The herald., 1896-08-16

grover III Tic VI PC'N'sS'
slave-like accept aims and slops. crumbs
that fall to the dogs at the orgies OF
Dives. who vent their mirthful glee over
the misery of the poor, the yeomanry or
our nation. They villify us as traitors,
revile us as anarchists, they teer us ana
say, you have saved others, come down
from the cross, yourself you cannot save,
wagging their heads, reVtiing our calami-
ties, mocking us in our distress.
If Jefferson Davis, who never should
cred musket in the cause of the con-
federacy, was guilty of treason, equally
are they who tell us we will strike down
the chartered rights of people, that gold.
only gold for the rich, nickels and pen
MES for the poor, shall rule in this land;
that it, and only it, shall be the money of
the nation unless the Shylocks of AM
sterdam. the Red Shields" of the
Rhine and Main; the plutocrats of Wall
and Lombard streets, and her Britannia
majesty del gratia, graciously suffer
the 100 900 of people of this republic to
assert their own rights. At the demand
of this unholy element that portion or
the constitution (Sec. 9, art. ID of the
United States empowering congress To
coin money, must be eliminated stricken
therefrom, and the sycophant, the fawn-
ing, aping, foreign maniacs led by Han
ma and the gold monometallists, pros
trate themselves in cringing abasement
to the golden idol, denominate us as
traitors, forsooth, because we demand
a constitutional money in coin, the dol
lar of the fathers. There is trason, as
constructively as President Davis ever
was guilty of, aye, every federal ofnce-
holder from Mckinley as soldier or con-
gressman to the lowest ofiiceholder, has
taken an oath before his induction to
Office to uphold that constitution. In
supporting the Republican ticket and
it's platform he has thereby abjured his
allegiance to this government, or is
traitor to his party ties and platforms.
and in holding an office hereunder COM
mits the rankest perjury.
1t may be that twenty-three years past
have blunted the perceptive faculties OF
the Cleveland, Hanna and McKinleyites
and their fetch followers but the peo-
pie of this nation are awakening to find
in the single gold standard a very yelled
prophet of Khorassin, whose features
when revealed were so horrible to con-
template that they caused the beholder
to fall dead in horror.
What. when, where did a Democratic
convention ever declare for gold wor-
ship as standard of fealty to the party
or cowardly declare foreign interference
in our monetary system cardinal prin-
ciple of faith or popular sovereignty?
Wnere the authority for gold as a single
standard of coinage?
The Democrat renegade deserter de-
MES his Creator contemns the words of
his party founder, in the embrace
in the antiAmerican protective
reciprocity free trade) tumble of
the st. Louis Republican platform. De-
serters of time honored measures to en-
dorse the Mckinley sentiment, cheap
goods cheap men," or the craven in
suit offered to every working man OF
the land by VIM. II. Harrison, that
cheap and nasty are synonymous" But
ecce homo. behold the man. Hearken mis-
guided gold Democrats to the words of
the sage of the Hermitage. Andrew Jack
son. though dead, living in the heart OF
every living Democrat From the silent
grave ms farewell address comes TO us.
MS followers, you, the people of this ma
ton. and, by The Eternal.its owners and
ever shall be. The constitution OF the
United States "unquestionably intended
to secure the people circulating me-
dium of gold and silver" *** Again he
thunders in your ears his anathema
upon the single idea men, dhe Wings
and Tories): "These interests (of the
people, cannot be effecutally protected
unless gold and silver are restored to cir
culation.''
Shame on the Democrat who repudi-
ates the constitutional and party AK
IONS and seek confederation with the
party whose party leaders finafsial
policy. ever since its organization as a
party has been confined to four words.
addition, subtraction, division and
silence"
But what can be said of Republican
patriot. he claims to be such, an(iif of
the rank ana file, admitted. when chain
ed as he is to the PrOmethian rock by
his leader, Hanna, his vitals daily lac
Grated by the cruel vulture. confronted
with the living words yet echoing in the
halls of congress, the gallant Henry of
Navarro, James G, Blaine. who uttered
in clarion notes warning and an APP
peal to his Republican friends: 1T is
impossible to strike silver out of exist
ence as money. without results which
Will prove distressing to millions and
utterly disastrous to tens of thousands
of our people" Again, II believe the
single gold standard would, if successful
produce widespread disaster; it would
have a ruinous effect on all forms of
property"
Once more, Mr.. Editor, and finish,
but feel outraged by the terms of Will
fication and abuse showered upon us by
the supporters of gold. l want to ask
how the veterans of Il hundred bat
ties, MANNED scared. so soon TO answer
to the great roll call of the last, he who
took the oath which pledged his life and
sacred honor i'll defense of the constitu-
tion the flag of the United States mot
England'S). who fought as never men
fought, maintained the one, preserved
the other, Tor four weary years for i'll
stance, the old heroes of General John
A. Logan's command in the field, or in
civil life, under whose banner they
marched on Memorial day each sue
ceeding year. They obeyed his COM
mands in battles stern array, why doubt
his fidelity in times of peace, that beau
ideal of soldiery bravery, political abil-
ity, the founder of the grandest of all
societies of the world the noble Grand
Army of the Republic His words con1p
to you that if you persist in that most
obnoxious of all monopolies the single
gold standard, your trials and suffer-
ings for our beloved country will come
to naught, and those who freed the slave
become the bonded servants of those