Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 October 1896 — Page 7

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Rail road Corporate Power

Grows Bolu and Impudent.

INDIGNANT PATRIOTISM REPLIES

Two of tlio most remarkable contributions to the literature of the current controversy between Plutocracy ami .The People are tho following letters, "which are self-explanatory:

Plutoc.rury's Impudent I 111 it 1. •THE TRAVKLEKti' IN8UHANCK CO. 1 of Hertford, Conn. JOHN li. l'IP.TLE, State Agent, for Kentucky anil Tennessee.

3. S. Mebuno, K«i., !?. A.,Hrotul .St., Ivnoxvilli), Teun. D15

A It Sm—I have yours oi' the 111 inst., with four applications and orders Louisville and Nashville premiums £!!•'.- 65, policy !)0!(,304 to be cancelled, and tho reasons given therefor.

Mr. Graves tellsine, Mr. Mebane, that .you aro an advocate of the election of !tho Bryan and Sewall ticket, and that

you are enthusiastic for that ticket. I

MAnrv It.i in lrnn fPKrt 1 1 .... ,.!•

hope he is mistaken. The election of Bryan and Sowall will mean repudiation, anarchy, disorder and an entire disruption of our social fabric. If I wo an earnest advocate of free silver, I could not vote for any man nominated ou the Chicago platform. It in intended to catch all the dissatisfied and disorderly elements in the country. If that [ticket is elected the assets of theTravcl'tos' Insurance company, a large part of

It is hoped that every man working for this company, will whenever he has an opportunity endeavor to bad men from the path of disorder and anarchy to that of law and order. There are so many reasons why all our agents should earnestly advocate sound money and oppose free silver heresy and the infamous Chicago platform that it. is not necesssiry to enumerate them

It is in your powor to do this companv Infinite harm, if you should advocate the election of the Chicago ticket. Men •will believe that there cannot be anything very bad in it, if tho agent of the Travelers, Insurance company advocates It. So far as 1 have heard, every agent of the Travelers' Insurance company is •warmly in favor of sound money and aaturally strongly opposed to the election of the Chicago ticket. It may be a question of life aud death so far as our businesses aro concorced. We cannot have working for us men who are willlug to cut our own as well as their own throats. "Wo have never felt before that we should say anything to our men in regard to politics. On the contrary, we havo Advised our men, to engage in no poli•floal discussion and wo do still as a rule, Tint it is earnestly hoped that no agent of this company will express himself in Javor of the eloction of tho Chicago ticket, and it is hoped that if he has ocoasiou to give expression of his opinion it will bo on tho sido of law and order,

And not on the sido of repudiation, uaional dishonor, and tho evils which must follow. It is a vital question with Our railroads, aud I believe that the •officers of the railroad companies w'll be grateful to thoso who advocate among their men, when they talk at all on the subject, the triumph of the ticket •which represents sound money and good and honest government. It is a matter far above party now. It may mean the very life of this nation.

I hope that you will be able to write to me that if you have felt disposed to advocate the election of tho Chicago ticket you have discovered that it was an error, and you see what tho eilect would be upon you individually should that ticket triumph, and recognize the harm that would follow to all hard working laboring men. Yours truly,

JOHN B. PIRTLF., State Agent.

Pntrlotlmn'a Indignant Kespiwist). NEW ALBANY, Iud., Sept. 22, 18'J(5. Mr, Jolin B. Pirtle, Sluto A#ont Travelers' Insurance Company. Louisville, Ky.:

DEAR Sm—I have delayed replying to your letter of July 30 in order that I

You say that tho Democratic platform or declaration of principles, enunciated jby that party in its recent national contention at Chicago, is intended to catch all the dissatisfied and disorderly elements iu tho country. That it will re-

bv having been born under itaprotecting folds, are not and never will be Atneri-

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LOUISVIM,E, Ky., .Inly 20, lS'JO.

