Show THE SAME OLD CUD SPOLIATION f In old Home Kame R me the period of I bimetallic suspension after the system system tem tens proposed by was earned carried out by his successors suc For Por about years from the death of Alexander Severus in to Diode tian timi in 2 Rome had eighteen em emperors emperors fourteen of o whom died violent deaths During this period silver was demonetized and the th enemies of Some Rone made such uch headway as to deib deliberately deliberately threaten the existence of or the empire and in his His History History History tory of Rome Borne characterizes this period as one ona of perpetual bank baik bankruptcy bankruptcy and Durny summing up the causes the distress of the people finally reaches this conclusion that perhaps most all the trouble came from the tho extremely bad monetary system system tem tern On this subject the Encyclopedia dia says Among the graver symptoms of economic ruin were the decrease of population and the increase of waste wastelands wastelands wastelands lands whose owners and cult raters fled in order to escape the tax col cal collectors collectors lectors the declining prosperity of the tho towns towne and the constantly recur recurring recurring recurring ring riots among the starving peas peasants peasants peasants ants of Gaul and in the thc most populous cities like Antioch In speaking of this period y says I As to the past those who con controlled controlled controlled trolled financial affairs established the gold standard in order to in increase crease the purchasing power power of their t I incomes so 60 in recent times those who practically pra control our ou monetary leg have brought tabo about t the gold golds standard s for fOl the same ERme purpose It has bees b en so since the days when the Jews were in their ascendancy in Jerusalem It has come down through the ages probably from Babylon The effort has been all the tha time to make the debtor class work for less and less and to give to ta the creditor c class more end and more m r In every case cage except Great Britain it has ended in national decay and death And the bitterest recollection of Jf the late campaign has been the efforts on tha the part of the to prove that in the natural order things every I invention every laborsaving ma machine machine machine chine everything intended to make lighter the burdens of poor humanity have simply made the lot of the toil toiler toiler er and given more and more profit to the creditor class Salt Lake Bake Tribune Nov o 4 1895 1808 I |