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THE PEOPLE MUST PAY
PLEASURE TRIPS OF DEMO¬
CRATIC OFFICIALS.
Public Office a Fat Snap — llypocrlny of
Self-Styled Reformer*'—Junket low* of
Cleveland and III* Cabinet- StnuneleHH
Neglecu of Outlet*.
Waahington special; When Grant
was president the democratic press
made a great outcry over the use by
the ;vife of Attorney General Williams
of a government carriage. Each mem¬
ber of the cabinet is allowed an equip
page for official purposes, and it has
been the common practice, and is yet, to
use this official conveyance for social
purposes. Nevertheless, during the
Grant administration the democrats
made an awful to do about it. 'J'he
scandal was magnified to such propor¬
tions that the sobriquet, “Landaulet
Williams,” became a catchword in pol¬
itics. It pushed the attorney general
inio political obscurity.
Times have changed. Not only has
Mr. Cleveland all the carriages he and
ills family and friends can use, with
blooded horses to draw them, for pub¬
lic and private functions, but a war ves¬
sel is actually assigned to his service
and called the "president's yacht.”
Magnificent railroad trains are fur
nlshcd to him free of personal cost, and
when lie goes a-flshing a lighthouse
tender, wnich Is supposed to supply oil
to signal stations along the Atlantic
coast, is taken over for his accommoda¬
tion.
This is a “reform era,” let us bear in
mind, when our officials are "conse¬
crated.”
And yet there Is an extraordinary
condition of affairs to-day at Washing¬
ton. The government is without head,
arms or oven a tall. Nearly every of¬
ficial executive officer Is absent on a
Junket, Not only are the cabinet offi¬
cers and the assistants of cabinet of¬
ficers cavorting around at government
expense, but chief clerks, chiefs of di¬
vision, private secretaries and even
stenographers have followed the illus¬
trious example of the chief magistrate
and are having a good time on the dead¬
head plan. To transact any affair of
Importance la Impossible under such
conditions. Understrappers are in the
saddle, proud of the novelty of power,
and reckless In tho exercise of trust
which should always be usod with cau¬
tion and sense. When Attorney Gen¬
eral Williams’ wife used a carriage of
tho department of justice to go to re¬
ceptions and to do her marketing, at
least It could be said that the wheels
of tho government did not quite ceuso
revolving.
Secretary of tho Navy Herbert, under
pretense of making a tour of inspection,
is “doing” tho summer resorts on the
dispatch boat Dolphin, entertaining his
friends and causing the consumption of
government powder In receiving and
answering tho salute of seventeen guns
which a cabinet officer receives. The
Dolphin carries at sea seven officers and
108 men, and consumes an average of
273 tons of coal every three weeks. The
•‘tour of inspection” la all poppycock.
All this expense Is being had simply
to give Secretary Herbert and his son
a good time.
The assistant secretary, Mr. McAdoo,
is also Junketing. As a mombotj of con¬
gross front New Jersey, Mr. McAdoo
was eloquent In denouncing republican
extravagance and republican Junketing.
McAdoo, as a democratic official, has
Junketed and cruised in our finest men
of-war to all points of the compass.
The treasury department presents a
most extraordinary spectacle In illus¬
tration of the aphorism that “public
office is a private snap." Sailing over
the waters of the great lakes is Secre¬
tary Carlisle with bis whole family.
Among them are his son, ills son’s wife
and the son’s children to the number of
three, who are attended by a nurse.
They, too, are "inspecting.” The as¬
sistant secretaries of the treasury, dur¬
ing the last two summers of tho Cleve¬
land administration, have frequently
gone upon little trips to sea, and with¬
out the slightest compunction of con¬
science have ordered revenue cutters
and lighthouse tenders around from
Baltimore to Washington by way of
the Chesapeake bay and the Potomac
river, to take them over the water for
a Sunday's sail.
These things would not be comment¬
ed upon so much were it not for the
pretensions of the persons to superior
virtue. Yet there has never been such
an exposition of hypocrisy and deceit,
of public plunder and the gratification
of personal comfort without personal
cost as under President Cleveland.
Cleveland uses lighthouse boats and free
railroad trains. Cleveland leaves his
post of duty whenever his toe hurts or
his head aches. Cleveland orders a
naval officer or a cabinet official noted
as a good story teller to Join him on his
Junkets and entertain him. Cleveland
rewards these favored individuals with
choice assignments. He has an army
officer to prescribe bromidia for him
and locks himself up in sullen seclusion
when the humor seizes. He has guards
at government expense galloping before
his victoria. He has policemen ia uni
form to protect his greatness at Wood
lov, and secret service detectives to
guard his slumbers at Buzzard's Bay.
