People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-12-03
A Modern Belshazzar's Feast.

mercial interests of a great city
assembled to Interchange the offices
of hospitality, as it was a political
gathering where money. barOns and
their hangers.On met to gorge, drink
and jubilate over McKinley'S victory.
Many Of those present had contributed
generously to the Slush fund, which
played so important service in
securing the triumph of the gold stand
ardalliance, and in their JOY over the
result. which money had been so large
a factor in achieving, these jewellers
threw discretion and deCency to the
dogs, and gave free vent to their
sentiments of contempt and aversion
for the 100000 honest voters who,
with their ballots, opposed the cor
ruptions which colossal greed has
grated upon our government and
laws.
Some Of the speakers at the banquet
went to the limit of their vOcabularies
in attacking the honor and question
ing the honesty of the citizens who
had voted for bimetallism and for
the wrestling Of the national govern
ment from the influences which
threaten its life.
Mr.. Orr, the president Of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, par.
ticularly distinguished himself for
the ranCOr and villiication with which
he aSSailed the morality and patriot
ism of men who opposed the gold
standard, and BOurke Cochran was
there, too, with his rentable oratOry
and his reduced brogae, charging up.
on the bimetallist voters of the
country his campaign-wOrn charges
of reputation and anarchy upon the
reform forces of the country.
There were beside, among the
guests, members of Mr.. Cleveland's
Cabinet-POstmaSter General w. L.
Wilson and Secretary of Agriculture
j. Sterling Morton, and the stamp of
highest official appreciation was put
upon the banquet by Mr.. Cleveland
himself, who wrote his regrets that
he could not be present among SC
many loyal lovers of a free government
and splendid representatives of the
integrity and honesty Of the great
United States of North America.
The stock gamblers, option sharks
policy jobberS, note ShayerS, bond ped
dlerS, railroad wreckers and money
grabberS who constitute the New
York Chamber Of Commerce hardly
tit, from the point Of view of ICON
sciences free from guile to ACCUSE
the farmers, business men, labOriB!
men and Others in the West anC
South, and even in the East, wit
voted for bimetdlliSm, of all manner
Of dishonesty.
Surely these abused millions viii
hardly feel inclined to accept thi
abuse in spirit of submission O
acquieScence. The wholesale az
greSsiOnS made upon the interest.
and rights of the West and Sonth BY
the element of which the New YOrl
Chamber Of Commerce is tho crys.
utilization did more than all Othe
agencies combined to unite the people
Of these two sections into the SoliC
and determined phalanx which me-
the machine Republicans and Demo.
cratic boilers at the polls last Novem
Der and came within a few thousand
votes of taking from the trusts, thu
corporations and their dependent in
terestS their opportunities to rob b.
law and their long. enjoyed influence
IN directing the affairs of government
The New York Chamber of Com
merce and the representatives of thos,
vast aggregatiOnS of wealth, acquired
in so short a period, and much of it by
such devious methods under favoritC
legislation, would do well to heed thu
lines of warning in Mr.. Cleveland,
letter of regret: Constant vigilance,
he says, land continued effort are re,
quired, even to maintain present con-
ditiOns; bat absolute safety will only
be secured when our financial system
is protected by affirmative and thor
.Ough reforms"
They would have acted more wisely
aud In a more Christian spirit haC
they spared from villifcation, abuse
aud SANDER the millions of honest
and enlightened voters who supported
bimetallism at the last election, AND
who, reinforced by other millions,
with patriotism aroused and knowl
edge increased, will sweep these com
mercial vampires of Wall street anC
their political toadies, four year;
hence, out of the way of interfering
with the reformation of our govern