The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-06-30
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lican party and Is now agitating free
silver through the columns Of the
Cleveland Daily Record. Mr. Hack
uey as usual, employs iorcible Ian
guage His latest letter will prove Of
interest:
81 claim that single gold standard
is building up an untitled arstocracy
OF the few, and degrading the many.
That the bankers OF London are con-
trolling the bankers Of America TO the
end that our commerce may be de-
stroyed and that OF England aggran-
died That influence has driven on
flag from the ocean, and by the fore
closure Of their mortgages upon our
railroads, the American holdings there
in have been destroyed so thai today
England controls our transportation
on land and on sea, and levies tribute
at her will upon American commodi-
ties from the hour they leave the shop
or farm until the consumer reached.
whether he live in this country or in
any other country.
"The raising or lcssening Of the tariff
cannot change this We have had q
protective tariff since 1861, the Wilson
bill being the highest in our history,
with the exception Of the Mckinley
law. and under both stagnation Of
business has been universal and the
miseries Of the people perpetual; and
therefore tariff, high or low, is not the
cause.
"As Senator Teller recently said,
empty stomachs do not make patriots,
destitute homes do not make liberty
loving men. No nation can maintain
its freedom and its independence il it
does not have prosperity as the sub
stratum for its people to stand upon.
Not to a few, but tc all. The system
now in vogue is one calculated to make
the rich richer and the poor poorer
THE action Of the national tankers
in convention assembled at Baltimore,
in illumination financial system that
Cleveland and Carlisle indorsed, and
which all shortly after abandoned, and
none would now indorse, is evidence of
the fact that that influence lacks con-
structive ability, is wanting in patriot
ism and is incapable of aiding us in
the way of our present difficulties.
LAS evidence Of the decay Of patriot
ism, no law was introduced, nor theory
advanced by Cleveland, Carlisle, Sher
man nor anybody else in the congress
just closed, looking TO a betterment Of
conditions, and cite the fact as evil
dence Of the baleful influence OF Eng
lish views upon our public men.
"Ex- x-Sccretary OF the Treasury Eos
ter recently admitted, that but for the
defeat Of General Harrison in 1892,
bonds would have been issued by his
administration, just as they have been
issued by Clevelands
Every bond that has been issued
! by the Democratic administration was
provided for by laws passed by Repub-
lican congresses, and but for Republi-
can votes Cleveland would have been
deprived by law OF his power to do so
the friends Of continuation of the
present gold standard promised the
country prosperity # the sherman law
was repealed; IL was repealed and
| time, grew worse. ThereupOn we
were promised better times II gold in
the treasury was replenished Three
| times II was SO said and promised, and
each time il wac done, but times have
grown worse aud the bonded debt Of
the nation has thereby been increased
S9G2 900 900, by which the Wall street
and London bankers were enriched
millions dollars, and this at the ex-
peuse of the people, and the Republi-
can party promise no remedy, but ex-
pressly declare they are in favor of a
continuation OF present conditions.
And we for ourselves, submit TO our
readers that for any party in this
country to deliberately propose a set
tied adherence to conditions so in
famous only shows what a powerful
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this country.
"The farmer, with his crops rottinP
in the fields for want of a market, sits
in rags and penurY, while the laborei
and his family, in hunger and misery,
gaze upon plenty without money to
purchase il, and without labor 10 earn
It,
That we are in the midst Of a polit
ical revolution every man must admit
Where it will end no one can surely
prophesy. That there is something
radically wrong with present condi
tions no sane mar will deny.
What will the people of this eoun
try, the laboring millions who hav,
the ballot in their own hands do tt
{ change these conditions? How shall 4
) be done? These are questions that ad
dress themselves to every laborer OF
the farm, in shop, store or elsewhere
. questions that involve the future pros
perity and welfare OF all How ar
they to dispose OF il?
I'VE have tried all thai the Republi
cans contended for without avail. w
have tried all that Cleveland aud hi
! administration has contended fo