Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-16

men that the people elect that sell themselves
to him that ought to be punished. Under
the present political system, and owing tc
the corruption of the age, it costs man a
great deal money TO get nominated for any
Office and elected to that Office In order to
come out square he, of course, sells his vote,
and whenever he finds an opportunity OF
attacking anything that he thinks has some
thing in it he does so until he is bought of.
This was the condition of affairs previous. to
my starting out. There was very little of il
while the agitation lasted, although great
many people were crying and organizing
against Kearneyism. But now, it seems to
me, after the action of the Legislature which
has just adjourned, that the people ought to
hail some more Kearneyism with joy. We
have again got into the same old rut. Dur
ing the palmy days OF our organization 1t re-
quired no money to get elected to an office.
The people themselves paid the expenses of
running for an office, and owned the men
that they elected /; but now that the agita.
ton has temporarily subsidized, the thief poll
tician again buys the office, and of course owns
it. Consequently he makes what he can out
of it. l am sorry to have to acknowledge
this, but it is fact, and the people them
selves are to blame. As far as this city Is
concerned, we elected some very good men.
They didn't keep the salary pledge, it Is
true, owing to petty prosecutions. In the
first place an attempt was made to prevent
them from taking their offices on the ground
of the salary pledge, which cost consider
able amount of money in the shape of enor-
nous fees to lawyers, etc. But taking the
officers that our party elected, as whole
they are the best that San Francisco has had
for great many years. The Supervisors are
Republican, and they have made an infamous
record. The Mayor has made
ONE BAD BREAK.
In signing the Spring Valley bill he vio-
lated his pledge. This is the only instance
that know of where any of our men vic.
lated their pledges. Kalloch, of course, has
had great deal of trouble since he accepted
our nomination. which may account for this
little breach of trust. Some people may
forgive him, but / never. If you remember,
were some parades of unemployed men and
women in this city, and the subsequent con-
domination of Chinatown, and large mass
meeting addressed by Kalloch in Union
Hall, in which took no part at all, because
I didn't like the shape things had taken. l
knew it would cause considerable excitement
and would prevent the remedy which |, as
well as those who caused the agitation, de-
sired, by throwing the Workingmen's move
ment into disrepute. / knew that the Mayor
was considerable of demagogue, and 1 OPP
posed his nomination in our convention, as l
shall certainly do again when the time comes.
Had he not acted SO foolishly at that time
Chinatown, which was declared nuisance,
could have been cleaned out, by taking one
house at time aud condemning it. Ii you
remember, a committee of 200 was organized
on or about that time, composed OF men who
were largely interested in corporations. They
put up Job, had me arrested, convicted and
sent to the House of Correction. l was after
ward liberated by the decision of the Supreme
Court. This committee of 200 organized to
hang me, but they were too cowardly to
carry out their threat, and so they undertook
to bulldoze the Courts. They succeeded in
hulldozing the Superior Court of this city,
but they couldn't bulldoze the Supreme
Court, and / left the House of Correction the
same agitator that entered it. To-day
AM THE SAME AGITAToR THAT WAS WHEN
COMMENCED,
Only poorer in pocket, but richer in knowl-
edge and experience. | fought the Republic
can and Democratic parties to the knife, and
from the knife to hilt. l was right. | am
fighting them to-day, and am going to con-
tinue to fight them until they are both de-
stroyed in this State. find no relief for the
lican parties exist, because the same thief
runs both of these parties. One time he will
run in one set, and another time the other
set. If the people of this State had stuck by
me and the principles that | advocated, they
could have turned California into garden Of
Eden. IF the farmers of the State paid some
attention to the finances of the country they,
too, could relieve themselves but it seems tc
me that the name of Democrat and Republi'
can carries with it fascination that charms
the people. The actions Of the present Leg
islature ought to convince the people of this
State of the truth of the assertion l have
made upon hundred platforms, that the
Democratic thief and the Republican robbel
last Presidential campaign, as you are
already aware, l took part with the
National Greenback Labor party, OF
Financial Reformers. OF course
had been denouncing the two chief
parties for over three years, and could not
consistently associate myself with either
But now that the Presidential campaign is
over, and the people are themselves again,
they see the error of their ways, and are
willing to acknowledge that they were wrong
and that was right. l fought the National
Banks, and it was the only point I made in
the Presidential campaign, and now l find
cause [ fought the National Banks, now
abusing the National Banks because they I'M
dertook, the other day, to dictate to Congress
and the Senate as to what kind of a refund
ing bill they should pass, and President Hayes
suecumbed to their influence The people of
California are not at all enlightened on this
financial question. They look upon the
greenback as the deprecated currency of the
war. without inquiring into the cause which
deprecated that currency. The very fact of
the Government repudiating its own currency,
and refusing to accept it for import duties,
had the effect of depreciating it. Before there
is any prosperity the people must come down
to paper money, based upon the credit of the
people themselves.
THE GOLD AND SILVER PRODUCTS OF THE
WORLD
Are decreasing. They are being used up in
the arts and sciences, ETC., and production is
decreasing. What, then, are we to do for
measure of values? We must have a
medium of exchange, and why not have it
based upon our own credit? Congress has
the power TO abolish the National Banks and
issue Treasury notes without interest to take
the place of the National Bank notes, which
world answer the same purpose as the $40,
600, 900 Of legal tender notes now outstanding.
Congress could, if necessary, issue two billion
of these Treasury notes and start in to build a
line of railroad from New York to San Fran
cisco, side by side with the Union and Cen.
trail Pacific Railroads, and fix the fares they
would charge, which would compel the Union
and Central Pacific Railroads to come down
to their figures or starve. am now only
showing what the people could do if they
only took interest enough in their own affairs
to do it. But it will take sometime vet for
the people to see this question in the same
light that l see it now. a great many
of our people oppose paper money because
California is a gold. producing State. What
has become of all the gold and silver that the
people of California have produced for the
last thirty years? What has become of all
the wheat, and wine, and WOOL and salmon,
and various other products that California
has produced?
THE PEOPLE ARE POORER
To-day than they were twenty years ago, and
will continue to be poor as long as they allow
themselves to be led by the politicians The
Jews have got them, and they propose to hold
on to them with firm grip. | am not in the
humor tonight to enter into a long discussion
on the financial issues of the country, but
will reserve that for some future time, and
will return to what propose to do in the fu-
ture. 1t is certain that the actions of the
present Legislature have completely demon
allied both the Democratic and Republican
parties in this State. In this city we expect
to have an election next September l pro.
pose to take an active part in that election.
The Citizens Municipal Reform party will
he orpaniZad upon four propositions First