The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-03

citing You people 20 your wrongs and
| begging you in pleading voice, and
Numbering tones, TO redeem your coun-
/ try DO IL. and once more vour wives
and mothers may attend the churcl es
clad IN as good habilamcnts as they
were won't 10 wear. no longer feeling
the humiliation of tattered garments.
and held In contempt beside the rust.
ling silk and golden trinkets of the
| pampered few. The idle man that pen.
niless stalks the streets Of our cities
| will again find honest labor our fac
tories be no longer idle and the wheels
of commerce will turn merrily TO the
tune of prosperity.
A Rienzi has mounted the forum and
in no uncertain tones proclaims the de-
mands OF an outraged people. God Al
mighty never made one man 10 be the
subscrvicnt slave Of another, and we
will be slaves no longer than the Sd OF
next November. w. J. Bryan. president
of the nation. !. Y. Callahan for our
delegate TO congress. Free Silver and
| Free homes should be the battle cry OF
this campaign. not the sectional bill
introduced by Dennis Flynn, confirming
| free homes To Oklahoma, but the one
introduced by Mr.. Lacy, Of Iowa, which
is general in its construction. giving
free homes to all who have settled upon
Indian lands in Idaho. the Dakota's.
Iowa, Nevada, and Arizona. This bill
enlists the sympathies of the entire west
the one which will demand support
from Representatives in congress, and
the one that needs Mr.. Callahan TO
push to its final passage in the senate
Narrow and contracted measures, work
their own defeat, the same as narrow
and contracted minds must go down
before the avalanch of public opinion.
This able editorial | quote from the
pen of Lester G.. Niblack, editor of the
Daily Leader | quote il because
"multum in parvo' it tells the story,
and | only wish il could be written
upon the canopy Of heaven during
this campaign.
"Chancv NJ. Depcw, of New York has
a national reputation as a scholar an
orator, and a republican politician.
His great ability is universally rccog-
ni2ed, and but for his Identification
with railroad interests he would have
the formidable candidate of his party
for president of the United States He
never speaks without knowing or be
lieving what he says is true And this
is what he says; There are fifty men
in New York who can in twenty four
hours stop every wheel on all railroads
close every door of our manufactures
lock. every switch of our telegraph
lines, and shut down every coal and
iron mine in the United States. They
can do so because they control the
money this country produces" II tins
Se true, and we have no evidence the
statement be false, how lamentable
and deplorable is the conditions of 20
millions of people. There can be no
doubt, that whatever controls a coun-
try's money, controls its industries and
commerce, whether the number be fifty
or as many million. What travesty
on the declaration that this is a gov-
ernment of the people, by the people,
for the people when fifty men of the ma
tions metropolis, can make beggars and
slaves of 20 millions of people in TWEEN
ty four hours, 1t is no marvel that pa
triot Lincoln in anticipation of the
final result, should have had greater
anxiety for the safety of his country
than in the darkest hours OF the re
bellion. With the views of the Idono-
clast ! agree that the commonwealth
has been sold by the politician, sand
baged by the plutocrats until it is
losing faith in almost everything. In
our cities the condition IS terrible
among the poor. When Goxey's horde
went marching across the country the
heart of the masses thrilled with the
terrible fire that almost burst forth in
revolution. All the vast army of in.
dustry felt keen sympathy FOR that
ptitul regiment pleading for work.
Had the aggregation of wretchedneSs
been fired on at Washington by some
new Napoleon IL would have been re-
garded by the millions as another Lex
m fnFN 4 lauNN . l..
classes to the masses, and flames had
roared and bullets Kissed from Bedloes
Island TO the Golden Gate, so strong
was the sympathy even among the far
mers for that mockery of militaryism
that governors dared not oppose the
progress of industrial armies, and
state militia companies could not be
depended on to protect corporate prop
erty. The cannon was silent. Coxey
marched up the hill, and marced back
again and the acute phase of the affair
was past, but the danger still remains,
will remain so long as men educated TO
TO believe themselves, the equals of
kings and the superiors of princes can
not obtain sufficient food for them
serves and families.
They called these men anarchists,
they call our silver leaders anarchists.
The only anarchist is the man who at
tempts TO perpetuate the present po-
litical and Industrial conditions Who
would ignore the protests of the peo.
pie, who would trample upon the rights
of the toilers that Dives may double
his fortune, who would reduce the
millions of American people 10 the con-
dition of Russian Peasant and Mexican
Poems, and fill the land with bloated
plutocrats and hungry paupers, he is
the man who stands beneath the red
flag and loads the bomb, is doing all in
his power 10 precipltatc "A new and
more terrible Reign of Terror
No man is iit to preside over the dcs.
tines Of this republic who does not rec
ognize the voice of the people Is the
voice of God.
Tallyrand never uttered truer par
adox than when he said every body
knows more than anybody"
The Chicago and st. Louis platforms
contain no slippery elm planlfs. A
man does not have toswear out a search
light to find out 'where he Is at
The cry has been raised that Bryan
is too young. Fortunately this defect
Is not constitutional with the blessings
Of God he will get over that l regret
exceedingly his complaint is not con-
tageous. What difference does il make
how young he is so long as his very
opponents admit his great ability.
The idea that wisdom comes only with
age, Is mistake. Shakespeare wrote
Hamlet at 80, at that age Lord Byron
laio down the burdens OF life. At 80
Lord Give was conquering India for