The Yale expositor., 1896-07-03

, tiop, or Taubeneck advocates a union
of forces. do not advocate any mate
rial change in the platform, although
make the money plank and the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. the
first plank in the st. Louis platform,
the same as 1t was in the Omaha plat
form; but | am not going to fight
with any good Peoples Party man if he
does not agree with me on the platform.
l will agree to accept the Judgment
CT the majority, believing that pos
sibly they might know more than do.
l am credibly informed that the Re-
publican party leaders will gladly
spend million dollars or more il
people against the money power in the
coming election.
Many have found fault with Gen.
Weaver for saying, IF we do not win
in the coming election it is doubtful
II the people will ever win short of
revolution" / thoroughly agree in Gen.
Viewers views of the situation. The
spirit OF unrest which is manifested
over this entire land shows plainly
that the people will never tamely ac-
cept defeat and go on with their suffer-
ings without entering their protest.
Wall street threatens to overthrow the
Government, unless gold can reign SUI
preme. These threats are nothing new.
In 1878 the New York Tribune, writ
ing upon the National Bank Associa-
ton and the Greenback movement, used
the following remarkable language:
Meanwhile very good thing has been
done. The machinery is now furnished
whereby in any emergency the finan-
clal corporations of the east can act
together at single days notice. with
such power, that no act of Congress
can overcome or resist their decision"
Henry Clews in his regular weekly
FINANCIAL Review on the 23d of May.
1896, utters this threat: THE near
prospect of the authorization Of free
coinage, the counting of heads showing
certainty of two-thirds vote in the
house and senate for 16-1, would evoke
in Wall street the kind of conditions
that no Congress has ever yet dared
to disregard, and the cause of free
coinage would be overthrown the mo-
ment when its success seemed most
certain. 1t is this reserve power in
which Wall street is now reposing."
1t VIII be noticed that he speaks of
wall street as an entirety superior to
the people. 1t has long been urged that
Wall street was danger which threat
ened civil liberty. No more treason
able utterance has fallen upon the ear
of the liberty-loving people of America
since old Bob Twombs threatened in
Fanueil Hall, Boston, to call the roll
or his slaves, at the foot of Bunker
Hill monument, unless the agitation of
the slavery question was stopped.
We cannot do everything at once.
but by wise and judicious cooperation
with friendly forces We can break the
grasp which Wall street now has upon
the legislation of the country, and re-
lieve the producing and debtor classes
from the awful wrong and extortion
that come from the constant apprecia-
ton of gold. This alone should be
greater triumph than was ever peace
ably achieved by any political party,
and 1t would pave the way for still
greater triumphs in the future.
1t would be folly for the American
people at this time to ignore the condi-
ton which confronts them, and when
men protesting to be leaders of great
reform movement in the face of those
conditions, can find no nobler senti-
ment or more potent element of patri-
otism to influence them than jealousy
- party leaders, or stirring up political
strife, in a movement they pretend to
love in an hour of extreme peril like
this. 1T is likely to cause grave doubts
Of their fidelity to the cause of civil
liberty. l feel the importance of the
present conflict more deeply than at
any time since it was inaugurated in
1874, and trust that when we meet at
St Louis, We may all be possessed of
sufficient charity towards each other.
to join hands heartily, and agree with
the combined wisdom of the majority
as to the best course to be pursued.
have always in the past opposed
fusion, as it has been called, or union
of two parties with different ends in
view; but now different condition ex-
lists. Three-quarters of the people agree
upon silver. This union would be of
national import and might be carried
out on the lines suggested by Breiden-
thai of Kansas, with a union of our
| forces upon the same electoral ticket.
also union of our forces in Congress
sional districts, without a change OF
sentiment or platform on the part of
either party. l believe a movement of
this kind will be effected; and even
If my views are not accepted, I shall
still remain n Peoples Party man and
advocate the same reform that l have
constantly advocated for the last twen-
ty years.
j. c. ROBERTS.