People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — IS GROVER A TRAITOR? [ARTICLE]

IS GROVER A TRAITOR?

J* Tim* of Wkr Hi* Secret OMiftna; Wool a Be Tnmoo. If our country were in. a state of war wftb Great Eritr in and President Cleveland were to tecretely meet and conspire with the agents of that country he would ha arretted, court-martialed, and shot or hanged as a traitor. The country is in a state of war, not with Great Britain as a nation, but with British capitalists. There is a hand-to-hand, life-and-death struggle going on between the toiling, struggling classes and the capitalistic class. Ours is no leee a state of war than if it were more tangibly expressed by encamped soldiery, by pointed bayonet and canon. The sick and wounded, dying and dead victims of this deadly struggle in every city, every hamlet, at every mining camp, factory, machine shop and by the road side from the Atlantic to the Pacific. By way'of business investment Great Britain has captured our railways, our stocks, bonds and securities of every sort By way of legislation at our national capital Great Britain has captured our finances. We have here at the white house as nominal president of the United States the tool, the agent and the hired spy of British capitalism. With awful audacity, and with titanic insolence President Cleveland has within the past fortnight held conference with the enemies of this nation He has not only acceded to their dictation bnt with stupendous effrontery has Bent his sub-traitor Carlisle intc the very citadel of the nation, into the national house of legislation with a treason black copy of the terms of surrender which the British foe exacted O, American patriots, has every drop of the red blood of ’76 pales and washed out to t'_in watei under the poisonous dripping from the upas tree of partyism? How like fierce wild beasts you would pursue this traitor Cleveland were he s spy from the enemy’s soldier camp But Just because the treason is political the people bend the knee and bow the head in ignorant, helpless superstition and let our great republic be delivered soul and body into the possession of the enemy. What ought to be done with the traitor Cleveland? Why he should be impeached and dismissed forever to expatriotism and to the awful doom ol disfranchised, execrated foe to the republic. He ought neither to be mobbed, shot or hanged. It never does any good to take life. Besides hanging is too gnod for Cleveland.—Anna L. Diggs, In Topeka Advocate.