Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-05-12
THE FIRES ARE GLOWING.

laboring classes are well calculated to
induce any Intelligent man to put on
his thinking cap and cause every
lover Of his country ID inquire,
"Where are we att" The high
handed outrages, the disregard of
law, and reckless rollicking and rev.
elry Of the men and parties in power,
the ANARCHY and revolution displayed
in the executive and legislative
branches at Washington, the broken
promises made by solemn declara-
tions in patty platforms, the precipi
tation of panics by the moneyed oil
garchy, the rule and ruin policy of
the trusts and combines, the specula-
ton of national legislators, presi
dents and cabinets in Wall street
stocks, the bought Judicial judgments
of the federal courts in favor of cor
poratioGs, the importation of foreign
pauper laborers in the protected in
dustries to reduce the wages of AM
erican labor, the contraction of the
currency, the issue of more needless
bonds, and the brazen and unscrupu-
lOus and diabolical declaration of the
leaders of the two old twins, The
people be damned, have unclaimed
the tiger of popular discomfort; have
applied the match to the fuse of the
magazine of popular wrath and
famed into burning fame the
spark Of patriotism, which in 1176
was kindled into a blazing fire that
lit up the civilized world. The IN
DERIVING principles of that struggle,
the free institutions and popular gov
eminent which arose out OF that
strife, and the constitutional govern
ment of and for the people, which
the hood and treasure of the citizen
soldier defined and maintained under
the leadership of Abraham Lincoln,
can never be divorced from the
hearts and affections of the pco-
pie.
The practicable addiction of that
government for the last thirty years
and its surrender into the hands Of a
brutl and brut ,liz;ng commanistic
oligarchy Of greed and ruin has serv-
ed as an object lesson and endeared |
the government of Jefferson, Jack |
son and Lincoln II the throbbing |
hearts of the American people. They !
have met IN national and congress
sional conventions, laid down plat
forms and declarations of principles
from time to time before each recur.
ring election, and have SO often seen
them repudiatsd by their official SCI
wants after election; they have Pc
titioned and protested by pen and
ink and through the press for redress
of grievances and their petitions and
protests have been spurned with con-
tempt by the intrenched power of
cOmnunis,ic wealth; they have sent
petitioners, spurred and booted, t.
the usurped throne itself as faint
indication of the earnestaess and de
termination of the people to have the
legislation of the country turned into
the channels for the popular good.
These petitioners have been met with
police clubs, sandbags and billies IN
Ter the pretsnse of keeping them
rom treading upon eerraninms,
1inEs and honeysuc',les of the capt.
p grounds and destroying the pleas
re Of the Pullman car bosses Of leg
slatg5n from Wall street and the
JIruegje shops Of fraudulent armor
)atFoiisG ny PInSerton thugs.
The marching columns Of thou
sands ON t. Washington, and millions
u sympatiizins home guards, from
ne Pacific t. th Atlantic, from t..
axes to the gulf, are simply warn
ing to all parties, tie oil ouos ana
the new, tia. this government must
Be freed from the control Of syndi-
,ates, trusts and corporations; that
.hs pledges given before election
nus be religiously observed; that
9etrayls and traitors viii no longer
u tolerated; thar the members of
Congress who shall be elected at the
coming election and the President
who shall be inaugurated in 1897 !
hail lei Tie people know where they /
re at FIRE their b1ll1ta are cast; ,
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