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is concerned, except there is some twice waved victorious. We have go. Mark the result. When on i would each become at one and th- profit outside of its intrinsic value taught the Indian savage at home the day the great and honored fath- same time the owner of a thousand to the consumer, to lie made in the and the Algerian pirate on th«> high er of his country took the oath as dollars worth of wealth and be th, traffic of it. Such was the condi- s.-as to respect the lives and pr.p r- first chief magistrate and swor- to sole judge as to what that wealth tion of the money |M>wer in the age tv of our people. We have whip- defend the constitution and execute was worth to him under that la Now, my friends, that is just the of iron. KingH and nobles took | e-J and di.«meml>ered Mexico, ami the laws of the republic, he himself was the wealthiest of his country we have met and successfully over basis in theory, upon which westart. care of themselves; rich cities took care of themselves. The former come a revolt on the part ot our own men; yet he has m t Been maiked I ed out in this brand new sofietv of Without one star as among the world’s rich men; he ours 119 years ago today. Ever ■ as stated before, helping themselves enmtrymen when hard times pinched them to erased or obliterated, without one was not conspicuous on account of I one was put on a perfect equality the world’s wealth by force. The stripe stained with dishonor, we his wealth. Tbe share of others and the government was prohibit-d was not diminished bv his. There ¡from interiering with the eqUll iGsidcs the Jews, the Venetians latter, by going slow and keeping have steadily kept alight the lamps was plenty left for all. ’ right each had to get as many ta s and Genoese who succeeded the within Imunds, including all the of liberty and union with which we y 1 ...1. ...11 rrxi Fifty years later and a very few . as he could. The ancient financ es Phoenicians as merchant nations inhabitants in their corporations, started, ami have kindled others of hie own in so that now forty-f upon . . air appear .. . men began tube remarked about'had fixed this fictitious value of made great national loans in those each with a place their guilds and municipalities, the flag which represents our gal- a8 millionaires. There were not1 money representedrby tags in the days. The crown jewels of a king-1 dom were often pledged Monopo ttfter l,'e manner of an í•• ---------- du’tria, 1 axy. And during all this tide of many of them, and who ever heard | illustration, and here was a free lies in trails were granted. Immu-, Th® reRt °f theworl<1 were prosperity we have steadily »le- of a multimillionaire 50year* ugo?| field for the equal right of all to nities were sold, and money raised '’[aV^and ’'f1 ’ care; clared in favor of human rights Twenty-five years later still and | grab. thev were fed by their masters. | an4 j against human slavery. Once what do we find? Millionaires as by borrowing on the national cred-1 Then. 1 per cent of the popula Under these conditions, the attempt an<l again we have fought in the thick as huckleberries on the bushes tion owned, say 1 per cent of the it of the debtor kingdom^. Money began to Iw demanded a* an article on the part of a few bankers among cause of liberty. We have shown in their season, and no one consid wealth. George Washington wan of value in itself and profits gained the Jews and Lombards to bring an example which other nations end as “strictly in it, ” as the say the wealthiest man, and lie was for the uae of it. and creditors de i about such a state of affairs then have followed. In the early 60’e, ing is, unless a multi-millionaire comparatively poor. He and his sired a supply of it to remain on as exist now. failed. .Moreover,the Russia, moved by our emancipation How is it now? Whv. here'ofore class left 99 per cent of the wealth hand in one place to loan on debt riches injured into the lap of Spain of the blacks,emancipated her serfs. we have heard of men and corpora | to 99 per c< nt of the population, ors’ neccHHtiea at high rates, so from the new world, consequent We, who were the first in time, and 1 turns controlling millions, now it is and the poor were comparatively that money its«-)t came to Iteacoin-i U)s>n conquests of the country :»f onlv republic in *76, are now tbe ‘ syndicat» s and trusts controlling , rich. Fifty years later and 1 per modify, having >i value of it* own, the Montezuma* by Coitei, and first in place of 21 The doctrine men and - corpoiations , ............ .....