Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 19, 1899, Page 3

ans | POLITICAL THINKERS THEY WERE ON EARTH FIFTY YEARS AGO. Pennsylvania Democracy Half a Century Ago Would Pass for Populism To-day —An Address Issued by the Phitadel- phia Young Democracy. About fifty years ago the Young Democracy held a convention and is- sued an address to the public, which contains fundamental truths not found in the political platforms now issued by such city Democrats as are con- trolled by Croker, Harrison and the Present Philadelphia bess, whoever he May be. This old address of the Young De- mocracy is very good Populism or Bry- anism. Read ‘it: “The time is coming when a man will no longer be regarded with abject and cringing subserviency, simply be- cause he possesses millions more than he wants, or can use, while millions are pining in poverty, hunger, and nakedness, “The time will come when those who build houses shall own houses; “When those who create all the wealth, shall own at least a portion of the wealth they produce. “When those who work shall eat; “And when the great law of Chris- tianity in relation to thé accumulation of wealth shall at least be hinted at once in an age by those who are its professed teachers and disciples. “Well has it been said that where the poor are robbed there is a fearful reaction upon the rich. The effect of their crime and destitution falls upon the opulent in the shape of taxes, etc. “The criminal, made so by our anti- Christian social system, lives at other people’s expenses; if he is prosecuted, it is at other people’s charges; if he is in prison, it is at other people’s cost; if he is at large, he lives upon other people’s property; if he is in confine- ment with a crowd of others, he is sent to a school of crime,a nursery of abom- ination, True economy as well as expedi- ency, if not religious duty, will one day teach us that it is far easier, and. far cheaper, to prevent than to punish crime. We shall some day or other seek means to reform rather than de- stroy. Some day or other we shall provide a shelter for the myriads of children who are born to a necessary e nce of crime, under our pres- system—for those who can be no other than vicious by the very condi- tions of their present lot. “The nation’s wealth depends upon those who toil. “How then does it happen that the wealth creators are the poor, the wretched, the destitute, constantly creating wealth, yet continuing to be poor? “Affording to the world the strange anomaly of the poverty of the creators of riches! “All honor to those who labor—ail gratitude and respect to the men who toil, whether at the loom, the hissing engine, or on the heaving wave; wheth- er in battling with the angry elements, or breaking the stubborn sward; whether wielding the hammer, the ax, the shuttle or the spade; all that blesses Man on sea or shore, we owe to the men who toil. “They are entitled to the first rank of society, and will occupy that posi- tion to which they are justly entitled, when society shall be organized upon the basis of Christianity and brother- hood, “They will then be no longer repre- sented, or rather misrepresented, in our legislative halls; they will repre- sent themselves. “They should have done this long ago, they can tell their own story, re- form their grievances, represent their «wn wants and wishes, far better thar any one can do it for them. “They are as an hundred to one—it is their own fault if they do not make laws to suit themselves. _- ” “We maintain that every man has a right to live, and to live in comfort. “Heaven never made the rich alone to smile, while the whole earth is ring- ing with laughter—never made a scanty few to feast in idleness, while the toil- ing many are weeping in their rags and wretchedness, want and woe, wear- ing out their lives in a long death- dream of hopeless misery; like soul blasted with penury and ig- norance; fever filling heart and brain | teething. with horror, from the cradle to the grave. ‘This is a land of liberty; but what is political liberty withont social lib- erty, equality and fraternity? “Talk not about the blessings of lib- erty to the pauper mass who sell them- selves day by day for a paltry sum just sufficient to keep them from the grave. “Liberty means something higher than freedom to toil and starve, “Selfishness everywhere—from the teacher to the taught—is the creed of our times. “Tts festering venom has filled the world with blood and crime, “We must demand a reform of these crying evils, and demand it boldly. “Let the mass unite and resolve, and the work is done. “Without union we are nothing, and can do nothing; with it we can move the world. “We demand that one man shall not hereafter be allowed to hold unlimited thousands of acres of the common jn- beritance, while hundreds and thon- the God- | sands of the race are homeless and des- titute.. “We maintain that every man is en- titled to as much of the earth’s su face as may be necessary to supply the wants of each and all. “The first great natural right of ev~ ery human being—the most esseni the most vitally important of all with which man is most endowed, is thé right to as much of the food and othe? necessaries of life as will make ex ence not only endurable, but a pleasure and a blessing. “This right is as old as creation—it