The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-03
HOW FARMERS SUFFER. :

liners is one feature manifest III Tic
present political campaign that no two
candid, thoughtful men can we'll disagrea
about. That is the fact that for once in its
history the Republican party is driven to
putting class against class, in pursuing a.
policy Of desperate self-preservation, says
the Peoria Journal Nothing illustrates
this fact more clearly than the cartoons In
which the farming section OF the realm is
ridiculed and belittled, and lampooned un-
merclfully. The farmer is depicted in Re-
publican newspapers of the Wall-Street-S
Louis-p,atform variety, from Maine to Cali
fornia, as an anarchist, fool and repudiator,
while every appeal from coaxlng to coercion
is made by the party leaders to array the
laboring classe against him, as if he was al
fire brand and dangerous factor in any COM
munity. Now, tae question at present is
not the wisdom or folly of this line Of ac-
ton, but the existence Of the fact Itself, as
an evidence of the revolutionary tactics en-
ployed by the new masters of the Republic
an national organization. Those who have
captured the party of protection are today
dsnouncing the bone and sinew of the Re
publican party Of the past, for there is very
little question about the fealty Of agricul-
tural states to Republicanism in years gong
by. And what, may be asked, has the farm
er done to justify the stigma that is now
placed upon him? Simply this. He Is adj
vocating the right OF the farming section
Of the commonWe to resist an appre-
ciating money standard of gold that is
slowly crushing him out of existence. He
is doing this upon the Lines laid down by
Abraham Lincoln, John A. Logan, James
G. Blaine and William McKinley-not the
gold standard candidate for the presidency
but the William Mckinley who voted
for the Bland ALLISON and Sherman bills a
few years ago. James G.. Blaine not only
believed in the coinage of gold and silver
on equal mint terms, but he maintained
that congress was given no constitutional
right. to deprive the citizens of the privi-
iege of taking either to the mint at his op-
ton. The words in which the sPlu1ned
GAu15ul iNAuHSidLCu IAAAS AOSklAuSS
shared in common with many other.
eminent Republicans, has been print
ed several times in these col
nrnns precisely as they are to be found
in the records Of congress, and no man has
or can irnpeach them. Were James G.
Blaine LYING today he would be asked to
prostitute his .conv ictions, as to the coinage
of the precious metals, or be held up to
scorn, and cartooned as an anarchist. Re
publieanism has fallen into hands that are;
making it q tool for the ruin Of the agri-
cultural classes OF the United States, for
there is not a gold monometallic land on the
face of this planet that can compete with
the silyer-using countries, without the abb
sotute destruction Of Its yeomanry, or farm
Era There Ae people standing on the street
corners every day who know of course that
this Is not 80, but 1t is Observable that none
81. them ever commit themselves to print.
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II l1ssae because II Il born u y Yiction
dilute knpwlsdge tf the tAets.
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