The advocate., 1894-10-31


few.
Reform Must Como Through tho Ballot.
II my voice could reach the people of the
whole land, would say to the million
Rire, in the language Of Scripture, "A
good name is rather to be chosen than
great riches, +" "Riches kept for the own
ers thereof are q sure hurt and sore
evil" "Love Of money is the root of all
evil" and, in the language of the Saviour
of mankind to young man of great pos
sessions, 1T is easier for q camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for rich
man to enter the kingdom Of God. F" /
would call upon the millionaires for heav-
ems sake to pause in their greed for more
millions and unite in the passing Of laws
which, by securing equal opportunities TO
all, shall contribute to the happiness OF
all.
Lest the millionaire should not listen /
would say to the men Of the middle classes
Of moderate means, farmers and others,
who, though they may not now, soon will
feel the oppression of the money power
arouse to the danger that threatens soon
to place you % fully at the mercy of cor
porate and individual wealth as the toll
ing laborers are today.
would say to the laborers, now robbed
of the Just reward Of their labor and even
compelled in this land Of plenty and album
dance to suffer hunger and cold, lay aside
all manner of chickering's or disputes about
minor affairs and assert your independence
by going to the polls, uninhuenced by
money or those in authority, and cast a
freeman's vote for representatives In con-
gress and the general assembly who will
be true to your interests and secure the
enactment of such laws as will permit you
to share in the wealth created by your toll
and to eat of the bread your hands have
earned. Send forth to the country and to
the schoolhouses Of the land apostles Of
freedom who will agitate for the rights Of
man, now fettered by the laws Of property.
One wiser than any Of us has said:
"Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed
me with food convenient for me-" Let us
profit by the divine precept and so frame
our laws as to secure to all food convenient
! for them, and to none vast riches unearned.
Great Britain and the Silver Question.
I do not propose to discuss the silver
question, nor is there occasion that l
should. All parties favor bimetallism-
1t is only to its establishment that some
obiect-a and particularly without the con-
sent of Great Britain. had supposed
! that these states were made free and inde-
pendent and absolved from all allegiance
to the British crown more than hundred
years ago, but in this 1t seems was mis-
taken, and that there are those among us
/ who think that congress should not pro-
ceed to perform its constitutional duty by
coming money and regulating the value
thereof without the cooperation Of Great
Britain. Let those who think so crook the
plant hinges Of the knee to the money
power of England. /, for one, acknowl-
edge no such allegiance, but believe it the
duty of congress to act Independently ard
establish the value Of coin as 1t existed
prior to 1873, when silver was demonetized.
desire to say few words upon the en-
croachments of federal courts upon the
constitutional rights Of the people. OF
late years the United States judges have
assumed jurisdiction they would not have
dared to exercise In the earlier days Of the
republic They now claim the right to de-
termine the extent Of their jurisdiction
and enforce such orders as they think
proper to make. These federal judges, like
sappers and miners, have for years silent
ly and steadily enlarged their jurisdiction,
and unless checked by legislation they
will soon undermine the very pillars OF
the constitution and bury the liberties Of
the people beneath their ruin.
The Essence Of DespOtism.
To vest any man or set Of men with au'
thority to determine the extent Of theil
powers and to enforce their DEGREES is ot
the very essence Of despotism. Fedora
judges now claim the right to take posses
sion of and run the railroads Of the coun-
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