Show tur mm AD iho history ot every nation t at lives today or ever did live es tl e intelligent thinking annii lod woman that finances Is and always was the most vital and feature ot the existence progress aid liapi iness of mankind it tl it when the finances or i nation be it civilized or semi bir berous ire so conducted as to be just to the whole people so con ducted that capital and labor cadi re calves its equitable shire of the wealth produced tint nation is erous and progressive and its people happy on tl e other hand as far bick as the memory ot man runn etli it teaches that when tl e lui ances of a nation or a people h ive been so kanii as to give one class or grade of people a direct advantage over the misses trouble and di sister lave alwais fol lowed and that as tie few grow wealthy and increase in creise in power crime immorality and insanity increase among the who grow poorer and sink into nit lonal bovery end has always been iud will be flail ruin the blotting out of that nation and of that people hie rich have their gotten gains aiken irois them and along with alie masses become slaves to a stronger power that is history those a e the cold hard facts 11 at 1 aelier time who re aspects neither persons nor his recorded lu his great book of truths and it is i asseg strange that puny man still allows his mind to be pos hessed of a greed for unlimited wealth and greit power still dreams of being oue of tl e few ano can make the many do bidding could and lower be carried into tie grave into the life beyond the tomb there would be some method in this strain of mid ness that t lints the uman race but it cannot be death ends it all man dies and 1 is wealth and power like the breath in bis nostrils goes from him and bis memory is cursed or cherished according to the manner in which he lived aith the mighty accumulation of evidence that concentrated wealth in variably brings disaster to tie pios advancement of every na tion disaster to all classes of people the high and tt e low the rich and the loor it is strange we repeat tint men will continue to struggle so desperately to lay up wealth for which they have no eirthly use and in so doing grind down the poor who are near the line of desperation because of the small pittance they receive for many I 1 ours of toilsome labor A pittance so sn ill that families are deprived of all luxuries ind miny comforts which deprives their children of an equal show for knowledge and kees them at such a stige of poverty that a few days sickness on the part of the bread winner meins actual want 1 hy will corporations continue to coerce their employed emp loyes alen 11 ey know that one strike will cost them more than coercion will ever save hy will men stand up in the balls of congress and advocate measures mei that they know will benefit one class of citizens at tl e expense ot ano ci r avi y w ill peor le hawal apu fa aiom st endeavor aai awi true principles Is tie world money m id that humanity and fallow ship should be trampled under foot in the deaf erate sir biggle for 1 uge tor tunes wl ieh in tl e end i ass from alio grasp of 1 im wl 0 gathers it aid only exists as tl e bone of on be tween quarreling garling lighting relatives ill mankind ever learn to bt learn to live so that 11 e world will be belter for tl air presence beirn to strive to advance ind science abolish poverty and create 1 look it the condition of ahe masses in leigland Lii gland today 11 ey are degraded to almost brutal slavery are brigl trully immoral ai d every twentieth man is i lauick ihde is tie edict condition of tl e great creditor the nation thit has fielded every senti ment of justice to its people to tl e up building of a roomed 11 v i dation have been so fumed th it the few sl buu b ave a per letual aud a gioan g income aiom the many the nation th l 1 is tor gel en lions striven to rule tl e world tl rough tie letter of its cold cm any mn woolas studied tie 1 astory of li g d or avei falkel with intelligent II 11 galst ui in alo hive levisi tid tie mother cwi try after d few aars resi dence in doubt tor an instant that that country is m its decline tt at tl e day li f ai i load lug wl en its lower will ilisa away its great limn cial 1 auses go do ati w ith ar d its unjust 01 e sided goveia ment become a tl ing of the i ast ahe day is sure to come alien 1 er own i coi le like starved brutes with hunger and ill will turn against the i though i luper d cause its overal row as it anity seim statesmen e light of tie whole world and 1 i rland in cul tr before them in i course tl at tl e twenty ora demon strates cui 1 ave bu one result the enrichment of tt e few ai d tl e ra 11 r of tie missies jl rough cor bupt rupt secured by 8 icci inen as jo n bt erinn tl e t process of m mil lionil reB of the few ii d i ers of the many his gore foiw ird til today 11 e bijil ty arm of labor is i jl distretti dist resti daid lias upon all kinds of bi and w ant fill t e eliud crime is becom aig a mons er and trin isare n unbaked by the 1 n dreda of tl u sand and yit join bl errean aid other hungry leial csan the emi y ot the money diug contin is to cry at out the natili a credit and struggle to f isten tl air in thing ideas u on the people la it not time to cill a 1 ill Is it not time tt t tl e i aoi to tt e gravity of II 11 e ard their rights 1 how much longer will tl ey allow tl to be ridden over rough blied by it e men who would make haupers paupers of tl em 11 it tl ey and their trend kiy become million tires Is it toot about lime that americal Ame stopped B luan dering th 1 eople s and did bomell ii f for tl air lanel td d something tc make the M hole country pros erous till mention of am I 1 si coin a ioimo in tl 0 1 alls of boog ress most nuke miny of our present statesmen sti feel like shriveled mummies tilt peonie should keep a close on congress tl ess days and put their branding iron on raan al 0 votes against tl air interests TOM 1 efcy of main ras tt last sl d his mask and come out in his true colors he is a rai k goldbug and a demagogue of the first ater aud ie cares no more for the welfare of ibis co matiy than i I 1 og does about bow achins grow 1 resident tom aeed never in a thousand years Iii Lidea of illinois ane state flat the immortal I 1 lincoln fur bishing a representative to engineer the dirty ork of a tl ing like cleveland Is enough to make the martyred marty red president turn over in 1 is grave illi nois has produced some bereit men and one very small one hill ii i i ringer being its name t notice that the managers and editors of the associated 1 ress held a love feast wednesday evening of tl is in chicago and that dur ing the progress of tl e banquet a num ber of brilliant eulogies in favor of that greatest of hefts galler ing enterprises 1 I here is no question of 11 e ability daid enterprise of the as but at tl e same lime it Is one of tl e most led sordid grasping and traitorous of combined in ill he wide world and is beyond question tl e mightiest lever in 11 e i assess on of the money ring and gh its manipulation and distortion of facts tho ie 1 ive been kept in ignorance of tl e true condition of affairs con cen n R this country it shields and schemes of and blackmails the people and tl air in teresta it is tl e cuttle fish of amerl can erity and should be liar to deatle i are ano ways to run this gov eminent one Is to have a gold stand ard as to the unit of values with the money lower growing richer and stronger and the masses poorer and poorer 1 lie other is to use both gold and silver as money of ultimate re dempt lon and give all the ie an equal show to be prosperous did happy a gold standard through which the few shall rule tl e many or both gold and silver with tl e reins in the hands of tl e people gold has ruled for twenty odd years and if the people 1 ave not in telli gence to read past history and corn wl at tl e country is drifting to tl en it sl continue to rule and the sooner the people are reduced to serfdom and 1 ave the ballot taken away from them the belter it wilt be lastiri people love to arite about be ang independent intelligent patriotic americans but eastern j eople are fools and do not know tl e difference between i funai cial stone bruise and a currii cy boll |