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FRANKLIN COUNTY.
VOL. HI. NO. 39.
FREEDOM, JUSTICE, SIGHT.
the greatest speech of the
CAMPAIGN,
By Judge Ballard of California.
“Mr. President, Fellow Citizens of the
United States, Ladies and Gentlemen: I
urn not a candidate for office, and there¬
fore, what I shall say hero tonight shall
not be for any pers mal benefit. The sil¬
ver question is nn irrepressible conflict.
The gold barons cannot enslave men who
read 13,000 newspapers. L ibor demands
better things than to exist iu the United
States. Printer’s ink,steam and electric¬
ity have caused men to think, and the
labor question How? bas That’s got to the be question met and which an¬
swered.
today bristles with anxiety, and must be
settled. How? By tho civil law. Not
by bullets, by tl e ballot, not by bayonets,
by votes, not by Pinkerton murderers.
“All history has been written with
pens of fire dipped into human hearts,
while charging battalions and sweeping
array corps have been marshalled to en¬
force the demands of petty tyrants, or sat
isfy the greed of the few. The gray
haired sire and the youthful boy have
been lead to the same scaffold at the com
raand of gold barons and landlord
kings. Enthroned corporate power in
this land of the brave, but not of the
free, has secured its control by passing
over countless thousands whose warm
hearts ceased to beat miJ battle thun¬
ders, while the music which followed its
wake were orphan cries and widows’
wails.
“Newly made graves, watered by the
tears of affection, now dot the hills of
Idaho, Pennsylvania and Wyoming.while
the money power marshals its armed hire¬
lings, and its treasonable Pinkerton
thugs, to comp'ete tho subjugation, deso
lation and death of labor. Robber, po¬
litical cut-throats, ‘clothed in purple and
fine linen,’ and ‘faring sumptuously every
day,’ are dancing on the coffin lids of
poverty, while the Goddess of Liberty
stands weeping republic. beside the broken column
of a dying is with mighty
“The hour pregnant is
events. The prolific womb of futurity
ready to deposit its awful load of death
upon what ought to be a peaceful land,
full of plenty in every home. From the
graves of dead patriots there comes
the voice of that sainted martyr, Lincoln,
‘I bid the laboring peopt^beware of cor¬
porate power.’ The voice of Webster,
‘liberty cannot long endure where the
tendency of legislation is to concentrate
all wealth in the hands of a few.’ The
voice Jackson, ‘it is unconstitutional foi
congress to empower bank corporations
to emit billa of credit or notes,’ to circu¬
late as money. The voice of Benton, ‘the
people are not safe when such powei
is in the hands of bankers’. The voice
of all history, ‘No people slugging fo:
their freedom ever found a friend among
gold kings.’ The voice from out a mil¬
lion Martyr tombs, ‘Beware of wealth
bloated aristocrats who seek to tear the
stars from out the grandest flag that received evei
lit the silken dome of heaven or
the caressing kiss of the morning sun.’
The voice from out the tomb of Wash¬
ington, ‘Beware of pretended friends,
who, in the name of democracy, seek to
destroy your liberties under the guise of
patriotism.’ to tonight, like
“These voices come us
the plaintive souud of breezes among the
moaning pines, and, pointing to those
immortal words, ‘Freedom, justice, right,' old
bid us once more gather bold of the
iron tongue at Independence hall and
ring out its deep Declaration of Inde¬
pendence until its notes shall reach out
over the plain and into the hills, and
across the mountains, and along the riv-
ers, and along the steel-clad decks, rid¬
ing the rolling waves, that other God-
given proclaim first sounded amid the
din of lightning’s clash and thunder’s
roar on Sinia’s crown, these eternal
words, ‘Let my people go.’ Ring out
old bell. And if thy notes of warning
shall not be heeded^ then let thine iron
tongue and nerves of brass call out that
other sound, ‘To arms, strike for youi
altars nnd your fires. Strike, for the
green graves of your sires, God and youi
native land.’
“Americans, let us reason together,
and see if we can solve the mighty prob-
lem now presentod to our people.
Leucretia Mott, God bless hi r memory,
John Brown and Wendell Phillips, spent of
their lives among the howling mobs
the old whig and democratic parties. for¬
One part of our nation to them was
bidden ground, too sacred for the feet of
reformation. Today the People’s party
are surrounded by the sneers and jeers ol
the democratic and republican papers,
who seek to down the demands of such
as ask that our silver mines have an greed equal
chance in the race of life; that the
of corporate power be stayed; that there
be some legislation in favor of labor;
that the government shall no longer loan
fits money to the rich at 1 per cent and
refuse thesamo terms to the farmer; that
the balance of the 900,000,000 acres of
the public domain shall not be given to
cattle barons and railway magnates; that
the laws shall treat the nabob and beg¬
gar alike; that the infamous Carnegies
and traitorous John Shermans shall no
longer rob labor; that labor be put on
an stitution equality with capital; that our eight con¬
be so amended as to fix
hours for the worker and six per cent
for ihe manufacturer; that railway, tele¬
graph and telephones and all lines of in¬
ternational commerce be declared public
use, alike owned by labor and capital,
iwned by the people; that as the Union
iwns and runs the mail system, every
postoffioe be declared a bank where labor
uruy safely deposit its earnings; that
government officials shall not be allowed
to control nominating conventions; that
Pinkerton murderers be disbanded or
shot to death by the army of the nation,
’hat taxation be so arranged as to compel
•ho wealthy to pay their proportion;
that needed money, gold, silver, nnd
paper, be issued by the government; that
the national bank law be repealed and
the bonds on which these banks rest be
liquidated hy in lawful money as provided
the act of Congress before the infa¬
mous statute of 1869; that we will not
heal with any who discriminate against
organized labor; that we believe that
THE ENTERPRISE.
