Rock Island Argus., 1894-10-09
JUDGMENT ON cuLLoM.
Treacherous to the People Of Illinois
|. Whom He Betrayed.


TreAcherous to the People OF IuInois
/. Whom He Betrayed.
1t is the intelligent Judgment Of the
world that the Mckinley Sherman leg
aslation OF 1890 led to and was directly
responsible for the panic Of 1898.
The distrust which eliminated In
that panic began immediately after the
passage Of the Mckinley and Sherman
laws. These measures, one of them
providing for the oppression and de.
struction OF many industries, for the
purpose Of enriching few others, and
the other threatening the credit of the
treasury by piling up silver bullion 70,
which gold was paid, were supplement.
ed by appropriations, the recklessness
and the extravaganza Of which made
national and Individual bankruptcy q
practical certainty.
l. Asserting to every one Of these meas.
ures, voting for every possible scheme
OF plunder and waste and injustice
which the mill owners dictated, and
giving his approval at every step to the
greatest conspiracy against free peo.
pie ever set on foot, was the senior
senator from Enthusiastically NJ. Gull
lom.
Many other republicans were instru.
mental in looting the treasury, in de.
stroying public confidence, in precipi.
tating the panic and the resulting idle.
ness and distress, but so far as Illinois
is concerned, it was Shelby NJ. Cullom
who squandered the treasury surplus
1t was Shelby NJ. Cullom who DESTROYED
public confidence in the ability of the
government to maintain the parity OF
gold and silver; it was Shelby NJ. Cul.
iom who precipitated the panic, and il
is Shelby NJ. Cullom who is responsible
to the voters Of Illinois for all of the
hardships which his dutiful service in
behalf Of the ariff-protected trusts has
brought upon the people.
The question now is whether this no
torious servant Of the avaricious com.
bines OF the east, this boastful autho,
of unparalleled woe and suffering, is to
escape the righteous penalty for hi.
misdeeds rby interposing a defense
which every intelligent man knows is
based on falsehood. Is Cullom to be
rewarded for turning the people OF
Illinois over to McKinley's plunderers
and panic breeders? Is Cullom to nc
back to the senate to vote again for an.
other monopoly law that will result
exactly as the Mckinley law resulted:
The people of Illinois cannot reach
Tom Reed. They cannot reach Viii.
liam Mckinley. They cannot reach
John Sherman. They cannot reach
any Of the other tools Of the Mckinley
conspiracy save one. That one is
Shelby NJ. Cullom, and him they can
reach at the polls this fall.
This pliable servant of the trusts and
combines must imagine that the people
have short memories or deficient in.
telligence when he appears before
them to say that his panic, his waste,
his extravaganza, his plunder and his
hard times are all due to their action
two years ago in condemning him and
his associates. He knows better. He
was taken in the act and his offenses
are not forgotten.
The Judgment Of Illinois on the Nc.
kinley conspirators will not be com
plete until Shelby NJ. Cullom, the mar
who betrayed this state into the hand:
of the protected combines, shall have
been retired from the high place which
he has disgraced.-H. W. Seymour, IL
the Chicago Herald.