Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 March 1897 — Page 5

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LOOTING THE PEOPLE. Tariff to Be Revised In the Interest of Monopoly. ifAttl HABRA'S LATEST DICTUM

The Republican Party, Having a Four Tcwf Grip on the Government, Will Soon Proceed to Vm» It Par the Benefit. of the Greedy IntereeU That Control It., While pretending to be a Democratic paper the St. Paul Globe gave its support during the recent campaign to Mark Hanna and the money trust; but The Globe is now beginning to realize what it should have known before, that the Republican party is not to be relied upon to do anything for the people as opposed to organized wealth. Here is its plaint: The decision of Mr. Hanna, who has kindly consented to run this conn try for awhile, that “political agitation” pnust cease for the next four years, is wholly intelligible. With only a few weeks yet to elapse before the new administration is to come into power, it has so far manifested its plans and purposes as to evoke a storra of hostile criticism, and to make it clear that if another election were to be held before the 4th of March the Republican party would be excluded from power by a majority m decisive as that recorded in its favor last November. It has done tuis by blasting every hope and falsifying every promise that bloomed into life during the campaign. Having assured its grip upon the machinery of government Tor the next four years, it has announced its plan to run that machinery, without regard to the people’s interest, for the sole benefit of the powerful and greedy interests that control it What Mr. Hamia means by the vague phrase “political agitation” he docs not condescend to inform ns. Political agitation, in the shape of criticism of men and measures, of the suggestion of new policies and the discussion of old, is always under way in this country and always will he as long as the people pretend to manage their own affairs. A very desperate, dangerous and unnecessary political agitation has been begun and is to fco carried to completion by the discussion of .Mr. Hunna, indorsed by Mr. McKinley. This is the revision of the tariff in the interest of monopoly, which is to be carried out by oougn ss at a special session to be called immediately after the inauguration. There is no more need, excuse or apology for this proceeding than for declaring war against Russia or dumping all the gold in the United States treasury into New York harbor. It is a breach of faith with the people, because1 pdblic opinio compelled practical silence except at Canton last year on the tarifTquestion and determined that the issue of the campaign should be the reform of our monetary system. As a premise that this would be carried out, Mr. Hauuu and his lieutenants an non need during ami after the campaign that popular education on the financial question would be carried on actively in the interval between elections. This is the premise which Mr. Hanna has now determined to withdraw, and this is the only meaning that can be attributed to his statement concerning the cessation of “political agitation.” *** This is all that any man has expected who is familiar with the Republican party and the influences that dominate it It is as hopeless to change those as it is to try to galvanize a corpse into now life or to restore to vigorous growth an organism already far advanced in the process of putrefaction. The programme cf the Republican party is to prvjiare unlimited distress for all business interests of this country by prolonging “political agitation” as to the tariff and perpt tuating existing uncertainty and apprehension as to our finances. It is, furthermore, to assure at the end of its four years’ tenure an overwhelming revolution by a disgusted and outr.iged people, that will rock little what havoc it maj play with our finances if only it can cry quits with the mi nonary and perjured men who have already repudiated the issues of the last campaign and have fixed rapacious eyes upon the looting of flic people for four years, iu the interest of corporate power and individual greed. The absence of a single patriotic though with regard to this policy is even kss notable than its utter indifference to ordinary political expediency. “.After us the deb ugo '* ought to be adopted as the- Republican motto and stamped upon all the stationery used at Republican headquarters hereafter.

BRYAN ON GAGE. Be Give* Hte Opinion of the Coining Secretary of the Tire*»ury. Mr. William J. Bryan, while in Galveston recently, gave his opinion of Lyman J. Gape, ns follows: “Mr. Gage is a daisy. Greenback's should, he says, be retired, aDd silver purchased under the Sherman act should be sold and the treasury notes redeemed tnd canceled. Then we ought tip have bank notes that are redeemable only in gold. And he also says the government should not act as a warehouse for either gold or silver. “There is no doubt about Mr. Gage being a daisy. I wonder if he wouldn’t like to inaugurate a system by which wt would have to obtain his permission each meaning to live through the day?** Republican* Bar the Way. The Democrats are vigorously working to secure the passage of an antibribery law in Delaware. The politics of that state is disgracefully corrupt In that respect it rivals even Illinois, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New York. Reform, though much to be desired, will he difficult to accomplish with the Republicans strongly in favor at carxus&ion.—Eschamte.