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under laws similar to those governing
hotels; that as factories, like hotels, de¬
fend upon the public, so like hotels,
they owe duties to the public; that as all
wealth is created by labor, this wealth
should pay all tuxes, leaving labor to en¬
joy the fruits of its toil. These demands
made by the People’s party are denomi¬
nated by the press, pulpit and speakers
of the other parties as visionary, crank,
sorehead, hayseed, bums, lazy workmen,
anarchy, found socialism, and all of the nanvs
in the dictionary, and all done to
keep the attention of the voter from the
facts, all done by hired, slanderous thugs,
pettifoggers, little quill drivers and edi¬
tors of great newspapers, all hired by
Wall and Lombard street bankers as the
main step towards burning the ballot
b' x, and crowning as our kings thnso
who own the gold of the world.
“The question then is, what Bhnll we
do to be saved? B.iine tell us to trust in
the Lord, but my motto is to ‘keep your
political ponder dry. Trust in the bal¬
lot box. That box will do more for y< u
than God can. He or h helps those who
help themselves.’ Besides this, the fel¬
low who tells you to trust in God is gen¬
erally in a city pulpit, at ten thousand a
year and gives all his prayers to the rich,
in n vain effort to get them through the
eye of a needle, trusting that tho road to
heaven for tho poor runs by Pinkerton
headquarters. be saved? What then are we to do
to If we can’t trust in God,
rior the pulpit, nor in the legislature, nor
in Harrison, nor in Cleveland, nor in the
devil, nor in Ids twin—the tariff, nor in
reciprocity, nor in congress, what are we
to del Only to trust in the ballot box,
the only saviour of America. And if we
fail in this we will then trust iu hell, and
raise hell.
“If honest government shall not come
through the ballot box, then 'he labor
power of this nation will fill the land
with tornados of wrath and whirlwinds
of vengeance, and a cyclone of arms will
swoop down upon Wall street power,
and with grape and canister from out
the iron throats of rebellion, strike down
die supporters of Pinkerton treason. A
Daniel has come to judge¬
ment, and bis name is The People.
He is translating the ‘Mena TokeP now
glaring on his country’s wall, aud the
Bclshuzz irs heed it not. Drunken with
the wine of power, feasting widow on what they
have stolen frum the and orphan,
deaf to the cry of want and the wail of
squalid poverty, inviting the Pinkerton’s
and cattle barons to continue the blood¬
letting, piling up their Gould, Vander¬
bilt, Rockefeller millions, they will fea3t
until the gates of their temples shall creak
upon their hinges for the 1 ist time. Oh!
my countrymen, rally around the flag'once
more. Unfurl its stripes and stars, its
red, white aud blue, and once more let
its folds kiss the sweet breeze of freedom.
Plant the standard by the ballot box and
there, with uncovered heads swear anew,
“In hoc signo vinces.” In this sign, the
sign of the ballot box and the old flag,
will we conquer without bayonets and
without bullets.
“What are we going to do to be saved?
Ou the 12th day of August, 1877, the
New York Times contained an editorial
on “Bonanza Farms.” In it occurs these
words: ‘la there a way of deliverance ?
There seems to be but one remedy. It is
a change of ownership of the soil, and
the creation of a class of land owners on
the one hand, and of tenant of farmers on
the other.’ Thus that paper—that Re¬
publican p iper—desired to dispose of the
public domain aud the small farms. At
tbe annual dinner of the Butler club on
May 1st, 1890,in Boston, General Butler in
his speech said: ‘Our fai mers are in debt
$3,400,000,000 and they cau never pay
the debt with our financial system.’ Iu
The Forum of June, 1890, is an article
written by that good Senator Edmunds,
iu which he says, ‘It cost $5,000,000 to
elect Benjamin Harrison.’ The old gen¬
tleman did not stop to think how that
sounded. Perhaps be thought that none
but his gold standard wealthy men ever
read The Forum In 1877 the New York
Tribuue contained these words: ‘Fi ed
the strikers on grape aud canister,’ and it
quoted Benjamin Harrison as saying: ‘A
dollar a day is enough for any raa i who
carries a tin bucket.’ Its editor was
Whitelaw Reid. And in order i be fur¬
ther to aid labor in 1884, Grover Cleve¬
land wrote a long letter on wool as food
for the hungry. do to be saved ? Trust
“What shall we
in wool says the Democrat. Trust in
Harrison and the grand old party, says
tbe Republican. Trust in landlords and
tenant farms, says the New York Times.
Pay out $5,000,000 to elect Harrison,says
Edmunds. Trust in three tenths of 1
per cent tariff reform,says Roger Q Mills.
