The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-03-26
STEWART BURNS EN- UP
The Venerable Nevada Senator De.
noVncsi tha EOa;y Sharks
IN A LETTER TO COXEY
He Urges the Chic Man to Abandon
His Crazy Scheme and Use
the Ballot for His
Weapon.

WAsnINGroy, March Ex-senator Stew
art OF Nevada has written the following
letter TO j. 5. CoSey, commander Ct The
Army of the Common Veal:
UNITED STATES SENATE, March %.
General j. s. Corey, MdsslDa, Ohio
DEAR SIR: The preservation OF life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness was entrusted TO
the people under the constitution Of the United
States, \ fre3 ballot was tue means by which
the foreign people could maintain their rights
acquired by the patriots who gained the lnde.
pcnlencc and established this government.
lhere was "A time when the ballot placed the
control OF lie government in Nashlng:ons, In
Jeiierson's, Jacksons aud Lincoins hands.
Such use Of the ballot sent terror and dsmay
10 the tyrants, despOts and p!undering dig
arches throughout the world. The enemies
OF justice and human rights predicted the sue
cess of the ballot was temporary; that man was
not capah Of self-goyernment. The destruc-
ton OF the aacient republics and the repeated
failures OF the people TO govern themselves, was
cited IN proof Of their contention that despot-
Ism, oppression and slavery were the fate OF the
human race.
There have been no Washingtons. Jeffer-
SONS, Jacksons or Llncons elected president OF
the United States in two decades. A souiless
dcspot OF allen origin IL monarch OF the COM
ihNiNlAl Nbill. ndilt ~ Mpufss tlae III
struments are the banks and the bonds; his
servants are the administrative and legislative
bodies. The army you are collecting used the
ballot to put the army. navy and treasury de-
pariments under the control Of the banks and
bondhOders and place In the halls OF congress
! representatives TO do the bidding OF the money
changers.
| The ides Of November are approaching. An
opportunity for the people to strike for liberty
u Ia. ~ - .E.I.
/ have SURRENDERED the rights OF the people TO
the rule OF concentrated capital will ask for the
! renewal Of their le So Of power at the ballot
box, Every movement OF the people 10 obtain
/ relief outside of the forms OF law will be de-
| nOunced rs anarchy The purse strings OF
| Tho nation arc held by congress under
the dicIallon OF the administration,
aud the president IS commander
| in-cHict 0f the army and navy OF the United
| States. The attempt Of n starving multitude 70
march toward Washington will furnish an en-
cusd for using the power Of the government to
| rils down anarchy and insurrection. The yigor
| with which the laws viii be executed will be an
argument in the next election for continuing in
| power the concentrated capital as the necessity
! OF the maintenance Of law and order. The suf-
| fcrings of the people are tho result OF eocting
men to Office who do the bidding OF the money
powers which have destroyed more than halI
the metallic money of the world by legislation
and cOTnored The other haf. twenty years OF
uninterrupted rule OF the banks and bondhold-
crs has concentrated tho wealth OF the world IN
the hands Of few ana enabled them TO seize
the telegraph. press and nearly every other
avenue through which the people can obtain In
| formation OF the cunning devices by which the
parasites absorb what the masses produce.
There is but one battlefield where the forces
Of liberty and equality can meet and overthrow
the enemy Of human rights. There Is not a law
on The statute books authorizing the president
to march AN army against the people at the bal