The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-12
DRIVING OUT THE MONEY
LENDERS.

For years the American temple Of
finance has been infested with a band
of money lenders Literally speaking
as bad if not worse than the money
lenders who infested the temple at
Jerusalem, and whom Christ drove
therefrom Not only have these mod
ern money lenders cast their iniqui
rous light over our temple of finance
but they have even invaded the tenn
pie of the church and so intimidated
dts ministers in many cases, that they
dare not exercise their privileges as
free born Americans and ministers of
the word of God, and rise in their pull
pits and denounce these sleek demons
of high finance and the rotten, graf
ridden structures upon which they
stand There have been some notable
exceptions TO this rule, of course. but
most of these have paid the penalty
for denouncing instead of kowtowfng |
to predatory wealth, even as Christ
did Not two months ago a young |
minister in Des Moines, Iowa. was
forced to resign from his church be-
cause he had dared take the stand for
real righteousness and would no long
ar bow down before the Will of those |
members of his congregation who
were votaries at the shrine of frenzied I
finance This example illustrates the
wide spread of these modern money
lenders over the length and breadth of
our country. Their capital is the lit
tie district in New York city around
Wall street, their army and their
strength are the legions of dollars
they have filched from the American
people. For years by their bribins |,
contributions =, misnamed philanthro-
ries-they have held the churches and
colleges subservient TO their WILL gain
ing in this manner valuable allies, for
those churches and colleges that did
not openly laud them and their gifts,
at least remained discretly silent as
TO their methods of obtaining the /,
money wherewitIf they made their :
And as long as they {
had silence they knew the people
would never be aroused from their ig I
noranoe as to the real state of affairs. !
The belief that silence is golden was
and is one of the greatest tenets &C /;
their religion of dollars. They 81 I
fenced the press through the belief !
they had spread broadcast among the j;
people of party regularity. And by
able To build up political machine II |
every state and county thereof. in the {
Union that sent to public office onis |
such men as had been tried and not !
found wanting in faithfulness to the I
frenzied financiers. and who. upon !
assuming office would never for one I
the people and arousing I
them from their ignorance, was goi- {
den And TO prove that this kind of :
silence was golden these officers were i
permitted 10 nave SllldII snare III
the golden spoils that resulted there {
from. The country, however. was too {
vast aud the people too progressive to {
remain forever in ignorance of the +
system that was reducing their free 5
10 monied oligarchy. Lit I
tie by little tile people grasped what I
was going on and at various times I
made ineffective efforts to rid them I
selves of the money monsters. But c
they always failed because they lack 4
ed a leader who would not sell them /
put. Then fate interviewed and Presi- t
dent Mckinley. good man, but one t
who had not fathomed the real peril I