People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — EMPEROR GROVER! [ARTICLE]

EMPEROR GROVER!

The Money Power Would Give Cleveland That Power. At the meeting of the Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Association at Atlanta, Ga., Capt. J. H. Martin, of Memphis, exclaimed, in the course of a speech: “Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, receives a salary of |50,000 a year. He should be given >IOO, 000 and be elected for life!” The press report of the occurrence says: “Hardly had the words been uttered when cheer after cheer fairly shook the walls of the building and reached to the street beyond. Time and again President Leigh rapped hid gravel for order, but the shout still went up, while men waved their hats, wildly applauding a sentiment so expressive of their individual convictions.” “The empire is at peace—let us have peace.” That is the sentiment of the. gold-worshipers. The infamous plot put on foot during the civil war by the money power to destroy republican institutions, and aided by Governor Morton, of New York, is now being actively pushed. The American republic is in far more danger to-day than during the darkest ■hours of the civil war. That power of greed that has ground the people of every nation into degradation is steadily pushing its insidious work, and its aim is monarchy and despotism. The first steps are the gold standard and the standing army. The beginning of the end is here, and the demonstration over King Grover at Atlanta is in line with the other developments of the past few months. With the financial system of England grinding labor into the earth; with an ever increasing burden of interestbearing bonds to enslave the people; with the purchased decision of the Supreme court, which frees wealth from taxation and piles the burdens of government on labor; with the power given corrupt and venal judges to make laws above the constitution and to abolish the right of trial by jury—with all the wrongs staring us in the face as recent developments, coupled with the wild applause of the infernal, brutal suggestion of monarchy, why should not every true man prepare to resist the encroachment of despotism, if necessary with force? The fight between liberty and despotism is on, and it is a fight to a finish. The people must arouse themselves for resistance.- We must win the conflict—“peaceably if we can—forcibly if we must!” We must win, or be slaves to tyrants!—Kentucky Populist.