Trust in tbe Lord says the preacher. be
“In order to know how we are to
saved, let us turn to the records of the
Republican and Democratic parties for
thirty years, and thus ascertain how to
correct the great frauls that have been
perpetrated upon the unsuspecting, but
confiding people. L t us open the
record; a record black with corruption, than
darker than the black ages, worse
the inquisitorial Spain, more terrible than
the record of Judas, and more awful
ban tho crimes of damned angels who
undertook to steal heaven under cover of a
war against God, as did the money chanz-
ers in^the Unit :'! States when Sumter’s and
gin reverberated across old ocean
_. had form¬
startle I a worlJ. Battle lines
ed reaching east and west 2,000 rai.es
and from north to s rath 1,000. Cries
aud groans aud lament itions from moth¬
ers and wives and sisters and fathers
made heaven weep and hell rejoice. New¬
ly ma 'c graves were being christened by
the 11 lods of sorrow, while G id's feather¬
ed choristers were singing requiems for the
dead from every limb. Mothers on bend
td knees asking tbe Father of all. ‘Oh,
where is my boy to-night?’ Wives, bend¬
ing over the cradles of the first boy, were
washing infant cheeks with the floodude
of woe.” Widows hud giyen their last
i wels as off. rings at Donaldson, Shiloh
and Bull Bun. At the helm of state
stood that patriot, par excellence of all
the world. In tho lower house of con¬
gress were a score ol heroes led on by
that great commander, Tha leus Stevens.
The sun of the republic seemed hidden
in clouds and about 10 g" down in tem-
pests, The wild, grand music of war
was keeping step with the cry of ‘Union
and liberty, notv and forever, one and
inseparable.’ In tbe hospitals of woe on
the fields of carnage, before the grape
from tbe red tongues ? f
and c mister
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CAHNESVILLE- FRANKLIN (X)., GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1892.
flume, in rivers of human goro, on plains
.illIde.,1 „ hs.t two dUtlool
szass
in a dnrk night of gicat woo. It has no
mTno a^r^r'“ credit. "nY'Sda'ies!' 1 noTin^^o TO4
b " "
“Abraham Lincoln and Thaddeus Ste-
vens said give us paper money issued by
the government. Sixty millions were
issued. H lief came. In February 868,
the lower congress ” sai l give us $300,-
000,000 more. This money will save the
Union, this money will save the soldier,
this money will feed his family This
money will bind up tho sacred flesh of
our defenders, tom by cruel shot and
se-.red bv burning shell. But the upper
coneress—the tools of Bhylock - the
house of loids, the hoarders of gold, tho
bankers of Wall street, said ‘nay- This
only u rag; we must declare an amend-
meat to the bill prepared by Lincoln and
Stevens so that the government will re-
fuse to take its own paper for any pur-
pose except to pay the pe .pie for their
blood and leirs and sorrows and pains
and griefs and woes. And so Lincoln
.no niactdeus atevens witti sorrow and
-bane said, ‘Yes, we must save the
Union although the bankers are bound
to rs»b that nation, and substitute a white
si 1 very instead of black.’ Ajid so they
made one money for tho people and one
for the gold lords. The Union was saved,
Black slavery was abolished and white
stiver, to the bmd king was substituted,
“How? Let history answer. By de-
mo .etiz ng the greenback they advanced
the price of gold by the same plan that
they now d > by destroying the silver, as
we shall hereafter see. The act of 1873,
by which silver was destroyed, was the
crow .tug infamy, as wo shall try to
show after giving a history of the steps
leading to the demonetization From
tho days of Ju lea to the present hour the
money changers have hud one kind of
money for themselves and another for
ceivibbt ceivaoie .or .Kwisli I J wS l taxes, taxis'tat nut Zmo^ the money
of Cm nr, the gold of Rome, was re-
fu-ed. Before the tithe gatherer came
aloiig the bankers would buy up all those
shekels from the poor and then sell them
at a prem um to those who had taxes to
pay. Being this great shamo and rob-
bery, ‘the man of tears and acquainted
with griel’drove these and money changers
out of the temple flogged them with
whip,-the only time ndmlc the poor and noble
9 e Ie r r 0 anger “
hi~r of lo a 'Ti-e.eio. v
‘'Before I eiiier „p»» of
VTJZJVX:
to a new danger, a gathering storm in
our financial sky. On June lSt’i last Con-
gressman Hemphil advocated the estab-
lishment of the old state bank system by
which so msoy were robbed. On May
21 last Richardson offered a bill tore-
pealthe law which taxed state banks out
of existence, and on June 6th, a vote be-
ing taken, 84 voted in favor of it, 116
no and 129 did not vote. On June 13th
Harter, of Ohio, at tho bankers’ dinner
in Boston, advocated the measure. On
June 15th H- nphill again advocated it.
