Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-21
HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.

w nAAlN6 YIN The WALL.
Editor Of The Phnnir:
Dedr ST:-I have read editorials i'm the
local Democratic paper, referring to the
overwhelming defeat of the Democratic
party in Vermont and Maine, and while
acknowledging the force of the arguments.
iar as they go, have wondered why they
nave entirely ignored, overlooked, or for
gotJen, one of the prime factors in bringing
aoont This result ! refer, sir, to the ac-
IIoh OF President Cleveland and (Railroad)
attorney General Olney in sending United
states troops, under pretense of protecting
united States property, to aid the railroad
corporations, and other favored trusts and
monopolies, to subjugate the laboring
classes of America. That this action of
theirs was endorsed by venal aud corrupt
congress, sold to said trusts and monopo-
lies, as they point out, a government by the
twists, and for the trusts, as Chairman
wilson stated in the House when reporting
the result of the conference committee, and
also by corrupt and subsidized press,
which suppressed everything that the la
boring men had to say in their own behalf
does not alter nor excuse the act Organ
lzed labor is, thank God, sufficiently intel
llgent to understand when a treacherous
blow is struck at its interests, and by the
very persons for whom they voted, believ-
ing them the friends of honest labor, the
Toes of robbing trusts and monopolies.
Ihey have been undeceived. The action
OF Sugar Trust Cleveland; (Railroad) At
torney-General Olney, trust and monopoly
senators, and incompetent and frightened
congressman, has opened their eyes. The
scales have fallen. They will be deceived
no longer by the rubbish of demagogues,
eager only for the spoils, who would tread
upon their best interests as rounds to the
ladder of wealth mot fame).
They wonder at the small Democratic
vote of Brattleboro. Can they not see?
More than one hundred working men,
Democrats, abstained from voting, others
voted the Republican ticket, and twenty.
SIX voted the Peoples ticket, voluntarily
without organization, meeting O. caucus.
If such is the result in Brattleboro, VT,
what will it be in New York, where the
Flower of the Democracy shrinks from
Drawing the storm? In New Jersey, il
Connecticut, in Rhode Island, and the great
Western states? "Whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad The labor
ing men of America were the back-bon o.
the Democratic party. In their greed they
broke it, and for what? To enable corpo
rations and trusts and mon0polies, who
have robbed the people by bribery and lob
bying for subsidies, land grants and char
tiers, to compel the laboring man to become
as much slave as any that ever existed
here in order that the few railroad mag
mates, presidents, attorney and senator;
might become rich, regardless of the want:
and sutferings of the toiling millions. Oh
the shame of it! will now conclude, sir
by simply saying that the punishment tina
will be administered by this "canaille'
mob, or whatever else these friends of mo
nopoly choose to call them, will be promp
and effective, and will last for years. Hav,
you not seen the handwriting on the wall
Behold it! In Vermont, in Maine. 1t il
there. Read! Meme, meme, tekei uphd'
sin. g. b. KIRwAN.