is coeval with man’s wants, and is as inalienable as life itself. “If a man has a right to live, he has a right to a place, a home in which to live, and a right to all the necessary means which go to make life a benefit. “Man has just as much right to the means of living as he has to life; the one grows out of the other, and he can as justly be divested of the one as of the other. “He who robs another of the means of life, as certainly commits a murder as he would have done had he thrust a dagger into his heart.” THE WAY THE PEOPLE RULE. The “people rule in this land,” you say? “Yes,” Then the people must be favorable to the gigantic trusts that are robbing them? “Well—no, you see they”— And the people decided to pay $20,- 000,000 for the Philippine people and islands, “Oh, no. McKinley peace commission to—” And then the people declared that the Filipinos were too barbaric to govern themselves, so ignored their plea for self government, and thus brought on the war— “No, that isn’t\the how. You see McKinley and Alger and Han—” And the people don’t want the gov- ernment to issue its own money, and so they ordered bills introduced into congress giving bankers an iron clad monopoly of the money business? “No, the people didn’t. The bank- ers caused those bills to be introduced —confound ’em—but—” And the people ordered embalmed and rot “refrigerated beef” for our sol- dier boys in Cuba, and then— “No, sir; that was done by that Al- ger through Eagan, and if—” And then the people gave Eagan a seven year furlough on full pay, and then— “No, sir; the president did that, and the people—” And the people then appointed two whitewashing committees to coat and bury the embalmed— “No, sir; McKinley did that, and say —hold on now—say, I guess the peo- ple don’t rule after all. May be we're changing into a kingdom or something like it.” instructed the POINTS FROM THE PRESS. Doesn’t it seem rather queer that men who say that the people of this country are not competent to operate a street railroad line, yet claim they are fully competent to manage the af- fairs of the fourteen hundred islands of the Philippine archipelago?—Com- monwealth, Under the McKinley administration the United States government is con- ducted as an adjunct to Great Britain and American interests subordinated to the success of British freebooters in the Orient.—National Watchman. What will the goldbugs do if there should be a few more finds of ore as rich and as large as that at Atlin, Alaska, is said to be—17,000,009 tons of quartz averaging $8 per ton, or $136,- 000,000? Next thing they will want to make platinum or precious stones the only legal tender. Meanwhile 2,000 men are idle in Atlin—San Francisco Star. It may seem peséimistic, but the young man who puts away all thought of marriage in the present condition of all wealth in the hands of the few, will get the most happiness in the end. The poorhouses are full of people who have lost all in the endeavor to support somebody else, the insane asylums are full of inmates who have been linked with somebody else, the thousands of suicides attest the vain struggle to get support for wives and children, the jail and the prisone are all full of men who committed crime to support somebody else.—Duluth (Minn.) World. The trusts hurt now. Society is But the trusts are the teeth that will do good work for the people later, and they have got to come, no matter how sore it may make our gnms in the process—New York Evening Journal. an Live Without Air. The common snail, which, although ,it has Jungs, heart and general circula- tion, being in every respect an air- breatHing animal, can yet live for an indefinite period without inhal- ing the least atom of air. On the approach of winter the snail re- treats into its shell, and hermetically closes the opening or mouth with a secretion of a silky texture, which is absolutely impervious to both air and water. Spallauzani kept a small snail jermetically sealed in a glass tube, from which all air had carefully been removed, for four years* and two months, and yet it resumed all its nat- ural functions within less than an hour after being exposed to a temperature of 99 degrees. The men who make the world are the men who are not on the make: THE NATIONAL BANKS INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED ON THE PEOPLE'S DEBTS. Organized to Rob the People Direct and Through the Governent—Them Rothschilds Will Soon Own All the Gold in the World Mined and Unmined A good Democrat writes from west- ern Missouri to the Mississippi Valley Democrat to say: “We are having plenty of rain, and if it keeps on I: feel sure we will have ‘overproduction’ this year, and all the products of the farm will be cheap and (as the Regublicans say) nasty, and in need of protection. What is that ance committee of the senate going to recommend? National banks, I suppose. Don’t you think that some of the people who have been 60 en- gulfed by that wave of prosperity will see the error of their way and come over and help suppress the wave and its wavers? I think the national banks are a greater curse, if possible, to the people than the gold standard. I be- lieve the government stamp should be our standard of a dollar, whether on gold, paper or silver. Let the govern- ment be the bank of issue, and dele- gate that right to