People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — GROVER A HYPOCRITE [ARTICLE]

GROVER A HYPOCRITE

PUBLICLY ADVERTISES HIS HYPOCRISY AT ATLANTA. Hot One Pablle Act of the President H»« Been Conspicuous A* Tending Toward Promoting the General Welfare Wholly a Servant of Monopoly. President Cleveland said in his speech at Atlanta, Ga.: “We shall walk in the path of patriotic duty if, remembering that our free institutions were established to promote the general welfare, we strive for those things which benefit all our people and each of us is content to receive from a common fund his share of the prosperity thus contributed. We shall miss our duty and forfeit our heritage if, in narrow selfishness, we are heedless of the general welfare and struggle to wrest from the government private advantages which can only be gained at the expense of our fellow countrymen.” The sentiment contained in the above is good, very good, but Mr. Cleveland has acted out the very opposite. What act of Mr. Cleveland since his inauguration has tended to “promote the general welfare?” Does the establishment of the gold standard promote the “general welfare?” If so, robbing the masses and fattening the classes is Mr. Cleveland’s idea of serving the “general welfare.” Did the negotiations with a foreign bank syndicate to furnish gold to maintain a useless gold reserve at a profit to the syndicate of not less than $30,000,000 thereby in addition piling a gold principal and interest debt on future generations, “promote the general welfare,” or was it “wresting from the government private advantages?” Was the act of ordering out the federal army to shoot down laboring men In the Chicago railroad strike inspired by a desire to “promote the general welfare” or the welfare of the railroad corporations? Not one public act of the present executive has been conspicuous as tending toward promoting the general welfare, but rather to promoting the welfare of trusts and combines, the banks and money combinations.

The success of combinations of capital must come from the depression of the welfare of the people. When combinations of capital are profitable that profit must come from the ruin of some other interest. Combines live from robbing the general welfare, and without robbery they could not exist a day. Mr. Cleveland’s course has been wholly devoted to promoting the welfare of the combinations of capital, which necessarily results to the detriment of the public welfare. It could not possibly be otherwise.

After the record Mr. Cleveland has made by his every public act, favoring special welfares instead of the public welfare, it is not only cheeky, but an insult to an intelligent people for him to hypocritically proclaim his devotion to the public welfare. The people judge a man by his acts rather than by his words. If Mr. Cleveland had followed in the footsteps of the immortal Jackson and seized the money monster by the neck a»J choked the life out of it, he then could consistently call upon the people to sanction his advocacy and practice of upholding the public welfare. He has done the reverse. He has rather choked the life out of the public, laid waste the heritage of the common people and aided plutocracy to enter into the homes of the masses of wealth producers and confiscate them to their use and profit. Then to talk about "striving to do these things which benefit all our people V* Bosh! A man who will thus publicly advertise his hypocrisy should have been hissed from the stand, even though he may, by some ill-fate to the people, hold the office of chief executive. The things that are Caesar’s should be rendered unto Caesar, but the things that belong to the people they should demand and enjoy. If Caesar is not content with the things that are his, but seeks to rob, oppress and enslave the people, then the sooner such a Caesar encounters a Brutus, the sooner the people will enjoy their inalienable rights.—Southern Mercury.

It is well that President Cleveland issued his Thanksgiving proclamation before the election returns were in —else he might not have been in a fitting frame of mind to have rendered thanks to the “Giver of every good and perfect gift for the bounteous returns that have rewarded our labors in the fields.” He asks the people to remember the poor and needy, “and by deeds of charity let us show the sincerity of our gratitude:” Rank hyprocisy—the whole proclamation. It is true that God has bounteously bestowed His good gifts upon the American pefople—and for that we are thankful. But the people who deserved them have not received the gifts—and Grover Cleveland is one of the conspirators who has prevented God’s plans being carried out. Why should he blaspheme God and insult the American people by assuming gratitude to the one and fatherly care over the other. The issuing of a Thanksgiving proclamation is a mere form and some clerk no doubt composed Mr. Cleveland’s epistle after the customary and regular form prescribed in the book of traditionary etiquette for the guidance of presidents—but the whole thing is a sham, a pretense, an empty formality. Real gratitude to God needs no sealing-wax and official signatures. Say. you fellows that voted for the democratic office-seekers and prosperity, don’t you want to give your party another chance? Come, now; don’t be bashful, don’t you want some more prosperity—the same brand we have been having for two years?