The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-02

We find such men as CARTEL,
; (Rep.) Mr.. Kelly (Dem.) (membe
of committee that drafted the bill
Mr.. Holman, (Rep.) Blaine. (Rcp.
U. S. Grant, (Rep. president VIII
signed the billy Mr.. Voorhies
Oem.) Allin G. Thurman, Dem.
Senator Beck, Rep.) Senator ALI
son, Oem.) Senator Hereford
(Rep.) Senator Morgan, Dem.
and many others, both Democrat
and Republicans declared upon th'
floor of congress that they knew
nothing of the feature of the bill
to demonetize silver. Now, if thi,
is correct, why destroy so com
pletely the record by which the
bill was passed. When we take
into consideration that an English
capitalist was present with $780,
600 to procure the passage of this
bill, we must brand the assertion
of these gentlemen that they knew
nothing about the nature of the
bill, with absolute falsehood, and
that Mr.. Ernest Seyd was present,
and assisted in drawing the bill,
we take the following from the
Congressional Globe of April 8,
1872, page 23O4. CThe act was
passed Feb. II, 1879
''Ernest Seyd, of London, a dis
tinguished writer and bulliOnist
who is now here has given great at
tention to mint and coinage. AZ
ter having examined the first draft
of this bill (for demonetization of
silver) he made various sensible
suggestions which the committee
adopted and embodied in the BILL"
Is not this sufficient to establish
the fact that these two old parties
were in cellusiOn in this great
crime of the age. We regret that we
have not the space to dwell longer
upon this outrage as half the per-
fidy has not been told. But we
must pass on to the year 1898
when the most infamous plot to
enslave the people was carried out
while the Democratic party had en-
tire control Of erery branch Of the
National Government. We find
that such men as John Sherman,
Republican, Albert VOORHEES, De-
mocrat, as we'll as Cleveland, Car
Isle and other Democrats and Re
publicans united into one party in
which all other issues and party
differences were set aside and the
sole question of demonetizing sill
yer was taken up and put through
by an extraordinary session of
Congress called by a Democratic
president for that sole purpose and
the result is felt and known through
out all the land, it has brought
want, misery and crime and the
end is not yet. Mr.. Carlisle
DEM. in 1878, said:
According to my views on the
subject, the conspiracy which
seems to have been formed here
and in Europe to destroy by legss-
alton and otherwise from three
,evenths to one-half of the metallic
money of the world is the most gi-
yantic crime of this or any other
lge. The consumation of such a
scheme would ultimately entail
more misery upon the human race
han all the wars, pestilences and
'amines that ever occurred in the |
history of the world"
Yet he did all in his power to
'ring it about in 1898, and when
7ou vote Democratic ticket YOU
endorse what Mr.. Carlisle says is
crime. MIR. Ogden says he is a
Democrat, if he is, he endorses the
IctiOn of the Democrats as we have
tated them. Mr.. Cleveland has
lsed his patronage as we'll as all
# his official power to perpetuate
he per6dy of the two old parties.
lie has used United States troops
o wipe out State lines and bring
he masses of the people into sub