Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-04
AN AuTocRAIlc EXECUTIVE.

AN AUTocRATlc EXECUTIVE.
The presidents veto of the silver
seIgniorage bill was not at all unexDec-
ted, nor must it be thought for mo-
ment that he has ever had any other
intention since the bill reached his
hands. His hostility to silver and pa
per currency and his unwavering ad-
herence to single gold standard are
equally we'll known, and those of his
party who support ed his policy in re-
pealjng the Sherman law In the hope
that it would pave the way for silver
legislation, find themselves the victims
of an egregious error. That idea was
allowed to drift from the White House
merely in order to catch votes for re.
pealiDg the only silver law IN existence,
and that done the silver contingent
may go to HadeS for all he and his
Wall Street allies care. His veto was
announced very confidently by finan-
cial publications before the bill had
passed either house. His autocratic
action in calling my congress tOgeth
er for the sole purpose of repeating the
silver purchase clause last summer
is again rivalled by this last egotIstical
is passed by both houses of congress,
on account of his superior reason and
Judgment" The first person prOnoun
used In the second paragraph of his
veto message is enough to convince
any man that Cleyeland thinks he is
running this government all by him
self. Notice it:
My stong desire against disagreement
with those in both houses of congress who
have supported this bill would lead NE 10 APP
prove it if could believe that the public grod
would not ther1by be endangered and that
such action on MY part wonld be a proper dis
charge of MY official duty. Inasmuch, how
ever, as am unable to satisfy MYSELF that
the proposed legislation is either wise or OPP
perfume, MY conception of the obligations and
responsibilities attached to the great office |
hold, forbid Ny indulgence Of MY personal
desire, and inexorably confines ME in that
course which is dictated by MY reason aud
judgment and pointed out by a sincere pur-
pose to protect and promote the general inter
ests of our people.
Ego omnipotence! He had better
have said that inasmuch as he was the
recognized head Of the money power
he had repudiated all other party ties
and was bound to prove despot at the
beck and call of an oligarchy. He is
not democrat. Neither is he republi
can; but he is the leader. ex-officio, of
the moneyed aristOcracy in both par
ties. The west and south is ignored by
thuse eastern financial dictators, who
discard the sham of party when the
people make request and present a
solid front against 1t. The intlexible
hostility that Cleveland and his east
ern allies have shown to silver all along
is eliminated in this imperial refusal
to recognize even the slightest wish of
that great body of people living west OF
the Mississippi and south of the OHIO
regarding monetary legislation.
The reason set forth in Cleveland's
veto have not the seInblance of sincerl-
ty. He has no reasons except that he is
uEqualitiedly opposed to any money
but gold and as leader of that element
has pledged himself to defeat any
measure that would interfere one
sclntllla with his cO-partners IN that
lniquitous system. That he could find
any flaws in the bill is a proposition
entirely set aside by his open statement
that any bill in favor silver would meet
his veto. The bill was as plain as his
veto. 1t provided that the silver seign
forage should be coined into dollars
which would add something over S55,
OOO,OOO to orr circulating medium. he
says, I'm my judgment sound finance
| does not commend further infusion Of
silver INTO our currency at the present
time" That is all the message he neeC
have sent with his veto. The few peo
pie who own the gold of the world have
in Cleveland safe representative anC
If the people ever expect change from
the Ills that this financial policy of {
quarter OF century has brought upol
us they must unite to elect those t
office who will grant their requests. l
is the peoples turn to veto; Will the,
do it?