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identically the same as the bond—less the interest and the bond always at a premium from 10 to 35 per cent? The gold standard is a national peril. In our civil war gold paid no soldier or sailor. It was in open alliance with our enemies the world over, and all its energies were evoked for our destruction. Its record is one of blood and carnage, and on the throne in our land today it rules with the relentless iron hand of a heartless tryant. Again, the largest number of busi ness failures in four years was 632 in 1865. Compare these with the failures now under the gold sound money rule, and the present indebt edness of our people. There were 13,- 345 business failures in 1895. The people were comparatively out of debt in 1865, and in 1.901, eighty per cent are homeless, with $3,000,000,- 000 of public and private debts against the laboring classes. Again, the credit of our nation and the sound money so much talked about are both dependent upon the treasury note (bond) or greenback without exception clause, for their ex istence, their exchange value being above that of gold owned and con trolled as they are by the bankers trust. They are made to support the accursed system of gold for bonds and bonds for gold, for the bankers and a paper currency issued through their banks to eighty millions of peo ple at a clear profit to the national bankers of ninety-nine cents on the dollar, besides interests —and this pa per not a legal tender money when one of their banks fail. This paper is not redeemed with gold, but with the bond of the people held as se curity for the issue in the hands of the people for which the banker has received notes and mortgages at 99 per cent interest above cost to him. Fifty cent’s, or two cent’s worth of silver bearing the stamp. One dol dar United States money without ex ception clause is legal tender for all public dues. If we can not depend on the good credit of the nation for a money system, they we must depend upon a system forged out of money trusts and bottomed on the nation’s bonds, payable to the credit of sam trusts. My friends, the above legislation can be charged to the Republican party, for when any acts w-ere passed it was either in full control of the government or had the President and one house of congress. When there was enough opposition in its own ranks to defeat a bill, enough Demo crats could be relied upon to help carry it through. And thus have the old twins juggled the people’s inter ests until w’hen the public asked for fish it was given a stone. But, my friends, this campaign of 1908, is now on us, the sham battle, with the sham leaders, is again up for the amusement of the laboring men who furnish the votes and are taxed to keep up the great idle, absorbing class, by keeping the producers of all wealth divided into two political pre tending hostile camps. Both ele ments have their hands in the pockets of the producer and will surely empty their earnings into the till of monop oly, but in the hope of getting into offle. The Democratic party has made an about face and became nearly a deputy Republican organization. They have completely surrendered to Cleve- WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. land and that faction which support ed McKinley against their regular nominee. And now we see standing around Judge Parker the same old gang— Olney, Gorman, Belmont, Carlisle and Lamont. The gravity of the situation deep ens as we study the faces of that no ble collection of patriots. How those Democrats who have followed the leadership of Bryan for eight years can, with conscious political rectitude, follow the new leadership of the party into the camp of the trusts, into the home of the Ishmaelites, is past any sane man’s comprehension. But the trusts said, now is the ac cepted time, and the gold element ran to the foot of the golden throne to be crucified on a cross of gold and promise the golden deity that they would never stray away again. The history of the Democratic party for the last forty years is sad dening. Oh, so saddening, and whj has it drifted thus? Simply because since the death of Hendricks, Beck and Voorhees, it has had no leader worthy the name. Bryan has been the only ray of light sent to shed lustre on it in thirty years. I believe the mass of the Democratic party feel outraged at the way in which their leaders have sold them to Wall street. There has not been an issue in forty years that it has not been on all sides. It has been for hard money, soft money, white money and yellow money. It has been for high tariff, low tariff and no tariff. They de nounce socialism an anarchism'in the South—and advocate the seizure, by the national government, of the Penn sylvania coal mines in New York. In the past it advocated tariff reduction to reduce prices, and in the next breath advocated free silver to raise them again. Since the civil war, the Democratic party hasn’t stayed with a single issue it has espoused for four consecutive years at a time. In 1876 it was for hard