Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-10-22
Who Are the RepudiatOrs2

cause the silver men want to cut
down the ever-increasing purchas-
ing power of the gold dollar as
measured in products CT labor, they
are held to be anarchists and re-
p%udiators. Let every fairminded
and candid man cas-, his eye around
and actually note who are the
regulators. First bear in mind
that there are two kinds of repudia-
tionists; the one who repudiates in
money and the one who repudiates
in the products of labor. Of the
two the latter is the greater evil
doers, for labor is in the sale and
only superstructure upon which the
whole fabric of social and economic
government or relations stand. Now
arrayed this year we find one class
OF kinds of classes on one side of
the question, and other kinds on
the other. On the side that be-
lieves in both gold and silver as the
money of ultimate redemption-the
money of the copstitution-we find
the great mass of laboring people.
wage earners by manual toll, the
producers, and the great body of
agricultulists of the country. These
constitute the principal strength,
numerically of the free silver hosts.
On the other side are arrayed every
trust, corporation and syndicate in
the land, nearly every railroad cor
poration, every land grant swindier
and nine-tenths of the bankers and
money loaners. II is true that
there are many toilers and wage
carriers that have followed the ban
ner of their party to that side oithe
financial question, but their ideas
or hopes and beliefs do not obtain
this issue. The others predomi-
nate and overtop them. Now Of
the first class who are called re-
pudiators, we candidly ask if they
are the real ones that in everyday
transactions are liable to repudia-
ton. They are not. They are the
ones who pay the full amount
nominated i'll the bond. Not only
the full amount, but under the skill
full manipulations of some of the
other classes they are made 70 paw
double the amount by the continued
appreciation of the dollar and the
continued depreciation of their
products. These men are not not
never will be regulators. But
how about the others? Did anyone
hear of a Gould or a Wander
bilt seeking to evade a just and
honest tax, the income tax, for in
stance? Did anyone ever hear of
an Astor going to London to reside
to avoid paying his personal prop
tax? Did any one ever hear
land grant swindlers being per-
petrated by great railroad magnates,
whereby they secured twice the
number of acres of land they were
entitled to under the law? Did any,
one ever hear of the attempt Of
P. Huntington to evade the
payment of the just and honest
debts owed by the Pacific railroads
to the government for MONEY
loaned? Did anyone ever hear of
them paying the government the
interest they owed during the past
ten years on this vast debt? Or to
it right down home, did any
one ever hear of the Southern
Pacific railroad refusing to pay
taxes on its lands in the county of
Lincoln when assessed at the same
price other lands of like character
we're, and threatening to put the
county to endless expense and
trouble by useless and unjust liti-
If the payment of these taxes
we're ATTEMPTED to he arforoal,