Cleveland, in fact, works the govern
ment for all It is worth, and however
prodigal he may be in the abuse of his
privileges, he enjoys the supreme satis
faction of knowing that no other presi
dent of the United States ever soared
to such heights of imperialism. The
American people do not grudge their
public servants such comforts ami fa
cilities as the equip men* of the public
service affords, but they do object to the
canting, sniveling claim to s itltii 0* i
which accompanies the actual practic e
of preying on the public pur
The secretary of war Is no exception
to the general run of the Cleveland offi¬
cials. He has Inspected military posti
while working at the third-term boom
for Cleveland.
The secretary of agriculture, who, ir>
a spasm of economy, cut off the supply
of seed from the farmers, has vibrated
between Washington and Chicago tr.
scatter his financial ideas an 1 preserve
his oiucial scalp.
The postmaster-general, for the first
time in his life, rides to his lunch,
from and to his homo and to the the¬
ater in a government conveyance. He
"inspects” post-offices and travels hith¬
er and thither at government expense.
Even his assistants, a Jot of youthful
unknowns, have government convey¬
ances at their command, and imitate
the treasury assistants in seeing which
can muster the finest coupe and livery
for exhibition on Sunday morning at
Archie Bliss’ Overlook Inn.
Hoke Smith has neglected the public
business to such an extent in campaign¬
ing for his cdection to the United States
senate that the confusion in which the
Interior department is to-day ought to
create a public scandal.
The attorney-general of the reform
administration has been in office less
than two months. Jt did not hike him
long to become Inoculated with the
spirit of picnicking which afflicted
his oider official associates. He is now
spending a vacation at Nantucket for
the benefit of his health, which must
have been sadly Impaired by the over¬
exertion of drawing sixty days’ salary.
The great secretary of state, Olney, is
at Marlon, Mass,, just opposite to Gray
Gables, and within the radius of the
“president” at Buzzard's Bay, while ex
Consul Waller languishes in prison at
Marseilles.
Looked at from a practical point of
view. It may be that all the absenteeism
and junketing and dead-beating Is a
saving of money to the American peo¬
ple. While Cleveland and his official
puppets are off fishing, electioneering,
"resting” and "inspecting,” they are,
doubtless, doing less harm than if they
were here. But the principle of the
thing is what the people are looking
at. It is a fraud, a petty, pecksniffian
larceny.
Tho Tho Rnm-rn'ronuhnc Roman rep ihl c lasted l sled . nearly . . 500
yeais, and the
e vil strife resulting from th . I
ate poverty of the plebeian c ^m 1
Julius made himself Caesar dictator, at the he ^ and- o jabmred t le a or
harmony and th « gilding up of
Rome. The people were content with
this state of affairs until tho jealousy
of Cassius and Brutus ended Caesar’s
Sss than a hundred years after the
assassination of Caesar, a socialistic
carpenter of Judea, by the name of Jo
bub, began to teach the''rights of man"
and universal brotherhood. The com
niou people themselves joined in derid
ing him as a crank, and he was hanged
as an agitator and seditious fellow. His
ideas spread, however, until tho Em
peror Constantine professed Christian
Ity and made the churches what they
are to-day, club-houses for the well-to
do and the socially inclined.
Franco entered upon a revolution and
started a republic, as did the American
provinces of Great Britain. The repub
Ho of France was crushed once and
again by tho people themselves, with
Napoleon at their head. The present
republic is yet scarcely old enough to
vote.
The American republic still exists, in
name at least, but with a president who
vetoes the acts of the people’s repre
sentatives and a supreme court which
declares the laws of congress “uncon
stltutioiial” and rules by injunctions
sending to prison at its own pleasure fo,
“contempt” and “conspiracy.”
“The rights of the people are trodden
under foot, are they?” Yes, the rights
of the happy-go-lucky people thai
laugh and sing and cry and toil good
naturedly on, stopping scarcely Ion?
enough to cry, “Hang him! Crucifj
him!” when some foolish reforme!
tries to champion their cause.
