The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-06-20
POLITICAL ISSUES.
What MissOuri's Little Giant" Thinks
OF the Situation.
STILL THE ADVOCATE OF SILVER.
And all that is Democratic and for
the Good OF the People.

:lnS inilS ol IL phiiti''' h'"" ht'uic W
he discussed.
81 have been at San Antonio, TeX.,n
said he, 'sfor six weeks and have tried
to think as little rs possible about poll
ties and politicians.
"Wcrc you there when the president
went tlrough?'
..Ycs. And he was received as the
president of the United States should
have been. Whatever else may be
said of the southern people they can
not be truthfully charged with want of
hospitality, and they treated Harrison
as if he had not done all in his power
to pass the force bill and to ruin the
south irretrievably.''
ado you think the force bill will be
brought forward again by the republi-
canS?''
"Yes. OF course it cannot pass con-
gress, but Harrison will urge it in his
next message, and the republican
national platform will indorse it. For
them to ignore it now would be a re-
pudiatiOn of Harrison's administration,
and then, you know, the g. o. p. never
goes backward. Their boast is that
the party is one of progress, although
it takes the last dollar in the treasury
to pay for the procession.
THE NEXT FIGHT.
"Oh, yes, our friends will make the
next fight on the Mckinley bill, the
force bill and reciprocity. When Bay
ard, Cleveland's Secretary of State,
urged reciprocity, or limited free trade,
the republicans sneered at it but when
Blaine put on Bayard's old clothes
they changed the tune, and claimed it
as a great and original discovery.
81 see that the Republican papers
have q great deal to say now about
cheap sugar. For ten years we have
been asking why an Englishman could
buy twenty pounds of sugar for dol
lar, while an American could buy only
ten pounds, and the republicans swore
it was a lie; that the tariff tax on
sugar did not increase the cost to the
consumer. The democrats in the last
congress tried to put sugar on the free
list, but the reliners had power enough
to defeat in, and if anyone wants some
interesting reading on that subject, |
refer him to the columns of the repub-
lican papers last winter as to the whole
sugar arrangement. ! read some of
these articles in the senate during the
tariff debates.
''It is an interesting inquiry why all
the tariff duty was not taken off sugar,
and why II subsidy was given the sugar
producers to make up for the reduction
of cost, of which we now hear so
much.
at is just this sort of class legisla-
ton which has created the Alliance.
"The farmers can't see why money
should be taken from the treasury to
subsidize shipowners and sugar produc-
ers, when the wheat and corn-growers
get nothing but the privilege of paying
the subsidy.
"Nor can they understand why they
should be made to pay more for cloth
ing, hardware and other necessaries to
enrich certain manufacturers.
| ''If reducing the tariff on sugar low
ers the cost to the consumer, why not
saries of life? Besides this, they can't
understand why the national banks
can deposit United States bonds and
receive bank notes to be loaned the
farmers when they are denied the right
of depositing their produce and receiv-
ing notes at low interest.
1.-The republicans have taught the
farmers that class legislation is right,
and now, when called on to swallow
| tha J,,I,i nhnn,n hlinan
| friends discover the evils of paternal
government
HIS OPINION OF CLEVELAND.
"What do you think now of Cleve-
land?n
"What have always thought-that
he is brave, honest man, but as
wrong on the silver question, as it is
possible for any man to be. | can un-
derstand how republican party is for
class privilege and class Legislation.
They are controlled by the money
power and naturally incline TO the
money-lenders.
| 81 can't understand how a democrat
like Cleveland is against silver.
'.The constitution puts gold and sill
1
gold miner takes his bullion to Il gov
ernment mint it is coined into money
tor him free of charge, while the silver
miner, with his silver bullion, is turned
away as if a public enemy.
| CONSPIRACY AGAINST SILVER.
''This is not just, fair, nor demo-
cratic, The conspiracy against silver
began with making the government
bonds payable in gold which by their
terms were payable in coin. call it a
conspiracy and it was one. We are to,
day tail to the English financial kite,
and our markets are controlled by the
foreign gold bugs.
"Free coinage was defeated in the
last congress but gold is still going to
Europe, and instead of being an indie
pendent, self-regulatng people, we ar,
trembling at every cablegram from
abroad for fear it may bring news o
some fall in Portuguese or American
securities.
elf il were not for the sustaining
power of France, the great silver coun
try of Europe, we would be nov
scrambling with the balance of th'
world in general panic"
"What do you think of Senate
Stewart's statement that free-coinag,
bill can be passed by the next congress
over the presidents veto?'
81 doubt il. We carried the soliI
democratic vote in the senate for free
coinage at the last session, but tn
: shadow of the force bill was hanging
J over the south, and | know four demo
cratic senators who voted with us thel
who might not do so now. | have yer,
great doubt whether they would b.
Wiling to go on record for free-coinag
$ now that the force bill Is out of tn
; way. We can pass free-coinag
j, through both houses, but | am no
very hopeful of passingit over Il veto.
/ care you against Mr.. Cleveland
then, for presIdent?"
81 haven't said that. am agains
the republican party, and | think it
success the greatest misfortune tina
p can come to the country. Mr.. Clcye
y land will he nominated, and | am fo
y him as against any republican or thir
i nartI- candidate WHY ShouId I nD