The advocate., 1892-06-01
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many, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and
America, has been agreed upon for the
purpose of establishing a permanent
parity between gold and silver. The
London Times, which as.the courage to
speak the truth once, says:
We regret the course the government
has taken. Itsppearsto to be playing into the
hands of the politicians in power IN Wash
ington. The effect of the conference will
only be to keep the silver market and the
whole question Of the currency in an un-
settled state for a long time to come. Is
anything likely to be done by international
agreement which will give greater stimu-
lus TO the rehabilitation of silver than the
Bland bill? We cannot now
avoid being made to serve the turn of poll
tical wire pullers and stock spectators By
the acceptance of President Hsrrison's in
vitation.
The clique of political manipulators in
Washington take the people to be an sg-
gregated lot of fools, and think l can
discover faint glimmer OF fact In the
thought, but with the knowledge OF
finance that has been disseminated In
the last sixteen years throughout this
broad land, such efforts to blind and
quiet the people as the proposed silver
conference, only confirms our opinion
that the leaders of the two old parties
have no confidence in the intelligence OF
the people. Yet their stump speakers
will tell the dear people that their gov
ernment Is secure and safe with such an
intelligent constituency. They Che
people) have displayed about as much
intelligence as the educated mule who
has learned to initiate his master. With
this difference, while the mule can only
learn imitation, men can learn to think
and reason, which 1 think they are doing
now. But the means that have been en-
ployed to compel them to think and learn
have been so very exhaustive that it Is
question whether they have vitality
enough left to make a successful effort.
We hope they have, and are willing to
make. that effort this year. We can "roll
away the stone from the door of the tomb"
this fall IL we will, and unless we do, /
fear the decomposition that has already
commenced, will, by the time another
presidential election occurs, find US too
weak to offer any resistance to the animals
that live and thrive on decaying govern
ment institutions. Unless we rout the
Shylock marauders this fall and drive
them into the sea, they will certainly
create new disabilities that will deprive
us of the power Of self defense. The
evidence is so voluminous that the men
who rule this country are prompted by
greed for power and money, instead of
perpetuating free American institutions,
that 1t is useless to cite any particular
act. All who read know it as well as /.
In this state in which the monied center
Of the world is located, emenstes the
vilest, the most unpatriotic and un-
American methods to rule the people
that ever were practiced by any country,
heather or civilized. Yet we will aston
ish them this fall with the vote that will
be cast for the Peoples party, if we can
get the votes counted. am ashamed
to use that word, if, in that connection,
but these are times when the truth must
be spoken even If 1t CRATES on the ears Of
the highly cultivated American Shy
lock.