The Taney County republican., 1896-10-22

to the masses whom they have coz
ened and betrayed. Devoid OF all
sentiment themselves, the goldbugs
appeal to the generosity Of the farm
ers and laborers in the name of
honor and patriotism, with the sole
purpose of obtaining their products
and their toll for pittance.
The Silver party, made up Of Dem
ocrats, Populists, and Republicans
who have not bowed the knee to
Baal, advocates o we'll defined anil
positive policy. It will give the
country bimetallism If it succeeds at
the polls. Everybody knows now
what bimetallism is. and none 0ave
reason to dread it except handful
Of eastern financiers. Is it right or
sensible to allow few corporations.
trusts, syndicates and millionaires to
control the circulating medium of the
United States, as they have teen
doing for 23 years? 1t is no wonder
that they are afauent, and that the
common people are their servitors.
The time has come for q change.
There is nothing manly in further
subservience to the demands of the
greedy sharks who represent nothing
higher than q conjunction Of appe-
tite, impudence and opportunity.
These pirates have neither country
nor party. They are not RepuhIi-
cans in any honorable and historic
sense of the word Republican. The
patriotism and integrity of Lincoln,
Grant and Garfield would Eave in
furiated them. They are not even
goldbug Democrats, and laugh in
their sleeves at Methuselah Palmer
and Jared Buckner. They suppor,
Mckinley because Hanna owns him,
and trust Hama because he is one
Of themselves and as :apacious cor
morant as ever fattened upon the
bodies of society's castaways. Will
the masses ever learn that the friend
ship Of wolves for sheep has its orl-
gin in q love of mutton? Until they
do learn this lesson and realize that
there is more pleasure in eating than
in being eaten, the common people
will be devoured by the crafty and
the strong.
From time immemorial society has
been divided into two classes, pro-
ducers and product-eaters. Legisla-
ton, superstition, or the command
Of superior force has generally en-
abled the few 10 gluttonously subsist
upon the many, and for this vested
right the lords of the earth have al.
ways been ready to fight with tongue
and pen and sword. Their contempt
for their dupes has generally made
them brave, for men do not fear
those whom they despise. 1t has
been one of OR American delusions
to believe that where kings and
mobiles did not exist, oppression could
not come. But what are the Rookie
fellers, Astors, Goulds, Vanderbills,
Flaglers, Paynes, Goelets, Morqans,
Havemeyers, Hiltons, Carnegies,
Whitneys, COrbins, Huntingtons,
Wormsers and others like them bu:
princes and mobiles in all the realities
Of power. pride and prestige? They
dominate Presidents and secretaries
Of the treasury as if these great func-
tionaries were only Office boys. Did
they not tame the obstinate and opin-
donated Cleveland? What would
they not do with the mild and docile
Mckinley. who is already in the
gives of the Phi.istines? Our Amer
ican aristocrats hate Bryan, and he
contemns them. Their hatred is a
tribute to his honesty, and his con-
tempt is CALLING to their mushroom
gentility. They look to London for
approval, but he turns to the West
and South for guidance and :nspira-
ton. He is one of US; let US vote
for him.
THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY.
On August 80, 1896, the New York
Cun cnnf foiood on editorial entitled