The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-29
THE DEED IS DONE.
Tho United States Internationally Sufren
ders to the Rothschild Syndicate.

The United states Internationally Sufron-
ders to the Rothschild Syndicate.
AS indicated by our Washington dis
patches, the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman silver law has
finally been accomplished. After all
the tremendous influences brought to
bear in its favor only beggarly ma
jority of II could be secured for its
passage. The whole power of the met
ropolitan press in every great city Of
the union was arrayed on the side of
repeal The administration in every
branch, through every department and
to the farthest limits of partisan civil
service was urging the measure. The
influence of the government has been
used for months in bribing congress-
men either by actual bestowal or prom
Use of patronage. The myriads of offices
which belong to the people and should
be filled only for their benefit, convert
ed into oils are used to bride the peo-
pies representatives to betray the peo-
pies interest. Thus it comes to pass
that the very money taken from
the people by fraud is used to
accomplish their ruin. The kid is
boiled in it's mothers milk. Patronage
is converted into plumber and with this
plumber the venal are bribed. the hest
tating are made firm. the ambitious are
secured and the people are betrayed in
the very house of their protested
friends. We have seen men changing
lifetime convictions in moment in
order to obtain share of paltrv place.
We have seen Voorhees,. allied with
the traditional enemy of his party, fore
ing a most obnoxious measure down
the threats of his old-time friends and
associates We have seen Bynum,
turning his back on his constituents,
falsifying every platform promise and
bowling meekly at the feet of power
We have seen president, elected as
the representative of free people,
playing the roll of an eastern satrap,
and striking down the industries of
great states with weapon more relent-
less than the torch of the Mahometan
Omar.
The deed has been done, and it is one
that will tell on the history of this
country forever. The 3Oth of October,
1893, memorable day of memorable
year, will attain a celebrity in future
annals equal to the Rom n ides of an
other month. We stand to-day between
two worlds. Here past ends; here
future begins The republic of the
United States finally bids farewell to
the style, the policy, the principles that
bore it, in the lifetime of man, from
insignifcance to grandeur, from the
poverty of Ireland to the wealth of
Ormus or of Ind, from the footing of
an insignificant commonwealth to
equality with the British empire. At
length we have taken leave of our pol
icy and our practice of the manners
and the men who guided the infant
state through all its dangers to all it's
glories When the future historian
looks back to this period he will recall
the gloomy roll of tyrants who over
threw the first constitutional repub-
lie and ended with decaying en-
pire given up to the successive depre-
dations of Vandals, Visigoths and
Turks We read of whole provinces
laid waste by ruthless proconsuls, of
thousands slain Ito make Roman
holiday" We dwell with horror upon
the greed for gold which converted
thriving countries into industrial des-
erts, and nations of prosperous people
into bowling wastes But more ruth
less than Verres. more cruel than the
duke of Alva is the so-called president
of a free people, who at one fell stroke
lays at his feet the greatest and most
enlightened nation of modern times.
The elimination of the great con-
spiracy at Washington fills the mind
with melancholy reflections on the
vanity of human wishes, the instabil-
ity of human creations, and the frivol-
ity of all the thoughts of man. Where
now is that wonderful country which
realized the political dream of phil
osophers and patriots; that grand
temple of liberty built for eternal
duration; that perfect common
wealth which gave the lie to
all the ages, and proved the self-gov-
eminent of nations to be something
more than fable of noble but IRA
tional Imagination What has become
of that splendid illusion which shed it's
luster on the opening mind of the
American youth-the lofty thought
that he was born and would live in a
glorious republic of heroic states and
free citizens, whose title was above
the royal rank and whose birthright
was above the envy of the world? One
short year has ended both alike The
disappointing pyramid has proven a
tower of Babel; that noble faith in the
virtue and intelligence of the soil
sons has given place to dis
gust and indignation too deep for
utterance in words; and on the
plains where SO lately ''health
and plenty cheered the laboring
swain," the minions of Unsuitable
greed reign supreme. Nor does the
catastrophe brought upon us leave even
the somber consolation that has at
tended the ruin of other empires The
majestic fabric has been destroyed not
by the giant hand of an invading race
nor the blazing ambition of military
conqueror. Enfeebled by the cankers
of corruption, gnawed by the teeth of
sordid vermin, betrayed by coalitions
between money changers and political
prostitutes, the ship of state sinks like
e.