A PROPHESY . 
 
 THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, 
 
 TO BE DELIYEEED MARCH 4th, 1885, 
 
 FEOM THE BALCONY IN FEONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE 
 IN WASHINGTON, D. C. 
 
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 WILLIAM ROS£^ 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The Republicans, Socialists and Communists will unite 
 in 1 884 to elect a President. The Republicans want a strong 
 government, the Socialists and Communists want equal 
 rights, and plenty of work for all. 
 
 Jay Gould, their candidate for President, premises, in 
 his letter of acceptance, as the principal points in the plat- 
 form, and to give satisfaction to all parties, that if he is 
 elected he will guarantee a Republican form o( Government 
 in all the States — a strong government — and plenty of work 
 and equal chances for everybody. Upon this platform he is 
 elected, and delivers his message to Congress and the people 
 on the fourth day of March, 1885, from the balcony in front 
 of the White House, in Washington, D. C, because there 
 is not room in the house for all the vast crowds of people 
 that come to hear it and see him. 
 
 This message is supposed to have been taken from the 
 mind of Jay Gould by a first-class clairvoyant medium, who, 
 in an isolated and independent clairvoyant state, can read 
 the minds of individuals, and see all their past life and 
 actions, all their present thoughts and doings, and all the 
 principal desires and events of their future life. 
 
 To be Preesident of the United States is the principal and 
 chief object in the life and mind of Jay Gould. That fact was 
 easily seen by the medium, and as he has his intended mes- 
 sage pretty well worked out and formed as he intends to 
 deliver it, the medium had no trouble in speaking the words 
 right out which were taken down by a stenographer ver- 
 batim, of which this is an exact copy. 
 
The President's Message. 
 
 I, Jay Gould, by the grace of God, the free use of law- 
 made money, and the votes of the people, am this day made 
 President of these United States. I need hardly tell you it 
 is the greatest honor conferred upon me in my life. Being 
 President of a few Railroad Companies is a mere trifle to 
 this. 
 
 I am not only President, but with a few other much 
 respected gentlemen who, with me will constitute the gov- 
 ernment, are now owners of the country with all its institu- 
 tions. We own all the money of the country both real and 
 fictitious. We have bought this country in a legal business- 
 like manner, and being owners of the country it is nothing 
 but right that you should elect me the chief owner as your 
 President. 
 
 We have bought this country with law-made legal 
 money. We did not make the mop.ey or make it legal ; 
 your government made it and made it legal. It also made 
 laws by which a few of us sharp-sighted far-seeing business 
 men were able to so manipulate the money as to produce 
 what you see to-day — a few men owners of the whole United 
 .States, property, money, courts, government and all. Now, 
 1 suppose it would be useless for me to tell you what you 
 all must know, that those that own the country, all the 
 property and all the money of the country, own all the peo- 
 ple of that country. 
 
 You must know also that these are of necessity all 
 slaves to their owners, — tenants at will if you like that bet- 
 ter. Their peace, prosperity, and happiness are in the hands 
 )f ihcir owners. 
 
I have said this to remind you of the condition or 
 standing you occupy, so that you can look from a proper 
 stand-point at the things I shall say to you in this my first 
 message as President of the United States. 
 
 Of course you are fully aware that the government of 
 the country from now on must be very different from the 
 government of it as it has been in the past. It is now in 
 fact what all you so-called Republicans have been wishing 
 and working for so long — a strong government. That you 
 can depend upon. Being a strong government, with all the 
 machinery of all the States and local governments under 
 our command, you may, and no doubt you do expect some 
 very radical changes in the fact of government, but not in 
 the forms. 
 
 According to the Constitution I guarantee to you all 
 the forms of a Republican Goverenment as I promised you 
 in my letter of acceptance when nominated. But hereafter 
 no nominations will be confirmed that are not of our own 
 dictation or choice. We want no jarring elements in the 
 government. '' 
 
 I will now give you an outline of the several forms of 
 government we have had under discussion — that is, I and my 
 honorable brothers that will be this government in the future. 
 
