Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-25
manufactured abroad, and destroyed


our commerce with foreign nations.
II has invited tho cheap labor Of
Europe and Asia to our shores, and
employed it in factory, furnace and
mine, thus sppplanting American
wage-workers, subjecting them to the
competition Of imported paupers, and
reducing wages t. starvation prices.
AT this moment it is prolonging the
session OF Congress, and wasting the
peoples money in q frantic attempt to
increase and perpetuate these wrongs
which have already become unbear-
able.
By the power and influence of bond
holders, corporations, rings and trusts,
and by the unstinted use of money to
corrupt the ballot box and bride elect
ors, it defeated the popular will ard
restored itself to power in 1883, and
to-day the instruments of this revolt
ing crime are it's honored and trusted
leaders.
To increase it's majority and aug
ment its power in the lower house of
Congress, it elected conscienceless
partisan despot, Speaker of the House;
subverted the rules, practices and
precedents Of legislative bodies; de-
clared quorums where none existed;
deliberately stole the seats of two
Senators from Montana, and unseated
and expelled the lawfully elected rep
resentatives of the people to increase
partisan majority.
1t has admitted Territories on the
ground alone that they were Republi-
can in politics, and 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.
When 1t succeeded to the control of
the Government in March, 1889, the
Treasury was overf1owing; under the
economical and honest administration
Of Grover Cleveland there was more
than one hundred and twenty-five
million dollars in excess of all exist
ing demands, and there was an annual
incoming surplus of nearly seventy
five million dollars. In less than two
years this surplus has been wasted.
the Treasury depleted, and there is
to-day an admitted deficiency of more
than fifty millions of dollars, with the
most extravagantly liberal pension
laws that ever existed since govern
ments began. It is chiefly occupied
in passing special laws in the interest
OF partisan favorites, who have no
claim under the general law. With
an annual pension roll exceeding one
hundred and fifty millions of dollars
greater than the cost of maintaining
the standing armies of Europe-and
more than hundred times greater
than the cost of the Administration
OF Washington, and more than double
the total cost of the Democratic Adj
ministration of 1860, it has brought
forward and advocates q service pen
sion bill which will add one hundred
and seventy-five million of dollars a
year to the already enormous burdens
of the people.
At the dictation OF capital and to
increase the value and power of money
it demonetized silver in 1873, and in
1890 defeated the passage of a Free
Coinage bill by the threats Of Harri-
son and the Vaccinations of Sherman,
Window, Reed and Mckinley, and
the cowardly acquiescence of Jones,
Stewart and Bartine, our own Sena-
tors and Representative in Congress.
The compromise silver bill reported
and advocated by Sherman, Of Ohio,
the arch enemy OF silver money,
though it has temporarily advanced
the price OF silver for the first time in
the history of the nation, deliberately
and against the protest Of the people,
degraded silver TO a commodity and
destroyed its function as royal
money metal. A Democratic Con-
gress remonetized silver, Republican
Presidents vetoed bills passed by
Democrats restoring silver to it's
proper place in the currency of the
country. The Bland Act was forced
upon Republican President by
Democratic votes. The great body Of
the votes in Congress in favor of sill
yer have always been cast by Demo-
Gratis, and the bulk Of the votes
against silver have invariably come
from the Republican party.
At the present session Of Congress
the Democratic Senators, with the aid
OF few Western members, forced a
free coinage measure through the
Senate, and the Democrats, with the
aid OF score of Republicans from
the silver States, would have forced
it through the House, but for the