The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-23

manufactures rekindle their fires and
pour forth their treasures. Hence busi-
ness. in the same act and by the same
token. both revives and does not revivel
The proclamation OF prosperity and oil
industrial despair goes from the same
&C III organ on the same day! The fact
that the alleged ruin Of American in
dustTy by the passage oil the Wilson OIL
and the alleged revival OF all American
industries by the coincident passage oil
the gold bill OF 1893 do not consist seems
not at all to trouble the advocates and
owners OF the honest dollarl All this
furnishes instruction for the people and
amusement for the few whose under
standings cannot be darkened with the
lying obfuscations OF a goldite news
paper.
A final method for the confirmation
of the crimes that have been committed
against the whole industrial and com
mercial world Is the possession OF the
gold trust OF the political organizations
In every country where such organiza.
tons exist. In America the political
parties differ from one another only In
the degree OF their subserviency to the
money power. Ii always comes to this
in the last stage OF partisan degenera-
ton. The political parties today fawn
around the money power just as they
fawned around the knees Of the slave
oliparchy in the ante bellum days. Our
parties also differ little in their dread
of the plutocratic bludgeon. For IL we
offend plutocracy, who shall pay our
bills and load our caissons with the
munitions OF war;
t. The elections held in the United States
for several years have had no other sig
nificance than blind attempt OF the
disorganized and confused people 70
punish the authors of their distresses,
first one and then the other. The people
are still cropping in this manner They
are apparently afraid to rise In pollIicai
instruction against their masters. Iney
follow their local leaders and the moni-
tions Of political press that seems to
have gone over almost wholly TO the
enemy. do not know a great news
paper that in its tone is heartily friendly
to the common people. The local leaders
in politics follow the great leaders, and
they the greater, until we arrive at the
supreme management; and that, in both
the dominant parties, is Identical IN
intent and character. An attempt is
made to create fictitious issues, upon
which to induce the people TO divide and
agitate. One boss says, Lo, here; and
another boss says, Lo, there. Now 1t
is the revival OF the tariff question; now
1t is the mythicalMonroed doctrine; now
it is the annexation OF Hawaii or Cuba
now it is Venezuela; now 1t is Armenia;
now it is this, and now 1t is that, in the
expectation that the people may be de-
luded Herewith and lose sight OF the
fundamental question OF their wrongs,
until what time they shall be completely
bound and translated out OF the cha
racter of freemen.
How much further this malevolent
and ruinous work can be carried on
before the end comes no man may well
foretell. The winter SHOWS whiten the
landscape. A measure OF forced activ-
ity has been produced in the business
world. After the horrors OF three years
prostration, the haggard workman re-
turns downhearted 10 his tasks. A
crippled tenant husks the corn in the
field that was his own. He is an old
soldierl The farmer and the mechanic
labor on in hope deferred that q better
day is coming. Whether IL will come
depends upon thepeople themselves. In
one OF the inspired passions OF the
French revolution the democrats made
a statue like a titan and set 1t up near
where the bastile had stood. They called
il LePeuple Hercule. II was the People
Hercules. 1t represented the great ideal
in its strength and majesty. Whenever
the spirit OF such an ideal shall repossess
our American citizenship, the end will
come, and the wrongs which the people
have suffered by the bond and the dollar
will ne riohted