 The first was to establish a monarchy or empire, and 
 put Grant in as emperor; for this purpose we sent him on a 
 tour round the world to visit the governments of the world 
 and learn the best way of conducting an empire govern- 
 ment. But all of us —I and my honorable brothers that are 
 now the government — were not agreed as to that being the 
 best and most suitable form of government for this country. 
 There seemed to be a great opposition to the name of empe- 
 ror attached to that kind of government, and as we were not 
 quite agreed as to what form to adopt, the thing fell through 
 at that time. Some thought that in openly establishing 
 such a government it would cause something of an out- 
 break or revolution, and thereby cause much shedding of 
 blood. But none of us doubted our ability to establish that 
 form of government if we once got hold of the working 
 machinery. 
 
We let that go and sent Grant off to Mexico to help 
 us buy up that country and its people with their law made 
 money, the same as we have bought up the United States. 
 The same way also as Rothschilds, the Jews, have bought 
 up all the countrys and people of Europe,with their — the 
 peoples' law made money. VVe got the idea of buying this 
 country in a commercial way from the Rothschilds, and 
 followed their example. You can congratulate yourselves 
 that you are in the hands of Americans, and not of Jews. 
 
 The next proposition we considered was to divide the 
 country into three divisions, and have three empires or 
 kingdoms. The North and the South to be divided on 
 Mason and Dixon's Line^ and west of the Rocky Mountains 
 be to an empire of itself, to be called the North, the South, 
 and the W cstern Empires. Jay Gould was to be Emperor 
 of the North, Jeff. Davis Emperor of the South, and Dennis 
 Kearney Emperor of the Western Empire. 
 
 We said Jay Gould being the best business man, he 
 would be best suited for the Northern Empire because he 
 could control all the railroads, telegraphs, water communi- 
 cations, newspapers, and commercial business in general, and 
 owning all the money and all the property he could control 
 the elections and keep the government on a firm footing,, 
 and by his example and advice the two other emperors could 
 strengthen and preserve their governments. Jeff. Davis 
 being a popular man at the South the people there would 
 do anything he recommended. The idea of being Emperor 
 of the Southern States or Confederacy pleased Jeff, exceed- 
 ingly, so that he entered into our plans and prospects with 
 his whole heart and mind. He said that was just the thing 
 he seceded for. All he wanted was to be a great man and 
 have control of many other men. 
 
 We selected Dennis Kearney for Emperor of the West- 
 ern I'Lmpire, because he is popular with the masses, and he 
 is right on the Chinese question. There is no power on 
 earth that I fear so much to overthrow this government as 
 I do the Chinese. They are the greatest immitators and 
 gamblers in the world. If I were to have half a dozen of 
 them around my business place and residence for one year 
 
they would know all my business both private and public, 
 to the very smallest details. They are child-like and bland 
 and appear to take no notice of anything, but they would in 
 fact know everything. They would know all my little tricks 
 and turns, and would soon be able to beat me at my own game, 
 just the same as I have beaten the American people at their 
 own national game of gambling. No, if the Chinese are 
 allowed to come over here as fast as they please, and be 
 allowed to vote at elections, my government is doomed to a 
 speedy end. 
 
 They do not come here with big guns and soldiers, and 
 declare they will conquer or kill us if we do not let them 
 govern this country, the same as the British went to Afghan- 
 istan and Boer land. They come silently and quietly, and 
 take up their position as labor-slaves, washing- women, shoe- 
 makers, tailors, traders, saloon-keepers, caucus-controllers, 
 voters, office-holders, tax-collectors, tax spenders and law- 
 makers. If we allow them to come m such vast numbers 
 they will overrun our country, control our institutions, own 
 everything, and make us do their bidding in their own way, 
 as completely as the new government you have set up will 
 make you do its bidding in its own way. Dennis Kearney 
 understands the Chinese question and the Chinese. Here 
 is the order I had prepared to give to Dennis Kearney if 
 he had taken his seat as emperor. To Dennis Kearney, 
 Emperor of the Western Empire of the United States — I 
 hereby give you power and permission to prevent the China- 
 man from crossing the Western Empire of the United States 
 to come to the Northern Empire, of which I am Emperor, 
 and I will pay all the expense. 
 