no man or corpora- tion,” Replying to the above, we will say that the sole object and purpose of the creation of the finance committee was to establish the gold standard and fas- ten the national banks more firmly on the backs of the people. We are now living under a government by and for the Rothschilds. They are bankers and lenders of certificates of debt called money. In order that they might lend a larger volume of these debt certificates and eventually con- trol the world’s finances and thereby govern all the people of the world, it was necessary to limit the volume and annual output of basic money, rea] money, money that repre- sents no debt, but is free and stands on its own bottom. Accordingly, by in- trigue, bribery, deceit, theft, and suck other crookedness and scoundrelism as these people are familiar with, they se- cured the demonetization of the money that is the most beneficial to the peo- ple—namely, silver—because this was the money that the people dug out of the earth, free and unhampered, in larger volume than any other kind, and had it stamped in denominations best suited to their convenience in carrying on their daily transactions. With this | money of the people in full and free circulation, and being added to by each year’s product of the mines, it would have been impossible for the Roths- childs and their international gang of financial cutthroats to corner the money market and force the people to borrow and pay interest on rotten shin- plaster certificates of debt. It is easy to corner gold, because it is the rich man’s money and does not go out among the people; but silver is free and easy in its way and loves to min- gle with the “common herd” in dimes, quarters, halves and dollars. Hence it was necessary to get rid of, still fur- ther favoring the rich at the expense of the poor, and placing the latter more firmly under the heels of the Roths- {childs and their international cut- throats, as aforesaid; it was essential to establish and sustain the national banks (founded on public debts), which are owned by the bankers themselves; and by this hocuspocus of extra finan- cial crookedness they are enabled to lend their money to the government, which is the people, and also to the people individually, so that the people pay the bankers double interest, and the bankers still have their money to Tend out t@ somebody else, or lock it up in their vaults, as they prefer. It is the most beautiful system of stu- pendous public and private robbery that was ever invented—worthy of the intricate and scheming brain of a Rothschild. And the worst of it all is that the people, being sovcreign, are the only authority that can create money; consequently the money that they borrow from the bankers and pay double interest on is the very same money that they create and stand good for. All this would lead one to con- elude that the people must be natural- born unthinkers; and in answer to this supposition we must frankly confess that some of them are. If things con- tinue as now, the Rothschild family will own all the basic money (gold) in the world before another generation, and when that time comes who will be the masters of all the people on earth? It does not require much wisdom to answer this question. “Mauser Christianity.” This is the term applied by a local contemporary to McKinley’s criminal aggression in the Philippines. We are gospelizing and Christianizing the heathen with magazine rifles, and set- ting an example that will return in after years to curse our children and bring shame to our country. It has been a matter of surprise that so many professedly Christian ministers should throw their influence on the side of this unholy and unchristian war, for which there can be no more justifica- tion than there is for the man who kills his neighbor in an attempt to rob his house. The explanation is found in the fact that the churches have built up a great system of missions, involy- ing the expenditure of hundreds of mil- lions of dollars annually, and affording permanent livings to many thousands of men and women who spend their lives in efforts to convert the heathen. Without the heathen there would be no need of missions or missionaries, and in searching the world over to find ad heathen, good people sometimes Now their religious enthusiasm to get the better of their normal sense, But they should not forget that the people of the’ present age have a habit of thinking, and when they see the lead- ers of great religious organizations doing things that are essentially and grossly wrong, they are apt to lose faith in the professions of those lead- ers and the organizations that they rep- resent. In the end this may defeat the whole missionary movement by cut- ting off the contributions, says the Mis- sissippi Valley Democrat. To make the matter still worse, in the present instance the people whose inalienable rights we are so ruthlessly disregard- ing are not heathens, but members of one of the largest divisions of the Christian church. People will natur- ally begin to ask themselves why they should contribute to the missionary cause when it is necessary as soon as the heathens have been converted to one branch of the faith to reconvert them to another. No Christian can af- ford to lend his sanction to the prose- cution of this wicked