And on Jiine 23d the democratic party
inserted section 8 in its platform, as
follows: ‘We recommend that
the prohibitory tax on state
banks be repealed.’ God of all
truth. ‘In other lands I have sor-n
lying philosophers, blaspheming men,’
but never before saw I a set of pirates
swear by heard money, Jefferson and
Jackson, and then feed us on the evi-
dences of their own piracy and infamy,
“The first step taken by tbe money
kings to rob the people of the United
States was by the exception clause of the
law of February 25, made 1892. By this act
the greenback was a legal tender
for all debts except interest on the public
debt and duties on imported goods,
These must be paid in gold. Even silver
would not do. This made a market for
gold, and the bankers run their gold up
to $2.25 J, and the importer of goods had
to buy gold and add tbe advance to his
goods, and thus swindle the farmer and
the soldier’s widow at tho command of
the bankers iu Congress who claimed to'
be so very patriotic. They knew that
McCuliock, the great Scotch writer, had
said: ‘No matter whether money is
made of iroD, silver, gold, copper or pa- tho
per, its purchasing power depends on
amouut in circulation.’ They knew that
Humboldt had declared that gold and
silver were so scarce in the fifteenth cen-
tu y that their purchasing than iu power eigh- was
twelve times greater the
teenth century. They know that from
1809 to 184G gold had advanced in its
purchasing power 145 per cent., and that
relief finally came from California and
Australia, bringing with it plenty in
every home and lessening the bankers’
profits. So the people must he sacrificed
for the benefit of bank traitors-traitors
to the North, traitors to God and traitors
to honest government. in tho great infamy
“The second step
was tbe national bank law, u ,der the
terms of which, followed by tho con-
traction act of I860 as the third step,
they began to burn the people’s money,
convert it into bonds, receive tho bond;
from the bankers and loan to them at 1
per cent., tbe national bank bills tube,
in turn, loaned to the people at 8-24
percent. In speaking of this class of
legislation before tbe money king!
bought him, John Sherman said in the
Senate: ‘We cannot contract the cur-
rency without the sorest distress to all
except tbe capitalist. To rlo so will
bring ft period of loss, danger, lassitude
of and bankruptcy. 1
of trade, fall wages
But the Let was passed, $ 1,500,000,00(
of the people’s money was burned up
under its provisions and bonds issued i
their stead. Result: It was 47,500 fail-
ures, 1,000,000 out of work and prices
falling. been told by the gold ba-
“You have
rons, by public speakers and by all the,
tools Lombard—Wall-street—Carnegie—Brice of the Republican-Democratic-
—Harrison—Blaine—Pinkerton bonds scoun- is-
drels and liars, that the were
sued to borrow money to carry on the
war. But when you ask an old snldici
or a government contractor what kind ol
monev lie was paid in, he answers,‘green-
backs.” Who made them? Why, the
United States. Die it borrow them ol
itself? When one of these fellows comes
around again with that stale old lie, tell
him that all these bonds were given the is
-change for the people’s mmey,
greenback—done to cnablo the bankers
under lltc bank law to Hnc. tho pooplo
bonds were issued during tho war, while
hTact"? IBM provlIS
the law and provided for gold payments.
One more blow at silver. One moro de-
duration that the bankers must have one
kmd of money and the people another,
What sucker silver miner wants to vote
tho old tickets!
“The first step in the Sherman-Banker-
Shylmk fraud was the funding act of
1870. By this infamy they retired all
bonds then extant, issued new bonds to
run a louger term, continued to burn
more greenbacks, establish more national
banka, issue more natioual currency at 1
per cent to the banker to he loaned to
to call the greenback a‘rag,’and issued
the mitional rag. This latter rag they
Md the people rested on bonds,
and hence it was a redeemable rag.
Bonds rest on government. Greenbacks
vested on government. Bonds draw in-
terest for the banker. Greenbacks draw
no interest. See the point? But O, con-
.-latency I By the terms of tho bank law,
national bank bills are redeemable in
greenbacks. Tweedle-dee, twcedle-dum.
“S xth step. The demonetization of
silver, the great infamy of 1873. By this
only one money ip tho word left, all
owned by a few. 1 They knew the bank-
ers of England and Wall street could
buy our silver at 90 cents and sell it at
$1.35 in India aid fix a gold price on
cotton, corn and wheat, and thus rob the
firmer, the miner and the laborer of their
just reward, and thus earich the banker,
This is kept a secret, or else the London
banker, Levi F. Morton, could never
have been elected vice-president. How
silently they dropped him at leaked Minneapo-
lis, because the above fact out. that
Those who demonetized silver knew
in all the world there was less than $4,-
000 annual ' 00 , () ’0 business 00 . <>f of $100,000,000,009. nft/ooo
They knew that there was outstanding
$40,000,000,000 worth of commercial
paper and bank notes. They knew that
tbe mines of Colorada, if left alone,
would reduce the price of gold, and give
the people money without interest. That
India, owned by these very bankers,
would crowd the American farmer out of
the Liverpool market. That the manu-
fucturers from America would sell in a
co^try at a loss, and reduce wa-
ST»? t
25 b ” b ’ tas 7* “*—■
“3o, in order to getthe people to talked con-
sent to burn the greenbacks, they and of
of money of final redemption, Mr. its
twin fake, intrinsic value. Evon
Teller and other free coinage men give
us an occassional nauseating dose of
‘money of final redemption,’cither show-
ing their lack of thought or their friend-
liness to the gold kings. When the
credits of the world are forty billions,
Mr. Teller, and ail the gold is less than
four billions, when our paper currency
is $700,000,000 besides the silver certifi-
cates, when oniy $199,000,000 of gold
are in the bank and treasury vaults, ac-
cording to the last reports, when one-
third of the gold annually goes into the
arts, when the drunken democratic-re-
publican whiskey trust is sending pat
ients enough to Mr. Kcely, to uso up
the rost, will you kindly tell us where
you are going to get your money of final
redemption? There Dever was any such
money. There never will be. The final
redemption for the greenback is in every
blade of grass, every ear of corn, every
aere of land, every tree in tho forest,
every field of cotton, the cattle, horses,
hogs and sheep upon a thousand hills,
the brain and muscle of the infant, the
school boy, the mother, wife, son,
daughter, the patriotism of toil, the gen-
ius of the shop and loom, where a mil-
lion spindles are weaving the warp and
woof of national life, upon these
rest our paper money. These,
these, are tho only final redemption
money God ever made. Your $20 piece
has $3 of hard worthless alloy. Law
says you shall t ike Its $18 of gold for
$20. The same law could say put in $10
of worthless alloy and then make you
and mo take it for $20. The law puts
the same amount of paper in a $5 note as
it, does in a $20 bill, and it commands
Mr. Teller to take one for $5 and one foi
$30. Intrinsic value. For shame. Bread
has intrinsic value. So has milk. They
save life. You cannot eat gold. Wood
and coal, your clothing—these have in-
trinsic value, for they keep us alive by
their warmth. You can’t eat silver nor
paper, nor gold. These havo a value fixod
by law—fixed by the government. But
wa are told that gold is good in Europe.