 JAY GOULD. 
 The reason why we did not establish this three empire 
 government was, — we were afraid some blockhead emperors 
 in the next generation might get to quarreling and fighting 
 and try to takje each other's territory, and so undo all that 
 we had done(; and besides we thought they might not 
 always conse^^t to guarantee in all the States a Republican 
 form of govetnment. So we let that go. 
 
We then considered several other propositions and 
 things connected with the subject that I need not mention 
 here. I think now that the best kind of government that 
 could be adopted under the circumstances, is that which 
 you have established to day by the inauguration of Jay 
 Gould as President. 
 
 I, Jay Gould appreciate the honor you have conferred 
 upon me, and will try to make it the best government in the 
 world; a model Republican Government, that will stand and 
 be likely to give most all the people satisfaction, except 
 perhaps some who are at present office-holders. 
 
 Now, as to what I propose to do — I want you all to pay 
 particular attention for it is of great importance to you all, 
 and will especially effect your individual interests — for the 
 better I hope.- 
 
 In the first place, and the first thing I will officially do 
 will be to repeal all laws that protect money of every kind, 
 bonds, stocks, mortgages, notes, bank notes, greenbacks 
 and all evidences of debt whatever. 
 
 NoTF,. — This produced a great sensation among the 
 pjople, but no very outspoken words." 
 
 Perhaps some of you will think I am going crazy, and 
 we going to upset society and turn all things into chaos; but 
 don't be afraid, keep your minds easy and quiet for a little 
 while, and you will see all come right. Perhaps some of 
 you will remember that I told you in the early part of my 
 address that I owned all the real money, gold and silver, 
 and all the property and wealth of the country, and that I 
 had bought it all with law made money. I have also 
 bought all the principal courts, and hired the judges with 
 this same law- made money. Some of you may think that 
 is a stretcher, and that I do not own it all ; bi^t you can 
 easily find it out by cutting loose and trying it on'^^our own 
 account, with your own money. I purchased all your private 
 property with law-made money, through m^.-^agents, the 
 banks, insurance companies, and those calling themselves 
 capitalists. 
 
 I, through these agents bought your property at about 
 a fjuarter or half what it was supposed to be we«:th, by p^^y- 
 
ing you the first payment and calling it a mortgage, giving 
 you the privilege of re-buying it at a stated time if you 
 could. Not one in fifty of you could do it and clear your- 
 selves up, because you could not get the money. The 
 money that I gave one of you for the mortgage purchase 
 of your farm, or other property, somebody else had got 
 hold of and returned to me as interest for the use of the 
 money I had purchased their property with at about one 
 quarter of its nominal value. 
 
 My money comes back to me as interest. In me it is 
 again converted into capital, and goes out again as capital 
 to purchase another farm or other property at one quarter 
 of its nominal value. Just so my money has raked into my 
 net all your substance. 
 
 Now, as there is no other money in the country but 
 mine. " Note. — I say mine for convenience, I mean also 
 those gentlemen who with me now constitute this govern- 
 ment," — and nobody can get that only by borrowing it, and 
 giving me good security for its return, and so get the use of 
 some of my money ; — do you not think it is a hopeless task 
 for you to continue to borrow that same money over and 
 over, again and again, promising to pay me fresh interest 
 every time you borrow it, to try to get your farms and other 
 property clear from debt ? 
 
 How sensible; intelligent men as you Americans con- 
 sider yourselves to be could establish and continue such a 
 system of finance as this is beyond my comprehension. 
 The thing is absurd; absolutely impossible. You cannot so 
 pay your debts and get clear again any more than you can 
 get to the top of the hill by running fast down it. 
 
 Now, as I own all this law-made money, in repealing 
 all laws that protect it I only destroy my own property, not 
 yours. This law-made money is all gambler's money, made 
 by the gamblers, and for the gamblers, and I have no more 
 use for it. I cannot very well gamble with myself, and none 
 of you have any property to gamble with, and I do not 
 think it is good luck to lend money to anybody without 
 security, to gamble or play with against myself, so I have 
 concluded to destroy it, or take away its value by repealing 
 the law that gave it value. 
 
