The morning news., 1892-03-16


designs What did they do with their un-
hindered powerf Did they repeal one Of those
unconstitutional laws for which they had been
pleading the excuse OF war. its burdens. is
taxation reply. Let the dis
orders Of our currency make answer.
No. they first cheated more power INTO their
Applause Their speaker in the House, by
| violent and unparliamentary procedures. dis
tended the actual small TO fraudulent large
! majority. all Of whom followed him with dog
like docility. Laughterl
sToLE THE SENATE.
In the Senate six new republican senators
| were seated to represent smaller popul alton
hsn ths city Igs Of NsW Yors and one state
| was defrauded of its democratic sena-
| tors. Their object was not only 20 enact
| more and wOrss unconstitutional legislation,
\ but also to put that legislation beyond the
| people s amendments or repeal. This they did
/ and their occupation within those intrench-
/ ments, and the occupation Of the whole repub-
| lican and mugwump press has ever since
| been TO plant political discussion on
| proffsred bills which their President would
veto and the Senate won't pass. 1 regret that
| some unwary democrats ia the press and In
/ congress thus render daily assistance in taking
/ public attention from the unsurpassable mon
strosites Of their living laws and assist the
OF that resolution it pursues: These
| cut the purses OF the empire and the
| rule" ran up expenditures TO 1000 100000. OF
/ course, tncf bFleu 70 pass q LOrCS nllA Iucy llQ
| pass two Mckinley laws. superadding to the
| protected taxes OF the tariff Of 1888 the re-
| ciproclty humbug and the new subsidy and
| bounty swnde, on still higher protected taxes
The tariff on imported sugar, every dollar from
! which went straight into the federal treasury
/ they abolished for the sake Of crowding up and
| perpetuating higher protected taxes, which. be-
/ sides taking no less a sum from the peoples
pockets for the needs OF the peoples
| treasury. take also many times greater sums
\ from the peoples pockets, not one dollar of
n bp - fra0 no IN rnica
workmen's wages, but all goes into the private
cash boxes Of a few employers of less than :
| per cent of our industrious toiling millions.
| Applause To call republican taxation like
| that unconstitutional is like calling highway
| robbery fault of conduct and fat burglary an
indecorum. Laughter and applause.
REPEAL DUTY.
| But / seek to make it clear that to repeal the
books, reviving the lesser wrongs they super
| seeded, is merely to take the first step toward
| living up to our unimpaired authoritative con.
stitution, and to keep in plain sight yf the peo-
pie till next November the republican
| crime, the peoples verdict md the
| need of its renewal Applause. Against
| the united democratic votes the republican
congress also passed the Sherman silver law,
into which every republican monetary heresy
| is crowded that has kept our finance in perpet-
ual disorder for thirty years, tortured our mer-
ch ants with uncertainty, turned our foreign
commerce. and our sales Of wheat. and of cot
J ton into a daily gamble 1t revives most dan
| gerous heresy, which the Republican party
! once packed bench OF the supreme court to
| get false judgment on as constitutional, but
| that was the last and final tribute of their
| political hypocrisy to legal virtue
| Applause. Never once since they com.
| PEELED this supreme court to reverse its own
/ righteous ruling to hout history and put our
| public law to public shame never since then
have they cared enough to get fig leaves for
| their indecencies TO pack that court again.
| Laughter and applause. And while Senator
| Sherman's silver law is draining of our
gold 70 Europe in steady
| stream and driving us headlong to exclusive
silver basis, not one republican lawyer. not
| one republican merchant or board OF trade or
chamber of commerce in all the north has raised
| against that law the demand that we repeal it,
| for that constitutional reason reviving
| the less bad law which t supplanted. But that
would be a first step toward living up to con
stitution aud would keep in plain sight Of the
people till next November the republican
| crime, the peoples verdict and the peoples
duty 20 unite IN its renewal
REPUBLICAN SURPRISE.
Propose to a republican to return to the CON
| stitution just there where its violation IS most
| fresh, most nagrant and he will stare with
criminal code are not more sacred than
| the inhibitiens 10 the written con.
stitution OF the government. Restraint
| upon rnalofactors, like restraint
| upon republican congressman, ID for the purpose
| OF preventing evil There is no certain penalty
for violations OF the constitution there liz Tor
1
| but there is no more reason why the people still
| living under an unchanged constitution should
| let tolerated violations become a normal way Of
| life than there is for making murder, rape and
| theft canoncal because hitherto unprecedented
II is idle to expect help from republican parti-
| sans In our endeavor They find It profitable
| to make laws, not to promote the general well
| fare but for their particular welfare. That
most stringent limitation written upon the very
| preamble OF our constitution they
s6eveF' S6s covdP into blanket s,nssS CLAUSE for
| lawless license permitted to make laws in order
| to promote the general welfare which can
mean nothing else but what is for the welfare
| OF all, they read into magnanimity and breadth
| their own rascally permissions to support any
| bodys welfare that can bribe an appropriation
| from the peoples taxes, or force his way into
| government partnership with protected
monopolies. They promote their own welfare,
| but we need no help from repub-
lican partisaOs In the next November
elections, IL the good people OF
the United States will make alliance with one
another and the Democratic party to repeal
their verdict on the wrong -doings OF the repub.
lican congress, upon the executive who indorsed
them all and made them a law Applause |
That is the first and greatest step in the path
| way of our return to the old democratic faith
and tradition. That is the way TO begin living
up to our constitution in full obedience to ite
unqualified supremacy, instead OF tax
ing paternal guidance from republican
revolutionists over a crucifled constitution. We
need no help from republican partisans. 1t is
| enough that we, ali of U.S. unite to hate these re
| publican wronR-dolnRs IN order to elect a con
| gress and an executive that will put stop to
| them, repeal their odious laws and restore
| the country peace and prosperity. Applause
| We must never despair of the republic
| but | can truly say that if these enemies OF the
| republic who now possess its powers shall escape
| an overwhelming defeat next November by ouI
| divisions or our failure TO unite and CONQUER
they will be able with that reprieve so to but
tress about their stolen powers, so to for
tify and intrench themselves that another
| generation, wiser snd more self-sacrifcng thar
we, may have to suffer and take up the noble
effort which has failed and dropped from oul
unworthy hands. LApplausel But by unity and
concord in our ranks now. we can surely tri
umph. Unity will endow with needful power
the great Democratic party. to-day the sole
: efficient instrument of reform. Unity will enable
it to force relief from unjust tariff taxes
to restore the south, the safe, sufficient money
| of our fathers, when every dollar was as good
as the gold dollar cheersl; but to discard co
| operation with the Democratic party, organized
in every state old as the government, incapable
TO die IS to bind hand and foot the farmers oi
our land and hand them over to the crue
mercies of their thirty long republican spoilers
from whose clutches they are now all but finally
freed. The day of the deliverance of the farm
ers of the United States draws nigh; it is sci
down in the democratic calendar for the Sth o
next November il then again the farmers
themselves shall as they did IN November 1890
reinforce the Democratic party and empower
us to dethrone the indorser of every act of the
billion dollar congress your help EN-
powered US to drag down the billion dollar con-
gress. Applause Alone you car
do nothing but defeat all YOU
own hopes Alone you will