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Show MONEY KINGS MUST GO. Ben Butler Predicting That the People Will Rebel Against the Power of money. New York, Sept. 29. General B. F. Butler sneers at the efforts of the hard-money hard-money men to solve the silver and gold problem, and argues that paper money is the only good currency. The people, he says, will eventually rise up and throw off the yoke of coin money. "Do you expect serious trouble ?" asked the reporter. "I do," replied the General. "I have grandchildren who will ,live to see the Vanderbilts and Goulds taken out to the nearest lamp post and hanged. After there has been bloodshed we will settle down., again . for awhile. These money kings see the danger already. But they do not see the remedies. When I was a candidate for President Gould said Butler must be crushed. He couldn't see that it was better for a man with considerable wealth and a family and property interests to be at the head of the masses and able to control them. He only saw in the back-ground the torch of communism, as he thought. Some day a real Communist will lead them. Then he will see the difference. Every man is a Communist now in the eyes of "the community com-munity who preaches the equality of men. Christ was the Communist of Jerusalem. As the head of the labor element, I could have settled this whole railroad question as no other man could. The mistake I made -in running for President was like running against a stone wall. In all crises the people have failed themselves. I was foolish enough to think that the people had grown wiser ; that the laborers of the new republic were more intelligent. They are not intelligent. They were afraid of me because I had a little property. prop-erty. They were just as foolish as Gould. But that is not all. Nine out of ten of them would sell their votes for $2 apiece. I was a fool to think this age was any different from any other." |