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 The loss is mine not yours. I can do better without 
 it. So can you. 
 
 "By the way, if you will just allow a digression, 
 I will tell you what I intend to do with this law-made 
 paper money — I will gather it all up together, and 
 have it made into pulp, formed into a monument, hardened, 
 made water-proof and weather-proof, highly polished, and 
 have it set up in front of the White House here at Wash- 
 ington for a memorial and warning for coming generations. 
 On one side shall be inscribed the words — This monument 
 was law-made paper money. In 1885, when Jay Gould was 
 made President of the United States, the use of law-made 
 paper money ended. He had the money gathered together 
 at his own expense, and made into this monument and 
 placed here for the use and instruction of people in the 
 coming ages, to show them the folly and evil of all law- 
 made paper money. 
 
 For full particulars see the history of the United States 
 about the years 1884 and 1885." 
 
 The next thing I do officially is to repeal all laws that 
 raise, support or maintain a standing army. — " Note, this 
 produced great displeasure among army officers, who done 
 considerable swearing. — "In a model Republic such as I 
 intend to establish, standing armies are no use and no 
 good. - 
 
 All officers and men comprising the standing armies, 
 as now organized, are at liberty to choose and follow any 
 profession or business they like, the same as any other peo- 
 ple. I shall depend upon volunteers to repel invasion, and 
 keep internal peace. The office of Secretary of War is 
 here and now abolished. 
 
 Next is the United States Navy, a useless and expen- 
 sive part of the past government. This government has no 
 more use for it. I now and here abolish the office of Sec- 
 retary of the Navy. All naval officers and men are here- 
 after at full liberty to choose their trade or profession. 
 " Note. — This caused many murmurs, feuch as what is a 
 man to do that has all his life time been on the sea, and not 
 accustomed to any land employment whatever ?" — All the 
 
large gunboats and men-of-war, I donate to the States anti- 
 quarian societies to be preserved and kept as relics of the 
 past. To the State that has paid the most taxes, I give the 
 largest gunboat ; to the State that has paid the next highest 
 amount of taxes, I give the next largest gunboat, and so on 
 to all the States till the boats are all disposed of. 
 
 A few fast-sailing armed boats, as messenger boats, to 
 go from one country to another, and to different parts of our 
 own country by water is all that is needed as a navy. 
 These will be under control of the Secretary of State. 
 
 We have no intention or desire to control or own the 
 seas, and therefore have no use for iron-clad gunboats and 
 men-of-war. The volunteer patriotic forces at home on the 
 land, can successfully repel any attempt at invasion from a 
 foreign foe. 
 
 The next thing I officially do is to abolish all laws 
 for the collection of Taxes, Internal, Imports, and Ex- 
 ports. All cfifice-holders and employes in the department 
 of taxes are here and now dismissed. The government has 
 no more use for them. "Note. — This produced great com- 
 motion." Note. — (here the medium explained that she 
 could perceive the words and excitement of the crowd of 
 people just as well as she could the President's words, so 
 far as they had reference to the President's address) ; cat-a 
 walings, shouting, whistlirfg, screaming, and every conceiva- 
 ble noise. — Some were in favor of and some against the 
 President's words. — "Shut up old man, you are crazy. — We 
 have had enough of that. — We won't have such a fool for 
 President. — Give your work to the nigger. — We can't live 
 without offices. — We are gentlemen, and can't work. — You 
 are a bigger fool than I thought." To the last voice that spoke 
 another said, " Shut up, or I'll mash your head. Jay Gould 
 IS President; he knows what he is about. — We don't want 
 idle, loafing office-holders. — Go to work like the rest of us. 
 — Hurrah for Jay Gould ! — Jay Gould is the best President 
 we ever had." Then up spoke the voice of a great stalwart 
 Representative and said, " I will not represent the great State 
 of New York in such a government. — We want to control 
 the patronage of the State, therefore I resign my position 
 
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 as Senator from said State." Another little squeeking voice 
 behind him cried out, " Me, too." 
 