The democrats, the Populists, the so
clalists, as political parties, are ail
split into fragments. The gold stand¬
ard will go on over the wreck of busi¬
ness and of wages, and If a few hot¬
heads revolt Grover will crush them out
and be declared dictator. The people,
the great liberty-loving American peo¬
ple, will joke about the affair, and think
the overthrow of the American repub-
11c as good as Barnum's circus,—Th«
Cincinnatian.
Kumihn Methods.
Eugene V. Debs writes from u '
Woodstock Jail as follows:
“I am familiar with the oft-quoted
maxim:
“ 'No man e'er felt the halter drawn
With good opinion of the law.’
“It has been said of every martyr
from the first time that a thumb-screw
was ever applied by the inquisition
u waa said of every victim broken up
on the wheels, disjointed upon the rack
or burned at the stake. It has beer
a handy excuse for tyrants in all ages
and is as current now as when tht
beasts of bigotry first lapped the in
noeent blood of their victims. I know
with what gusto corporations and theii
ormlned sycophants and all their brooc
of degenerate creatures regard the im
prisonment of the officers of the Ameri
can Railway union, and yet it is not
law nor the administration of law thn;
called forth our protest, but the abro
; gation of all law and the substltulioi
of iron-cl^d despotism. Innocent men
unstained by crime, we appealed to thi
courts and to the constitution for pro
tection, for guaranteed rights. We ap
pealed as American citizens to the su
preme court of th^ nation. As wel
| might we have appealed to the man?
man-eating tigers in an African jungle
Our destiny was imprisonment, and i
j tells the story of the final triumph o
Russian methods of government in th<
, United States of America.”
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WHAT THE GOLD BUGS ARE DOING FOR UNCLE SAM.
HERE’S A CORKER.
POINTER FORDEMOCRATIC FREE
SILVER CONVENTIONS.
rom Watson Toll* the Koy* What Is
Necessary In Order to Make It a
Grand Success—Harmless I’astlme for
Off Years.
Inasmuch as there are quite a num
her of cities yet left in which no dem
o cratlc f ree -silver convention has been
held, and it being highly desirable that
everybody should know how to conduct
0116 of these innocent affairs, we hereby
publish a recipe which has been tried
by a number of the best political cooks
, n tho country> arid which may be re
Bed on to furnish you a pleasant polit
leal pudding-warranted to sit lightly
^ stomach ’discomforts. and guaranteed to ere
ate n0 lnternal
‘ q , . nf f rP(J masses over
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. . . as well as
^ ^ paases distribut ed
which advocates free-silver ^er anTX- a I
vorta the men who vote g •
2nd. Secure the attendance or a
,f senatorial fossils who may be sa e y
relied op not to do anything i ■am,
I* lostle 1611 whtse the moss easy on movements their backs, w and ^ to
whom the passing of a linging r
lu t i om or two, seems the climax o
?° R ical dar ug.
Harris of Tennesseee may be counted
on. He’s safe. He won’t do anything
rash, He will vote for a reso.ution
‘demanding” the instantaneous coinage
of silver. Will meet you next week
vote for another one, If you want
It- Will meet you next year, and vote
for another one. No matter how strong
Y™ P“t your resolution you can t scare
Harris. He is warranted not to he
afraid of any resolution the English
language can hold. After voting for
the resolution, Harris will then go to
s * ee P
Invite some brilliant orator who
can reasonably be expected to have in
enough to carry his own vo te,
and let this orator come t0 the conven ’
tion loaded with a speech against Cleve
land.
The bitterer this speech is, the bet
ter. It doesn't hurt Cleveland, and it
Immensely relieves the free-silverites.
A speech of this character is well-nigh
equivalent to the reopening of the mints
to silver.
4th. Invite Lon Livingston to attend,
so that the moral character of the as
semblage may be at once pitched to
such a high level that no carping critic
will be encouraged to make disparaging
remarks.
6th. Read a letter from Billy Bryan
to the effect that “There is not room
enough in this country for two repub
iiean parties.” This somewhat care
worn and fatigued statement of Billy’s
is an eminently true saying, and its
gloss cannot altogether be rubbed off
by the disagreeable fact that the two
republican parties are still in our midst,
and that Billy continues to belong to
one of them.
6th. Read a letter from Hon. Rich¬
ard Bland stating that he has now got
to the forks of the road, and has sat
down on his coat tails a leetle to the
democratic side of the fork.
7th. Introduce some resolutions
about the “crime of 1S73.” Make ’em
hot. It will please the boys. Intimate
that you will hurt somebody if some¬
thing ain’t done to help the country.
Bounce Carlisle. Bounce Sherman.
