Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-15
weight aud 6ncness prescribed by law
and not a guaranty Of its purchasing
power.
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There Is no more arrant and unscru-
pulous ~demagogue IN this country than
Senator Stewart of Nevada and he
would be dangerous IL his vast volu-
bility had not wcaricd and disguised
all Intelligent people. He Is still capa-
BILE, however, of doing some mischief
and he can be depended upon to avail
himself Of every opportunity to do so.
Stewart is the most irrcpressible of the
advocates of free silver, although in all
his business transactions he requires.
like Governor Altgeld, that payment
shall be in gold. 1t is a fac of record
that Stewart voted for the act of 1873,
which he now insists became law by
stealth, and in 1874 he was in favor
of the gold standard. On February
90 of that year he said in the senate
that gold is the universal standard of
the world; everybody knows what the
dollar in gold Is worth. When the Ia
boring men receives Il dollar 1t will have
the purchasing power" he declared,
"and he will not be called upon to do
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ducing classes to- do, figure upon the
exchanges. figure upon the fluctuations,
figure upon the gambling in New York,
but he will know what his money is
worth" This is rs pertinent to the
situation today as it was twenty-five
years ago, but Stewart is now engaged
in e~ndeavoring TO persuade the pro-
duccr and the working man to vote for
the very kind of money he hen de-
nounced.
This financial mountcbank has issued
an appeal to the men of labor in which
he attempts to show that not protection
to American industries but free silver
is what will improve their condition,
thinking, perhaps. that the working
men have forgotten the situation four
years ago and before, when they en-
ioycd the highest degree of prosperity
in our history. But the most reprehen-
sible feature of this appeal of Stewards
is where he intimates that if Mckinley
were elected he would use the army to
reduce wages. This attempt to incite
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the most incendiary and outrageous
that has come from II advocate of
free silver and it ought to be promptly
and unqualiiiedly ~rcpudiated by the
free silver leaders, If they would not
be thought to sympathize with it. 1t
brands its author as IL man who is
prepared to resort to revolutionary
means If necessary to carry out the
policy he advocates and who would not
hesitate to array labor in bloody con-
tlict against capital or to counsel popu-
lar resistance to the Inauguration of III
administration opposed to the debase-
ment of Ii currency through the free
coinage of silver.
There can be no discussion of princi-
pies or policies with such Il man. He
is Il public enemy, whom it is the duty
OF every patriotic citizen to denounce
and to shun. jefferson Davis was no
more Il traitor to his country, 1T more
an enemy of national peace, no more
the foe of the perpetuity of the union
Il therefore of the maintenance Of
American institutions, than is the bla-
tant demagogue of Nevada, William
NJ. Stewart. But such a man cannot
induce the intelligent men of labor TO
believe that William Mckinley is their
enemy. They know better. They
know that all his life the standard
bearer of the republican party has been
close to those who work and that he is
in sympathy with them because all
that he has achieved is due to hard and
persistent labor. William Mckinley is
comparatively Il poor man-Stewart is
many times II millionaire. One has had
an honorable and useful career. The
other has lived for himself alone. Can
there be any doubt which of these men
every sensible workingman will regard
as most worthy of his confidence?