The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-03-05
SELF CONDEMN NATION.
BOTH OLD PARTIES ACkNOWL-
EDGE ROBBERY AND FRAUD.
The Same Tactics in Vogue To-Day Which
Contracted the Currency i'll 1866 and De-
mon, tized Silver in ISs3-An Interest,"
ing Statement of the Case.


was proposed in congress, and lobbicd
through, neither the statesmanshp. the
press. or the confding constituency of
either of the old parties ever raised Il
voice of protest or m any way questioned
the right or justice of such Legislation
Their plans were not Illustrated by kick
| crS or politital economists. They were
not apprrhenSivc tf boitcrs or third
party ranters. The national Legislators
were their own and the peoples ma stcrs,
and many of them becam" wealthy ana
i powerful. being to-day millionaircS own
| ing stock in banks. railroads. mines,
lands, manufactures, rings. trusts and
| combines.
But to-day. All the scene remains,
| Yet the same; the players are those of
| old: but the spectators see clearly. aud
| judge not with ignorance or prejudice.
When bin was recently offered in
| congress to loan or give SluU.O00 900 in
! United States bonds 10 Il Nicaragua
| canal scheme, hiri the wealth producers
still farther into debt and heap upon
| them heavy burdens of goid-eatlng in
| trrcstS and premiums. 4 protest went ZIP
| from all over the land. Condemnation
| poured IN upon the senate. and especially
| upon the committee on foreign relations
| unanimously favnrins its enactment into
| law.
The same old gang Of republican and
| democratic robbers We're engineering il
! through. John Sherman, the chief Of
| the Legislative brigandS, and standard
| Oil" Payne. the souliess monopolst.
! were. as is usual in such schemes favor
able to the plan, and increased the orig
| inal estimate SO. 900, 600.
| Read the following scathing rehnkc Of
| the proposed measure by republican
newspaper. the pittsburg DiStttcii::
| The more the demand of the Nicaragua
| Canal company iS examined. the more
| audacious appear its provisions. How il
| could ever have been reported favorIhly i'll
| its present shape by the committee cn
! foreign relations is past comprehension.
| The committee itself acknowledges that
| the total cost of the work cannot exceed
| sIQ0,00 .030-we may note parentnctcaily
| that the cOmpanyS own estimate Is hut
| $50 ,00o, ,000-the whole of which sum I nrie
| sam is asked to provide by the sale IF bonds
| hearing his endorsement Thus the nited
| States is to build :. canal which Il private
| company is to own. And should the bill
| pass It woald be modern miracle if the
! familiar feature of Inside construction
| companies and wheels within wheels be moi
| enyuived out nf this scheme, Throwing
wholly into the shade the entrmou- fortunes
| which We're similarly coined at public ex
| peusc out Of the famous Pacific railroad
| subsidies
| The Arkansas gazette indorscs the
above calls it The Nicaragua Robbery
| Scheme, and then uses the following
| language to cNoneratc all democratic
| participation in this damnabc scheme:
| ''Ccrtainy the democrats who agreed
| to that unanimous favorable report were
| caught mapping. for II more downright.
! andaciouS robbery of the people than
| this bill pr poses was never put before Il
| Legislative body. The Nicaraugua canal
| bill cannot be too summarily kicked out
| of congress"
Caught mapping Mapping when Il
| 500, 900, 900 debt was being deliberately
! recommended, and when this debt would
| not only affect the citizen of the present.
but would require the toll. the sweat, the
| blood and life money OF the coming gen
| crations to lift. The idea of the GG-tttc
| apologizng for the little snonze indulgrd
| in by Henry T. Payne of Standard Oh
| fame and who purchased his seat in the
| United States senate with monopoly
| money wrung from the American people,
| Payne sleeping when 500. 900, 600 steal
was going on. Not much. Why, the
| Standard Oil magnatc would himself re-
buke his apologizer. Mapping. Yes,
| here comes Senator John Il. Morgan,
democrat. Of Alabama. who sIumbered
| and let this steal be recommended. Jos.
| r. Brown. senator from Georgia. a
| favorite among democrats. was also ii
| sluggard and slumbercd while IA $780,
| O0o,00 fraud was being perpetrated
| upon the people whom he was sworn to
| defend and serve. Next appears James
| i. EuStiS. Louisiana,s Stalwart among
| modern democrats, whom the Gazette as
| serts was mapping while the enemies of
| our common country were accomplishing
his ruin. Like the slitmbering followers
| of the Master when in Gethsrmcnr. do
| not these also merit rebukr?
| But how does it happen if these ser
wants OF the people We're mapping the
proposed bill found and received their
unanimous support?
The fact is that this internal plan of
robbery was concocted and supported by
| the republican and democratic legisIa-
tors, just as each and every other of the
deceptive ard traitorOns financial meas
| urns which have burdencd the people
with debt, oppressed them with interest
and robbed them by unrighteous advant-
| ages.
Silver was demonctized in 1873 by the
same method, and many bright and in
| tellisent democrats stated that they were
not aware of the purports CT the bill.
Bah. They must have been mapping
also when the frat land grant bill was
| passed? And they were sleeping when
| twenty-cight democrats votod for and
only one against contraction of the cur
rency in 1850? Also when only fifty
six democrats out of Il possible 1877
voted against the rc-chartering Of the
national bank law? And when silver
was demonetized in 1873? Also when
Cleveland deprived the people of an in
crease of S97, ,000.0 900 of silver in their
| circulation and also the entire demo-
| cratic organization must be sleeping away
its existence when it clamors for the re-
nomination of him, the greatest enemy
of silver on American soil.
Away with such carelessness. such
negligence. Lets supplant these slug
| CARDS with men who are always awake
and alive to the necessities of the hour.
| The old party camps are full of such
| trcachery. Their paths are strewn with
| errors from which they have learned no
| lessons. The same men who led in the
land steals, the bank gifts, the green
| back cremation and bond substitution.
the bank renewal act. the silver demon
citation. the tariff jugglings. are yet
and now at the head of the parties deiin-
ing their principles, engineering the
campaigns, and are yet ready to foist
upon the people 500. 900. 900 debt to
assist a lot of spectators away down in
Central America.
The Alliance is seeking 10 make the
rich man pay his proportion of the taxes.
1t is seeking to pay up .ie bonds that
have almost ruined the people and ma
tion. 1t is seeking to forwith reduce the
salaries of officials to an equal of other
salaries and prices. 1t is seeking to
make IL possible for poor man to get
money as any banker can get it. 1t is
seeking to break the SPECTATORS corner
in grain and pork. 1t is seeking to have
the government issue all money in sufli-
| cient quantity to do the business of the