Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 March 1900 — Page 5

CAMPAIGN OUTLINED. William J. Bryan Sounds the Keynote For 1900. !. •• MONEY QUESTION A LIVE ISSUE. -rPrinciples of Democracy an Enunciated In lie Cbicaso riot form to Be MninSaicetl — Plutocracy's Forces Arraml Asninst the People—One Slim'S l/rosperlty. ColwrtKi William .1; Bryan, la his speech at the" banquet of the William .L liryau league at Chicago, said in part: When this club met three years ago, it’was for the purpose of renewing their allegiance to those principles which hail gone down to temporary defeat. When it met two years ago. we exchanged congratulations upon a year’s {Progress toward that final triumph which we all believe awaits our ' cause. When the members of this club met a year ago. they proclaimed to the eo tin try their position upon the new questions which were thrown into the political arena as the result of the war with Spain, and they meet tonight upon the eve of the campaign.of 1U00 to announce to the people of this nation that the Democrats of this the chief -commercial center of this great western country stand full armored for the fight waiting only the signal of command-that shall issue from the national convention.

. f Miun « li;i i juif cuuipiiigu win ue. We now know the lines upon which it shall be fought. although we cannot tell what circumstances between now and then shall aid or binder us in the contest. The Chicago platform will be in the next campaign. The rear of 1S06.showed how the rank and file, when it was necessary, "could overthrow a recreant leadership and determine the policy of a party, and the last three years have shown how the plain voters*, when once their conscience. their judgment and their determination are aroused, can withstand ail the influences that have tried to turn them away from the party’s creed. Plutocracy won in 181X1. and the influences of plutocracy have been at work ever since 1S1M5 to destroy the platform adopted in 180(1. but all these influences have been exerted in vain, and after three y<*ars of effort they have not beeu able to take from that platform one plank, one line or otie syllable put there by the last national convention, and as I have watched the vain effort that has been made here and there from time to time and have watched the people standing steadfast against every inducement, every blandishment and every threat 1 have thought -of the waves jhat roll up from the ocean and break upon the shore and then fall back into the sea. As little Influence have the plutocratic forces of this country exerted-upon the rank aud file of Democracy in three years as the waves exert upon the shore. The money question is not dead. Aft er a continuous burial of more than three years the Republicans aeceutu ated the question by introducing in congress a bill that would have condemned that party to overwhelming defeat if it had been suggested in tinpresident’s letter of acceptance in' 1890. a bill that the Republican party would not have dared to go before tlie country on iu 1S9G and yet a bill which is being forced now under the whip and spur through congress and to the "White House fc»st they shall never have a chance to do it again. They could not have secured this bill from the congress elected in 1S9G. They could not have .secured its passage by that congress. They had to wait until the people were engaged in a war begun for humanity, and then, while the people were intent Upon a war begun to bring political independence to the

people of Cuba, the financiers completed a capture of congress that would make the people of the United States depeudent upou a few financiers iu the United States. Not satisfied with trying to chain this nation to the gold standard and thus disturb our finances by every disturbance that atilicts the nations of the old world, they seek to establish a money trust and turn over the control of the paper money of this country to men who will deal as mercilessly with-the people of this country as Weyler did with the reeoueentnulos of Cuba. You know what the gold staudard Lacans. Why. when the English army lost three battles iu South Africa and ' there was disturbance in London it manifested itseif in New York, and it was necessary for the great financiers to rush in with ten millions of dollars io bring interest down from 1S(> per •cent and necessary for the treasury to step in and help Wall street out. If a few reversals In a war with a handful •of Boors shake New York wit!) a gold staudard. what will your gold standard do if England ever fiuds a uation of her size and begins war against her? And yet there are people in this country who see no danger in thus, by law. confining the legal tender money of this nation to the control of people who live outside of the United States. And in addition, as 1 suggested, they want to turn over the control of our paper trtoopy to the national banks. The contest for bimetallism at 10 to 1 has not been lost in the United States. The increased production of gold does not settle the money question. The Increased production of gold has simply shown the advantage pf more money. #»nd it has answered forever the argu- ^ jiKjit of ‘.*0 years’ standing that we , .cannot maintain the parity between gold and silver because of overproduction of silver If the overproduction .of silver made it difficult to maintain tfbc parity, will not the increased pro

