People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — GLORY BE TO GOLD. [ARTICLE]

GLORY BE TO GOLD.

; MOLDS THE WORLD IN ITS THUMB AND FOREFINGER. t * Y <lol<i Is the Essence of Divine Force — The Seigniorage of Creation —The | Treasury Reserve of Heaven —Sinking Fund of Salvation. > The following apostrophe to society’s IgjKl—goitl— has been going the rounds j[ ol the tress for some time, being writ- !; :t»n under the inspiration of the first | [bond i.iMue. by Goo. A. Puckett, then jj tof the Wellington, Kan., Voice. The i' article has been credited to several I papers, and stolen by others, but still I, applies pertinently to the situation — j ‘especially so in view of the late mortj gaging of the United States to Rothschilds in order to buy enough gold to i restore the golden calf in the treasury. GLORY TO GOLD. God created gold, and then made | man for it to play football with. Gold is the fostering mother of labor, , the kind blessing of an all-wise Creator ; who provided gold before food, so that I in case the great solar system got tan- ' gled in the wires of interplanetary ; ‘communication the interconvertibility ! -of gold and silver might still preserve the divine right of property. > To get gold should be the object of [ •every man’s life. I If we all had a million of ounces of gold apiece, just think how we could 1 101 l on the cushions of luxury and puff ' itobacco smoke at the impertinent blinku ing stars. Gold is the end of the prismatic rains bow—the glorious first cause and mag--1 ic touchstone of the millennial climax. ; Gold serves all the purposes of a . god. All other glories of earth are as glow--worms compared with the arc light o{ R-gold. f Life without gold would be a stagnant frog pond. I Bright yellow gold, the beauteous loving guardian of mankind. Gold is the pendulum of history, |r< controlling the wheels of all time and •: progress. , Gold laughs at the “childish senti--1 mentality” of God, and plays fearlessly 1 with the toe nails of the devil. Gold is the universal password.

Gold is absolute monarch ot spirit, m hid, body and burial ground. Gold is the flower of virtue and the frtuit.of industry. iHonesty possesses nothing that gold cai mot buy. G 'old is the essence of divine force — tho seignniorage of creation - the treasury, reserve of heaven —the sinking fund of s; ilvation. Ga Id is the organizer of chaos —the .•stelh ir unit of an astronomical accident. Gob 1 is the sunshine on the fleecy clouds of irridescent dreamland —the dightni ng flash of political thunder — and lon g-distance telephone of martial law. Gold k i the raiment of the lilies (who toil not,, neither do they spin)—and the sugar of senatorial courtesy. Gold is the dealer of human destiny, and winne r of the political jack pot. Kingdom s may rise and fall, generations bloc* m and go to seed —but gold Hints not t i silver hair nor drops a 4rear oil the grave of transient fleeting humanity. Happy, all powerful gold—creation’s "heir and coc k of the walk.