I deny it. D > you seo any Italian, French
0 r German money circulating in tho Uni-
ted States? No. Why? When coin of
large quantities goes from one country to
another it is put into the coin pot and
coined into the currency of that coun-
try. seventh in the groat fraud
“The step
was the resumption act of 1875 and the
hood act of 1876. The act of 1875 was
to take effect in 1870. When the former
was passed they had on hand $2.50 in
gold, $1.10 in silver and 3 cents in cop-
per. How they did resume specie pay- had
me nt, the old frauds. But as they
Ba fd they had resumed, under the act of
1876 they sold $100,000,000 in bonds to
Rothschild, got gold and laid it idlo
until it was stolen under the Mill’s bill in
1889, which I shall hereafter refer to.
And now what of the result of this infa-
mous juggling with the finances of our
country. While tho cry of tariff and
tariff reform have mislead and deceived
the people, and while the lie about a 70-
cent dollar has been the slogan of both
old parties, the leaders have done and
suffered to be done the crimes I charge
them with, in tho following indictment,
and for which John Sherman, Samuel
Hooper and a few others ought to be
tried and hanged for high treason.
“The defendants have destroyed $2,-
800,000 of the people’s money to accom-
modate the few who control the gold of
the world.
“They have builded the great high-
ways of tho nation at the expense of the
people and then given them to a favored
few, together domain. with§312,000,000 acres ol
the public Caused 13,000 annual
“They have
bankruptcies, m*de 2,000,000 paupers,
3,000,000 tramps and 60,000,000 slaves.
.. m ,, h „, ...taidtod tho i.rom, the
Kn ”j nat j on
•?£»* und ™tfn^^^ sfo&t li
5^' ,,,»v,n the veioanco settler of tho red man
„ nr frontier
adorable, law. the, have made labor
and have driven 4,000,000
. nto . secret nniitiVal political organizations organizations all all over over
7 have 8ent nrmles (o over . nwa the
!o f a itfttc , and have defied the
courts to nunish P cattle baron murderors
by using ,1, t he federal court at Omaha to
1 witnesses deceived
“ They tilatform have since tho and people in
ZLInJ 1864 after
better laws toprotect the bal-
“They y have £ brought g .Faring pauper labor
from Eu rope or owd out work-
meD ’ and hired Pinkerton thugs to shoot
d tIl0S0 w)l0 clamored for recora’ bread
while wkitelaw Reid’s Tribune
me nds hunfrv^’ ‘grano and canister as food for
“Thev draw largo salaries from the
..conle while wasUmr their time at narti-
a;m conventions and in drunken brawls.
“They have fraudulently ^t naturalized
4,975,630 men who had been flfteeu
,i av3 i n the United States in order to
e | e ot Cleveland in 1884, Harrison in 1888
f am j restofTbe to carry the bvlock“ election of 1802 in the
nte 8
“They have created trusts on overy
article from that first used i/tho by the mid-
w if e to the marble column ceme-
teryi and ur0 collecting their tolls from
the cradle to tho grave.
“They havo used our navy in distant
seas to protect that thriving California
corporation seal under having the exclusive right secured to
take an act of congress
by fraud and bribery; and that same
navy has destroyed twenty-five small
American vessels that wore fishing on tho
“ d done to enable a mill-
icnaire corporation to control tbe seal
fisheries.
“They have displaced tho old soldier
to make room for those who laughed at
his dying cry for food, and robbed him
by 7 depreciating his money.
“Ry threats of discharge they havo
forced labor to vote for its own poverty;
aiul they are now secretly arming and
drillins their hirlings in all tho large
cities, and are taxing the people to sup-
port a mi ,itia whom they expedt to use tc
'XTE?' they SOU1 *17,0.0,
5?JS S5T2i? £ E
flciancy; while, in order to secure the
a , d D f the pulpit, thoy have exempted
$ ti 600,000,000 of church property from
taxation and have filled tho laud with in-
fldels X bv exacting large ^ tolls from all who
the carpeted aisles and cash-
! onP d news of the so-called houses of
n 0( i
“They have fixed the prices on air,
T,„tit ^ and water, while their trusts con-
t tbe i n f aQ t’ 8 milk and the dead man’s
co fj? Q
“ rhev have driven commerce away
f rom 0U r ships, and sc arranged the laws
that dcbts contracted on an inflated
baa i 8 , mus t now bo paid on a contracted
curreac y with money commanding a pre-
m i um while the power to make money
uarier tbe constitution has been farmed
ou t to 3152 national banks.