! . ,. i j Jd< tiou of gold make it easier to main- | tain the purity ? Does that settle the question? Bait men tell you we do not need bimetailistu because we now have more gold. 1 want to remind you that these men who want a gold standard are the very men who have worked for it for more than 20 years, and they do not now use a single argument that they used before. They are now using new arguments, discovered since the election, depending u|>on things that they did i not count upon, but our reply to them | Is that If the production of more gold means more money and better times then the unexpected discovery has given to the American people an opportunity to observe the advantages hoped for by bimetallism, but which would have been denied to the American people by those goldbugs had it not been for the interference of nature, which they did not count upon, but if this'increased money which was brought about by the increased production of gold is good it cannot confer as much benefit as would be brought about by that same increase which would be brought about by the use of silver also. They talk about prosperity. Yes. there has been some prosperity; but, my friends, the larger portion of that prosperity has gone, not to the masses of the people, but to the few who have been favored specially by Republican legislation. TRUSTS ARE RUINOUS. They Benefit n Few at the Expense of the Mums of the People. There art- no advantages in trusts except to the trusts themselves. So far as the multitude are concerned they are detrimental and ruinous. Says Mr. | Bryan on this subject in his address before the Chicago antitrust conference;

“I want now to road to you a few of the advantages to be derived by the trusts from tike trust system. 'Raw material bought in large quantities is secured at lower prices.’ That is the first advantage. One than to buy wool must sell it at the price fixed by this one purchaser in the United States. The first thing is to lower the price of raw material. The great majority of the people are engaged in the production of raw material and iu the purchase of finished products. Comparatively few can stand at the head of syndicates and monopolies and secure the profits from* them. Therefore the first advantage of a monopoly is to lower the price of the raw material furbished by the people. Note the next advantage. Those plants which are best equipped .vid most advantageously situated are run continuously and in preference to those less favored.’ “The next thing, after they have, bought all the factories, is to close some of them aud to turn out of employment the men who are engaged in them. If you will go about over the country, you will see where people have subscribed money to establish enterprises and where these enterprises. having come under the control of the trusts, have been closed and stand now as silent monuments of the trust system.” OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS Repnblii’tia Administration Gives Pruul's of Its 3!etMlacity. George's Weekly of Deuver finds abuudant evidence of the Scriptural truth that “iniquity hath lied unto itself” by condemning the Republican administration out of its own mouth aud paralleling the proof with holy writ. The cause iu which your soldiers are fighting * * * is the cause of civilization and peace. The men behind the guns in Manila today are iu front of the schoolhouse, of law and order and will be followed by the men with the textbook and Bible.—Secretary Root.

I am for expansion, and we’re going to expand. This is a nation for expansion. It is a great missionary movement. True, it will <,*ost lots of American blood, but 1 know of no better way to serve one’s country than to give up life for it.—Bishop Fowler. Different prophets have been sent by God to illustrate his different attributes—Moses ids clemency and providence; Solomon his wisdom, majesty and glory; Jesus Christ his righteousness. omniscience and power. * * * None of those attributes, however, has beeu sufficient to enforce conviction, and even the miracles of Moses j and Jesus have lieen treated with uubeiief. 1. therefore, the last of the j prophets, am sent with the sword| Let j those who promulgate my faith enter into no argument or discussion, but j slay fall who refuse obedience to the law.—Mohammed. Put. up again th.v sword into his place, for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.—Jesus. An Epoch Sinking; Decision. The decision of this nhtion ou the Philippines question will he an epoch makiug decision. We stand at the parting of the ways and must choose between the doctrine of republic and the doctrine of empire. At this -supreme crisis in our nation's history we may well recall the words of Lowell: Once to every man an<t nation comes the moment to decide In the strife of truth with falsehood For the Rood or evil side— Some great cause, (tod's new Messiah. Offering each the hlooin or blight. Parts the goats.upon the left hand And the sheep upon the right, j' And the choice got-s-by forever ‘ ‘Twixt that darkness and that light. —W. J. Bryan at Omaha The People Will Pay. The Standard Oil crowd has got possession of the New York Gas. Electric ! Light. Heat and Power company, and j the citizens will soon begin to make good to the Standard Oil the shrinkage in values recently effected in Wall i street by the same gang.

