The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-11

NontlATys III OehSAS
with high Office.
MILLIONAIRE LEGISLATORS.
It has filled the greas offices OF the
people with demagogues and pre-
tenders and put the toga and ermine
upon the shoulders of monntebanks
and nillionaires.
THE CAUCUS SYSTEM.
1t maintains the vicious caucus
system, thereby subverting the maui
hood and Independence OF our rep
resentatives. It puts the success of
the party above the country and
happiness OF the people.
sERvILETY TO RAILROADS.
II accepted brides and was corrupt
ed to rob The people OF their lands
and grant them to railroad corpor-
atoms, and to hold their political in
fiuence and support, 1t refuses to for
felt land grants which are not earned,
to enforce the payment of obligations
overdue, aud permits them 10 dis
criminate andexhort In freights and
fares, and defraud and plumber the
Government and people.
ROBBERY OF THE PRESIDENCY.
TO continue It's hold on the offices of
the Government, and its opportunity
to plumber the public Treasury, IL
menaced the country with war, de-
frauded the people of their choice for
President, inaugurated Hayes, the
defeated candidate, brought elective
institutions into contempt and con-
summated the most stupendous crime
ever perpetrated against free people.
FOSTERING noSoPoLIEs AND TRUSTS.
1t has created. fostered aud enriched mon
opolics and trusts, extended expiring pat
ents. and enacted unjust and dscriminatiye
laws to destroy competition and oppress un-
favored industries. Ii has enacted an cxor-
bitant and unnecessary tariff for the sole
purpose'of multiplying the already enormous
and excessive wealth. Under this vicious
policy labor has been degraded, impoverisl-
ed and deprived of its share OF production,
and capital has been favored and exempted
from taxation. To fictifiously increase the
price II domestic products, which are the
common necessaries of life. 1t has excluded
articles manufactured abroad aud destroyed
our commerce with foreign nations. Il has
invited the cheap labor of Europe and Asia
to our shores and employed IL in factory,
furnace and mine, thus suppianting Ameri-
can wage-workcrs and subjecting them to the
competition OF imported paupers and rednc-
ing wages TO starvation prices. AT this mo-
ment il is proI0nging the session of Congress
and wasting the peoples money In a frantic
attempt to increase and perpetuate the
wrongs which have already become unbear-
able.
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.
To increase the power and influence of
bOndholders, corporations and trusts. and by
the unstinted use of money to corrupt the
ballot box and bible electors, IL defeated the
popular will and restored itself to power Ia
1855, and to day the instruments OF this To-
voting crime arc hon0red leaders
EXPULSION OF SENATOR'S AND REPRESENTATIVES,.
To increase its majority and augment It's
power in tho Lower House Of Congress II
elected a conscirnceless pa rtisan Speaker OF
the House, snbverted the rules. practices and
precedentr of legislative bodies. declared
quorums where none existed. deliberately
stole the seats oftwo Senators from Montana,
aud unseated and expelled the lawfully elec-
tod representatives of the people to increase
a partisan majority.
ADMISSION oF TERRITORIES.
1t has admitted Territories on the ground
alone that they we're Republican In politics.
and excluded other TERRITORIES of GREATER
population than those admitted on the sole
ground that they would send Democratic
Legislature.
sQUANDERsG THE PUBLIC MONEY.
When IL succeeded to tho control Of the
Government In March. 1889. the Treasury wa
overfiowing under the economical and hon EST
administration Of Grover Cleveland. There
was more than si25, 100000 In excess of MI
existing demands, and there was an annual
incoming surplus Of nearly s75.OOO,0OO In
less than two years this surplus has been
wasted, the Treasury depleted, and there
ls 10 day an admitted deficiency Of more than
$50, 000, 0U00.
THE PENSION ROLL.
With tho most extravagantly liberal PEN
sion laws that ever existed since the Gov
ernment was formed, 1t is chiefly occupied
in passing special laws in the interest oil
partisan favorites who have no claim under
the general law. With an annual pension
roll exceeding Sl5O.OO0, O00-gFeatert than main.
tanning the standing armies Of Europe, and
more than one hundred times greater than
the administration Of Washington, and more
than double the cost of the Democratic adj
ministration OF iS60-it has brought forward
and advocates q service pension bill which
will add $175.000,000 a year to the already
enormous burdens OF the people.
DEMONSTRATION on smvER.
AT the dictation Of capital and to increase
tized silver In 1878 and In 1880 defeated the
passage Of free coinage bill by the threats
Harrison and the installations of Sherman,
Window, Reed and Mckinley and the cow
ardly scquiescence OF Jones, Stewart and
Bartine, cur Senators and Representative
In Congress.
THE GoLD-BUG BILL.
The compromise Silver Bill reported and
advocated by Sherman OF Ohio, the arch
enemy of silver money, though IL has tempo
rarily advanced the price OF silver, yet for
the first time In the history OF the nation, ii
has deliberately and against the protest OF
tho people. degraded silver 70 commodity