“They have induced foreigners to buy
up 0 ur mills, factories and lands and to
es t a blish a landlordism like Ireland, and
a g | av »ry little better than that of 1869.
“They have nominated for office the
dgents of Wall street and the Roths-
cb j|ds.
“Out of the mouths of Blaine and
gherman, Voorhees and Holman they ad-
m ;t t be fraudulent demonetization of
silver and then refuso to right the
W ron<».
They have allowed our flag to be in-
8u it od by every nation, except n little
pre cinct in Bouth America, and aro now
kissing the great too of John Bui 1 on the
silver and Behring sea questions, for fear
0 f offending Bhylock. of June 23,
“Under an act of Congress
jgyg ^ be ] um ber trust steals all the tim-
ber j' n California, Oregon, Washington,
i da ho, Utah and Arizonia. And under
j ts term t be settler on tho public domain
pay g tribute.
“They have givon two-thirds of all the
CO al lands in the West to the railways,
an d these corporations now claim tho
mineral lands of Montana, Idaho and
Washington. pretending exclude the
“While to
lecherous Chinese, they havo while legislated
for the six companies; Utah, and they have prose- kept
cu ting Mormons in
mistresses at the expenses of the people,
“They have extended Mexicua grants
j n California by false surveys, to enable
wob ticiaus to secure farms of 200,000
cacb .
iq n fggp they imported $171,015,370
wor th of farm products, while products
of the same class rotted on Western farms
on account of high freight rates, and
now „ 0 t0 the farmer with the tariff
8 ong, and the sucker votes the old way.
“ They so shaped railway legislation associa- as
enab [e (he Transcontinental
tion f r0 m 1877 to 1891, to pay to the
pacific Steamship Mail Company $14,-
Q65,000 ' on a contract not to carry passen-
bo tweon Ban Francisco and New
York. bill
“They point to tho McKinley as
the farmer’s mascot, and then shoot Dem-
Qcratic paper wads at the innocent sheep,
while the sucker voter is fed on Blain-
slow soothing syrup called recipiocity,
aQ( tons'from j in 1891, they imported and 9,000 336,000 mut-
South America
f r0 m other nations.
“For ten years they refused to collect
*178 000,000 due the people from the
Union Pacific, Central Pacific. Kansas
p, ic ific and Oregon Short Line Railroads,
b ,, ca use those roads threatened the defeat
0 » the party so collecting, while the at-
torneys of these corporations now fill the
senate, the cabinet and the bench
“They have levied tribute upon labor
to swell campaign funds, and purchase
vo tes and have put down the and principles
of Washington and Lincoln, adopt-
t -d those of Benedict Arnold and John
Sherman. crimes
“And this is not all, Tho
a „ a inst this people, committed by the
two old parties, beggars description. If
eac h weed upon tbe plain were a quill,
jf each tree along the river were a scribe,
aa( ^ Lake Superior was an inkstand,
kurxsstiswss? 'huiSIn
°> 111090 wuo uow Mlc y° ur ivirtuor con-
“ In 8 g*j5 ,n * of ‘l 1050 °! tho
-^.asffiESa.ToK ..
Sm ham rSislangu^- uses tins language. 0 ’’menwCcon' .non who oon
^t-sTorLSatatile?'« Thurso Tl'eml w/l encmitsti
who disburae it it, nre arc deadly 1 v outlines to
tho repubUc i . Their greed and f love of
P° Wer 9 « roatcr ‘ haa tho, r loVe ° ° 0U a
lR w, wWch which l isX^ODwTfSJffi w tue only saleguara , tor life ntt ,
^theTtbn or V 10 1181100 raMOUe^adeT^^be^ when W' lon iTs lts nrosemtlon preservation d/- do
Vho^mTv ? y ma y masquerade in the sarb^of garb of
. btttfiVr 0
a a89aa8lns of liberty, and
,, £^1“ blood fn dl£
o P°P oonular ull ) r government, eovernment Thek ttieir shame suame
lnatl , ^titutions ™ttons are nro 'itXkelv infinitely more moro dani™ danger
0118 t larl 110 r o^olutionary teachings and
P rac Dces . of a comparatively few vision-
ary aU(l m «« u,d8 * men and women in
?, Ur ar J*° Cltle8, Ik 18 nBt 8U 01 01011 ft ?
Diese, but the greater multitude, . . engaged
the real strength of the nation.
theTdTnot they do not envy"™hate envy or hate those tZse^lwhavl who have
acquired proper y by honest methods.
