The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

MILLIONAIRE LEGISLATORS.
1t has filled the great offices Of the
people with demagogues and pre-
tenders and put the toga and ermine
upon the shoulders of mountebanks
and millionaires.
THE CAUCUS SYSTEM.
1t maintains the vicious caucus
system, thereby subvertip5 the man
hood and independence of our rep
resentatives. 1t puts the success of
the party above the country and
happiness of the people.
sERyILErY TO RAILROADS.
1t 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, and permits them to dis
criminate and exhort in freights and
fares, and defraud aud 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, 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-
summarized the most stupendous crime
ever perpetrated against free people.
FOSTERING MoSoroLIEs AND TRUSTS.
1t has created. fostered and enriched mon
opolics and trusts, extended expiring pat
ents, and enacted unjust and discriminative
laws to destroy competition and Cypress un-
favored industries. 1t has enacted an exor-
bitant and unn ecessary tariff for the sole
purpose'of multiplying the already enormous
and excessive wealth. Under this vicious
policy labor has been degraded, impoverish-
cd 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 necessaries OF life. 1t has excluded
articles manufactured abroad and destroyed
our commerce with foreign nations. IL has
iuvited the cheap labor of Europe and Asia
to our shores and employed IL in factory,
furnace and mino, thus supplanting Ameri-
can wage-workcrs and subjecting them 10 the
competition Of imported paupers and reduce
ing wages TO starvation prices. Al this mo
ment il Is proonging the session Of Congress
and wasting the peoples money in frantic
attempt 10 increase and pefpetuate the
wrongs which have already become unbcar-
able.
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.
70 increase the power and influence of
bOndholders, corporations and trusts. and by
the unstinted uso of money to corrupt the
ballot box and bible electors. ID defeated tho
popular will and restored itself 10 power In
1888, aud to day the instruments Of this fe-
Voting crinio are honorcd leaders
EXPULSION OF SENATOR'S AND REPRESENTATIVES,.
TO increase its majority and augment its
power in the Lower House Of Congress IL
elected u canscienceless partisan Speaker OF
the House, subvcrtcd the rules. practiccs and
preCcdenta of legislative bodies declared
querums where none existed. deliberately
stole the seats Of two Senators from hOntana.
and unseated and expelled the lawfully elrc-
ted representatives of The people To increase
partisan g1ajoity.
ADMISSION or TERRITORIES.
1t has admitted Territories on the ground
alone that they were Republican In politics.
ald excluded other TERRITORIES of greater
population than those admitted on tho sole
ground that they wound send Democratic
Senators and Representatives to the National
Legislature.
sQUANDERiSG THE PUBLIC MONEY.
Whom ii succeeded TO the control of the
Government In March. 1889. tho Treasury was
overlooking under the economical and honest
administration Of Grover Cleveland. There
was moro than St25, 0O0UO in excess Of all
existing demands, aud there was an annual
incoming surplus of nearly SIS OO,0O0 In
less than two years this surplus has been
wasted, tho Treasury depleted, and there
Is to day IN admitted deficiency Of more than
$50, 900 COCO.
THE PENSION ROLL.
With the most extravagantly liberal PEN
sion laws that ever existed since the Gov
ernment was formed, Ii il 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 SlJ0,U00, MW-greater than main
tanning the standing armies of Europe, and
more than one hundred times greater than
tho administration of Washington, and more
than double the cost Of the Democratic ad.
ministration OF l66O-it has brought forward
and advocates a service pension bill which
win add $175,000,00O a year to the already
enormous burdens of the people.
DEMONSTRATION OF SILVER.
At the dictation of capital and to increase
tho value and power OF money. 1t demone-
tized silver In 1873 and In 1890 defeated the
passage Of free coinage bill by tho threats
Harrison and the machinations of sherman,
ardy acquiescence Of Jones, Stewart and
Bartine, eur Senators and Representative
in Congress.
THE ooLD-BUG BILL.
The compromise Silver Bill reported and
advocated by Sherman of Ohio, the arch
enemy OF silver money, though 1t has tempo
rarily advanced the price OF silver, yet for
the fret time In the history OF the nation IL
has deliberately and against the protest OF
the people. degraded silver TO commodity
and DESTROYED Its function rs q royal money
metal. A Democratic Congress remonetzed