People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — A GOLD EDITORIAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A GOLD EDITORIAL.

WRITTEN EY A MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD POPULIST. Thinks the ‘Gold Hors Don't Make Their Articles Strong Enough —Should Throw Their Whole Souls Into the Worship of ‘Gold. Having heard and read of old party newspaper men who could write equally well on both sides of a question, the writer wondered if he could write a gold-bug editorial. Being a radical, it seemed, at first, impossible, but thinking of the subject gradually drove his mind to the other extreme, and he began to wonder why the gold-bugs wrote such tame articles. Why, he felt that if he were a gold-bug he would be a radical one —cut loose from all talk of “parity,” international bimetallism and such conservative twaddle, and give up his whole soul in worship of gold. » The following is a sample of his idea of a gold-bug editorial that means what it says, and straddles nothing: Absolute gold monometallism is the only hope of managing the American people. We must have a money that can be controlled by Wall street. Since 1873 Wall street has been prosperous, and why should she now consent to any change of the currency that would enable the people to pay off their debts and stop the flood of interest that has built a glorious aristocracy of wealth in this country? Fifty years ago there was not a millionaire in America —now, behold what a sound financial system has done! Millionaires have been created on every hand. In spite of the people, capitalists have secured control of all the great industries. Magnificent corporations have been built up. Railroads reach every productive valley and rich mine of the land, and wealth is pouring into the hands of the stockholders. Foreign investors are alert, and confidently invest their money in our vast enterprises for accumulation. There is not an industry in the nation but pays capitalists vast dividends. The better classes have leisure and money to spend in travel and luxury. Society in New York has become exclusive and rich. Noblemen are marrying our rich daughters.

Our congressmen are honored guests in the courts of Europe. Thirty thousand shrewd business men and retired speculators own half the wealth of the country. Their children have a lordly bearing and luxurious tastes. Never having been degraded by vulgar toil, their hands are white, their dress is perfect, and etiquette is second nature to these delicate flowers of ease and comfort. The government is in the hands of financiers. Labor is kept in submission, strikes and riots are quelled by the strong arm of the law. People take off their hats to millionaires on the street. While nearly three million of the peasantry have been dispensed with by machinery, capital is still prosperous, and labor continues to vote for the policy of Wall street, well knowing that not to do so means discharge from employment. or imprisonment. We have got the rabble under control. The price of money is going up. Commerce is being concentrated into the hands of trusts. Capital is secure. Property is being rapidly placed in the hands of landlords, and the glorious English system of tenantry is being established. A kingdom can easily be established within the next ten years, and a titled nobility will dwell in palaces where once the savage dwelt in wigwams ol bark. The ancient civilizations of European monarchies will be eclipsed by the splendor and immensity of the new kingdom. , No riches were ever known as are now boasted by Duke Pullman, Baron Carnegie, Lcrds Rothschild, Count Goul 1. and the other great coming lu-

minaries of the splendid court now being bulit up for the kingdom of gold. All this centralization of power and wealth is due to the wise and beneficent gold standard legislation of the democratic and republican parties, who have kept the rabble thwarted from interfering with business, and our thanks are due both parties equally for their skill in avoiding the pitfalls of the original constitution established by a lot of fanatics, who rebelled against the traditions of highest civilization and attempted to bar nobility out of government. Sound money, which means gold money, has been our savior. Let there be no longer a silver or paper dollar used. These mean the destruction of the whole credit system, whereby we have secured wealth, power and distinction among the kingdoms of the earth. All this in spite of the pernicious system of representative government which was foisted upon the land by rebels and fanatics. But, thanks be to gold, we shall soon be rid of that. The gold is nearly all in the bankers’ vaults. Increasing rates of interest. Forcing the issue of bonds. Causing the foreclosure of mortgages. Building palaces. Reducing wages and prices of produce. Buying legislation. Controlling the courts. All this growth of imperial glory in spite of the calamity howling of the rabble, and the raging of silver fanatics. All by the appreciation of gold. The greenbacks must be destroyed. Tiie banks must be allowed full power to issue money and regulate the value thereof. Silver must be relegated to oblivion. Look at England! She, with her gold standard. Her capitalists hold bonds against every civilized and half-civilized nation of the globe. They draw interest on all the money of the world. They control silver India. Own Egypt. And have a mortgage on the United States.

We are sick of all this compromising and talk of money of the people. “The people be d!” We are sick of “parky” and “sixteen to one.” We are tired of this party platform nonsense and pretense of friendship for the people. Let all the “sound currency”—which means gold only—men of both the great parties unite. Let us have done with this voting nonsense once for all, and let the next administration be elected for life. The conspiracy of the rabble must be downed, if it requires all the military power of the globe. England is with us—who dares be against ug? This jumble of fools must be hushed. Gold has been the money of monarchy and speculation since the children of Israel, the chosen people of God, fell down and worshiped it in the wilderness. t Let the government be placed solely in the hands of sound business men. Disfranchise the rabble. And if they don’t like it, let them get off the earth. Let us stand up squarely for mon-archy-giving preference to the Russian form. Let the people howl if they will. We have the guns. Let there be no deception or straddling. Get in line for gold, and let old party cranks and reform fanatics fight among themselvs. Make no promises and grant no concessions. The time to establish a monarchy is right now. All the laws, all the compromises, and all the decisions of courts could not make chattel slavery right, and it was shot to death. All the legislation, all the court decisions, all the bluster, bombast and ridicule can not make debt slavery right, and it will go if it has to be shot to death. The man who undertakes to cover up the errors of the past by holding up to public view a false issue, is a traitor to humanity.

WHAT THE GOLD BUGS ARE DOING FOR UNCLE SAM.