The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-18


It has filed the great offices of The
people with demagogues and pre-
tenders and put the toga and ermine
npon the shoulders of mountebanks
and millionaires.
THE CAUCUS SYSTEM.
1t maintains the vicious caucus
system. thereby subverting the man-
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.
1t accepted brides and was corrupt
ed to rob the people of their lands
and grant them TO railroad corpor-
atoms, aud to hold their political in
fluence and support, it refuses to for
felt land grants which are not earned,
to enforce the payment OF obligations
overdue, and permits them to dis
criminate and exhort in freights and
fares, and defraud and plumber the
Government and people.
ROBBERY OF THE PRESIDENCY.
To continue its hold on the offices of
the Government, and its opportunity
to plumber the public Treasury, it
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 MoNoPoLIEs AND TRUSTS.
1t has created fosterel and enriched mon
| opolies and trusts, extended expiring pat
| ents and enacted unjust and discriminatiye
| laws to destroy competition and Cypress nn-
| favored industries. IL 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, iInpoverish-
| ed and deprived of its share OF production,
| and capital has been favored and exempted
from taxation. To fctitiously increase the
price Ct domestic products. which are the
| common neeessaries OF life, II has excluded
| articles Manufactured abroad and destroyed
| our commerce with foreign nations. IL mas
invited the cheap labor OF Europe and Asia
/ to our shores and employed 1t in factory,
| furnace and mine, thus supplanting AmerI-
| can wage-wOrkers and suhjccting thetn 10 the
/ competition of imported paupers aud reduc-
| ing wages TO starvation prices. Al this mo
ment il IS proionging the session of Congress
| and wasting the peoples money in frantic
| attempt ~ increase and perpetuate the
wrongs which have already become unbear-
able.
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.
To increase the power and influence Of
| bondhUlders, corporations and trusts. and by
| the unstnted use of money 10 corrupt the
! ballot box and biibe electors, it defeated the
| popular will and restored itself to power In
1885, and to day the instruments of this Ie-
| Voting crime are lTOnored leaders
ExPuLsIos or SENATOR'S AID REPRESENTATIVES,.
To Increase its majority and augment il
power in the Lower House OF Congress il
elected u censciencrless partisan Speaker OF
the House, subveTted the rules. practices and
presidents of legislative bodies declared
| quOrums where none existed, deliberately
stole the seats oftwo Senators from Montana,
and unseated and ex PEELED the lawfully cleo
ted representatives Of The peo"ie 10 increase
Il partisan majority.
ADMISSION OF TlRRIrogIEs.
II has admitted Territories on the ground
alone that they were Republican In politics.
nad excluded other TERRITORIES of greater
population than those admitted on the sole
ground that they would send DEMOCRATIC
Senators and Representatives. to the National
Legislature.
sQuASDEmSG THE PUBLIC MONEY.
When IL succeeded TO the control of the
Government in March, 1899, tho Treasury was
I
administration of Grover Cleveland. There
was more than sl25. 100000 in excess of ali
| existing demands, and there was an annual
incoming surplus of nearly SO 100000 In
less than two years This gurplus has been
wasted, the Treasury depleted, and there
Is to day an admitted deficiency Of more than
$4,000 .00c0
THE PENSION ROLL.
With the most extravagantly liberal PEN
sion laws that ever existed since the Gov
ernment was formed, it is chiefly occupied
in passing special laws in the interest OF
partisan fav0rites who have no claim under
the general law. With an annual pension
roll exceeding Sl50.O00, U00--greater han main.
tanning the standing armies of Europe, and
more tnan Que hundred times greater than
the administration of Washington, and more
than double the cost of the Democratic adj
! ministration of lS60-it has brought forward
and advocates q service pension bill which
will add <l75.O0O,0O0 year to the already
enormous burdens Of the people.
DEMoSErIEArIoN OF SILVER.
At the dictation of capital and to increase
the value and power OF money, il demone-
tized silver in 1873 and in 1890 defeated the
passage of free coinage bill by the threats
Harrison and the Vaccinations OF Sherman,
| Window, Reed and Mckinley and the cow
| ardly acqueseence of Jones, Stewart and
Bartine, our 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 it has tempo
rarily advanced the price OF silver, yet for
the first time In the history of the nation, it
has deliberately and against the protest OF
| the people. degraded silver to commodity
| and DESTROYED its function as royal money
| metal. Democratic Congress remonetized
1 afl lint 80 hax,