an Anti-Pros-
peritY Howl

fnere are in this country a certain
number of persons big in the financial
field, whose sole aim. seems to be to stop
even the right of the common people TO
breathe. No sooner rave natural con-
ditions brought about a normal state of
prosperity than the rapacious instinct
of these animals asserts itself. Nature
has been responsible for bountiful
crops. By taking advantage of his
natural opportunities, nan has brought
out the riches of the soil and of the
mountains. And the country is in a
state of prosperity that may be desig-
mated as normal.
Meeting in convention at Washing
ton, d. c., the bankers of this country
have started an anti-prosperity howl.
These bankers, for the most part, are
the subsidized puppets of the trust
~magnates. Thew are paid to think and
act and speak only as the powers in
Wall street dictate. True, we could en-
lploy more currency and should have
more currency, but we can get it with
out selling out the entire country to
the bankers. Was it not enough when
these men could fairly rape the treas
uries of the insurance companies APP
parently not, for now the agitation is
plainly to force legislation that win
deliver into the hands of the bankers
more monetary power than they have
any right to.
Let us sum up the situation, briefly:
Not more than ten weeks ago, a Chinese
boycott scare wal started. The Chi
nese were supposed, without warning,
to cancel orders for American goods.
At the time this was done, the United
States was buying So worth of mer-
chandise from China for every $3.50
that was sold to that country. The OBJ
ject of this agitation was plainly to
import a horde of coolies, to transplant
American workmen. 1t is beyond doubt
that the labor unions IN this country
have, in many instances, gone beyond
the limit, but is that not true true of
all new movements? There is less labor
trouble now than we nave had for
Years. The importation of Chinese
would flood this country with the
cheapest kind of cheap labor. That
was American patriotism, wasn't it?
The Wall street papers will say this
movement originated in China. 1t is
unquestionable that the infiammable
material there known as the reform
party was glad of material for pur
poses OF agitation, but the powers that
be, in the metropolis, want cheap labor.
Their slogan has been and is "The
public be damned.'
If the American people are to be de-
|livered from this curse. from the very
maws of these men who are dominating
even domestic life and sacrificing the
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lean people must control their own
and of government itself. John d.
Rockefeller, with all his professed
Christianity, has repeatedly proved his
lack of even decent regard for the
American people. "Rule or RUM six
days a week and pull a plus visage on
the seventh doesn't quite harmonic
with the Sermon on the Mount, but
even religion itself has become a jest
with those whose only goddess is to be
found on the coin of the realm.
As a nation, WI are prosperous but
that very prosperity is only more bait
for the rodents that infest every de-
partment of government, of business, of
religious life. If missionaries really
wish to do converting, what is the mat
ter with letting the ignorant oriental
follow out his ancestor worship, and
concentrate a little force on the giutted
monopolistie propositions that have
made a huge joke of liberty and that
care about as much for the American
citizen as Judas cared for his Savior
when the few pieces of silver We Of
lfered in exchanged
americans, study money and its uses.
Invest. Therein lies the solution of
the problem. Less than 100 men control
lyou and your destinies on this earth.
They would be forgotten elements ten
years hence if you would invest wisely
and well-in mines, in industrials, in oil,
in anything that did not permit CAPT
~talistic eontrol.-Daily Mining Record.