People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — THE ALMICHTY DOLLAR. [ARTICLE]

THE ALMICHTY DOLLAR.

Stepfather of Labor artet Wo Nurse of Infant Industries. Tiic dollar is “the substance of thing’s hoped for, the evidence of thirfg.s fiol iMwn.’’ It is not just wow very much in evidence, neither is hope* furnishing a very substantial bill of fare'. The dollar is the measuring rad of things material, and when it goes into hiding, things not only go unmeasured, but don't go at all. Ths dollar is made by the government and controlled by the bankers. "• It <is the stepfather of' labor, born of mother jarth, wedded by legislation, and refuses to recognize the natural children of the mother. ( Those born of the second marriage are rieli beyond the dreams of avarice, while the ctykiren who created the estate, are homeless, ragged and outcasts.- » • * An honest dolltif is the ftoblest work of honest mm—and about the' sear/>est. God never made any dollars. If he had> they would ha ve been j based on his promise, ijnd would be , good as long as the pepple who used them were faithful, patriotic, industrious and peaceable. I •

God's pfOiplses are not ma le good by being writteh oil gold oif -Trur, but bv. honesty, and the riches of-dll- jt<r«aiio»j. • behind them.So it is in material tliiYigU with a’ nation. \¥hen al) the p*<ajle. of a great nation pledge thotji selves to ry?deem their promises in food, labor awfit clothes, the power of redemption IT almost . ■- While the nimpHct.-lasts the property, lahqr and produce ttf the whoffe : natfim is:behind its proMtJtdn, and if th'e' compact be broken, the debt would be. repudiated anyway. ,•. _. • As long as hariuoqy apd iru dus*ry thrives pledc-es.ir’ gull..and sfi-' 1 ver are as so iu'q.ig brass, 'irritating every drop of patriotic blood ifi the hearts of all the loyal people of tbq natioil. • ■ - -•< • ■ •» The Kijfjds of t’roperty, ’ There is a deal said abotft property rights. It is time th a it came to be. understood that property has no nights. As well talk of the rig|itM of the stope, the tree, tbe river, the rights»f property. The on y fighu. are btiman rights-<-the rights cf'man. The fundamental law of < ur government recognizes this and ibe deijkiration out of which all elt*e of our government evolved savs men are ‘‘‘endowed with certahi inalienable rights’ and enumera’es among them the ‘■Right to life, lib Tty and the nursmt of huppinflss.” These are the rights of men. No properly rights are thought of. The question arid the only question that can arise is. what are man's ■ rights to propertv? Hi ••right to property mu t be t’ at right *th:it is in perfeet harmony with everv other man’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Any claim to pro; <Tty that inteiferes with the life. :li'- liberty of any other man is a false cla’in It is time the courts axui In- legi latures con e down in their h-gislatioii and discussions to the preamble to thj •constitution ahd interpre. a.i the rest of thai document and decide upon ad laws im harmony with that. Let a J this cry about the rights of property cease and let the rights of men now be heard, as it was heard in those political thrones throughout the world, out of wh'.ch this republic was born. That claim, made by whomever it may, that interferes with the rights of men to life and liberty, is a<• im .subversive t<| the very ha ac ■ rh< pie of a free government. The right . > life includes the right to labor to prod: ce the food, clothing and sh-I er that maintains life. This incruses whitever- is necessary for him to labir. Life and labor are the two si les of < ne fact, deny the last, and the first is denied. Up with human rights. H. H. Brown.

If we should attempt to ex ress the feelings of the old soldier who fought for the Union when he thinks of the effort now being made to de.troy the greenbacks, this paper'would be excluded fiom the mails. No mild language can express the indignation ; that makes the blood of patriotism boil when such a measure is proposed. Dok’t forget that the new currency scheme under discussion gives the tuckers mor • • - vo- tn contract than to expend th.. cam ney —and that it is. more profitable to the bankers to con* I track