Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-09-09
VOICE FROM THE HILLS.
England Declared to Intend Profit
ing ON Indian Silver.

/ have seen the colored man in the
days of 1860 receive 100 lashes on hia
bare back because he could not sue
cessfully pick 100 pounds of cotton flom
the pods as an estimated days work. L
have seen them put in stocks where they
we're held imprisoned from their hips
down and have to remain in sitting
position for weeks for some small offense
this was perpetrated under the regime
of slave-ocracy existing in the south.
The masses OF the people in the north
said that this single-stsndard slave
ocrscy sided and abetted by England
was all wrong; that inasmuch as the
declaration of independence had de-
clsred "all men equal" that the single
standard declaration claiming freedom
good for the white man and slavery for
the colored man was altogether wrong
and that the double standards of free
coinage liberty should exist under the
American Constitution. In other words
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man as well as the white man. For
such utterances Horace Greely was
classed as an "AbolitIonist" 'Demo
gogue" and John Brown likewise was
q "Demogogic Demogogue;" so said the
one-standari slave-ocrscy in the south
but the sword delivery at Appomattox
is a witness to the past, present and
future ages how that theory was settled.
1t resulted in the double-standard
theory of freedom to both white and
colored. Now at the present time and
for years past the gold-ocracy of the
eastern states (most'y in the large cities)
aided and abe.ted by our
once cruel and detestsd old step
mother England have been and
are now endeavoring to establish
the one standard slaveocracy under the
auspices of the single gold standard,
which will eventually result in enslaving
not one-hslf of the people, irrespective
of color, but will enslave the population
entire, while the goldocrats will occupy
similar position as the former slavo-
Gratis or savemasters did in the south.
The first conspicuous apple tree in
American history is tue one wGicn
George Washington cut down with his
Ratchet and over which he woulo not
tell a lie; the next conspicuous apple
tree was that at Appomatox and which
the army Of Virginia carried away in
trophies. The circumstances that will
call fIrth the necessity for another apple
tree to figure IN American history is
question that will tax the statesmen of
the present age mot seriously. | am a
close observer of the pages of history
and an untiring observer Of the times
and incidents occurring during which
we live, and whilst my prejudice against
England may be said to emanate from
the charge of being an Irishman, ] can
assert that it is not so, that [ am an
American citizen, born to tie native
heath, and my father and mother before
me. / could declare before my God and
the American people that England is
the banefuI and facetious foe that is
foisting this one standard flag of the
goldocrats upon the Unit ID States. She
closed her mints in India, by legislative
to silver coinage, but no |
sooner will she have accom- plished the |
destruction of silver in the United |
States as money than, by legislative en-
actment, she will open her mints again |
in India TO coin into money for herself |
that which she pays for as a commodity. |
ARTaIyR ri ELLIOTT