---------- j What are I cent of the population ovned, sav and tbe Iximbtirds and Jews begun I that of the Incas by I’i of the divin«- right of kings has the financiers reaching after now? I 10 per cent of the wealth tin would to open hanking houses for the plied the world with ample means mouldering in the sepulcre of dis- Already multi-millionairi shy means only leave 90 per cent of the pur|M>Mi «.f gathering together, and to <lrnl with these ba- k«-rs. and if use, ami th«- • d monarchies and of aggregation of corporate wealth wealth for 99 per cent of the popu- >le broke Fia- ce thus-p -ulating with it.from which the Mississippi autocracies of the world are pro- in this article, money, which has lation- Twenty-five years later and the South Sea bubble broke •prang up a trail« in the article Deeding in th» ir history with a ten now all the fictitious value i still, and 1 per cent of the population it.self, whereby it b»«gan to assume I England in th«- last century, * th re tienev toward consiituti in il i nita- the ancient financiers strove to com- owned, sav 50 per cent of the what it never had assumed Before— was plenty i f world s w..rk for tion. We Inve w. loom d to our pass f>r it, they are reaching after wealth Now 1 per cent of the I Frenchmen ami E"glishmcn to do. n marketable value. shores the oppress, d of ev< rv land. the title of billionaires, no empty population owns, sa v 99 per cent of Now as long as one nation coined and plenty of world’s wealth i Fr in BOOO.tMlof people we have titles, as we’ll find out to our cost, the wealth. What will the future gold .n»« ther nil ver, another brus«. 1 uiuny inn »is to pay them with.1 '..«•come upw ard of 60,000 ,( X»■.I. when such a plutocracy a; the world be? Wh it’can it result in. if this another iron, ami v»«t another need The evil days were not jet ap We Lav.- extended our empir. ha-4 nev» r ve’. seen shall become t-s goes on, but that 1 per cent of the pelts and another la-eves, and this proaching. from the gulf to the lakes and from tablished in these United States; population will own all the wealth? Now, w ben our p*-< pie began their one one thing and that one another seaboard to seaboard \\ e have the dream of money’s empire has When Egypt went down 2 percent thing fur money, no harm could i career in the world we hadn't an not onlv establish» <1 an almost un i become realized in the land of the of her population owned alt the com«« to tbe entire w««rld from this appreciable pxrtof thewenlthcreated limited credit, but we wealth Before the other nations have pro I free. new use of it, because there was I by us annually now Our credit, duced a sufficiency of which preceded us as plutocracies wealth fir Now, to illustrate clearly what an infinite supply of it in the w«»rl<i was very limited; our svstem of Mll,i ... 1» . . i government was viewed by tinan-1 the Btippo t of a population of 3(H), we have been doing, or rather al- reached the stage we have reached amt no one man could by g.-ttini? . ., <MM).<*• a> .men, women and ehil lowing to go on in the last bundled at eadv—Assyria, Greece, R me. mild of j|| <»f any one thing in the | eiers with distrust; we began the ' most insignificant political ;>ower1 drei ...... *' Me have provided homes wars, suppose every article of us» Carthago, Cocvra.Mat gara. Cornitb, world obtain all else as liis own by ' J 1 that clai«•■ »1 a pine« among nation- for our p .ph« and l«een lavish it. produced in tne world—cultivated Venice, 1’isa. Florence, Genoa— the mere fact of |M»ssessing th«« one, I little pf‘»"»>tinc raiAvaya and other cn- land, cattle, clo'hing, „ I >»>d, , „ jewels. they went down. But we forget ami thereby control the value of| Our territ»»rv consisted of a ....... strip of Atlantic seab««nrd. » xt« ,.d terpr;s->«.f internal improvement. metals, brai s, muscle, everything that in ’hese examples there wu everything But gradually the ing from the coast to the Alleghan- with all thia, in i the midst of which h >s _______ ... -i«. t-x ept none < f ’his fictitious v due of mon a v;'ue to m finam iers—whether they saw the •les, from the St Mary’s river to the P,e,‘tv are in »«"•< «nd the da» money, could he brought tuget l»e- ey It ««a* straight up with them— drift of it or not—began the work Kviiclw-c, so narrow that the site of f- ' k'umg is at hand. The trou in a certain place and n arked, a 1 to tie rich, nothing to the poor. of.• mdenait.g; contracting and de- hie has bt.-n we hav«- l«e«n too pros each urti le with a tag. i i»l etti lg • e la t r being l! * slaves of the tin- city of Washington was ch >s< n inonetiaing. by giving money itself Iptrous We have been too greedv,' its intrinsic value, and a co res firmer, working fu* them, fed by for its capital I hwhusc at or near a fictitious value, that is, a value the center of it Great Britain to too lavish, too extravagant, too ponding tag a duplicate, placed mi them. Let ua see what effect, if outside of any intrinsic value of its the north of us; Spain to the south careless, to p-ovido against the evil the market. Now, suppose that any, for better or for worse, this own .