Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-01-16
A HumIlia.lnE Spectacle.

o"nSOA vi war UeCW6en the United
States and Great Britain, nor do I
think for moment that it was in .
tended by the manipulators behind
the scheme that there should be, but.
like the ruse OF the fisherman when
hard pressed by wounded whale,
the advocates of interest bearing
bonds to maintain and fasten upon
this government the single gold stand:
ard, have simply thrown out the war
scare as a decoy to distract the atten
ton OF the people froom the main is
sue while they. the money grabbing
sharks, get away with few hundred
millions of bonds.
To discredit silver as a money met
al, to maintain the single gold stand
ard, to iseue bonds and buy gold at
any sacrifice to the people are and
have been the pet schemes of Mr..
Cleveland ever since his elevation TO
the Presidential Office, and have no
doubt but that Republican Con
gress will heartily assist the Presi-
dent In forcing this curse of BONDAGE
and financial slavery upon the people
IN such form as to prevent, if posi-
bic, return to the free and unlimit.
ed coinage Of both gold and silver.
No doubt the free born people of
this Republic are loyal and patriotic
to the hearts core, and should danger
threaten the liberty of the citizens by
any foreign power under the sun,
millions of her sturdy sons will spring
to arms to defend the honor of the
Government. But the trouble is
within, not without. The danger is at
home, not abroad, and though it is
quite evident that corruption is seeth-
ing and rocking in high places, the
people seem to be Indifferent, stunned
or sleeping, while their servants are
bartering away their birth-rignt for a
mess of pottage, or a .delusive, ever
vanishing pot of gold.
TO Carry ont the gold bugs idea Of
intrinsic value and self-government,
to strike down silver and contract the
basic money of the country one half,
to centraiZe government and concen-
trate capital, to barter away the un-
doubted constitutional right of the
Government to coin money and fix
the value thereof, to impoverish the
people and enslave labor, to speculate
upon the necessities of the masses
and to administer the Government by
injunction, necessitate the presence
of large standing army so that the
war scare may be made to answer 9TH
er purposes than that of issuing bonds
must be apparent to the most casual
observer. What though the people
may run to and fro and ask for bread
they are only rendered stones in.
stead! The tyranny of gold and greed
OF gain brook no opposition and heed
no warning. Neither the cry of the
helpless, nor the hardships of the
tramping, starving poor, the prayers
and petitions Of the down trodden
masses, nor yet the pleading elo
quence OF hapless mothers and suffer
ing children are regarded by the on
pressing soulless cohorts of plutoc-
racy, whose only answer is, aThe
people be damned" It is quite eyi.
dent that arguments, however con.
vincing, are not to be considered by
the gold trust for a moment. Mark
the unanswered speeches of Senator
John P. Jones, the untiring and ever
ready efforts of Senator William M.
Stewart and other eminent bi.metal-
lists in favor Of the free and unlimit-
eel coinage of both gold and silver,
have only been replied to, not an
swered, by sneers, innuendoes and
ridicule, Notwithstanding our Govern.
ment has been driven to the very
verge of bankruptcy by the craze OF
the worshipers Of the golden calf.
What humiliating spectacle to con-
template!