Iron County register., 1896-09-24
10 1HE oLo solplERs.
An Address Favoring the Election 0f N

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| under Gen SickIes. referring to the pos
| sibIe election of 3fr. Bryan: Your country
/ is again in peril In the present political
| campaign dangerous combinations again
| threaten the integrity and honor OF the
| government. Misguided men conspire to
| bring Reputation, dishonor and financial
/ ruin upon this nation, once saved by your
| vaIor, should this dangerous and revo:u-
| tionary conspiracy against the financial
I honor and integrity of the government
meet with success''-whIch we reply. is a
| fact, condensed into the above statement
| should the republican party again secure
| control of the government, now the right
hand OF the new bond slave system to be
fastened by law upon the totling masses or
American freemen, as intended by the shy
I locks, such sycophantS as the leaders OF
the so-calIed patriotic League" have or
ganized to serve. A class of foreign and
native knaves, who, not content with
the pound of fesh,' now have the gal
20 stand sponsors for, and appeal TO RE
old soldiers to assist the gold bondocracy
behind this new form of industrial slavery,
which exacts through manipulated legls-
latiOn, beginning with the bond act or
1862. two pounds of flesh" and the home OF
the victim, If he cannot pay mortgages
and monied obligations in gold only-ap-
preciatcd though stolen and br1bed Ieg's-
lation, from five to ten times IN the staIlIs
products of cotton and wheat since Io51-
We hurl it back as falsehoOd, black with
notification and toryism, against the pr'n-
cipleS of free government, our fathers,
DTOLneTS ana comrades OIEQ OF DdlliGEACiNS
to establish, from Lexington to ADpomat-
tox, and the charge comes with poor grace
from the so-callcd patriotic organizations
Of our former comrades, that a conspiracy
against the honor or integrity of our gov
ernment and our flag, is intended by nun
dreds of thousands of loyal patriotic sol
diers and the masses of our people VINO
vote IN November for the Patriot Bryan,
to occupy the chair of state, made illus
trious by Washington. Jefferson and our
martyred Lincoln - whose last CONVEX
sation on earth was on matter at issue in
this contest, the value of our gold ana SILVER
deposits in the mountains OF the west.
an accession Of wealth which Wouio
enable our people to rapidly pay CT the
war bond oebt-uujustly saddled upon the
country by the republican party, which
has not scrupled to enact laws beg-nnlnS
with the close of the war. to swindle the
soldier out of his Just dues in the interest
of the foreign Shylocks-who now own
and control the leaders of the new slave
party in America, yclept the republican
party; now using the language and airs
towards dissenting voters OF slaye-dr1V-
ers; a marty worshiping at the shrine
of the single gold standard -exactinS from
toiling debtors, dollars ENLARGED by stolen
rights from the people, from two to ten
times in value over the original contract
= repudiation OF every principle of honor
between debtor and creditor by the mon
{ led cIasS-such sycophants as the present
: leaders of the republican party has served
in the past. and now proposes to serve
again, by asking the meI. who periled
life to save the union from dismember-
mcnt, to vote for the continuance Of bond
slavery upon themselves, their chiI1ren's
/ children, and the industrial masses OF our
| countrymen. who by their labor produce
| all real wealth and pay all DEBTS; a pollcy
of dishonoI towards all debtors as black
as any conspiracy against justice ever
born in HadeS-but only the sequel of the
| legislative crimes of the republican party,
who placed the Infamous exception clause
] in the interest Of gold gamblers in Wall
| street, on the currency they compelled
the soldier to taI:e at par. less than
| 5O-cent dollar all through the war. that
the swindIing and unnecessary bond might
be doubly honore1 above the life of the
citizen soldier. A swindiing crime that
party has never had the Eonor &c cor
rect by equaliZiny the soldiers pay in
coin with interest on same as paid on the
bonds. from: date of his discharge until
this hour-followeG next by veto of the
equalization of bOunties bv Grant, whose
salary was doubled and .Ee allowance of
every conS- S-essman increased as the first
legislation after the War including the
Infamous swindle called the pubIi,: credit
strengthening act in the Interest of the
bondocracy and bank corporations fol-
lowed next by repeal of the arrears of
pension act-after SaJ0, 000,00 had been paid
on such claims-which if right originally
was etcrnally right in principle, with the
option left open 70 the soldier to apply
when he chose to DO so-another sWindle
OF millions against the men who
Luaue the DOuOS worth the paper print
ed on, which We charge the republican
party has manipulated, with a view to ex-
tend national bank bondage over the
American people-supplemented with it's
manipulation of the value of gold through
its demonetizing crime" of '73 against sill
yer, and consequent depreciation of the
products that pay national and all other
debts-that up to this hour more than
$i,5OO.OG0OOO have been poured by the pro-
ducers and labOrers of America into Shy
locks bond trap since March l. 1866 with
out in reality diScharging single mill of
the public debt. which that party declares
by its recent record in congress shall ex-
tend indefinitely, by transferring into
bonds the outstanding currency. in the in
IeTest of private banking corporations
IN view OF these facts in the public rec
ord. We charge, that a denial of the right TO
restore silver TO free coinage. without con-
sent of the crowned heads of Europe and
other European monarchies, is evidence
that ought to convince every old soldier
and his neighbors that the present so-callcd
republican party is not the party of Abra-
ham Lincoln, but has become the party of
Imperialism in this country. and with its
shoddy aristocracy, would gladly well
come a change of government, creating
titles and classes of nobility-wi.h the
plain, Industrial masses their serfS-de-
prived of suffrage.
We further cnarge that every man who
denies that the sovereignty of the Ameri-
can people legally restoring silver to free
coinage on equal terms with gold at our
mints. at the ratio of sixteen to one, and
cCnferring the law of full legal tender
upon silver dollars. would swindle pension
ers. laborers and other creditors and in
effect leave such coins so-CaIled 5O-cent
dollars is a doctrine that denies the con-
stitutional power of congress to coin money
for the American people, without foreign
consent, and nullifies the fundamental
principles Of free government-based on
the sovereignty and suffrage of free peo-
ple-is a base falsehood in its last analy-
sis embracing notification and toryism,
against our people and government, and
casts stigma of dishonor upon every drop
of patriotic blood shed and lives sacrificed
TO establish government by the people
and for the people, from Bunker Hill to APP
pomattoX: and now reveals the modern
so-called republican party and its lead
the apologistS and defenders of
a financial system based bonds and
gold only. destitute of humanity and pa
triotiSm, that appeals only to the animal
greed and oppressive Instincts of human
nature and should be so denounced by every
old soldier and all good citizens throughout
the union: and we as federal spiders
of the late war, call to people east
trample out OF existence the bond slave
so-caIled republican party at the polls in
Observation-Disclosures its gcld stendard
bond slave annex the Hennacrats. cali
ing themselves the nationaI democratic
party" and restore the gJvernmefte once
more Ito the people to wEom IL be-ongs.
by votfne the Bryan electoral ticket
Stand firm comraGesi ali this denuncia-
ton and talk of rebellion Reputation and
anarchy, should MIR. Bryao &c elected. is
pure blum and faisehood-Rat out by the