Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-09-20
THE IMPENDING CRISIS.

The time has at last arrived when
every citizen of the United States must
determine for himself whether the finan-
cial policy of the administration is cor
rect or faulty. The platform of the dem
~ocratic national convention upon which
Mr.. Cleveland was nominated declared
in favor of bimetallism, and upon that
platform Mr.. Cleveland made his race
and wal elected. In defiance of the
principles of his party as enunciated in
the resolutions, he had no sooner
assumed the executive charge Of the
government than he r%epudiated the
pledges made at Chicago and announced
a determination to run counter not only
to the will of the democratic party, but
to that of the people. This policy he has
maintained up to date. No need to run
the gamut of his sins. They are as
scarlet in the eyes of the people. He has
could be said to the contrary, and no
matter by whom said, he has insisted
that Wall street in New York and LON
bard street in London must of necessity
dictate and control the financial policy
of this government. TO all protests to
the contrary he has turned a deaf ear.
BY some species of argument. and
it must have been specious, he
has been inoculated with the goldbug
fever. While this fever was Oh him he
has done everything possible in his
power to sacrifice his party and it's prin-
ciples on the altar of self. 1t may have
been a case of egotism, or it may have
been a case Of cupidity, but no matter
which, it was a clear and culpable
violation of pledges. The platform
on which he accepted the nomina-
ton and on which he was elected
declared unequivocally in favor of BIZ
metallism. 1t said: "We hold to both
gold and silver as the standard money of
the country and to the coinage of both
gold and silver without discriminating
against either metal or charge for mint
age" In the face OF this Cleveland has
been the persistent enemy of silver. He
secured the repeal of the Sherman act
and defeated the passage of a free coin
age act. He played into the hands of
the goldbugs and is now using ali the
power that his patronage gives him to
defeat the will of the people. He re.
fused to recognize that the word 'coin"
as printed on the obligations of the gov
eminent meant "%coin," or that when
the obligation was made silver was
"%coin.' He declared that gold was
the only "coin" that he knew in
came the sequel; he submitted to a raid
upon the United States treasury by Wal
street and her entered into an unholy
conspiracy with the banks under the
pretext of maintaining the national
credit. By the deal the banks made
!. millions and agreed to keep the
t national credit at par at q
gold basis. The dispatches this
= morning show that Cleveland has
been made the victim OF a confidence
e game, though the people and not he are
e the sufferers. Under the circumstance!
another bond Issue is inevitable. Let i
come and let it be continued until thu
9 "gold bearing" indebtedness is piled
mountain high. If the intelligence o
this land, if the voters choose tt
be %subjugated to the money powe
10 and permit Cleveland to become
a dictator with the aid of the banks it i
their lookout. In saying this referenc
is made to the masses in the east. w
10 of the west have issued a declaration 0
at Independence. Regardless of party W
10 are in favor of the money of the consti
,e tuition and of our fathers in spite c
Cleveland and those who control hin
r. Free coinage is the key to the situation
W, The voters hold the key. Will the
hs with their ballots unlock the door an
pit free themselves and their country frol
Dr. bondage?
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Notice.