WHAT IS A PLUTOCRAT?

ment—Believe* Money Should Rule. The St Louis Post-Dispatch, in answer to an inquiry, thus defines a plutocrat: The Post-Dispatch has no criticism to make upon wealth as such. On the contrary, it recognizes that that accumulation of wealth which is simply the saved surplus of earnings oyer expenditures is one of the primary conditions of human progress and one of the cornerstones of \ what is called civilization. Nor has the | Post-Dispatch any qnarrel with rich , men as such. It believes that the ronj centfation of wealth in the hands of a | class, and especially the piling up of the ' colossal fortunes that are among the j ! most startling phenomena of the presen* j : century, is proof positive of discrimi- j , nating laws and of a vitiated public ! > opinion. At the same time it realizes j that even a rich man who misuses his ! , wealth is not a plutocrat, nor does an j aggregation of rich men in a community i constitute a plutocracy. What, then, is a plutocrat? A pluto-' crat is a man who aims by the use of j money in politics to attain a position cf power and influence which he could not attain in any other way, which he; could not attain, for example, by intel- j lectual force, public service or personal j popularity. A plutocrat is a man whose cardinal doctrine of political faith is that money is power. The practical deduction from this doctrine is that powei should be lodged in the hands that pos- j sess money. And as money is the most j exclusive and arrogant of despots, i where money is accepted as the proper I source of power it is apt to be reg:trded i as the sole source. Hence a plutocrat; ; looks upon those who gain power j through any other agencies than money j as vulgar usurpers, to be dispossessed j and tram pled, under foot as soon as they j can be reached. It follows that a plutocrat is by nature, by habit of thought and by his j conception cf political forces hostile to I any popular or democratic form of gov- j eminent because popular or democratic | government means rule by the majorit. and the plutocrat well knows that ae- j cumulations of money large enough to j constitute controlling power never find j their way into the hands of a majority ] of the people. If they did, the valm j which he places upon money and riches | would be greatly lessened. It Is the con- j sciousness that he belongs to a small j class enjoying special privileges tb gives him his greatest satisfaction m | the possession of money and power. We hope this is clear. A plutocrat is I a man who depends upon money alone j j for political place and influence, woo j cannot understand the accomplishment j c of anything without money. A plutoe- j | racy exists m any community which is j | ruled by men who have obtained their ■ j power through the use or misuse o' money. • OUTLOOK FOR SILVER. There la Little to Hope For Daring the Next Four (ran. Exactly 50 of the 90 senators voted on the international money conference bill. Notwithstanding the fact that only five-ninths of the senate voted at all, yet the affirmative vote reached a majority of 2 cf the whole body. The actual vote was 46 to 4. The News has not placed a large amount of confidence in the international scheme. Three downright, unequivocal failures of au enterprise ;n rapid succession ought to convince most people of its impracticability. Though the veto of the senate was practically unanimous, the tenor of the debate showed that there was very little superstitious faith in the breast of anybody. Senator Jones gave expression to the common feeling of the silver men when be said that the measure was permitted to go through so as to throw all responsibility upon the Republicans. During the coming four years the silver men have nothing to hope for uuiess it be through a conference with the nations. Yet they gave their unanimous adherence, not because they believe in it. but because they wish to make sure of the one chance in a thousand that something profitable will come of it. The very unanimity cf the vote shows the prevailing apathy on the subject. The whole business is mere partisan byplay, which the Democrats see no reason to interfere with.—Detroit News.

LIFE TENURE FRAUD. A Fklw Idea That Only a Few Are Competent to Fill Public Office. One of the strongest arguments against life tenure is afforded hr the Records cf the civil service commissiou. Ten applicants qualify and go on the eligible list fear every one who goes it: to place. Seventy out of every 100 applicants, on the average, score the nece ssary percentage to snake them eligible. It would be j hard to construct a stronger argument | against life tenure for the few with a ! “pull” to commission them than these figures afford. j It is a depreciation of our public intelligence and cf the magnificent educational systems we tax ourselves to maintain to insist that only the few are ! qualified for the.competent discharge of puhlic duty. Worse still, it is a falsehood, easily disproved by any one who will go deep enough into the statistics of the civil service problem.—Exchange. _——-■— « IKo Poona For SUwr Men. The Republican senate of Minnesota ousted Frank Day from his scat, to which be had been elected by a large majority at an election undoubtedly fair. The offense was that Mr. Day was an avowed advocate of free coinage. If that is Minnesota’s idea of doing business in the line of government, governors and other officials of surrounding states should pay no attention to any legal process from Minnesota whiqpi federal law does not compel them to bom*.—

CORRUPTION FUNDS. | — THE TERRIBLE MEANING OF THEIR USE IN THE LAST ELECTION.

