Graham guardian., 1896-07-24
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
Discussed by w. w. DamroD, Sr., of
Thatcher.


and weigh we'll the
position they take in the present
political contest that is before the
voters of the United States.
The question is shall we recog-
nize the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of sixteen to
one, or shall we vote for gold alone
and thereby make that commodity
more valuable and deficient to OBJ
tain to accommodate Great Britain
and other foreign nations.
Free coinage Of silver would give
thousands of our people employ
ment, and is the constitutional
money adopted by the trainers of
this great government. In my
judgment, it would be just as fair
to pass a law that no one should
plant and raise potatoes, in order
to give some syndicate chance to
make corner on potatoes.
We do not need the consent Of
other nations to know whether we
can coin our own money. The
trainers of our government had to
make their own money, and in the
rebellion the nation took the same
view of ii and carried the govern
ment through that dark and cloudy
day to victory, without the help of
other nations. There is no nation
more competent and Independent
than ours. Political parties are
the safe guards of any government.
1t is through great financial issues
that political parties are organized
and place their views before the
people for their adoption or re-
lection at the polls.
When any form of government
becomes destructive to the interests
and liberties Of the people, it is
their right to abolish such system
and institute a better safeguard for
their protection.
The democratic party has ever
openly advocated the free coinage
Of silver and has kept this princi-
pie before the people.
The republicans, for the last
thirty-six years have predominated
and the few times the democrats
have been in power 1t partially
failed to undo misrule and bring re-
liefto the toiling millions, but VIC
must remember that the republi.
cans, backed with the gold Of almost
the whole world, were entrenched
in power.
The democrats by principle and
platform have always advocated
the interest Of the laboring and
producing classes.
Now in our present campaign
the republicans have openly come
out and declared for the single
gold standard, they call it sound
money, and mean by sound money
that it is the money Great Britain
wants.
From the day Great Britain
failed to conquer us by armies, she
has been planning to capture our
great resources, and has so far sue
ceeded that she ownes a great
many of our most profitable in
dustrles and thousands Of acres OF
our best soil.
The time has come for us to
again declare our independence
and assert the rights that were so
dearly bought by our forefathers.
No doubt the republican party
will try to deceive the people in
the same old way by trying to
make them believe that protection
of home industries is all that is
needed to make times better. But
it is necessary to debate this mat
ter. Any one who will examine
the financial records will find very
little difference in the times of high
protection and low protection.
If they want to protect large
capitalists in the investment OF
their means in the industries of our
country why do they not pass laws
at the same time to compel capi-
talists to divide the profits with
the laborer who helps to produce
those profits?
Who ever heard of a rich man
being willing to divide profits with
his laborer? Hence, the result is
this protection all goes into the
pockets of a few at the expense of
the many. The man who would
choose protection instead of silver
and is western or southern man
must be little light in the upper
story, or is wilfully under the whip
Of party rule, or hope of u dish OF
political Doodle somewhere.
Think gentlemen, weigh well this
matter and be honest to your own
interests and to those Of yonr fel-
low citizens, for they are IN great
peril at this very time.
| know some will say there is no
use in talking about it here in Ari-
zona, we have no vote for presi-
dent.
Arizona stands good show to