 One voice said, " give us offices or we will Gui-teau 
 you as we did Garfield about foury ears ago." To 
 this the President replied : '* Gentlemen, I am rather 
 pleased to hear you speak your minds so freely ; 
 to the last remark I would like to sav a word — 'Give us 
 offices or we will Gui-teau }'0u, as we did Garfield about 
 four years ago.' This I take to be a threatening of my life 
 if I do not keep offices for and give them to every one that 
 applies for one. Now, under no possible circumstances will 
 that be done. Your threats will not intimidate me in the 
 least." 
 
 Sometimes I think I would like for you to fulfill your 
 threats and shoot me, as by that means my nanie would in 
 history, go down to posterity as a great martyr to principal, 
 and a true model Republican form of government, as it is 
 scarcely possible for it to do in any other way. Then my 
 especial form of government would receive an impetus, and 
 its merits be known and discussed in all parts of the civil- 
 ized world. 
 
 You as individuals, or w^ould be office-holders, would 
 receive no benefit from such a course of assassination, for 
 if you kill me another will take the office of President that 
 is fully bound and determined to^arry on this same kind of 
 governmc-nt until it is fully established. 
 
 Every succeeding President will be elected from the 
 small number of men (about one hundred) that now own 
 and constitute the government of this country. As their 
 number decreases by death or otherwise, the deficiency will 
 be made up with persons that have the most influence or 
 money, so that their number will always be sufficient. This 
 body of men, which constitutes the government, will be 
 something like the College of Cardinals in the Roman 
 Catholic Church. They will always elect, by vote, who 
 shall be the next President oi: the United States, and see 
 that their choice is always nominated by the people and 
 elected, as the choice of the cardinals is always made pope. 
 [Here the President resumed his address.] 
 
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 As the one hundred or so of men that are now the gov- 
 ernment, own about all the property and value in the coun- 
 try, it would be a piece of extreme folly to keep up an 
 expensive and extensive system of taxing their own property, 
 and collecting the tax from it to pay themselves interest on 
 the bonds and mortgages they hold, but of which the prin- 
 cipal can never possibly be paid, because all the private 
 property mortgaged to pay public, National, State, county, 
 city, etc., bonds have passed into their hands as private 
 individuals. 
 
 They own all the public bonds and mortgages you have 
 given — all unpaid — and also all the property you then had 
 that you gave as security for the payment of those bonds. 
 So you see that to collect tax at one end of their property 
 to pay interest at the other end, would be like robbing Peter 
 to pay Paul, besides it costs a great deal of useless expense. 
 
 We own all the money in the countr}', own all the rail- 
 roads and other means of transportation ; own all the tele- 
 graphs and ocean cables ; own all property and improved 
 farms ; control all the leading newspapers ; own all produc- 
 tive mines, minerals, coal, and oil wells, all of which we, as 
 individuals, have bought, according to law and paid for. 
 
 As the government, we control all unimproved lands 
 that have not been sold or traded away to us. We control 
 all the departments, power and machinery of the govern- 
 ment — therefore I henceforth propose to run the government 
 of this country on purely business forms and principles. 
 
 By abolishing the army, navy, taxes, and interest de- 
 partments, we cut down the expenses of the government to 
 a merely nominal sum. All this I propose to yay from the 
 profits of the railroads.. the telegraphs, the mines and other 
 means of transportation and commerce. 
 
 All the gold and silver mines belong to the government 
 as now constituted. All the product of these mines, after 
 paying the expense of mining and coining, I shall use to 
 pay the expenses of government. Iron, copper, coal, oil 
 and all other mines, now also belong to the government ; 
 the profits from them, after paying the expense of produc- 
 tion, will also go to pay the expense of government. 
 
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 All lands that are not or have never been cultivated, 
 are free to any citizen in lots so large as he can cultivate 
 and take care of, and no more. He can record such lot of 
 land, and the government will give him a title or claim to it, 
 and to his heirs and successors forever, or so long as he or 
 they occupy and use it. All improvements and good will 
 he may make upon it he can sell or trade away any time at 
 pleasure, and the title of occupancy will be good in his suc- 
 cessors, so long as they occupy and use it. 
 
