People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — It Will be Stopped. [ARTICLE]

It Will be Stopped.

Hettie Green the richest woman, perhaps, in America, reputed for shrewd financeering and economical habits, though profiting by an social system that allows her to become immensely wealthy from the labor of those who may be extremely poor, is eminently right in uttering these words: “1 don't believe in the Lexow committee. How can they blame policemen for taking S2OO or S3OO when the public aliows itself to be robbed of millions by the railroad wreckers? That's what we want—a committee to investigate these wreckers —the railroad companies. Haven't we any Americans With brains who will begin this work? How can the people afford to pay the interest on the watered stocks, which they must do by paying high rates for freight and fares? must be stopped. I wouldn’t hesitate to put them all in prison.”

Cannot the grip of the world's usurers upon the throat of the world's laborers, the limbs of progress, the wings of science, and thought and freedom be broken? We do not advocate a national financial policy founded on usury; a policy which compels usury; which makes usury the cornerstone, the foundation princidle, the heart,and soul and moving spirit of the system. Evidently the final struggle of the race for freedom approaches. The powers of light and darkness marshal their hosts for the contest; the end of the epoch of time prophesied of old is at hand. What is it to be? Is there sufficient intelligence and moral courage yet developed in the race to enable it, through the voice and vote of the common people, to overthrow the system of usury and political infidelity and start the race once more and permanently upon the upward track? That those who uphold and enforce the present financial system anticipate a continuance of disastrous results is evident from occasional droppings from their lips, as in the declaration of Mr. Hewett, a prominent politician of New York, who recently made public declaration that the past and present policy of the government must be a reduction of wages from twenty-five to fifty per cent.