Nevada County picayune., 1891-01-08
REPUBLICAN LEGACY.

The Republican party, since March 4, 1889, has had full and com plete control of this governments majority in both houses of Congress and the Presidency. This party of sectionalism, corruption and extrav- agance has left the country legacy of evil, the baleful effects of which can hardly be estimated. Working men and consumers are groaning and suffering beneath the heavy burdens laid upon hem.
 Immediately upon the meeting of the Republican Congress in Deccm- Der, 1889, the work of evil began. Wall Street and the manufacturers of the East dictated the election of Reed as Speaker of the House, whose pliant tool he has ever since been. Fraudulent unscating of Democrats, the passage and carrying out of gag law in the House, is now part of his tory, with which our readers are well acquainted. Czar Reed and his lieutenants ruled with a high hand.
 Scheme and plot of the bondhold- CTS, to make gold alone the only money in which their bonds and in- terest thereon could be paid, and to virtually demonetize silver, was sue cessfully enacted into law. Silver is now as unsteady and tluctuates as much as wheat or corn, or any other merchantable commodity. The Re- publican Secretary of the Treasury is to dictate the silver coinage, and after next June, when his authority begins, it's coinage will likely cease altogether, in the interest of the gold bugs. This is a part of the evil leg acy given the country by the Repub- lican party.
 Passage of the dependent pension bill, and other private and special pension bills, has already increased costs of pensions fifty per cent, and it is now said that cost will run up to the enormous sum of S2O0 ,000, ,000 annually, ere 1892 rolls round. Just think of it This vast pile of money is more than double what any Euro pcan power pays out for a standing army of 100, ,0O0 soldiers, the heavy tax to raise which causes complaint and murmurs even there, under a monarcnial form of government. And there is no telling where the pension robbery will end. This is another item of the Republican legacy of evil.
 Manufacturers of the East de. handed reimbursement for money spent in electing the Republican ticket, so the Mckinley high tariff bill was passed. This robbcr law de- privcs the consumer and labOring men of countless millions of dollars, in many cases actually taking bread and meat from the hungry poor. 1t caused money panic and depressed all products of the farm, causing cot ton to fall from over 9c to 1c in less than GO days after it went into effect. Besides this great loss by depression, it has caused prices for all manufac- tured goods to go up from ten to twenty-five per cent. Thus we are doubly robbed. Another important item of the Republican legacy of evil.
 We might give other items, but this is sufficient to cause any reasonable man to turn away with loathlng rom the party which has bequeathed the country such a legacy of evil. The Lower House passed the infamous Force bill, to completely rob us of all liberty, and the Senate has been cndeavoring to pass the bill the past six weeks, and may do so yet. Sen sblc men can never cOndone these acts of the Republican party. No the country is going Demo- cratic, and everybody is looking to this party of equal rights for a change salvation.