The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-09-26
SOVEREIGN TO LADoRrra nru.

SOVEREIGN TO LADoRTHG MEN.
There is no middle ground on which
labor aud non producing, specializing
capitalists can ever meet in harmony and
friendship. Tho one class 10 the mortal
foe OF the other. Since tho dawn Of CIV
ilization these two elements have main
tanned, in one form or another, one un-
broken chain Of hostility towards each
other. They meet and clash like the
meeting Of tidal waves and then recede
to meet and clash again 1t the first COM
motion. These two ever contending ele-
ments will meet in this country ct the
ballot box next November, the speculative
class representing . monetary system
based on gold, bonds and banking
autocraoy ruling over the nations curren-
cy. On the other hand, labor represent
ing free coinage Of silver, payment Of
bonds, and the government issue Of all
the money of the country.
The non producing spectators in
money being few and labor many, the
bond-grabbing and gold gambling spec
ulators in this contest invade the ranks Of
labor for recruits to carry on their work
of degradation and destruction. They
first make false claim to all the honesty,
AL the morality and al the philanthropy
in the world. They then charge the i'd
vocates of free silver with dishonesty, re-
pudiation aud anarchy. They then pose
before the world a. the ordained defend
ers and saviors of the down trodden work
ing people. If ever there was case Of
stealing the livery of heaven to serve the
devil, it is expressed in the attitude Of
the money power towards labor At the
opening Of this campaign.
But they do not stop there. They put
into operation the three most potent
powers known to couspirators: Deception,
bribery and coercion. The orders already
given BY the money powers when epito.
mixed mean: Persuade all who will be
persuaded, buy all who will be bought
and coerce the balance. Their persuaders,
their buyers and their coercers are already
IN the field. And the victims they seek
10 labor. Wall Street Is taking snuff in
the name Of labor aud al tho money
sharks are sneesing for the poor working
people of America. From Rothschild to
Mark Hanna they hold out gilded palm
to labor.
''Oh, labor. won't you be ninei
This chance to win never can miss,
I'll buy and c0erce y0u In line
For the hand that smote you must kiss."
The farmer has made two blades Of
grass grow where one grew before and the
money power has taken in two dollars
where it took in one before. The farmer
has had to turn over his blades of grass
and mortgage the land on which they
grew; yet in the name of the agricultural
classes the contedsrated banks plead for
. continuation of the single gold standard.
The wage workers have seen their wages
70 below the living point, their homes
taken from them and they crowded into
the army Of enforced idlen or driven to
the squalid quarters of the tenement die
tricts, while the gold power has amassed
untold millions aud grown naughty and
despotic on the necessities and misfor-
tunes Of the poor. Yet the money power
holds up gold alone a. the only hope of
labor.
Every reader of the worlds history
knows that gold. when it stands alone, i
coward in war, robber in peace, and
villain all the time. Through the me-
dunn of single gold standard the sub
jugation of labor and the concentration
of the wealth of nations in the bands of
the few has been accomplished. The
system has desolated every country and
impoverished every people it ever infest
ed. There 10 not single exception to
this rule. Let labor glance at the money
centers of this country, from whence
comes the demand for single gold stand
ard, and there will be found in the fore
front of the agitation for gold few AFRO
giant, naughty, domineering aristocrats
who despise the name of labor and scorn
the hand of An honest toilsr. Go on
Wall Street, the nucleus of the gold sgi-
tation in America to-day, and like their
prototypes in the Old World, they believe
that workipgman IL born with saddle
on his back apd themselves with boots
aud spurs to ride him by the grace of
God. Let Baron Rothschild, the Gear of
Russia and all the oppFessoFs Of the poor
ID England and Europe come ia America
during this campaign and would they
call on Mark HANNAH Would they be
received by the Belmonts and the Nor
gans, the Vanderbilts and the Sages} Or
would they call on and encourage that
matchless champion of the people, W. J.
Bryant The natural answers to these
questions anavor for labor ali the arou