Willmar tribune., 1896-02-18

go to moDometall1e standard dn0 % -
tional bank notes alone, ash Gurne MN
to answer why tho governments pr1mx
notes are not as good as irs anon6
notes? The reason Is you have your Ann
You want few thoaalaq
more, with about 60, ,o0o, 900 paupaa
And what are the people going to d
about tta Why are these iniquities pese
mitted md the outrageous and unlaw28
actions Of tho executive unoheokedi No
man here denies the assertion that it Is
unlawful to issue bonds to pay the current
expenses of the government, and yet ID has
been done. There has been lame ex.
planntion attempted, that redeemed green
backs had to go into the general fund and
bo reissued, but II they were receiver for
sued, and they were not used to pay our
5ponsibility Of providing revenues and
hooking after the solvenoy of the treasury,
which rests with congress, has been
usurped by the president.
Now comes the crucial question for the
Republican party. Why have you not i'm
poaohed hims You have nearly three
fourths majority at the other end Of the
capitol, which alone can formulate articles
of impeaohment. Why have yvu NOT In.
peaohed himY
A Note OF Warning.
The money changers are in the temple
Of our liberties and have bought the senn-
nels on guard 1t may be tuo late God
grant 1t be not 80, but this great republic
can only be saved from the miseries Of
revolution and internecine strife In the
near future by Its citizens cBtinR aside
blind allegiance to- party and marshAling
themselves under the banner of Jefferspn's
democracy and Iincoln's republhanfsm,
determined to restore the republic % the
form in which 1t was left to us by the
fathers and since consecrated by the blood
Of brothers she'd In civil war, engendered
and brought about by just such statesman
ship as we have here. The encruauhments
of the federal Judiciary and the supineness
and venality-corruption, may say-m
the representative branches Of the guver1-
ment are causes Of deep concern to Au
thinking and patriotic men. We arp fsse
drifting into government by injunction in
the interest Of monopolies and corpora
tions and the supreme court by one currupE
vote annuls an act Of oongrBss l0ek2HB %
the taxation OF the rich.
Sir, the struggle from 1861 to 1855,
which drenched this fair land In bloo0,
was to emancipate 1000, 600 black elavea.
We are fast approaching a condition wil1cA
will place the collar Of industrial bondage
around the necks Of ten timee that many
white slaves. would not predict revelu-
ton or war If I did not feel that relief
must como either by the ballot or that an
effort will be made in few yusn 10 ob-
tain it by bullets. You may luok upon
me as an enthusiast, as an alarmhS or an
anarchist, but with the sober convictions
of common sense I tell you that the eeaah-
ing of all history is belied, and ws mule
surrender the belief that like causes pro
duce like effects if men expect that the
millions now out of employment and the
other millions who are working cut a
hopeless existence Of toll year in and ye9r
out, the women stitching in poverty,
hunger and Dirt" depicted this morning
by the senator from South Dakota Mr..
Kyle), the men bearing their hopeless bur
dens of debit all directly traceable to bod
government, will not some day have .
reckoning.
You all remember Macaulay's prediction
that sono day government would be pnt
in charge Of this country by the commnne.
When that time comes, God have mercy On
you millionaires who have stolen SO muoh
of the peoples money!
say to the senator from Maina and IA
the other senators who stand here as ex-
ponents of the creed which would enslave
the American people by the contamination
of the scheme to which they are commit
ted: The Arlnenians are here at yoxE
doors. In every city and hamlet and
county of these United States they can be
found, and I warn you they will not be
held down for oil time by the Turks who
now oppress them. A day Of reckoning
will como unless there is no longer jun
God in heaven, and, when 1t does come,
woe be unto those who have been among
the oppressors Of the people. The present
struggle is unfortunately too like thai
which preceded the late civil war, 1nae
much as it is sectional. The creditor and
the manufacturing states of the north anf
cast, those which have grown inordinata1y
wealthy at the expense Of the producing
classes of the south and west, nro urging
this policy with the besotted blindness o.
Belshazzar. The old shareholders of thl
south were not more arrogant or more De
terminod "The sordid despotism O
wealth." to use the apt phrase OF Justic'
Brown, is already felt throughout the Land
The representatives In congress ffou
those states, without regard to party anil
iations, are solidly arrayed under the ban
ner of monopoly and the gold standard
Greed and self interest seem alone to act,l
ate them. Self preservation and patriot
ism should bind the south and west II
equally strong bonds Of union. We can
not afford to longer put party above coun
try.
You have already been told In glowinl
lanpuage bv the eloquent senator iron
Missouri that the conflict Is "trrepreael
ble,' and it Is easy to sec from tho tempe
and feeling of the equally distinguishe
senator from Colorado and other Wostor'
senators that the struggle for the ns'
emancipation has begun. And tho ne1
Mason and Dixon's line which is drawn
not by the surveyor, but by the denial Q
the natural and inalienable fright to LII
liberty and the pursuit of happiness" 10
large majority of citizens, will sooner Q
later bring together In the bonds Of unio
the toiling and now doWntrodden maa1e
of the cities and the equally despensi
masses of the country, Agrarianism an
communism will join hands. There a
millions now on the maroh, and the
tramp, tramp, tramp-tramp tho sadl
walks hunting work and tramp the hlgl
ways begging bread. Unless relief com'
they will some day take q notion TO tram
to Washington with rifles in their henf
to regain the, liberties which have bea
stolen from them or which their repr
sentatives have sold, and the hitherto ooi
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