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Show - r t - - ' : It v. ; tl : i - t i ; 1 ! ';t;:a cf r.Il tir:?, r.r.J t!.? j i to 1 1 fa :.i t! - i : ; j cf tL3 r-c;'i t! 2 r:cr.?y r.r.1 er-V.o a cor .-.rativily f:.7 cJiitai: is ret cr.ly to Cictata the lu,:ui: ? lut tLe r-clltirs cf tLe L'ation. TLe iun.ux cf -oil duiirg li. 3-7-8, cau.-.J by fa:!u;3 abroad, eeriouy disturbed dis-turbed their calcubati:--, lecau-e it enabled all the industries cf thU country to ence more start a wave cf prosperity that is still flowing. - But even now the plan is to keep the people as much, drained of money as possible. ' Stocks are throvVn up and down. Every year's product gravitates gravi-tates eventually to Wall street, for dealing in these stocks is very much" like playing faro the percentage percent-age of the game destroys nine-tenths of the players.' play-ers.' . , And now we wonder that the railroad rate bill cannot be passed ; we wonder that the trusts cannot be throttled that .is, that what is illegal in the trusts cannot be broken but the secret is the same, and the sentence quoted at the beginning of this article ar-ticle is just as pertinent today as it was'' when it was spoken by Garfield thirty years ago. . THE MONEY POWER OF AMERICA. j ' In a speech in Congress James A. Garfield once ! raid: ' ;, ' -. , ; ' ... .'. , ''Whoever controls the volume of money in this country will be absolute master of its industries j and. commerce." , ' ; There never was a finer intellect in America than that of James A. Garfield. He was not a per- fact man, but he was an intellectual giant; and in ' that sentence he pronounced a great truth. Every ,: day establishes more and more its truth. That. waa ore of the' reasons why the money power of the Unitetl States strove so desperately, and never re- j linquished its intention, until it destroyed silver as nioney; V-j , 1 Silver was the money of the people. . It was what the poor, man put under his hearthstone.' In Great Britain when the money power destroyed sil-ver.as sil-ver.as money and made a single standard, that same I money power began the absolute control of legislation, legisla-tion, and business and politics had to bend to its I .wilt; ' : - ; In France silver was held as high as gold. The thrifty poor men of France put by vast sums and thQ moneyed men of France have never controlled Hhe business or the politics of that country. When b Napoleon III. plunged France into a hopeless and devastating war it was this hoarded money , of the i people that enabled the country at last to meet the mighty indemnity imposed upon it by Bismarck, nnd to rid the country of German garrisons. ; '. After the national bank system was started in tbis country it did not take a few financiers long to ! plan what has come to pass. ' It was first to have ! the f 3,000,000,000 debt of the . war, contracted in , p-eenbacks at from 37 to 80 cents on the dollar, paid ! in specie." Not satisfied with that the next plan waa to demonetize silver and. have that debt paid in ! This worked a double infamy and it made more ; barp the dividing line between the producers and ' tbe absorbents of the country, for by that legisla-- legisla-- tion tbe interest on the national debt, wljich was as ' r. uch as the principal when paid, together with the j : incipal, were paid in a metal which because of tie demonetization of silver had doubled in pur- ' :..ising power. It gave to the creditor class quite Ci,COO,COO,000 of money to which they were not entitled1. en-titled1. ' ..: It reduced the value of all kinds of property ex-(' ex-(' ;t ictrrvt I caring securities CO per cent. Mat-' Mat-' 1:. ' 1 a rcrj crLLs-.uLca, aa the fral act," |