Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-23
The Filled Cheese" Campaign,

papers that the almighty, in His in
finite wisdom" allows to infcst the
earth
50 nobody expected anything orig
inal in the political apostate Thomas
Burke, who is now doing the jumping
jack act for the " filled cheese" DEM
ocrats. And as a review of his "points"
would OF necessity he repetition OF
! the goldbug statements that have
been So often met and refuted in the
present campaign, probably brief
comparison Of his effort with that of
the goldbug speaker who preceded
him, a few days before, is about all
that the subject merits.
The meeting at the theater Satur-
day afternoon, after much persistent
drumming of jack and straight Repub-
licans, was composed of about four hun
bred people, three-fourths of whom
were women. OF the hundred voters
fully the some proportion were straight
Republicans, the Mckinley Glee Club,
itself numbering sixteen, being present
to infuse little glee into the funereal
proceedings. The meeting was opened
by the singing, by all, of that appro-
pirate melody for goldbug assembly,
C,xo @l,o n,oa,,
| While Mr.. Allen by skillful blend
ing of fact and fiction laid the pre-
misses of a seeming logical and very
plausible argument, Mr.. Burke's re-
, marks were succession of bare asser-
tions, without any apparent connec-
; ton or orderly sequence. He seemed
impressed with the idea that the &C
cessories of a finished speech were I'M
necessary in clay" town, and before
a rustic audience, and that anytf ing
which dropped from the lips of $751;
: 600 corporation lawyer of the Queen
City would be accepted as the golden
coin OF garnered knowledge.
Mr.. Burke started out with bril-.
liant apostrophe to the Supreme Court
of the United States, tribunal which
G he declares has been assailed by the
y Chicago platform; but he did not at
r tempt to justify the electoral fraud Of
: 1876, nor the .fnesse by which the
e number of Judges was increased te
: validate greenbacks, or the corruption
: in evidence which influenced Judge
: of that august tribunal to change his
: mind in night in favor of Wall street
J, on the legality of the income tax. He
e laid much stress upon the statement
: that the money of the country had
e doubled since 1873, but failed to state
U just where that money finds hiding
: place. He did not state that Rock
+ efeller with his one hundred and twenty
J. fue millions has absorbed the compe.
$ tence of thousands of families and the
D wages of hundreds of thousands ol
t labOrers, nor of the half dozen other
4 individuals and trusts whose colossal
| fortunes approach the hundred million
+ figures, nor the scores which own OF
control from ten to fifty million Of
8 dollars, whose combined stealings Ol
). $1,000, 900, 800 enables him to truth
: fully assert that there is as much
l money in the country rs a quarter o.
!. century ago, when it was distributed
n among the people.
e Mr.. Burke shed the usual crocodile
f tears over the loss to the poor soldier
t in the decrease of the value of the
a dollars in which his pension will be
: paid if silver is reinstated as the unit
v of value. This appeal is the most
: contemplate dodge of all the arts o.
e the goldbug, and presupposes that the
t soldier has but one sensitive nerve and
q that leads from the brain to the pocket
1t may be true that the price of com.
: modities will rise when silver is reha-
D bilitated, but what does that signify
That the laborer who produces these
s commodities receives better living
and reward for his labor, and the SOL
:, der is deprived of nothing, for the re-
instatement of the original proportion
, between silver and commodities will
t be just what was accorded when the
pension law passed and the value OF
{ the benefaction was established. The
Judge did not state, however, that
, during the war the goldbugs demanded
J a separate currency from the soldier,
and took advantage of the govern
! ment's necessities to enforce it. While
the soldier was paid in 40 cent green
backs, the corporations which employ
r SIS, 600 lawyers insisted in being paid
interest on bonds in 100 cent dollars.
Their patriotism extended to the loan
, ing of money, provided it could be
made profitable, and the same reason
now impels them to arouse and appeal
, to the sordid nature of the soldier to
enlist his aid in making it possible for
them to roll up colossal fortunes at
the expense of labor.
Il Among the baseless assertions of
the speaker was the claim that as the
bonded Indebtedness was incurred in
} gold, it should be paid in gold. Moth
ing is further from the truth. When
the debt was incurred the standard
dollar was the unit of value, and the
bonds were specifically made payable in