Bounce Rothschild. Bounce Wall street.
Invite Dan Voorhees to help you abuse
the Shyloeks. Say nothing against the
democrats who in 1S93 shut the mints
to silver.
Put the world on notice that the
down-trodden people are relatives of
yours and that you are going to make
it a personal matter If the John Sher¬
man policies are not cast overboard.
But avoid all unpleasant reference to
the democrats who closed the mints in
1893. Some of them will be present,
and it would be bad manners to per¬
sonate them.
8th. Tip a wink to the gold-hug
democrats; they will understand the
wink to mean that you are not so
madly mad as you seem to be. but that,
on the contrary, there are indications
of a well-defined method in your mad¬
ness.
Let it gradually ooze out of you that
if the Cleveland crowd will just recog¬
nize your rights in the distribution of
political soup you will not wholly hard¬
en your heart against them.
Let it be felt that your devotion to
the dear old democratic party ia very
deep and very tender, and that, if your
affections are braced and encouraged
by a goodly mess of pottage, you will
remain a while longer in the compan¬
ionship of the Wall streeters—leaving
your relations, the oppressed people, to
shlft for themselves,
Democratic free-silver conventions of
this type are peculiarly appropriate in
the summer time and in an off year
in politics. Not being quite so stiff and
formal as a Chautauqua, nor yet so
full of levity as a spelling-bee, it is a
welcome diversion to a large and grow
ing assortment of elderly ladies of tho
male persuasion who, without some
such physical and mental exercise,
might he driven to darning socks and
mending dilapidated umbrellas. Wo
wish these ancient people well. Sym
pathetic tears moisten our eye3 when
ever we read -hat old man Isham G.
SSnof SamTknd ?he°^J*222
patgy Walsh of Ge0 rgia, have once
more met> somew here or other, and grit
t0( j their teeth at the administration,
^ cour se Livingston would grit his
teeth a ] S0 jf ue jj ad an y. x ot having
any he can only applaud while phe oth
erg gr|t
a more harmless pastime than this
could never he invented. It ought to
he encouraged.
witll tllat end in y j ew we have wr it
^ out thljj rec . pe _ SQ lhat nll demo .
cratlc f ree . s ii ver conventions hereafter
may be certain to follow in the tracks
of their illustrious predecessors.
T. E. W.
TILLMAN AND BUTLER.
They Speak to Three Thousand People
at Concord, N* C.
Senator Ben Tillman, of South Caro¬
lina, and Marlon Butler, of North Caro¬
lina, spoke to three thousand people at
Concord, N. C. They both made strong
free silver speeches of about two hours
each. While not flatly coming out in
favor of a new party, there was a strong
squint that way in the speeches of both.
They both advocated getting together
of the silver men of all shades of
opinion to nominate a president in 1896.
Senator Butler was asked after the
speaking concerning the meeting of
Senators Harris, Turpie and Jones, of
Arkansas, in Washington for a silver
conference, and said;
“I understand that the men who are
engaged in the silver conference at
Washington have said that they will
stay in tho democratic party even if it
nominates a gold bug for president. If
this is true, then they are not honest
free-silver men, but, on the other hand,
are the most valuable and effective
agents of the gold bugs, for they can
get silver men to vote the gold-bug
tickets, that all the gold bug-men in
the country cannot persuade to do.”
CO OZ ADVICE.
Wendell Phillips Talks to the Wotk
lngmen of This Country.
My advice to workingmen is this: If
you want power in this country; if you
want to make yourself felt; if you don t
want your children to wait long years
before they have bread on the table
they ought to have, the opportunities
In life they ought to have; if you don t
want to wait yourself, write on your
banner so that every political trimmer
can read it, so that every politician, no
matter how short-sighted he may be.
can read it: “We never forget. If you
launch the arrow of sarcasm at labor.
we never forget. If there is a division
In congress and you throw* your vote
in the long scale, we never forget. Y'ou
may go down on your knees and saj :
I am sorry I did the act. And we will
say : It will avail you in heaven, but
on this side of the grave—never.” So
that a man, in taking up the labor
question, will know that he is dealing
with a hair-trigger pistol, and will say:
I am to he true to justice and to man.
otherwise, I am a dead duck.—IS ended
Phillips.
Over 3 000 delemtes were present at
the Pan-American Congress of Religion
in Toronto. There were Frctesiants.
