Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-22
TUESDAY, APRIL &c, 1890.
THE MARPLoT WINDOW.

THE MARPLOT WINDOW.
Perhaps the most peculiar and inn
pudent pronunciamento ever presented
to the people of the United States is
embodied in the notions formulated by
Secretary Window in reply to the stric-
lures of Western friend on the features
of the bill suggested by him requiring
the redemption of the silver certificates
issued on the deposit of silver bullion,
coined into standard dollars, in silver
bullion, instead OF lawful money of the
United States. He talks as if silver
were copper, tim, iron, or some other
metal that had never been recognized as
money except by the Spartans, Romans,
or some other antique peoples.
This man Window once lived in the
West, and he figures now as an APP
;pointee to Harrison's cabinet from that
section. He is one of Blaine's men.
Blaine caused him to be appointed to
the cabinet OF President Garfield, and
did the same substantial service for him
in 1888, with Harrison. When he went
into Garfeld's cabinet in 1881, Window
was really resident of the West. He
had lived in Minnesota and been SEN
ator from that State. From the time he
left Garfeld's cabinet, however, he was
really citizen of New York City.
Without an interruption from that date,
he occupied an Office in Wall street, and
busted himself in speculations on the
Reading railway stocks and other
specialties of that fascinating kind. He
is Wall street Through and through, and
the interests represented there and on
Change in London never had more
subservient tool than in this same Win
dom.
The supreme cheek which enables
him to ignore the conspiracy which de-
monetized silver in 1873, in the face of a
Senate report, drawn up by Republi-
cans, which showed the details OF that
notable crime, rs worthy of that sort of
admiration which pure, undefecated,
dephlegmated gall may well extort.
This fellow Window is evidently una
ware OF the fact that, prior to 1873,
silver was as good medium of money
exchange as gold He speaks OF the
pride which the government of the
United States takes in maintaining the
high character of it's money. This
would show that he is ignorant of or
ignores the infamous trick by which
the bonds of the United States were
made payable in gold coin. Old Thad
Stevens said that he, as Chairman of the
Republican Committee of Ways and
Means, which framed the bill, ought to
know what the intent of the law was,
and he solemnly declared that the mean
ing as well as the letter OF the law was
States should be payable in lawful
money, gold, silver and greenbacks.
The people of this country have been
betrayed so often, though never so sig
nally as in that instance, that they have
become used to it; and chump states
men, like Windoan, have come to believe
that they can talk like solemn asses, in
tent on selling out the masses, without
any special wonder. They have an
abiding under-current of belief that the
average citizen is only provided with a
nose in order that it may be tweaked by
some impudent mountebank, whose
only qualification for dealing out moni-
tions to his fellow-citizens is that his
cheek is sevenfold thicker than the hide
of rhinoceros.
The whole people of the civilized
world are waiting with great anxiety to
see great nation, like the United
States, lead off in restoring silver to its
old and rightful status as money. The
mere intimation that we may have
remedial legislation from Congress has
already been sufficient to send silver
mounting up towards par with gold with
the rapidity with which the mercury
ascends in the thermometer on hot
day at Yuma. 1t is at this stage that
this Wall street stool-pigeon puts in an
appearance to cheat the world OF its
long hoped for, often deferred redemp-
tion from servitude to the creditor
classes. What the Congress of the
United States should do is to copper his
suggestions, legislate in the interest of
silver, giving the people either the Sen
ate bill or free coinage, and if Mr.. Sec
retary Window dares to try to interrupt
the programme, to impeach and remove
him.
If the Republican party shall fail at
this session of Congress to give the peo-
pile the relief they need and demand, it
is for all time to come moribund or
ganization.
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