and indefensible war, but on the contrary the voice and heart of all Christendom should cry out in horror against it, and force itr discontinuance, The Truth Is Leaking Out. Now that the volunteers and some of the war correspondents are coming home we are beginning to get the truth in this wretched Philippine business. From these sources the people are learning that the press dispatches and even the private mails have been cen- sored to a degree that is absolutely amazing. We apparently know as lit- tle about the real facts of the Phil- ippine war as we would if we were in- habitating the forests of Central Af- rica. We may be sure that where there is so much secrecy there must of ne- cessity be a great deal of very bad busi- ness, says the the Mississippi Valley Democrat and Journal of Agriculture. Mr. James Creelman, one of the most distinguished and reliable of our war correspondents, who took a prominent part in the gallant charge up San Juan Hill, and was seriously wounded in that ever memorable engagement, has just returned from the seat of war in the Philippines. Referring to his ex- perience while there, he says: “When I complained to General Otis that he was garbing my dispatches and striking out of them things I had wit- nesed with my own eyes, and which the American people had a right to know, he said; ‘I don’t propose to ak low the American public to know any- thing about this campaign that will agitate or excite it. So long as I in command here, the people of United States will know only such facts as I deem advisable to allow to be known. Any man who writes any- thing about this campaign contrary to my orders will be expelled from the Philippines. We are not going to have any public agitation about this cam- paign if I can prevent it.” And General Otis has always claimed, from the beginning of this abomina- ble business, that he was acting strict- ly under orders from Washington, and he no doubt told the truth. The president of the United States has taken it upon him- self to declare and carry on an il- legal war—illegal by his own adminis- tration—against a people who were our friends and allies, and during this war he has issued orders and exercised au- thority that no ruler on earth would think of assuming to himself, except possibly the czar of Russia or the shah of Persia. And the president of the United States is a servant of the peo- ple! No wonder he courts secrecy re- garding his “benevolent assimilation” in the east. But what have the Amer ican people to say about it? Anarchy in Broadcloth. From the New York Sunday News: Stock jobbers are accused of trying to precipitate a strike among Brooklyn street railway employes for the pur- pose of battering down values, which is one way of destroying property. This is a species of anarchy with which it is hard to deal in a legal way. If a man who believes that his wage is not’ sufficient te keep body and soul together loses his temper when he sees another take his place, he is stamped as a dangerous character. If he go a a.step farther and smash a window, he sat once interferes with vested inter- ests and is branded an Anarchist. But kid-gloved crooks in Wall street may, it seems, with impunity disturb busi- ness by lying about the relations be- tween employer and employe. Several days ago the labor crisis in Brooklyn seemed to be happily and satisfactori- ly passed. If new complications have arisen we hope they will be adjusted in a spirit of fairness to all concerned. Both sides have riglvs, and the work- ingman’s natural predisposition to honesty will cause him to listen to any reasonable proposition, assuming that he is not satisfied with present conditions. One thing is certain, he will not knowingly play into the hands of curbstone gamblers. He has no use for men of the kidney which thrive by scalping the market. Meantime would it not be well for law-makers to devise some means of dealing with anarchy in broadcloth and silk tiles? It would afford a pleasant diversion from the pursuit of labor, which seems of late years to be a favorite pastime of offi: cial kingdom, His Beard Was Rejuvenated. Dr. Koveos of Amorgos, Greece, tells of a relative of his wife who died re- cently, aged 90. He had never been ill in his life, but the hair of his head and face had become prematurely white. Six months before his death, however, his beard and mustache sud- denly became dark, the color continu- ally deepening, “to the curiosity and stupefaction of atl.” kick about the reduction in the price of gas? trade. bolic acid as I did.—Judge. man who gave $100,000 to a man who rescued her from drowning?” us ‘Here’s a picture of a man who made A Wonderful Performance. ___ ‘A man from Pine Knob stood watch- ing performance on a slide trombone. Suddenly, seizing a companion’s arm, the Pine Knob man suddenly ex- claimed: “Look thar, Lige!” “What's the matter?” “Look thar! He done it agin!” “Done what?” “Wy, crowded more’n half that blamed ho’n inter his mouth!”’—Short Stories. : PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Scott F. Evans, Minneapolis, Minn., tile-arch construction; Harry E. Hel- mick, Minneapolis, Minn., computing machine; Peter H. Holm, Warren, Minn., graphophone; Joseph Joung- bauer, St. Paul, Minn., cuff-holder; Chas. 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