The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-28
Calling for an Accounting.

believing that President Cleveland
has departed from the Democratic
platform in his financial policy, it
has been candid enough to point out
these lapses of the national admin
istration and to declare the danger
to the party of such infdellty,
whether is be wanton or innocent.
Some of our friends seem to be
under the hllluc nation that what
ever Mr.. Cleveland does is right
and that criticism Of him is neces
sarily unorthodox. We do not go
understand Democracy. Whenever
one man becomes in himself it's
platform of principles, with author
! ity to pledge it to whatever policy
| he or his selected friends may
choose to adopt, it will be high
time to bury the party as an otfen-
sive corpse.
1t is true that the president has
been greatly hunored by the party,
and this effects of that biunder have
been only too apparent in his evil
dent purpose to pursue his own
course without any degree of defer.
ence to the sentiments of the ma.
ority OF the voters who elected
him. But the spirit of complais-
ance is no more, and the people are
beginning to call for an accounting.
1t is not only 80 in Texas, but it is
80 throughout the South and West.
The following significant ut.
terance is from recent issue of
the Nashville American, represen.
tative journal of the central South.
ern states, which heartily supported
Cleveland for denominations
"The Texas Farm and Ranch
says: what the president calls
"honest money" is dishonest money,
because it take the farmers pro.
Dues from him at half the value
"There was never a truer thing
said than the above.
"Under the cover of the slivery
of heaven so to speak, the Wall
street lambs carry out their grew
some designs aga INST the masses of
the people. Wearing the pretens.
of truth and often the cloak of
Democracy the organized sharks of
the Eastern money centers are
giving the most telling thrusts con-
ceivable at toe vital interests of
Democracy and the dearest rights
of the American people. Honest
money in the private vocabulary of
Wall street means striking down
one-half the metallic circulating
medium of the country when every
dollar coined in both metals is of
equal purchasing power and the
volume of circulation far less than
the amount required by the legiti-
mate interests of the country for
the transaction of business.
cit alsomeans the depreciation in
value of the property of debtors
The $4,000 farm goes for the
$4,000 debt. the interest of the
masses is ruthlessly gambled in by
the capitalists. V.lues are annihi-
lated, and property bought in for
song The test of the soundness
of co'laterals offered for money is
not real a)ue, but that which would
be applied by Boston and New York.
La the same ratio that the circulat-
ING medium Of the country is con.
tracted the wealth Of the Eastern
capitalists is necessarily multiplied.
The demonetiz alton of silver, and
the defeat of state bank currency is
to the money parsons a mine of
wealth, whose depth and breadth is
30 vast that it is immeasurab.e.
"Ssnator Palmer, an admins
tratlon cuckoo, has recently openly
and completely unmarked the ami
mus of the honest money conting.
ent by the introduction of a bill to
repeal the tax upon state bank
issues, and prohibit the issuance of
notes as currency by any person or
corporation other than national
banks, ulder penalty of $1,000 for
each offense.
"Such overt acts as this against
the Democratic platform require no
comment. They only need to be-
mentioned. Tney tell their own
tall.