bear their full share of the pu .ho
, Ur ' OI 'f, !im * 80 * on K as the powers^ of
{u^or^h^enri^me?/of , . »°few^thev
will ' rallv rally to to itTd its defense "fenL wUh with un’sel'ish unselnsn
HD flld
. r In 'n Lto„lsl,l Vorlr Trlhnne these Z
wnrii IT®' o ' i, /hirh Faith ,r vea start vails^fn
„ teat the nn
the money Lv« circles of New York that we
to niilpUnd « ,«nn«eM,v ' fT» iTarri
Ihnll m ,V,. b« Wnolt
wn fo 1.. r„
tho plBt form of 1880, 1884 ami 1888 wo
wflP were „ promised free t r „„ coinage, Ti.hi.nM .jot us now
!n ,'iven. f'« n '“f !uv l.rfaro "the old !!ivi iV/tios
„ ni , A , T W. ” J;' ,
H i , K<: i )u ' hoan j 000 /, 1 ’ me R ‘ v
TbevMvrawavthe^mt linnf/fVntr.il „ „ ^R.iili-nnH lands^otheH-
Al/uttwov.ffiarthe Pmnnnnu ‘»l
000 OOOacrw S
R,Ja^ e ™t fl II
'
„ l0 n a tional banks, and Cleveland loaned
'zfZSrS SA±t
wcre chairmen ofthe NationalDemo-
C ratic Committees “ The act to contract
tho cl , rro and r «h thousands
voted for against by twenty i/ ciirht Democrats and
Sli,’, onlv one Jefferson !”l said rorboiv that
' was * 0 b y ’
h ut tho fi . T0 Democratic Senators voted .
I '. U 8 a
1^00,000,000 to the Interest bearing , . debts , ,,
wltliout n ! ;C0SSlty ' * hl! “J'Jf 0 1 ol '
. its
come tax is to compel capital to pay
share of taxes, but that law was repealed
January 20, 1871. One vote would have
«>ntinucd the tax on capital, but seven
Democrats voted for repeal. When a
1 «°pks Party man offered a « ' ® ™
« tor e the, law, .wenty-two_ Democrats
vot0 ^ u0 - 0n Jun ® 15 ’ “ f '' lat y e *7;
smother had , i .
vote was an K ‘
Democrats voted no, and Wi liam m.
Springer, present Democratic leu er o
th 0 house, was one of them. wnen
Cleveland was elected ho recommended
that the coinagei of silver be entirely
stopped and on February 27, 188o, on a
vote in tho house, hfty-threo democrats
voted ‘yes.’ On April 26, 1880. a free
coinage bill was defeated by sixty-eight
democratic votes, the present House has
H8 democratic majority. What have
they done for silver?
“The Morrison lull of 1873 to reduce
Die tariff on sugar and other noccssaries
was defeated by forty-one democratic
votes. The bill came up again in 1880
and it was defeated by thirty-live (lemo-
cratic votes. Tariff reform, eh? I bo
McKinley bill denounced by every
democratic paper, and yet not a democrat
*>as bad the honesty to offer a bill to re
P e, b D- The democrats have given us
Doe wool at the demand of the inanufac-
turers to enrich them, but the old wid-
ow’s ready made petticoit and the wool
pants of labor, 'nay forgot all about,
Tariff reform. On January 16, 1888,
Roger Q. Mills introduced a bill to use
tbe surplus to buy in bonds held by pets,
not due. That law cost us $72,000,000.
1 he vote on the bill was in favor of it,
91 democrats and 47 republicans against
3 5 democrats and 28 republicans. I
could extend this record until the _
rising
°f “*p anc * a *‘ taken from the con-
gressional record as sworn to by th :
clerks in congress,
“Nor is this all. If the record of the
democratic party shows its leaders to be
thieves, that of the republican party
shows its leaders to bo liars
ani ' robbers. But they tell us
that they point with pride to the record
Die G. O. P. For one year and a half
after ( the battle of Lexington, 110 more
gallant pian, no braver officer, Arno'd ever
wielded the saber than Benedict
But 1 shall not vote for him. God mole
him a traitor and damned him for eterri-
Df- D°d made John B lerman, Andrew
Carnegie and many other republican
leaders, traitors, and I shan’t vote for
them. I left half the blood in my veins
00 Vicks >urg s sanguinary fields. I did
not shed it that robbers might despoil
my native land ; therefore I no longer
vote for democratic or republican 1cid-
el8 -
But what ^ shall , we do . to . be . saved?
“Vote for tbe platform adopted by
labor at St. Louis and re-enacted at
Omahiv In 1350 the vai “ 0
in the United States was $7,009,000.(W0;
0, ‘ a,809 0 ” 5 ° 11 WM faxed at
bO®, 1 900,000. „ In ^.n 1880 our wealth was
$44,000,003,000; of this on.y $17,000, -
000,000 were on tire aaseaHor*’
books. Why the difference? fn 4850 it .
all belonged to lahor. In 1880, 03 per cent
wasin the hands of capitalists, who dodged
or bribed the assessor. You ought to study
Dm census. The census records from
18o0 to 1890 contain more political light
Dian all other records. They are the
great central gun, in w.mse presence the
great political leaders look like .,udas in
the act of Detraying his Master; study the
°' !n8US< Stop taking papers printed in
OFFICIAL ORGAN
—or* tub—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
ilm interest of the thieves. Stop turning
tlio grindstone to sharp :n tho razor to cut
your own throats. When you piy a dol¬
lar to one of those papers, you are hiring
Pinkerton thugs to shoot down the mem¬
bers of the Miners’ union, the Knights of
Labor and and all federated workers.
When you have paid a dollar for these
papers you have said Carnegie is right
and the Homestead people are wrong.