Roman Catholics and Jews.
bounties. Ttity were hungry. lonely,
sad and weary, and were praying for A
place where plenty would reward labor,
and bring again the rose of health to
the cheek of loved ones. This spot was
a paradise, and why go further?
Oh, cruel fate! Oh, fiendish! For
shame upon society and government,
for these honest men remembered with
a sigh that It was somewhere written,
“thou shalt not tarry here, for this
beautiful world ‘belongs’ to another."
The train had trudged nearly two
whole days and camped three nights
on the wild, uncultivated land, “belong¬
ing” to one man. How came the absent
man of ease “to own” and keep from
cultivation this garden of the world?
By what right are these poor, weary
children of God pushed from this va¬
cant spot on His footstool, to tramp
farther, they know not where, to find a
spot on which to live or die?
Oh, thou direst curse that ever
damned the world; that sent virtue in
want, beggary and starvation; the
blushing maid to unspeakable shame;
the dimpled babe to lean want and
misery; that polluted the saintly lips
with a curse; that ever drove in inso¬
lent haste the helpless innocents from
cottage hearth into winter blast, that
filled the prisons with criminals, the
church with hypocrites, the judiciary
with hirelings the legislature with
knaves, and snatched the promise of
God from nature’s hand and forged it
into a lie; thy name is Monopoly.
It is said, “Uncle Sam is rich enough
to give us all a farm,” but the imbecile
old dunce has given his possessions to
a few of his idle sons, the sharpers, and
left the balance to wrestle with life as
best they can, in a “world already oc
cupied.”
MONOPOLY CURSED.
A TERRIBLE ARRAIGNMENT OF
OUR CIVILIZATION.
How the Good Gifts of Heaven Are
Thwarted by Monopoly—-Five Hun¬
dred Men Own Half of the State of
California.
From “The New Crisis,” by Capt.
Bell: Half of California, including
more than three-fourths of the best ar¬
able and pasture land, is owned by less
than 500 men. Traveling once in that
paradisiacal country, where nature
seems to have halted in awe of the great
Pacific and emptied out her precious
load of all that could happify a world;
so rich the soil, so bountiful and lux¬
uriant the fruit and vegetable world,
so varied the climate and pure and
healthful the air, that it seemed I could
hear the gods whisper from the snow¬
capped mountains and the tropical val¬
leys, for man to come and eat and
drink and be happy, as plenty defied
exhaustion of her stores. Driving up a
valley so rich, fertile and beautiful, I
halted in wonder, and stood in silent
amazement, beholding the enchanting
scene. On one side the bold mountain
stood grandly erect, with snow-capped
summjt that, li,ke a .crowned giant, fleecy
‘guarded the fairy land, and the
clouds that floated majestically oYer
from the sea stooped to kiss the fair
cheek of the generous king of the west.
The mountain’s brows were hung with
fruits and vines, from which hung great
festoons of ripened grapes of nature’s
kind.
The forests were silent except for the
music of the birds and the sweet purling
rills; the grass uncropped, except by the
timid deer and antelope; the soil un¬
broken, except by the track of the
freighter's lonely team, and the lone¬
some world of beauty seemed to sigh*
for some to praise and enjoy. The
smiling valley was nearly as wide as
that of the Nile, and as fertile as that
of the Po. Thirty miles from a human
habitation, I came upon a train of sad,
weary, slowly-trudging emigrants.
The teams were jaded and every step
of the weary animals was a silent pro¬
test against the pleading driver for an
onward movement. There were seven
teams with seven families. The men
were sad,' sturdy, honest and brave¬
looking pioneers, with browned cheeks ,
worn and dusty clothing; and a look
and word of subdued kindness showed
them honest and true. There were
seven wives and mothers, from the
bride of a few months to the gray¬
haired dame, w'ho lived again for her
children’s children. And, oh, what a
sad, weary, hopeless looking group they
were as they moved like ghosts about
the camp-fire, preparing the frugal
meal. Their eyes were deep and slug
gish; their cheeks were brown, but
sunken; their forms were bent and
their arms lean and weak. Tired na
ture had chased away womanly mod
esty, pride and loveliness. The with
ered breasts of almost savage mothers
were unblushmgly , exposed, . and ,
scrawny babes were vainly trying to
gather .. from . the .. dried-up . . . fount , . the ..
means of .... life. What looking children! ..., ,
There were twenty. Were a smile to
come that way, the pouting faces would
frighten it away, never to return. Na
ture opened her acres and seemed in
glee to cheer the hearts of those new
comers. The rustling trees said, “come
to my shade, and rest until you build
a habitation.” The fertile soil said,
“plow me up. and quickly I will fatten
the sides of all the wearv colony,” and
the fruits said, “pluck and eat, for the
gods ^j have provided for the children of
en ..