money under Tilden, but found it compatible with same finance to oppose the resumption of specie payments. In 1880 it stole the breenback platform, nominated Hancock for the presidency and went before the country advocating soft money. In 1884 it nominated Cleve land on a platform which made Blaneism the paramount issue. In 1888 it went before the country on free trade issue and was whipped out of its boots. In 1892 it went before the country on constitutional money and tariff reform and won, and didn’t know what to do with the govern ment after it got control of it. In 1896, free silver was the paramount issue, 16 to 1, and in 1900 it was shifted to imperialism. Let us look at the personnel of the national Democratic executive com mittee. There are Delaney Nickoll, August Belmont, John R. McLean, Ex-Senator Smith, of New Jersey, Senator Martin, of Virginia; J. M. Gruffy, of The Standard Oil Co.; W. F. Ryan, of Wisconsin, and George Foster, of Peabody. George Foster, who is a New York financier, from the land of sugar Louisiana, fought Bryan from Dan to Bersheba in 1896 and 1900. All of a sudden, from a poor man’s party, the democracy develops into the-most dazzling plu tocratic organization this or any other country has ever known. Its splen dor rivals that of Solomon in all his glory. Bryan is the one voice that was heard .in the wilderness, calling the democratic sinners to repentance, but he has now made friends with the Clevelandites and is camping with the Wall street gang —Gorman, Belmont, Carlisle and Lamont. I do not believe that the six and a half million men who followed Bryan with cheers on their lips and warm convictions in their hearts, can now be delivered like cattle to the Cleve landites, who knifed the ticket or bolted in 3896. I believe that the great majority of the men who voted for Bryan are men of conviction. I can not but hope that they realize that Mr. Thomas E. Watson, of Geor gia, is fighting their battle now. My friends, there is too much dif ference between socialism and popu lism to harmonize them together off hand. Socialism embraces all the peo ple as a unit, a deity, society, every thing, individuality nothing. Social ism destroys energy, enterprise and development. It has no instigation to exertion and invention. It is social slavery, it allows no personal free dom, it is all society. Social slaves and bonded slaves have about equal chances. In life patriotism finds a very poor soil in a tenent row. Lord society is just as much a tyrant as a feudal lord. Socialism makes man give up to society all that is dear to him. His homestead with all improve ments and orchards that he intends for his children, his body and that of wife and children. To society, home and common homes it is too etherial. If we were all angels it would be proper, but incompatible with imper fect mankind. The Peoples Party demand that the people be given the right to legislate for themselves, by the system known as the initiative and referendum, or direct legislation. We only ask for equal rights to all and special privi leges to none. Corporations should not be permitted to control in their own interest any function that is pub lic. What any corporation can do for the people the people can do for themselves. Populists demand public ownership of public utilities, but de mand private ownership of private utilities. Populism will protect the rights of the individual to life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness make him a freeholder and defend his home and family against trespass that will be an impetus to him to ex ert his energy, enterprise, invention talent and genius to ils fullest ex tent and cultivate patriotism, and to restore the liberties of the people, th j rule of the people, the equality of ah men before the law, is our purpos?. We believe that the manhood should count for more than money: (hat char acter should outweigh the dollar, whether he work with brawn or brain. It is the worker who should be mon arch of the world. For myself, I do not bcrieie that the present tyranny of the corpora tion, the monopoly and the autocracy of wealth, can endure forever. Some day, some how 7 , in some way, the American people will rise in their resistless majesty and drive the usurpers from the places they have seized. Some day, popular sovereign ty will come again and put its foes to rout as it did in the time of Jeffcr son, as it did in the time of Jackson A. W. ROSS. Muncie, Ind. The Home Monthly 25 cents per year. 25 cents per year. A large magazine of from 16 to 24 page® one whole year for only 25 cents. Full of bright, snappy stories, humorous stories, poems, good de partments, etc., by well known au thors, you are missing a treat if you fail to get this magazine. All the lat est writings of Jack Dunaway, as well as other famous writers. ADVERTISERS Our circulation is 50,000 and the rates are only $1 per Inch. The Best Medium Yet Be sure and subscribe today, or take an ad. and you get a year’s sub scription free. 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