 All employes on the railroads, and all government em- 
 ployes, will consider eight hours as a day's work. Where 
 more time and labor are wanted, fresh men will be employed. 
 
 All men with families that work on a railroad, if they 
 wish, will be supplied with a cottage and not less than one 
 acre of land, so long as they are in the employ of the road. 
 
 The government will employ in the mines all men that 
 need employment, and pay them good wages. The govern- 
 ment will receive and pay nothing but gold and silver, as 
 money, in its business of all kinds. No paper money, no credit 
 allowed. Pay as you go, in real money, is our motto from 
 this time on. 
 
 With all the vast resources of the country in the mines, 
 and in the land to produce the raw material, we, as a nation, 
 can successfully compete with all the world in free trade in 
 everything. If I cannot run the government of this coun- 
 try successfully upon strictly business principles, without 
 collecting one cent as tax from any of the people, why, then 
 I will go where the " woodbine twineth." 
 
 Some one asks — What about your own private prop- 
 erty ? don't vou want income from that ? No, I want no 
 income from any of my property as interest. I intend to 
 work or use my property and make my living by it, as a 
 man works his farm and makes his living at that. A 
 man that owns a farm has no stocks or bonds to represent 
 its value on which he can make other people pay him inter- 
 est, over and above what he can make in a commercial way 
 from its products. That is all I want from my property, 
 what I can make it pay me in an honest, commercial busi- 
 ness way. 
 
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 But you seem to mix your property up with the prop- 
 erty of the government or people, i{ the latter have any 
 property left — how are you goirtg to keep accounts, or make 
 the distinction between the two ? 
 
 By being established President of the United States, I 
 have gained the highest point of ambition or desire of my 
 life. My bodily or personal needs are very small. To ob- 
 tain and own large amounts of money and property I no 
 longer desire. To see this government established on a 
 good solid foundation of equality and justice, that will give 
 peace and contentment to all its citizens is henceforth the 
 main object of my life. 
 
 The property that I own in my individual right I shall 
 take the liberty to dispose of while I live, and not leave it to 
 be quarreled about and fought for by heirs at law, executors, 
 and lawyers, after I am dead. 
 
 The land part of that property I shall give in lots to 
 suit, to any citizen that will use it, free from expense, and to 
 his heirs and successors forever. 
 
 Although I have procured :this property honestly and 
 justly, according to the laws of the country, I do not con- 
 sider it my natural right. I do not wish to own slaves. If 
 I leased or rented out all my property to other persons, and 
 received for it rent or interest, those persons would be my 
 slaves. That rent or interest would be of no use to me ex- 
 cept to gratify my ambition. 
 
 I have no more ambition now that could be gratified 
 in that way. Man's life is short at best. My greatest de- 
 sire is to see mankind free from bondage or slavery to each 
 other. All my property I shall dispose of as my individual 
 interest. All the government or peoples' property will be 
 disposed of or used as the peoples' property. All my 
 property will help to bear the expenses of the government 
 in a commercial business way, the same as any other prop- 
 erty. 
 
 I shall give away all my land property just as fast as I 
 can find people that will take and use it. I believe no man 
 has a right to more land than he can use for the support and 
 comfort of his family, and every man has a right to as much 
 
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 as he needs without paying rent, or tax, or interest for its 
 use to anybody. 
 
 No man made the land, therefore land is no man's prop- 
 erty. All value set upon unused land is fictitious. It would 
 be a thing impossible if the laws did not permit individuals 
 to own and corner land as merchants do wheat, pork, cot- 
 ton, etc., and force people from necessity to pay high prices 
 for the use of it. Such trading or cornering, if carried to 
 its possible end, would place the whole of the money and 
 all property values in the hands of one or two men — the 
 sharpest, smartest men, the best gamblers. 
 
 I have another little matter that I wish to say a few 
 words about. It seems a very delicate thing to speak of, 
 and some may think it out of place in a President's message, 
 but I think it of very great importance to the well being of 
 the country, and the health, pleasure and longevity of the 
 people. I hope you will indulge me for a few moments 
 longer. Many voices — Go on, go on, we will not get tired. 
 