Patriotism and devotion

conntry's interests are coa-

corned. In the opinion of suoli persons, all elements are disorderly an 1 all i»rsons anarchists who contend for their

under the

constitution and laws

of our country when that contention en-

dangers tho eontinnanco of the special privilege enjoyed by TIIKM to rob tho people under the specious guis™ of class legislation iou say that the election of Bryan and Bewail will mean "'repudiation, c.nnreliy, disorder and the entire disrupt ion of our social fabric." Is it repudiation when a man finds a thief with his hand in his pocket to cry "Stop thief" and arrest his operations':1 Is it anarchy when the sovereign people of the United States, in representative convention assembled, declare that they will have no more dark lantern proceedings, such infamous treachery as was perpetrated when one-half the money of the people was struck down and virtually forced out of existence in February, 187:i? An anarchist is one who disregards tho law and accomplishes his designs by force, if necessary, but always in defiance of tlie law. There is no threat of lawlessness in the Democratic platform. Is it not anarchy when a national administration, sviirii to observe the laws of our country, in defiance of and in direct opposition of those laws, which provide that the option to pay in silver dollars the coin obligations of the United States

is vost(vl in tho goverunu nt|

persists hi

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surrendering that option to the money kings, who having once had tho debt we owe them doubled by dishonest legislation, now seek to have it doubled again and meet a ready ally in the present administration? That such a law exists, having been created through a joint resolution adopted by the congress in tho session of 1S77-'7S, is well known to all persons who aro even tolerably informed in recard to the financial legis-

which Ls in railroad securities,will shrink lation of our government. It is also enormously. The Louisville and Nash- well known and a matter of record that Ville and Southern railroad will be so Mr. William McKinley, then a repreCrippled that I am not sure they would sentative from tho state of Ohio, and tie able to continue a» now operated. It! Mr. .John G. Carlisle, representing a tvould bo the greatest calamity that I Kentucky district in congress, both could happen to the people. Railroad voted for this resolution It is also a anon should stand shoulder to shoulder well known fact and a matter of record in favor of sound money. Ihere are no that during the same session of congress men more interested than they in the both these gentlemen voted for a bill to preservation of law and order and good authorize the free coinage of the stand'government.

ird silver dollar aud to restore its legal tender character, and that this bill provided for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 without, any conditions whatever on the same terms as gold bullion is coined, and it repealed all existing laws.

Mr. McKinley now raises his hand in holy horror at the mere suggestion of acting in accordance with tho law providing for the payment of coin obligations in standard silver dollars and talks of anarchy, repudiation and national dishonor when such a thing is mentioned. Mr. Carlisle is, or has been, putting in all his spare time in an attempt to evangelize the country in the interest of so-called sound money. WHAT TKUKIHI.Y HAD MEN THEY ARCST HAVE HEEN TWENTY YEARS AGO. If they were honest and patriotic measures then and they could vote for them with a clear conscience, why should thoso who HKLIEVE NOW AS McKlNLEY AND CARLISLE DID THEN be denounced as anarchists, repudiators and thieves? would like to know who of the actors now ton the political stage aro the anarchists? Those who insist upon the application of the law and its observance, or THOSE WHO DEFY THE LAW IN ORDER TO ENABLE THEIK FRIENDS, THE MONEY LENDERS, TO ENRICH THEMSELVES ENORMOUSLY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PEOPLE?

Mr. Bryan is not an anarchist or a repudiator. He is the friend of order, but not an admirer of a "Roman peace," a peace enforced with sword and scourge and grinding slavery. The real anarchist is the man who attempts to perpetuate the present financial and industrial conditions, who would ignore the protests of tho people, would trample upon I the rights of the toilers in order that

Dives may double his fortune, who would reduce millions of American freemen to the condition of Russian

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peasancs or Mexican peons, and fill the land with bloated plutocrats aud hungry paupers. The most uncompromising enemies of Mr. Bryan grudgingly admit that he is exeeptiouably able and iucorruptibly honest. How in the name of heaven can the best interests of this country be subverted by placing an able and honest man at the head of its afI fairs? What do you want? A president with neither honesty nor ability? One who does not know what his opinions are upon the greatest issue of the day until a political convention formulates a platform aud crams it into his cranium in lieu of brains'/ One whoso honesty is of that peculiar description that, cliameliou like, enables him to suit his views to any platform no matter what

might have time to carefully consider principles it enunciates so long as he your proposition iu all its bearings and Jfive you a definite statement as to my decision and my reasons tor reaching that decision.

can pose for a brief period before the people as one having a possible chance of being elected to the high office which has been honored by the occupancy of a Washington and a Jefferson, and sanctified by the blood of a Lincoln and a Garfield which permits him to, at one time in his life, support by word and action a policy which a few Years later he is ready to declare are dishonest and