When you pay a dollar for tho^o papers,
you have told the widows at Homestead
to starve and the orphan to ask in vain
for bread. In 1878 and 1879, Senator
Sharon owned a paper callod tho Nevada
Chronicle. From it I have taken these
words: “We need a stronger govern¬
ment. Tho wealth of the country must
control it, Tho moneyed interests of tho
country must sustain the republican
party. Without bloodshod and rivers of
it, there will be no political change. To
avert it we must have a strong central
government, ns soon as possible.” Such
arch traitors as wrote tho abovo now con¬
trol both the democratic and republican
parties. “What going to do to bo
aro wo
saved ?
“That is the momentous question of
tho hour. An editor who wrote against
the cattle kings has boon thrust into the
jail nt Cheyenne—bail being denied. It
was for this that tbe barons and com¬
mons, under tho leadership of the Earl of
Pembrook, at Rutmeymead, 1215, Migna com¬
pelled King John to sign declaration tho of
(‘liarta, on which rests the
1770 and the constitution of these United
States.
“What shall we do to be saved?
“Mr. Frick,manager for tho Carnegies,
is guilty of treason by his own statement,
under tho rule laid down by tho
Supremo court of the United States vs.
Aaron Burr. But the courts won’t fol¬
low that precedent. They will save Frick’s
neck, when it should bo broken w ith a hal¬
ter. The courts are sticklers for prece¬
dents, but they generally follow judicial
lies. Lot me name two which can bo
f mod in 35,000 different law books.
Ono is on tho right of emi¬
nent dnnain. For the benefit
of thoso who are not lawyers let ine dfina
eminent domain. If the Unitod States,
tho state, tho county or city wants a
piece of land for public it, use paying it tnay, therefor as a
sovereign power, take
what a jury shall say it is worth. This
power, the power of sovereignty, cannot
be delegated to railways nor other cor¬
porations without violating the funda¬
mental laws of the nation. One of tho
railway magnates nearly forty years ago
got tho courts to decide and tho legisla¬
tures to declare that this sovereign power
might bo exercised by railways. The
only way they could so decide was to de¬
clare Gould’s road to bo a public high¬
way. A public highway is where you
and I may go ou our own vehicles.
“Tho other ju licial lie that I the courts
follow is 500 years old, and challenge
all the lawyers in the world to controvert
what I shall say ab mt it. In tho nine¬
teenth century the priests were the
judges. Ono Prisot decided very prop¬
erly that tho ancient writings of tho
church were binding as taw upon all
members thereof, just as tho by laws of a
masonic lo Ige binds it) members. Iu
translating Prisot into Bullish the words
were translated ‘holy writings’ and ull
tho judges (tho priests) down to' Lord
Halo followed Prisot, and Lord Hale then
declared all tho Bible to be part of tho
common law,and Hlaokstonc quotes Lord
Hale and Prisot,and then declares ‘Chris¬
tianity is a parcel of tho laws., of Eng¬ is
land,’ and upon this line free speech
muzzled, men are cast into prison for
working on Sunday, and our exposition great asses
at Sunday. Washington close tho on
“What shall we do to bo damned?
“Vote for the old parties. They are
silencing rapidly froo speech and 1887 the presses 1889
as thoy can. From to Hall,
in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Union
New Jersey und Now York, while sensi¬
ble assemblies of laborers were discuss¬
ing their grievances they were dispersed general
by the police. Tho postmaster and forbids tho
now inspects the mails
carriage of matter adverse to his pecu¬
liar views on religion, politics and mor¬
als, but be never protests against tho
conduct of ninety-seven ministers who
are i»pw in prisons for seduction. It
might hurt his church. In his message
of 1898 Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, in
speaking of the Missouri Pacific strike
of 1886, says: If Jay Gould secured
men from other states as armed depu¬
ties for tho sheriff, ho was
guilty of treason, for no ono can bo a
lawful dsputyof the sheriff who is not of
his country—ono of tho pissia comita-
tus.
“In a letter dated at Utica, September the
1st, 1880, Roscoe Conklin advocated
right of capita! to havo the entire control
of the government. r
“The Church of the Strang'
York has upon it this j
‘ Erected to the glory of “ti m
memory of Cornelius Va iderbit.’ Tho
words ‘Cornel us Vanderbilt’ are in
large letters, while the words, 1 to the
glory of God’ aro in very small ones.
“A few years ago a ricti senator en¬
dowed a collego for $20,000,000 iu Cali¬
fornia. The next day freight aud pas¬
senger rates were nisei o i the Siuthera
Pacific, so that in three years ho got back
$21,000,000. Rockefeller, the saint, as a
thank offering to God for his restoration
to health, gave a million to a day Baptist oil con¬
cern in Chicago. The next went
up two cents, and he cleared $1,200,000.
Andrew Carnegie gave some millions to
libraries in Scotland and Pittsburg, and
then ordered wages to bo reduced so he
could get it back with interest. Failing
in this he hired murderers to kill hi* .
workmen, and now calls on the armies of
tho nation to help him in his steal.
‘What shall we do to be damned?’ When
the nation called for men to save the
union, Ben Harrison wou’dn’t go until he
got a brigadier general’s commission.
Grover Cleveland sat in the Buff ilo sa¬
loon and played high five, seven James up, B. or
poker, and sent a substitute.
Weaver put a forty-pound knapsack and on
his back and a gun on his shoulder
answered the call. For gallantry on tho
field, side by side with other Iowa
boys he earned a brigadier’s stars and
came home covered with wounds aud
glory. before tho country
“These men are on
two platforms. The democratic and re¬
publican platforms were finished in the
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