Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-27
Liberty or Monarchy.

Liberty or Monarchy.
The Chicago platform declares for
popular control of the currency, for
the supremacy of the constitution of
the United States, for equality of tax
alton, for the enforcement of the
laws to suppress trusts and regulate
corporations, and for the superiority
OF man over manmon. These are
the principles in which Washington,
jefferson, Madison and jackson be-
lieved, and on which the republic is
founded, yet in his speech at Detroit
on the 18th inst. Senator Palmer
the Indianapolis candidate for presi-
dent, declared that he WOULD PRE-
FER TO LIVE UNDER RIGHTEOUS
MONARCHY RATER THAN SUBMIT TO
SUCH PRINCIPLES.
Palmer has no prospect or expecta-
ton of election, and he is a candi-
date simply to aid the election of Nc
Kinley. What does McKlnley's can
didacy stand for? This is best an
swered by the reply to the question,
who is supporting him9 Behind him
in this campaign is ev cry trust that
is violating the law, every railway
corporation that has defied or evaded
the Interstate commerce act, every
fiscal Institution which hopes to pro-
tit by bank control of the currency,
every protected baron who has waxed
rich by the taxation and spoliation of
consumers, every syndicate that has
forced the government to issue bonds,
every raider of the gold reserve.
every great life insurance company
which is benefited by the lapse of
policies resultant from hard times.
every gold gambler, all who favor
the arbitrary use of the regular army
TO shoot down workingmen, every
beneficiary of the rise in value of
money and the fall in value of CON-
modities and property, every receiver
OF hxed Incomes, every believer in
government by injunction, every
heartless usurer, every grinder of the
face of labor, every would-be aristo
crat, every multimillionaire, every
exchanger OF American daughters
and dowries for foreign titles, and
every enemy of equality OF rights and
opportunities.
If these forces succeed on Novem-
Der Bird it is indubitable that thew
Will govern the country in their own
selfish interests regardless of the gen.
eral welfare, and that "the righteous
monarchy which Senator Palmer
prefers to the ascendency of the prin-
ciples on which our free institutions
are based will be perilonsly near. We
are now confronted with the very
conditions and danger against which
President Lincoln in his message to
congress in 1861, warned the country.
he said:
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from the pozVer o + the Deopze. H.
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raising q 1cG1ninS uoicc o60i1Sst
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Ihere is me point to Uhich
1 @sE 6ref attention. 1t is the
eUo7t 10 Place capital on On eGu01
tgot1,ee with il not above labor In
the Structure of the Government.
Let t!e711 6e1U0re Of stt1,renderin6
u politicalpo1ver c7aich the, al
ready haue-Which If s1trrept7ered
1giW surely be used to close the
door Of 0dUahce71ae7at AGAINST
such as they and to 7f.U nelv dis
abilities and burdens upon them
until all liberty shall be lost"
The struggle today is between COM
bined capital, or what Mr.. Cleveland
once termed the communism of cap
ital, /" on one side and the producing
millions on the other, and a candi-
date for the presidency publicly an
nounces that rather than have the
people rule and capital subjected to
government control he would prefer
right eous monarchy" And this
means, inasmuch as there never was
and cannot be righteous" monar-
chy, that he is in favor of monarchy
pure and simple, with all that it i'm
plies of class distinction inequality of