 The President- — You will perceive that when we have es- 
 tablished this system of government, that I this day propose 
 and commence, that it will produce a great revolution in the 
 social system of the country. When poverty and the fear 
 of poverty are removed from the presence, and the minds 
 of men and women, as I expect it will be, and reason and 
 a desire for equal privileges and right take control of the 
 minds of a majority of people, instead of avariciousness, 
 and a desire to control and oppress, then the natural increase 
 of population will greatly exceed the present rate. Fifty 
 per cent, of the children will not die before they are five 
 years old. Then the population of the country will double 
 in a great deal less time than it does now. 
 
 The point that I want to make and impress upon your 
 minds is this — If the population doubles say every fifty 
 years, yvou must know that any country, be it as large as it 
 may, will eventually be over-stocked with people, and unable 
 to su|)port them. 
 
 This, I think, is a general law of nature ; any species of 
 animal life, if allowed to breed and increase to the full extent 
 of its power of production, without check or set back, 
 
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 would, in time, take possession of the earth to the exclu- 
 sion of all other animals. 
 
 Take the little mouse, for instance ; suppose the female 
 mouse has five litters of young in one year, and five young 
 ones each time ; these five litters would be twenty-five mice 
 from one mouse every year, or, say it takes two mice to 
 produce a litter, it will be twelve and one-half mice for every 
 mouse in each year. If a mouse lives and produces young 
 five years, at this rate each mouse will, in its life-time, pro- 
 duce sixty-two and one-half of its own kind. Now, if you 
 can just figure out and multiply without loss, the rate of in- 
 crease of mice, you will soon see that if they were left alone 
 and not destroyed or killed, they would soon eat up every- 
 thing that was produced, and leave nothing for any other 
 animals. 
 
 Again, if you take the cow; let each cow have one 
 calf each year, and every female calf have a calf at three 
 years old, and every cow live fifteen years, you can easily 
 see that if all the product of the cows were allowed to live 
 without check or set back, they would eventually overrun 
 the earth to the exclusion of all other animals. 
 
 Now, as mankind are a species of animal, and subject 
 to the laws of animal life, the same as all other animals, it 
 follows that if they are allowed to produce and increase to 
 the full extent of their power of production, without check 
 or set-back, they would, in time, overrun the earth, and it 
 would no longer be able to support them. In the past the 
 principal check upon the increase of mankind have been 
 Wars, Pestilence, and Famines. 
 
 In this system of government which we this day com- 
 mence and hope to establish, I expect in a very great degree 
 to do without wars, and also without much pestilence and 
 famine. 
 
 Now, as a matter of course if we remove these checks 
 to increase of population, and also remove the presence and 
 prospect of poverty, the natural increase of population will 
 be very fast, and eventually over-stock the continent without 
 the aid of emigration. Then you will say, what are you 
 going to do about it ? 
 
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 I will tell you what I propose to do, and I shall need 
 your assistance in the matter. First is this : That no 
 woman be allowed to raise a child that is in any way Crip- 
 pled, Deformed or Diseased at birth. 
 
 Next. — That if by any chance such born cripples, dis- 
 eased or deformed children are raised to maturity, they shall 
 never be allowed to reproduce their kind. 
 
 Fully establish these two propositions in the social 
 system, and you will have no more use for lunatic asylums 
 and mad-houses. That is prospective. Now for the pres- 
 ent — and this I order for a general law, to be enforced 
 throughout the country. 
 
 Let no man or woman that is Mad, a Lunatic, or a 
 Drunkard, have any possible chance to live with the oppo- 
 site sex and reproduce their kind. Enforce these laws, both 
 present and prospective, and you will check the alarming 
 increase of the crazy and vicious population of the present 
 time as shown by the records of lunatic asylums, jails, and 
 drunkards. 
 
 When this system of society is fijlly established every 
 man can have a good healthy woman for his wife ; every 
 woman can have a good healthy man for her husband, and 
 every man and wife can have good healthy children for 
 their children. 
 
 To have a good strong healthy government we must 
 have good, strong, healthy men, women, and children. 
 
 THE END. 
 
 Three times three good rousing cheers were given for 
 Jay Gould President of the United States. 
 
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