The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29
Belied His own Words.

"To make good this charge" Mr.. Till
man argued that when President Cleve-
land came to power in March, 1893, and
could call the senate and house (both
Democratic) for the first time since the
war to carry his policy into effect, he did
not call an extra session to give tariff re-
form to the people, but instead called
congress together to stop the coinage of
silver.
Discussing the repeal of the purchas-
ing clause of the Sherman law which
followed he said: democrats and Re-
publicans vie with each other in the
furtherance of the policy which had been
formulated aud steadily pursued by the
senator from Ohio.
"When the senate met there was an
acknowledged majority of men open and
outspoken in their determination 10
stand by the white metal aud who were
elected on that issue. But the process
of debauchery began and slowly the
senate yielded. In ninety days the deed
was done and the chalns were riveted on
the wrists of the toiliug millions. Did
the raid on the treasury stop?"
Discussing then the tariff bill which
passed in the regular session following.
he said: "It is true he (the president)
did not sign it and allowed it to become
law without approval, but here again we
have a spectacle of charlatanry and hy-
pocritical assumption of superiority to
his party which has always marked
his career. The tariff law which he re-
pudisted as unworthy. involving party
perfidy and party dishonor,' is the sheet
anchor to which he clings."
Tho President DebAuehed.
And again, referring to the president,
"If he was honest at the start land l am
willing to grant that much) his assooia-
tion with Wall street and his connection
with wealthy men has debauchej his
conscience and destroyed all sympathy
with the masses"
Further on in discussing the gold
question he said: "Rothschild and his
American agents graciously condescend
to come to the help of the United States
treasury in maintaining a gold standard
which has brought the ruin, and only
charges small commission of ten mil
lions or so. Great God, that this proud
government, the richest, most powerful
on the globe, should have been brought
TO so low pass that a London Jew should
have been appointed its receiver and
presume to patronize us.
"The responsibility of providing reve-
nue. and looking after the solvency of the
treasury, which rests with congress- has
been usurped by the president Why is
he not impeached?
The encroachments of the federal ju-
dietary and the supineness and venaliry
-COEEu ptlOu, Ady say Oh luo ESpuDll-
can branches of the government are
causes of deep concern to all thinking
and patriotic men. We are fast drifting
into government by injunction in the
interest of the money power and cor
porations, aud the supreme court by one
corrupt vote annuls an act of congress
looking to the taxation of the rich.
Collar of Industrial Bondage.
"The struggle from 1861 to 1865 which
drenched this fair land in blood, was to
four million black slaves.
We are fast approaching a condition
which will place the collar of industrial
bondage around the necks of ten times
that many white slaves. A day of reck-
oning will come unless there is no longer
a just God in heaven, and when it does
come, woe be unto those who have been
among the oppressors of the people.
The present struggle is unfortunately,
too, like that which proceeded the late
civil war, inasmuch as it is sectional
The creditor and the manufacturing
states of the north and east, those
which have grown in0rdinately wealthy
at the expense of the producing classes
of the south and west are urging this
policy with the besotted blindness of
Belshazzar."
sit was easy to sse." the senator said
in conclusion, that the struggle for the
now emancipation had begun. There
were millions now en- the march and