The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
IT'S DISHONEST POLICY.
The Democratic House stands Pledged to
Free Coinage

The Democratic House stands Pledged to
Free Coinage.
| "Whom the gods would destroy they
FIRST make mad" was never more fully
exemplified than by the fraudulent free
silver men in the house of representa-
tives at Washington. Fraud, fury and
force reigned supreme. The demo-
| cratic ''house was divided against
| itself'-and the logical conclusion of
the adage will inevitably follow, as
prophe tically announced by democratic
| leaders themselves-'it cannot stand"
The democratic party is irrevocably
pledged to the essentially dishonest
policy of forcing upon the country a
debased currency; of placing behind a
seventy cent silver dollar the compul-
sion of the legal tender act, and there
by deliberately robbing every creditor,
with an outstanding claim, of thirty
cents on each dollar justly due him.
And vet we are not surprised. They
were true to their principles. 1t is GER
tain that they have betrayed the mis-
played confidence of the people, as Mr..
Reed so pointedly and powerfully y proved
in his short but brilliant speech. This,
however, had no effect upon the demo-
Gratis, from the fact that this had been
their habit and history from the organ
ization of the party. To rule with
them means to ruin. Authority, in
democratic nomenclature, is synony-
nous with tyranny. To control is to
crush, and to have power is to abuse it.
They tester and reek with political
leprosy, and everything they tonch
catches the dread contagion.
Under the rules of the house, as
adopted by the democratic majority
and interpreted and enforced by the
democratic speaker, the functions of
legislation, with which that body is
supposed to be intrusted for the benefit
of the whole country, have been trans
ferred to a fraudulent free-silver oil
garchy who seek the promotion of pri-
vate interests at the sacrifice of the
public welfare. ...... ..-,
In the last congress the democrats
denounced Speaker Reed for suppress
ing. as they claimed, the democratic
minority, but now, with most gro
tesque exhibition of inconsistency, they
practically indorse Speaker Reeds
rules, and absolutely quote one of his
decisions, in order to suppress the mi
nority of their own party in the house.
The republicans in the last congress
resolutely stood by the interests of the
country and prevented the democratic
minority from frustrating and delaying
necessary and salutary legislation by
flibustering tactics.
The democratic majority in the pres
ent congress, however, have adopted
rules, substantially for the benefit of
one committee of the house, more
tyrannical than ever rdreamed OF by any
previous house, and they are first en-
ployed in behalf of the most dangerous
measure ever proposed for enactment
in the history of the country.
Then those who first suffer from the
exercise of these despotic rules are not
the republican minority, but the mi
nority of the party in power. They de-
serve all that they suffer. They assist
ed in adopting the very arbitrary rules
that prove their ruin. They voluntarily
turned over the power under which
committee, who have used their tYran-
nical authority in the betrayal Of the
country and the destruction of their !
own party. They present pitiable |
spectacle, but they suffer from self-in-
ficted wounds.
Under these circumstances and sub |
feet to these influences of confusion
and discord, what can the country ex-
pect but misfortune and disaster?
By vote of one hundred and eighty
nine to eighty five it was decided that
the Bland bill shall be considered
This substantially adopts the fraudu-
lent free silver measure so far as the
house is concerned The only hope of /
the country for deliverance from this
dire menace of disaster and ruin is in |
President Harrison, supported by the
stanch republicans in the senate. The
people always look to the loyal repub-
lican party in times of peril and mis-
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