468 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



of labor, the only legitimate source of wealth, by which 

 thousands of our most useful citizens are rendered destitute 

 of the means of living, and reduced to extreme poverty 

 and despair. It has created criminals and organized an 

 army of tramps overflowing our prisons and alms-houses, 

 and consequently increasing the burdens of taxation. 

 Debts are inflated, while the means for paying debts are 

 shrunk out of sight, all for the visionary hallucination of 

 resumption of specie payments, which is only an idea and 

 not a fact. Time is not long enough the recuperative 

 energies of the American people are not strong enough 

 for the next ten generations to outgrow the blighting 

 effect of this attempted resumption, which, in any event, 

 is a fallacy a fraud upon public credulity. The equaliza- 

 tion of values may be effected, but to pay all individual 

 and public dues in specie on demand is simply promulgat- 

 ing a monstrous lie. Resumption is a wide-spread a 

 withering curse, and is full of dead men's bones. It is 

 chargeable with more distress upon the American people, 

 more moral degradation, the destruction of more property 

 and the creation of more misery in this country during the 

 past years than all the combined work of all the villians 

 and felons of the civilized world, during the same period 

 of time. Yet, boasted statesmen politicians and pro- 

 fessed Christians, insist upon resumption and contraction, 

 with their blighting curses in trying to effect that which 

 has not, and can not be, resumption. To attempt which 

 has only resulted in that which the country has been 

 suffering from these many long years, of business disaster 

 and financial ruin miseries for the many good times 

 for the few." 



