The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-30

pltiul pass. And then to think that
the indiotms mt thus brought against a
whole section should have SO much
coior OF truth and Of fact to back it mn
IN tne spostsscy from their principles
% tne TWO other Secretaries from the
South in the Cabinet of the Presidant
who has 80 disgraced the name of Da-
mocrscy, -.
the south bows It's head In shame At
snls exhibition of moral oowardios and
desptses the rene3ades; but must re-
mind the Senator from Massachusests
tnes there are as yet only moral turpi.
tude and treacbery to be charged against
these men. The Southern Conpressmen
ana Senators who came here poor are
stiil poor. They have not become mill
iioneires like some of their Northern
pprstnren; and there is no Credit RIO.
piler sseSi. or Colfa1 scandal, or Belk-
nap pripery chargeable to any Southern
man, Let him remember these things
and keep back his sneers and saunts.m
Inc senator commended that II there
mas been one idea more persistently and
prominently presented to the American
people by President Cleveland than any
other 1T had been the iniquities of che
tariff and the demand for Its revision.
he differs with the Republican party
only In the only one particular OF the
tariff, and on that no has blown hot and
cold as his pet hobby, and will 60 down
In history as the most gigantic failure
OF any man who ever occupied the White
LOUISE, ali because OF his vanity and
obstinacy.
To make good this charge, Mr. TIL.
man argued that when President Oleve-
iand came into power in March, 1870,
and could have called the Senate and
house (both Democratic) for the frat
time since the war, to carry his policv
into effect, he did not call an extra ses.
sion to give tariff reform to the people
but instead called Congress together ca
stop the coinage OF silver.
Discussing the repeal Of the purchase
ing clause of the Sherman law which
Followed no said: Democrats and Re
publioans We'd with each other In the
furtherance OF the policy which /. ID
peen formulated and stesdily pursued
by the Senator from Ohio and he ga the
proud satisfaction Of knowing that he
has brought the party which he so hates
10 its knees and has lived to see many
OF his old antagonists enlisted under
the banner OF monopoly and class priv.
tleges. They sit at his feet and
acknowledge his leadership.
when the Senate met there was an
acknowledged majority of men open and
outspoken In their determination to
stand by the white metal, and who were
elected on that issue. But the process
OF debauchery began. Vote ACCORDING
to my will or you will have no offices.
Vote according to my will, and II your
people do not like 1t Will take care OF
you. The newspapers raved and abused
the Senate. Bankers teleRraphed and
wrote. Chambers of commerce. psssed
resolutions. and slowly the Senate
yielded. In ninety days the deed was
done and the chains were riveted on the
wrists OF the millions. Did the raid on
the Treasury stop2"
The Senator then referred to- the fall
In the prices OF all farm products. The
1m peverishment OF the farmers had de-.
stroyed, he said the ability to purchase
on one hand, while the decreased prices
OF their products OF export in European
markets had left our debts for imports
and interest on obligations abroad un
paid Hence the export Of gold to meet
those obligations.
judiciary, and the supineness and We.
nalisy- corruption l may say-of the
representative branches of tho Govern
ment are causes of deep concern to oil
Shrinking and patriotic mon. We are
fast drifting into government by in
Junction in the interest of monopolies
and corporations, and the supreme
cours, by one corrupt vote, snnuls an
act OF Congress- looking to the taxations
OF the rich"
The struggle from 1861 to 1865,
which drenched this fair land in blood,
WAS to emancipate four million black
slaves. We are fast approaching \
condition which will place the collar OF
industrial bondage around she neoks Of
ten times that many white slaves.
In concluding the Senator said: IA
day of reckoning will come unless thore
10 no longer just God in Heaven, and
when 1t does come woe be unto those
who have been among the oppressors OF
the people. The present struggle is,
unfortunately, too like that which pre-
ceded the late civil war, inasmuch as Il
10 sectional. The creditor and the manu-.
featuring States OF the North and the
Fast, those which have grown inordina
ately wealthy at the expense of the
producing classes Of the South and
West, are urging this policy with the
besotted blindness of Bslshazzar. The
old slave holders OF the South were NOT
more arrogant or more determined.
And the new Mason and Dixon's line
which 10 drawn not by the surveyor but
by the denial Of the natural and ins.
liensble right to life, liberty and hap.
piness, will sooner or later bring to-
gether in the bonds of the union the
toiling and now down-trodden desperate
masses OF the country, egrArianism and
communism will join hards. There are
millions now on the march.
Unless relief comes they will some
day take notion.to tramp to Washing
ton with rifles in their hsnds to regain
the liberties which have been stolen
from them OR which the ranrananka Aiunn