(oeive tho hearty support of the dissatis- anarchistic? The man who will sacrifice ifled elements of the country I giant you, bis principles for political preforinont, ibut when that is admitted, who will be

forking classes, the sole producers of

There are soma pweoas while have And strides

or

for

an

left to oppose it? The people who will j10pe to meet the approval of the iutellilantagonize it aro those who have for gont sovereigns of America, and they are (years fattouod on the earnings of the jjg

6Ure

reward whatsoever, cannot

j0 repudiate him in November

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.Woalth and who, having amassed great i0U8 coterie of money sharks who have wealth through dishonesty and sharp practice, by further dishonesty aud the Corrupt use of that wealth have debauched our national legislature in orl&er to secure the enactment of laws fohich double the value of their money, the same time by red«diug by half !the purchasing power of the wage earnWi' labor and ftxtr value of the farmers (products.

aro to put muzzles on the avari-

been so long plundering tho people. Have you once stopped to thiiik*that within the past four years an additional debt of about $3.74 per capita has been fastened upon the American people—a debt of |8.74 for every man, woman and oHild in the United States, in order that the shylooks of Lombard street may enrich themselves out of the public crib under the guise of maiqfaftiiag tho iniqoitowr single gold standard

Ami now* tfr, I oonte to that part of

your letter in which you tell me that, notwithstanding you are fully informed as to mj- opinions on this subject through Mr. Graves, I am expected to become an evangelist in the cause of the "High Priests aud Myrmidons of Mammon"—not only vote for tho apostles of their creed but go to work heart and soul to promote their welfare and advance their interest at the polls. I presume you think your company has a perfect right to dictate the political views of its employes. Such a belief is in perfect accord with the experience of the American people (in their dealings with corporations) for many years past. When the corporation assumes this right to force its employes to sacrifico theii \vn opinions as to what will promote, .i-ir individual interests in order that legislation may be enacted which will benefit the corporations at the expense of' rhe people, we must abandon all claim to a government of the people, by tin? people and for the people and rosign ourselves to a government exclusively of the plutocrats, by the plutocrat' and for lie plutocrats.

I think you will si'e from the foretroing that 1 !o not coincide with your views on this matter. When the "Business men of New York" in 1776 were busy adopting resolutions condemnatory of the Declaration of American Independence, and assuring the British government ol rheir loyalty and support, and giving all the aid and comfort iu their power to the enemies of our liberty. my lorefatbers were battling for that liberty, which is our most precious heritage and giving their lives and sacrifices upon the altar of our country. There is not in my veins one drop of traitorous blood, nor will I hesitate to make any sacrifice that is demanded for my country's good. Our Revolutionary fathers, the founders of this government, would have been delivered into the hands of the British enemies tin "Business men of. New York," their allies in foreign lauds, and the tories in our own country had such opinions prevailed as rhe denunciators of the Chicago platform have enunciated. I regard the at tempt to force tho single gold standard upon the United States as the act, of traitors who woidd deliver American freemen to be bond slaves and serfs of the foreign as well as domestic money devils. Yon have perhaps in your younger days read of how the Creeks captured Troy, after a siege of many years, through the agency of a wooden horse which they set up near the walls of the city and filled with armed men, and which was taken inside the city by the curious Trojans, who expected to gaiu great advantage from having it within their gates and how in silence of the night the soldiers came out of tho wooden horse and opened the gates of the sleeping city to their friends, who. rushing in, made short work of its inhabitants. The cases are parallel, except that iu our case the agency has been a golden swine. You intimate in your letter that a failure ou my part to comply with your instructions, or rather yonr wishes ill this matter, will result in the severance of the slender tie which now binds me to the Travelers' Insurance company. Iu other words, if I dare to exercise the privilege of a free and independent

American citizen, to think, speak aud vote as my conscience dictates on political matters my means of subsistance will be cut off and I will bo left with my wife and children to starve, as far as you are concerned, in order to touch me how dreadful a thing it is to have any mind or opinion at all which are not at the disposal of your great corporation. It is very hard to get employment now under the plutocratic rule of the goldlmgs and if they continue in power it will be harder still. Nevertheless my wife is a patriotic women who would sooner starve with mo than have mo dishonor the country which gave us birth by yielding to your traitorous suggestions, aud wo have decided that the God who helped our fathers win their independence will not desert us now that the war is to be fought over again and wo believe that with his assistance we can get along without the Travelers' Insurance company.