«r in relation to anything else of ua; France to the west of us Lycurgus, endeavoring to provide the sum of all the values should fictitious value, this tremendous in the world; and by endeavoring three European monarchies to over against, warn he recomm -nded to amount, to a trillion of dollars ac purchasing power of money, will to have establi«he<| that fictitious shadow the infant republic. Our his countrymen the uae of iron as a cording to present valuation in U. have when it is limited to the qual value as to some one article that Girders bristled with savages a,«d medium of exrhange. We have B. gold coin Such a sum wouhi oe ity already in the hands of a few. the world ha»i i * " limited supply the unsubdued wilderness. We forsook our living strength and «or- the total value of every useful ar in these times, when all men else of, as the world's — a money - their were without treasury, uavv or shijh-»l false god* in the tempk-s of ticle in the world, ar.d the whole ur? ffff—to starve, next step lieitig to obtain a nnmop- allies, vicvpl France. In such I liberty. I have said we have invit number of tags wou d repr» sent Let us look back to the illustra- olv of that article, ami by relation ed to our shore« the oppressed of all ■hap«- di I we assume the dignity There were a t’illion dollars such sum, 1 he total of the world's tion of its value so established l»» the of inde|H*ndrnce—n loose confed nations; the sufferer for conscience wealth and the quantities of the worth of tags, you remember, and • vslu-s of the rest of the world’» eracy of 13 p«tlv slates, only great sake, the political refugee, the serf v dues marked on all the tags would billion people to start with a thous- productions, they coubl. if t he v i in the men they produced. The of ancient Umdage; all accepted of l»e equal. Now. «uppus« a law «mi dollars apiece. Now, euppo* one* cunt rolled the one, control the country to which those uien then that invitation. But with them were pasre I that the ¡»oasesaor <»f that in ten years 1 per cent of the other also, set the price« and hold pledged their lives, their fortunes came Iteli i| also. The oppressed any tag shouhi become thereby the prople, that is. ten million, bad I the rv»t of th«- worl«| al their nirr ami their »acre,I honor, has r>«-n in financier who could Hot, under the owner of the article to which the per cent of the wealth, that is, one •JT- 10l> yeam to the lofty station and condition* of the age of iron, con duplicate of that tag was attached per cent's worth of all the tags, that This whether thev were awareof high authority of the iuo>t exten summated the dream of money anil should have the power to fix would be ten billions of dollars. *°d tile full import of tlteir scheme or sive. the uiosi |«»wv'ful, the moat »tower, sought in this land of uni the vain- of all articles of the same would leave nine hundred and not. was the attempt they made; influential and the most integral versal fres-dotu an unrestricted the nature that should be produced ninety billions worth of tags a* but the kings f hr nisei Vra naauimsd empire of any continent hut one, ater for the display of his genius thereafter. Suppose now that theie nine hundred and ninety million* th* rnotiopuliea, and with a king in and in Europe yielding only to We *« lcom-d thia principal of un should t«e found to l«e on earth, at of people, and every one of th* cu«ii|x-tition no syndicate multi live Great Britain in area, wealth and restricted money gettirg We start the present time, a billion men. wo nine hundred and n-nety indlioo* in the trade, for the syndicate |s»pulaiion l»e»'auM here empire ex ed out assuming that one of the es Then there could be worth one thousand dor would th (« ; e In the same prvtlica tends to every portion of the glob«; sentials of liberty was for govern men and childi.n w.'ulo be a thousand dollars worth hrs of the tag«. Suppose liftv year» n»««««t that ihe «pir are in now, and her have as twice met in war. ment to ]• t society alono in the of tags to every man, woman and after the ten millions had 10 l*r the tuon< |H>lv dcstruving the very and over ihe lions of England has struggle of getting rich—to set no child in the world, and every man, cent of the tags Ther would have value «/ the article eo far as trade that proud star s|<ai>gl«d batmer boumis Iteyor.d which none could woman and child in the world cajrnxt rn ox raor rot R he had hoarded and it rarely eyer returned to him again. On the other hand th»- estate« of the Chri« tian would in the c»)urs- of time be delivere»! over to the Jew. who would protnply transform their val- ties into wealth, such as could be kept afloat in the markets of the world in the shape of bills of ex* change, safe from the hand of the •poiler.