"PRIVATE BUSINESS.*' Mr, CaK*'» Ccwr Ideas as to Has? (IlliiS tilt* People's Money. Mr. McKinley lias reached the opinion that the l.epuhlicau administration owns the Lulled States treasury as Its private proi>e;ty. “Six weeks ago.” says the New York World, “Mr. Gage (Philip sober) said that to lend the government revenues to |«irtieulat banks would be an unwarranted favoritism.” Since then,Mr. Gage (Philip drunk) has decided to turn the entire internal revenue, about £100,000,000 a year, over to a pet bauk to lend ottt for its own protit. Secretary Gage and Treasurer Ilob- . erts declare that tkis is"“a confidential arrangement bet weep the treasury and the bank” concerning which the people are entitled to no information whatever. Yet the money thus lent withoul Interest is the people’s money. Why are they'under no obligation to tell tli€ people what use they are making ot their money? This is worse anti more dangerous than the act of the Cleveland administration. which created so much outcry over a very much smaller stun deposited in widely scattered banks. in Jackson's time the United States bank, with only $9.000.000 of government money, created so much corruption in politics that it was overthrown If that comparatively small bank tc preserve its privileges corrupted congressmen. bought senatorial seats and interfered with presidential elections, is there no political danger in the endowment of the National City bank with hundreds of millions of interna! revenue receipts by an administration that is asking an extension of its lease of power? THE BLIGHT OVER ALL.

Ho it the Trouts Operate to Kill Man* ufaeturintE Towns. The case of Bridgeport. O.. is an example of the trust blight, that insidious disease which is gradually eating iuto the heart of what were once flourishing manufacturing localities. The-condition is one that existed oc the first day of the prosperous uew year 1900. “The blighting influences of trusts are l>egibuiug to be felt unmistakably in this city. The Crystal and West Virginia glass factories were in December absorl>ed by the National Class company, the tableware combine. The Crystal in snine years had never been idle except for repairs or to take stock, but within three weeks after the combine took hold the entire plant, employing 4.”rt men. closed dowu for an indefinite period; The West Virginia factory, employing 2-*>0 men. is idle, but no orders to dose indefinitely Lav* been received, although they are ex pected. The steel and tin {date trust has a iso dealt the city a severe blow At the i'tua works of the steel yust between dot) and 700 men have been idle five months. The general utauager of the old plant has been drop pod. his duties go'Ug to an assistant This takes a $r>.6oO salary away at one stroke, but half a dozen salaried officials are to go soou. the combined salary of which will approach $20,000. At the LaughUn plant of the tin trust in Marttu's Ferry 1.400 men have been idle four months and ail high salaried officers, while all hut oue of seven clerks have been turned adrift.” • PEOPLE ARE TO BLAME. They G^t the Kind of Government They Vote For. It is -uot required that the poot should run the government for the benefit of the poor uor that the rich should run it for their 6wn?betxefit. The right kind of government is one that is run for the benefit of ail the people, Wheu ever the government goes astray and favors a special class it is no longer a government of the people, by the people. for the people. Who is to blame for our present maladministration ol affairs is explained by the Ohio Pa triot:

“reople get just the kind of govern meut they vote for. If we allow tht rich to run the polities of the country you may expect them to enact laws that will build up their fortunes. gnd while they are massing their millions we are economizing to meet our little obligations. The government ought tc run the railroads and trusts, but fu. stead the railroads aud trusts run tht government, and they make out ot their business all they cau. The people are fools to allow it. but if they enjoy poverty at their homes that they may look upon opulence, graudeut and wealth iu the homes of the millionaires, it is all right, but please ex ease us. We are willing to work for our bread, but in doing so we want a fair show. In other words, after we have earned our bread we do not want to give too much of it away to enrich our already rich neighbors.” What We May Expect. For the benefit of the Democracy we hope that Mr. Hanna will iusist once more ou standing i# the limelight of the Republican stage wlyn the uext election is held. But if Mr. McKinley has his ear to the ground so constantly als his admirers believe we may expect Mr. Hauha to be intrusted with an important and delicate mission to foreign parts when the campaign comes ou.— San Francisco Examiner. Ccpnparv Them. How does the numl>er of factory operatives whose wages have been raised by “prosperity” compare with the number who have,been discharged altogether by the closing dowu by the trusts of factories wherein they worked ’—Burlington Democrat-Journal. When a man has robbed a thousand people out of a million dollars. thettavv protects him <against the vengeance of his victims, but the law does nof protect the victims against the robbery.

Testimonies. Below are the names of a few persons we have fitted and adjusted glasses for during the past few weeks: F mbree Lamb, Petersburg. James Rumble, Rumble. * Peb. C. Hammond, Petersburg. Thomas Osgathorpe. Otwell. Ira D. Stephens, Petersburg. Jerome Borer* Union. Mrs. J. W. Bergen, Petersburg. Mrs. John H. Viehe. Petersburg. Miss Flora Brumfieid, Petersburg, Isaac Whitaker, Petersburg. A. J. Scales, Petersburg. Miss Lillie Bowman, Petersburg.' Mrs. A. R. Byers, Petersburg. If your eyes are troubling you enqu re of the above persons what satis-1 faction and pleasure they received j from their glasses. Examination free, I Call on HAMMOND & KIME. Petersburg, Indiana.

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