With prospects so chaming why were
these people sad? Why did they not re
joice, like the pilgrims of old, or the
multitudes in the oriental tale, when
they found a like country? They were
searching for homes, for a place on
which to build a habitation, where they
could cultivate the soil, sow crops, and
rest at even, under their own “vine and
fig tree.” Why were they sad and
helpless? For ten leagues there was no
habitation. and why not bless God and
go to work?
They were hunting homes in a world
where nature placed them. They were
hunting a resting place on God’s foot
stool, where they might humbly toil
at His feet and praise Him for His
NOTES AND COMMENT.
Gov. Stone says: “If the next demo¬
cratic national convention declares for
gold monometallism and nominates a
president upon such a platform, the
party will not carry a dozen states.”
Then the democratic party will not
carry a dozen states, for no democratic
national convention is going to do any¬
thing else but declare for a gold stand¬
ard and nominate a man that favors
it. Of course, the platform may be a
straddle, in order to preserve harmony,
but the candidate will not he. All of
the eastern and middle states are un¬
compromisingly in favor of a gold
standard, and about half of the states
in the south and west that have held
conventions this year have declared
themselves in favor of the same pol¬
icy. That the next national demo¬
cratic convention will give free silver
a black eye is as certain as any future
political event can be. It is apparent
now that the gold wing of the demo¬
cratic party is assisting the republic¬
ans in carrying out John Sherman’3
financial policy. The free silver men
In the democratic party are doing some
very vigorous kicking now with their
■tongues, but after the, next democratic
national convention they will fall in
line and assume the role of assistant
republicans to the assistant republic¬
ans.
It’s now perfectly plain that the meet¬
ing of free silver democrats (so called)
at Washington was only a movement to
check the stampede of voters from tho
democratic party. The three leading
characters of that meeting were Sena¬
tors Jones of Arkansas, Turpie of Indi¬
ana, and Harris of Tennessee. They;
were reinforced by such political tum¬
ble bugs and blatherskites as Lon
Livingston of Georgia, who climbed
into prominence on an Alliance ladder,
and then kicked the ladder out from
under him, and Dan Voorhees, who en¬
gineered in the senate the repeal of the
only silver law we had on the statute
hooks. All these men assert that free
silver is the only thing that can ever
restore prosperity to this country, and
that the present gold standard system
is ruinous and leads to the hell of pov¬
erty, yet they declare that If their party
succeeds in committing itself to such
a policy in the next national convention
they will vote with the party and thus
indorse It In fact they are simply act¬
ing in the role of stool pigeons and
bunco-steerers for the Jew brokers of
this country and Europe.
It requires no keen foresight to see
that the trend of events in this country
points to a monarchy. The recent ut
terances of Minister Bayard at a ban
quet in England in which he made the
declaration that it required a strong
man to govern the people of this coun
try is only one of the straws which in
dicate the direction in which the pollti¬
c f> 1S .^ 10 ™ b !, sp f c h Mr.
Bavard t said: The President of the
Un ^ ted States stands in the midst of
a self-confident . and . oftentimes .. violent . . .
people, , and . it .... takes a man such as Mr.
Cieveianaio p leyeland to govern KOVern mem. them ” Now .w as as a a
matter 0 lac w en e ' e au
undertakes to ‘govern’ he g people of
th!s country he is out ot the bounds of
Jurisdiction. It is the general sup
P ositlon that P e0 P ! f of th } s c ° un ?*
S° vern themselves , Although v they fall
far short of it in fact, our plan of gov
eminent is constructed upon this prin
ci P ie - As a matter of fact the people
are governed by political machines con
trolled by men who have usurped the
rights of the people and subordinated
them to their own selfish greed. That
^ r> Cleveland has for more than two
years been actually governing this
country no one will have the temerity
to deny. He has subordinated his party
machinery, and even violated the laws
of the land and the spirit of our insti
tutlons to accomplish his designs. Hia
ordering the troops to Chicago and
bribing congress with the patronage at
his command were not only flagrant vio
lations of law, hut were grave enough
offences against the constitution to de
mand his impeachment. The logical
result of such conduct on the part of
the chief magistrate of the land can bo
nothing short of revolution.
W. S. MORGAN,