Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-02-14
THE DESTROYING "ANGE4."

There is show Of opposition in the
Republican party since the President 4
special message to predatory wealth, u
corporate power, and those other evils
which have so disturbed conditions a.
to make that message necessity. But
how hollow Is it all. The Aldrich bill is
the most determined effort to centralize
power and create monopoly ever
undertaken. 1t is the deepest laid
scheme ever yet planned. That foxy
gentlemen from Rhode Island, the
smallest State IN the Union to be sure.
but the most powerful because Mr..
Aldrich the representative of monop.
oily in the U s. Senate is from Rhode
Island, has been too long the repre-.
sentative of the Standard Oil, bis son
married John D. Rockefellers daugh
ter, aud of the National banks, not to
know the value of corporate power
how to create it and how to hold on to
1t, none knows so we'll as be that the
National banks without any written
agreement, are ONE BODY, more close
ly knit than Labor Unions or Standard
Oil compacts, that they act in unison
whenever the tip comes from New
YORK, that they, In controlling the
issue OF money, would control the sit.
uation, and there is no power 80 great
as theirs will be when they once obtain
the envied right to make ALL OF THE
PAPER MONEY. Such a monopoly is
absolutely appalling, the most sweep
ing Imagination can hardly fathom the
yastness Of such human power. They
have long been striving for this goal,
they think they see 1t and they are
leaping to wealth over the prost rate
body of the nation, and the wreck and
ruin which marks the track behind
them. They will not let the govern
ment issue these emergency dollars to
them. Oh no, but they must issue
them to the country when they please
and just so many as they please. They,
the National Banks. must be the tri-
bunal that decides when conditions
are such az to demand the issue of
more money and the quantity TO be
issued, and being the judges of that
condition it is safe to say the condi-
tion will never arise whilst the banks
are doing well, no matter how DIES
perate may be the necess tiles of the
suffering public. AS soon might we
expect the rotund. well fed, dweller in
marble palace on 9th avenue, to feel
the gnawing of the stomach of a
dWeller in garrett in the worst New
York slum, as to expect the National
banks with every body g money piled in
their vaults to recognize hunger for
money by the individual, the business
firm, or even by the public, until all of |
their necessities become go great that
death must follow unless an
emergency currency" restorative be
Then contemplate the
The per cent. paid for money would be
in0wn only to them. The sacrifices
would be sealed book in many cases, /,
'ut the wreck of fortunes, the woes of
'ankruptcY in the individual would be
10 care of theirs. The iron hOof of the
National bank will then go ruthlessly ;
yer its victims and subsidized press -,
ill tell Of other John P. Morgans and 9
ohm ID. Rockefellers saving the cnun
y, if these saviors should have been
altered unto their fathers. The com
~ monopoly of the AIdrich bill is .
lie most fearful ever contemplated.
here will be no known way to break /.
. 1t will control Congress and all s
ranches of the government, and there
ill be no hand that can stay it, no r
over to rise and strike it down. n