Iff the BofU off the Money Power That They Can Do It Again Is Well Founded, This Republic Is Doomed—Now la the Time For Patriots to Do Some Thinking > t I The use of tens of millions of money to elect Major McKinley proves beyond controversy that the rich are opposed to republican governments “deriving their Just powers from the consent of the governed. ” The contest was not between citizens of the United States exercising the right of franchise according to their best judgment, but between the people on the one side and the money powers on the other. The money used by the prevailing party was not expended to give the voters an opportunity to freely exercise their choice as citizens, because no large expenditure of money could be legitimately used for that purpose. The vast sums of money expended were confessedly used to influence the election and to prevent a free vote and an honest count The poverty and dependence of j vast multitudes of suffering people and j the dishonesty of others furnished the j opportunity, which was seized by the j money powers, to subvert the will of the people. If it be assorted that the same ‘ result would have been attained without j the use of money, we ask. Why were such j vgst sums of money collected and ex- j pended? There is no necessity of know-1 ing the exact amount of money which the victorious party employed. If the power of money can enable the rich to seize the government, as was j done in the last election, the capacity of [ man for self government is a myth and , free institutions are a failure. The; spending of $50,000,000 or even $10,- j 000,000 in a presidential election shows j that the republic is in danger from con- | ceutrated wealth. Nothing can do more to destroy the faith of the people in free ; institutions than the fact that the party ! which spends the ma-1 money in elec- \ tions is certain to be victorious. When J the honest voters feel that the votes they cast are to be neutralized by the corrupt use of mougy in the purchase of votes or the manipulation of election returns, they will cease to regard the elective franchise as a protection of their rights or as furnishing them the power to maintain the free institutions established by the fathers. They will naturally look upon the money power as their enemy, and when they are satisfied that resistance to the encroachments of concentrated wealth at the ballot box is impossible history will repeat itself in this country and anarchy or revolution will, follow. The audacity and arrogance of the wholesale vote buyers in calling the people anarchists became their ballots are honest are exasperating in the extreme. What proof have they that the 6,500,000 who voted for Bryan were not actuated by the purest motives of patriotism? What claim have those who expended tens of millions to got vote? that they are honest and law abiding citizens of the United States when they are ostentatiously corrupting the fountains of justice and subverting the fundamental principles of free institutions? If anarchy is an effort to overthrow established government, why sire not the money power? who buy votes and subvert the will of the people, which is the governing power, by1 corruption and fraud, anarchists of the k most malignant type? i The rule of avarice is the most malignant, despotic, cruel and barbarous of all forms of tyranny, and when that rule is secured by hired mercenaries or intimidated dependents all forms of representative government arc a mockery and the foundations of free institutions are subverted. Nothing *hat the incoming admini'traticn can do can repair the injury to civil liberty which the expenditure of tens of millions of money inflicted in the last election. No matter how good Major McKinley’s administration may be, it can never heal the wounds, wlgjch the corruptionists who elected him inflicted upon our institutions. We already hear .the boasts cf concentrated wealth that the means they employed to prevent a fair election in 1896 will be redoubled if necessary four years hence. We are told on every hand that money is too powerful for the people of the United States, and that, whatever happens. the money powers will rule the

ITpuUU^. li uc iuc iiuc %uv ; people is already overthrown, and this is an oligarchy of wealth and not a republic of f^ee men. We call the atten tiou of the rich and powerful, who now seem omnipotent, to the history of the past and warn them against the danger of forcing the people to desperation. The people of the United Stott's are long suffering. They love law and order and will submit as long as hope remains, but such examples as were famished at the last election of wholesale corruption by the use of vast sums cf money will dcsttgr hope, and when that is done we havUuct the heart to predict what mast neces&trily happen, li the money powers deny tliat they are making war on free institutions, we simply cadi attention to the money they expended in the last election. No excuse exists, no apology can be given, uo explanation can be made, for the expenditures of the van sums of money* which were us»xl in the last election. It means corruption, fraud, anarchy and misrule and nothing else. The people still have faith, and they are organizing to again face the enemy of free institutions at the ballot box in 1898 land 1900. We believe1 that civil liberty is not lost, and that the people will rally and by constitutional means restore the government of the United States to the people, for whom it was ordained. If they cannot restore it, we fear that the great republic will be the last experiment of free institutions on this earth. If liberty cannot be preserved in free America, the anarchy, bloodshed and barbarism which will follow will exceed tiie accumulated horrors which history records in the destruction of former civilisations.—Silver Knight.

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