502 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



condition, the workingmen on a good footing, make them 

 prosperous and contented once more, what would you 

 suggest?" 



"Remonetize silver," answered the Senator, <( liberate 

 the people from the tyranny of the legalized robbers the 

 bond-holders and the national banks and prosperity is 

 assured. That will relieve the producer and the laboring 

 man of the terrible pressure of contraction, low wages, 

 poverty and starvation. I have been a laboring man 

 myself. It was by the means of the axe, the scythe, the 

 pick, and the shovel, that I made a start in life. I chopped 

 wood at fifty cents a cord, and many a cord at -that. I 

 have mowed grass at fifty cents an acre. I have swung 

 the cradle at a dollar a day, and worked a good many days 

 at it. I have made brick at $12 a month and worked 

 twelve hours a day; and I worked in the mines for two 

 years in the early days of California. I have always sym- 

 pathized with the laboring man, and I am rejoiced that 

 they are consulting their own interests by organizing and 

 devising ways and means against the wicked conspiracy of 

 the bond-holders to enslave them." 



"What have the bondholders to do with it? Why 

 are they to blame?" 



"Because they are the authors of the unrest, depres- 

 sion, stagnation, low wages, and hard times now existing. 

 You will understand that if the money of the world were 

 doubled at once, prices would go up. You will also under- 

 stand that if one-half of the money of the world were 

 destroyed, prices would go down. The bondholders 

 understand this perfectly. The man that goes in debt sells 

 money short, in the language of Wall street. That is to 

 say, he agrees to deliver something that he has not got. 

 If he agrees to deliver a certain amount of money at a 

 future time, and when that time arrives one-half of the 



