Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
WHY MONEY UPHOLDS
REPUBLICAN PARTY
GAINES EXPLAINS POSITION TO
NEGROES
ConsclenceIess PIutocracy Has Been
Engaged In LootIng the Public
and Bryan Is the Black
Mans Hope

e. L. Gaines, who is engaged in tear
ing the mask off the Republican party
for the benefit of the negro race,
added another chapter yesterday. He
said:
Another great struggle is on and
the people of these United States are
again called on to do their duty.
"This cry has gone forth every four
year since the election of John Adams,
in the days when the country was truly
free.
did the liberty of the fathers die
with them, or have we evolved new
nation?
1.-THE true principles of the Republi-
can party died with Lincoln, Grant and
Garfield.
''Mr. Garfield was the last of the true
disciples of the old-time Republican
ism and with him died all its liberal
principles.
"a new breed OF people has quietly
yet stealthily undermined all the true
principles of the fathers intended to
shield the poor.
Living under the cloaked name
Republican they have for years COM
pletely fooled the people. 1 shall make
this statement expecting 1t to be con-
tradicted. Had the people, the men
of our race, acted out fully their free
dom and voted as Independent, free
men for men and principles and not
parties, the conditions in the south to-
day would be vastly different, politi-
cally and otherwise.
"How can we redeem the past? The
money god, the leader astray of my
race, rides supreme DER the land.
1.-The establishment of a political oil
garchy by the Republican party has
allowed the use of the legislative ma
l,xro a1a fn rOh f6a nfh
AS in Caesars Days
Just here 1t may be that study
of the past will arouse you to an
appreciation of the dangers that have
come upon US.
Let us return to the reign of Cae-
sar Why did the aristocracy of that
day declare war against him? Because
he had been at work reforming the
Roman system and the senatorial con-
spirators determined that he should
die.
HE abolished Imprisonment for debt
and by that act deprived Roman capt-
talists of their power to enslave the
poor.
"In Rome there were men who did
nothing but loan money. They had
no other business. They made no in
vestments, paid no taxes, contributed
nothing to the wealth or wellbeing of
the country.
"Great landed estates, cultivated by
slaves, were the curse of the land.
Caesar compelled every proprietor to
employ free labor. That's why they
killed him.
1.-THE cities of Italy were thronged
with unemployed. Three hundred
thousand of the poor were fed from
100000 of the public grafters and said
to them:
"'Yonder is the land Go and earn
bread by the sweat of your brow
"Brutus cut him down, and Brutus
was a money lender.
"Oh, that we had had a Caesar in
the White House last fall when those
Wall street rascals gathered into New
York all the available cash of the
country and created this panic.
To-day we have in this republic
every abuse against which the Roman
statesmen made war. Our republic has
been preyed upon by millionaire plum
derers, land grabbers and corporations.
until the people Of this country have
been robbed of a territory larger than
the German empire.
Can you, my friends, conceive the
magnitude of this rascality? If so, YOU
can have no doubt as to what part
you shall play in the great drama that
will be played before thepeople OF the
United States on the 9th of next No
vember"
I'm 1865 the Republicans claim they
freed us from the slavery of the body.
rs it not possible that in 1908,
through the influence of the great Com
moner, William Jennings Bryan, the
standard bearer, not only of the Dem
ocratic party, but of the people gem
orally, we may receive our political
liberty?
my advice to negroes today is to
use the weapon given them by the
amendments to the constitution and as
independent Americans vote for the
man or men who will actually give
to their race the full privilege of their
civil and political rights"