The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1892 Page: 4 of 16
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December 22, 1S82
Terrible but True.
FJtOM DENVER ROAD.
Are we a nation of idiots that
we refuse to act independently on
this silver question? When the
bank of England and the Ilothe-
childs desire to change the ratio,
they do it without the aid or advice
of any international monetary side
►how. In J834 they reduced the
amount of gold in a ten dollar gold
piece from 270 grains of standard
gold to 232 grains of pure gold.
In 1837 the English shylocks of
their own volition again changed
the standard by making 232 grains
of nine-tenths line gold a ten-dollar
legal tender.
When the money loaners want
to rob the people they change the
standard and ratio.
But when the people seek to re-
store to one of the old money met-
als its former monetary value, the
shylocks yell for an international
monetary conference and pack the
meeting with tools favorable to
them.
The change in ratio and reduc
tion of weight in metals may not
appear plain to some people and
lor the purpose of making it clear,
The Road will illustrate.
There are now only 3 billion and
700 millions of gold coin in the
world (and nobody can estimate
how much of it has been melted
down for the arts.)
The gold bonded indebtedness of
the world is estimated to be not far
from 38 billion dollars.
Most ot that debt was contracted
on a gold and silver basis.
When the debt was made, there
was about 3 billion and 700 million
of legal tender silver coin in the
world.
Now, let us think a little.
$3,700,0C0,000 in gold.
$3,700,000,000 in silver.
Making in all 7 billion and 400
million dollars.
Suppose the world desired to go
to a cash basis and acquire all that
gold and silver?
What would happen?
Why. the 7 billion and 400 mil-
lion of gold and silver dollars
would buy the world and all the
world possessed.
That is plain; is it not.
The wealth of the world then, at
the time our principle bonded in-
debtedness was made was 7 billion
and 400 million dollars.
Then came a systematic conspi-
racy to deprive silver of its legal
tender qualities. The scheme was
carried out through all the nations
of the earth under the power of the
bank of England- Rothschilds com-
bine, until in 1873, after this coun-
try had been swamped in debt
through the destruction of green-
backs, they sent Ernest Seyed over
to this country and deliberately
bribed John Sherman to betray us
into the hands of the big money
loaning combine.
Alter all this had been done, the
3 billion and 700 million of gold
had to do the work of the 7 billion
and 400 million of gold and silver,
In order to do it the purchasing
power of gold had to, of necessity,
bay as much of labor, pork, cotton
ana the other products, that gold
and silver used to buy.
To do it wages and the products
of labor conformed to the new con-
dition and dropped just one-half—
it mind you, the bonded indebt*
edness of the world didn't drop at
the same time.
Oh, noi
The bondage mentioned in the
bible was a scheue to acquire the
products of the producer.
The bondage of the Rothschilds
power was concocted for the same
purpose and by loaning a nation
one million of gold and bilver (the
two metals were always at par be-
fore the crime of 1873, silver even
ruled at a premium over gold) and
demanding two million dollars
worth of labor on a gold basis in
return, is simply robbing bondage.
Killing silver as a money en-
abled Rothschild to demand twice
the amount of labor to pay our
debts.
The bank of England—Roths-
childs combine own 3 billion and
100 million of all the gold coin in
the world—or, to be plain, practi-
cally enjoy a corner on gold, for
they own within BOO million of all
the gold coin estimated to be in the
world.
Some of our smart Aleck old
party financiers holding down po-
sitions as presidents of national
banks will say this is a lie and with
great ado will point with pride to
the piles of gold upon their coun-
ters and the bags of gold coin in
their vaults.
Yes, but suppose this nation
went into liquidation to-morrow,
and paid its debts.
Who then would have the gold ?
Mr. Ilotschilds, wouldn't he?
Of course he would. For the
single item of gold bonded railroad
debts of the United States alone is
5 billion and 100 million dollars,
or 1 billion and 400 million more
debt than there is gold in the world.
Remember, too, that the five
billion one hundred million rail-
road bonded debt is but a drop in
the bucket compared with the
thirty-eight billion of the world's
debt.
The gold, then, belongs to the
Rothschilds combine and they let
us use the stuff on payment of
usury.
That's the scheme!
We are the suckers who sent
men to Washington to legislate ex-
tra purchasing power into Roths-
childs' gold by killing silver.
If you owned all the gold in the
world and sought to overcome the
law of supply and demand, how
would you do it ?
Why, the first fact you would
hunt up would be Adam Smith's
declaration that<(prices are regu-
lated entirely by the volume of
money in circulation," or John
Stewart Mills' statement that "the
volume of money in circulation
controls the prices of labor and the
products of the soil."
After you had discovered that
fact you would, no doubt, say to
yourself, as do Rothschilds now
say: "I'll hide money and make it
hard to get, then the prices will
decline." [The law of supply and
demand, so you see, cuts no fig-
ure.] Then you would load up
with the products of cheap labor
and then inflate the money market
bv releasing a few hundred million
of your hidden gold.
Then prices would inflate natu-
rallv in the same ratio, when you
could Bell out and clean ' up a big
■Hoe of "dough" and set up the
ft
pins for another dose of conspiracy.
This la*t illustration is a little
far fetched, to be sure, lor the
schemes of the "money or gold"
owning monopoly use half centu-
ries in consumating their diaboli-
cal robbing schemes.
With silver out of the way and
old declared to be "money," the
othschilds are strictly "in it"
and it lies in their power to keep
the nations of the earth paying in-
terest to them or their heirs for all
time to come.
The tariff issue looks like a fly
speck when one studies the finan-
cial schemes of the "money" own-
ing combine to rob the people.
You admit that, don't you?
Then why throw up your hat
longer for parties that promise you
no relief?
P.*n Money on a Farm.
"I never have five cents even
for postage stamps without asking
for it." The speaker was a young
wife, who, in her girlhood, earned
regular wages as a seamstress, and
when married found her financial
position changed. Even held the
purse strings and made plenty of
money. But new machinery was
often needed, improvements must
be made, hired hands cost a good
deal, and so no allowance was
thought of for the wife, who held
the position of "nurse, housekeep-
er, seamstress, cook*," with the
added duties of motherhood. "I
always have a lump in my throat
when Í ask for a dollar," she said,
"and I used to go to his pocket
book for spare change, for at th«
marriage service he said, 4 With all
my worldly goods I thee endow.'
But when little Tom began to steal
pennies, because be wanted some-
thing and could not get it, I begin
to wonder if I had done wrong and
the sin was visited on him." It
was a sad contrast, this little moth-
er's tender conscience with a world
of trickery and knavery. Nowhere
is this lack of pocket money felt
so much as among farmer's wives
and daughters. Many of them go
for positions in the city, teachers,
typewriters, saleswomen, with a
regular salary—a good cook can
earn her $14 a month. She may
marry a young farmer, and with
all her life before her decide to be
his helpmate and money saver.
How they work and struggle to
pay off' the farm, to get the neces-
sary improvements made. But
when the fight is partly over,some-
times the young wife has a feeling
of envy cn Saturday nights when
her husband pays the "hands"
who have worked for him, and has
not a dollar for her, for she knows
that they have been fed while she
served; that they have slept while
she lost hours ot slumber with the
precious babe in arms, and they
csn buy clothes that she would
feel it extravagant to wear.—Mon-
treal Witness.
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