Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-07-17
essrx County Asrala.
Island Pond, VI, July IL.
How does II Strike ycu Gentlemen?

four wears since the people were told theN
were grooming under wrongs and abuses.
not only of governmental theories, hut I
OF an administration of the laws that
was even criminal. They were promised /
remedies that would restore them to
prosperity and happiness. \ majority oi
the people believed them, and SD to these
promisors the people turned over the
whole charge of the government, thus
giving them full opportunity to discharge
those promises. Confusion, depression,
financial disorder, want, idleness, and
general discomfort Immediately followed.
The leaders soon saw that the whole
trend of their theories was towards con-
fusion and Insolvency, and that their
reputations were being buried in an
ignominious failure; and while attempt |
ing TO avert the catastrophe the warning |
elements of the party went in all direc-
tions, thus rendering the administration
incapable of working out even the good
there was in it, and at last it ended in a
perfect pandemomium at the Chicago
convention. The administration became
a perfect failure, and then occurred one
or lile must Illuminating spectacIes ever
presented by any party, that OF bitterly
condemning its own president. How do
the people look at that? A party bit
terly denouncing the very man through
whom only four years ago they promised
should come a condition of prosperity
equal to the most ardent hopes OF an
intelligent and happy people Every
happy condition promised, every favora-
BILE result of their theories worse than
blasted, reversed, and they were seen
wandering about the streets trying to
.raise the wind" so that they could keep
along with their running expenses,
Every financial theory of the defeated
party turned out to be Just what the
condition of the country required, ana
every move of the party in power plunged
the country deeper and deeper in disaster
and disappointment until the govern
ment was broken into fragments, eact
trantcally rushing to and fro and filling
the country with wild and unsuccessful
experiments. And now the people ar
asked with most consummate impudenc
to continue this concern in business.
stupendous failure is for sale, and til
people are asked to bid on it. How d.
YOU like it, gentlemen? A management
proved to be incompetent, with bEsines
principles and theories which have utterl
failed, is asking to be furnished whitney
capital and continued in business. "Se
'em up again, quick, for all the rivalnf
tions in the world are waiting anxiousl
Sound honest and honorable theorie
which have been revered so long, al
cast to the winds, and the people al
asked to applaud. See them "roun
about tho "a uldrnn on " Gao ALL
Tillman and the other witches with the
baskets filled with populism, anarchy
communism and all the offal of one
honored manhood, throwing in
Eye Of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind worms sting,
Lizards leg, and owlet's wing
MAKE the Cruel thick and slab" Ar
how do you like it gentlemen? Are VIC
pleased with the picture of a man goir
out from the glorious and loyal light
Massachusetts and pretending to ina
inc that he was on his way to Damascu
and that he saw great light in Il
darkest day time ever brought to Chicas
or the country? The black memory
Benedict Arnold hardly relieves the da
picture. The one was stung to NADINE
by imaginary wrongs, the other "lov
for his own ends, not for you." T
one committed common treason, t
other "a deed without name" Ho
do you like the false pretensc that o
desperate condition of the country gre
out of a supreme court decision, namel
that relative to the income tax? Ho
do you like the iconoclastic assault on
the time honored institutions, incudil
that OF the supreme court, which are o
only bulwarks barring out the wi
rage of a reckless populism? How {
you like the idea of arbitrarily compe
ing men to take per cent on deman
against solvent debtors, and forbiddil
individuals providing for honest deal 81
private contract" or that of paying
nottingham so cents on a dollar al
compelling him to pay twice as much
now for the means of subsistence for hi
self and family? How do you like t
tatfy declaration against the McKinl
law and that taxation should be lin
ted by the needs of the government no
estly and economically administers,
while it would require the revenue fro
two Mckinley laws to meet the needs
the government and to meet the power
stricken conditions into which the
gentlemen managers have got the cou
try which they deluded with such no
promises Oh Temporal! Oh mores! {
Grover! Oh Glover! How do you like
platform which places silver not on
equality with gold but upon an absolu
ratio OF sixteen to one without referer
to what may be the fluctuating value
silver by comparison or otherwise?
short, how do you like platform viii
squarely contradicts even the Democra,
platform OF Vermont, and that of NJ
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