And now, sir. that .you have seen fit to causelessly insult an honest citizen of the'United States by offering to purchase his conscience through the threat to cut off his means of subsistence in the event of his noncompliance, I desire to say that, in my opinion, the man who, having it in his power to briug suffering and privation to helpless women and children, would exert that power to promote the success of his political opinions, or advance his personal or business interests, is mean enough to have betrayed Judas Iseariot for the job of betraying our Lord and Master to his uersccutors.

Yours truly, C. S. MEBANE, Special Agent.

During the past, 20 years great corporations have been willing to provoke strikes and riots and to invite revolution by reducing the rate of wages to their employees. Now they say that free silver means a reduction of wages of nearly 50 per ceut, and yet they are willing to pour millions into tho Republican campaign fund to prevent it.

The success of the Chicago ticket is not dangerous to any man who wants to eat the bread he earns. Tho success of the Chicago ticket is dangerous only to tlie man who wants to eat the bread that somebody else earns.—William J. Bryan.

My convictions upon this subject are not shallow convictions. I may be in error—none of us can claim infallibility —but I believe that the gold standard is a conspiracy against the human race.— William J. Brvan.

If you are farmers, I beg you remember that under this appreciation of gold your pooducts havo fallen in value, while your debts and your taxes havo remained as high as they used to be.— William J. Bryan.

We are opposed to the gold standard because it has never conferred oneb&iS' fit upon those who produce the wi of the world.—William J. Bryttn.

"VAIL'S SCHOOL HOUSE MEETING.

The Republicans Seem to Get the

Worst of it Up There.

ail's school house is an unassuming building about five miles north of toivn in Union township where the republicans have lately been holding meetings aiming to convert, the voters of that community to the cause of the gold bug platform and MeKinleyiem in general. Ihey have met with some discouragements however. Mr. llaselup, an influential republican of tho neighborhood was announced and expected to address the people there on tho political issues, aud a crowd had gathered to hear him a few evenings ago but instead the republican central committeo stuck in its shovel and sent Billy lleoves, and Dr. Hickman, the colored physician, finds plenty of time to talk politics between prescribing for his sick patientp. Before they came an election for school director was hold, and a democrat chos en, and this in a neighborhood where republicans are much the most numerous. Then a vote waB taken, and bids received as to whom should supply the school house with fuel the coming winter, and although Mr. llaselup bid the lowest, it was decided that ho was not '•competent" for the task and a higher bid was secured, lfazelup has bis dander up over his treatmeut, and bo and his friends propose to be very indo pendent in the exercise of voting at the coming election. Another meeting was held last week by tho republicans, and

Mike White sent up there to address them and pout oil on the troubled waters, but- be did little good, as tho waters are still rolling in good sized billows, and bid fair to continue until after the election.

CA8TOHIA.

The titilmlls •Igaj

SoldiurM' Reunion Postponed. The Ripley Township Veterans' Association will hold their second annual reunion and picnic in tho grovo of Comrade Ilam, miles northwest of Alamo, just across tho road from Cloro's grove, on Wednesday, October 14, 181 '(j. The following is the programme: 10:30—Address of welcome.

Response.

11:30—Business meeting of organization. 12 00—Dinner.

At the afternoon meeting speaking will be tho order, by good speakers who have promised to bo present, also short talks by comrades. Everybody invited, regardless of age, sex, party or religion. Come and bring haversacks and baskets filled, and help us enjoy a grand day together. By ordor of the

PllK.SI IIF..NT.

AS. M. SMITH, Secretary.

KliimhiiW'H Denial. Rev. \V. E. Hinshaw has written a letter from the Southern prison emphatically denying the report that ho bad made a confession of tho murder of his wife. The letter closes with the following words: "I only wish that ho who would place a ppot upon the pure character of my sainted wife, by putting a falsehood into my mouth, would think twice before he doss it. Let him who would stand in obscurity and hurl bis poisonous darts into tho public mind remember how dishonorable are his methodst and how infinitely contemptible are his works. All men when placed before the public eye have cause to bog for charity. So have I. But the only thing I now care to ask of men is justice."

Now Opera HOIIHO at Torre llniito. James B. Dickson and others aro arranging to erect a new opera house in Soventh street, Terre Haute, to replace Naylor's, which was recontly destroyed by fire. The now theater will be finished by January 1.

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