The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-01
Dayton, Rhea county, Tenn.
OLD PARTY LEADERS DESCRIBED.


They are Cold Blooded, Cowardly Frauds.
Editor Representative.
1t weighs not so much what men say as
what they prove. We have read the
speeches of Senators Sherman of Ohio
and Mills of Texas in the United States
senate; the first January 3Oth and the
second Jan. 18th, 1896. Both speeches had
a bearing on the bond deal, and the finan-
cial question.
Both these gentlemen would make us be-
lieve that they are working for the in
terest Of the masses; but it is proved that
their measures and their votes in the sem
ate are in the interest of the money power
and corporations; the smooth speakers soon
afterwards betrayed their convictions by
their votes.
The record shows that measures passed
by congress for the benefit Of the masses
as against the classes have been labeled
Unconstitutional by the courts.
The reason why the money powers and
their friends In congress, in both the old
parties. are SO strongly opposed to free
silver is if it should become law it could
not be declared unconstitutional because
that instrument in Article 1, Section s,
Clause 6, gives the power to congress to
'coin money and regulate the value there
Of" and on this rock the financial plank
in the Omaha platform rests.
AS have drifted on to the Omaha plat
take it for granted that the initiative and
referendum will make one of the planks in
our next national platform.
But can this be Of any benefit to us with
out an amendment to the constitution?
If this measure should become a law by
the law-making power and the executive,
what would the Supreme Court of the
United States do with it? The referen-
dunn would relieve this august body of
some of it's work
Thn yrif civ y, iC ,iv,;N %Iof
there will be no reform mea assures passed
by either of the old parties; for their idea
is that a public debt is a public bless
ing, but there are millions of voters that
do not agree with the old school on this
point, as | hope the vote next election
will testify. and, a new creed will be ac-
cepted that will read like this, PAY as
you CO.
The platforms are simply directions
given by the people to their chosen gov
eminent as to what they want to have
enacted into law.
There are many professional men. many
learned men, that know but little of the
cause and effect Of law. The aim and end
of all laws should be to constribute to
the welfare of the governed: the con-
trary of this has been the effect of laws
owing to the last twenty-five years Laws
have been enacted to enrich the few by
giving them what the many have pro-
duced. until the whole machinery really
came to a standstil Many of the voters
have been wabbling about from one of the
old parties to the other the last three or
four presidential elections. but have ac-
complshed nothing to better themselves.
1t is in fact getting worse.
And now word to my fellow farmers
and to the laborers and my fellow citizens.
The leaders in the old parties, who are
about to bring more sorrow to Suffering
humanity. will smile in the face of more
misery and neglect the duty they owe to
their fellow beings. their God and their
native land are hard at heart base in
feeling. cowardly in nature. demons in
carnate. from whom all decent men should
shrink. H. L. SAND
Stockholm, Wright Co., March 20. 1896.