Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-09-25

WOnQer GuaI any lCPuouUAU sAUWo'
paper would make such astatement
as that without making sonte effort
| to asc ertain whether therewas any
truth IN it. 1 am nearly so years.
old, and I have never voted any
thing but the Democratic ticket.
| / have said that I would never vote
anything but the Democratic ticket,
but / would no more vote for a
law which would permit me to
compromise with my workmen at
so cents on the dollar than ! would
vote for one to, accept SO cents on
the dollar from those who owe me.
Any plan that contemplates cutting
the value Of the dollar in two
strikes at the workingman first
and the moneyed man last, for
man who has money can live a
while on the principal, if he has to,
but the man who has to work for
his living is robbed of half his
wages if the dollar in which he is
paid is only half dollar.
"Ihope to see the time when the
Democratic party will show the
Republicans that there is God in
Israel yet, and l believe that as
soon as the politicians who are
keeping this perpetual turmoil
going are turned down, and the
people given chance to attend to
business while, that the Demo
cratic party will again come tothe
front and be, as it has been, the
party of the people. I have not
read the papers very much since
the Chicago convention, because
as soon as learned that conyen.
ton had determined to abandon
the principles in which | had be-
lieved for more than half a century,
| I took no further interest in the
matter. I may not live to see it,
but believe there will be enough
left of the Democratic party to
build on when these boys get
through playing politics, and, when
the people come to look at the
thing soberly and realize the ab-
surdity of trusting the government
of the nation IN the hands Of 9 set
of men whom you would not trust
in charge Of . haying crew, there
will be a reaction that wall set
things right in time. | am npt
particularly alarmed at the sitfa-
ton. I have seen such fevers be-
fore, and l have seen the country
survive. Rest assured that the
people of the United States will
never allow the adoption of sysr
tenn which would take 50 cents out
of the purchasing power OF the
laboringman's dollar and add it to
the balance sheet of the man who
pays it to him. There has been
more than one attempt to do this
indirectly, but this is the first time
it has been attempted by a direct
method, and there is no fear that
it will succeed, when the indirect
attempts have been invariably
thwarted. The man who d0es
business on the theory that all
other men are fools is generally .
fool himself, but the man who az.
sumes that all others are dishonest
must be dishonest himself. The
people are neither fools or scoun-
drels, as rule, and they will de-
tect and punish dishonesty in public
matters just as quickly as they
would IN private transactions.
II have been told that this story
about my being in favor of the
5O.cent silver dollar demanded at
the Chicago convention was sent
out by man who lives here. If
it was, and if he knows me at all,
he knew he was lying when he
said it, and if he didn' t know me,
he had no business to make such a
statement about me. .- 0
81 have not said VINO l would
vote for, but I do say this, that
I will never vote for 50.cent dol
lar for the spoils system advocated
at Chicago, for the pollution Of the
supreme court Of the United States
as was proposed there, for party
which publicly insulted the presi.
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