The Irish standard., 1896-08-01
WORDS THAT BURN.

The Penny Press has printed seVefai
brief references to the position OF the VeI-
eran Gen. r. w. johnson, Of St. Paul,
the we'll known Democratic leader ana
wheel horse. in this campaign. Ihefe IS
no man within the confines of the state
more entitled to speak for the rock-ropeo
Democracy of the state. a leader OF our
armies during the war, and haV1ng leo the
party of his choice as candidate Tor gov
ernor in the days when Republicanism
was too strong to be overthrown, even
by so brave and gallant leader II there
is man who should be listened to In thls
hour. it is "Old Chickamauga," Gen. Il. w.
Johnson. ---.
He has openely and most earnestly es-
poused the cause of Bryan and SeWall,
and to this in letter to the editor OF the
Penny Press, adds that he is for Jonn
Lind as earnestly as he is for Bryan. On
this point Gen. Johnson says:
Politics make strange bed-felloWs.
never supposed that I could get into the
same political bed with John Lind, but I
am there with both feet. Another strange
thing is to see Joe Wheelock and Herr
Most working for the same presldentaal
candidate and the same gold standard
The Penny Press is glad to receive the
following article from the general. whleh
will be found a hummer on the issue Of
the campaign:
Selfishness is Unborn. We see it in child
hood and 1t requires time and seif-denlal
to conquer it. Some men are selfish to the
end of their days. We see this same hate
full spirit evinced by the dog in the man
ger. Ask some men to do a certain thing
and the answer comes back, What is
there in it for me?" Propose to open the
mints to the free coinage of silver, ana
some of these pig-headed, selfish men say,
"Why do you want the mine owners to
make forty or fifty per cent on them out
puts?" I would rejoice at that just as l
would if our farmers received 81 bushel
for their wheat. Amy measure that con-
tributes to the welfare of part OF our
people contributes indirectly to all. Let
us have free silver, even if mine owners
do make fifty per cent on their holdings.
The question Of silver lis not new one.
1t was used in Abrahan's day and was
considered good money up TO 1873, when
late at night when deep leep fell upon our
Lawmakers, it was demonetized. Presi-
dent Grant acknowledged to have approx
ed Of the bill without a full knowledge
of its contents. This unjust enactment
was inspired by European capitalists and
their agents in Wall street. When we see
under whose dictation 1t was conceived
and carried out, is it not about time for
the people to arise in their might and re-
store it to its lost estate? Who are the
prime movers in this gold standard
scheme? Are they not the money chang
ers whom Jesus found in the temple, and
when he had made a scourge of small
cords he drove them out and overturned
their tables?
The restoration of silver to its proper
place in our financial system is the most
momentuous question confronting the
American people today. All other ques-
tions sink into nothingness when compar-
ed with it. Every one of whatever party
favoring free coinage shall unite this year
and elect president and congress favor
able thereto. The goldites picture to the
laboring men the dire cala1nities that will
befall them in case free coinage becomes
the policy of the government. What do
these bloated bondholders care for the la
boring man? Listen to what one Of them
said to an Iowa banker:
THE Iowa banker complained to the
New Yorker that the scarcity Of money
made the price of wheat so low that the
farmers could not afford to raise it for
what they were getting. The New York
er asked the Iowa banker what they paid
their labor The Iowa banker said About
SIS per month There said the New
Yorker. sis where you make fools of your
selves. You pay too high wages Well
said the Iowa man, at the present price
Of wheat we could not affard to pay more
than rs cents per day and make any mon
ey raising wheat That is all you ought
to pay said the New Yorker; '25 cents
a day. said he, is enough for any work
ingman.' -..
The man who gave utterance to the
above is OF course & wealthy man whose
table groans under luxuries brought from
the four corners of the globs, while he Is
mean enough to say that Is cents a day is
as much as poor man shoul3 receive for
his hard labor. This is what plutocracy
says. Vanderbilt. one Of the gold stand
ard men, when appealed to by a number
of persons to correct some abuse Of which
they complained, said "The people be
id" and that is just what these money
kings say to our honest, hard-working
men.
Men and fellow-ctizens, choose We this
day whom you will serve-plutocrats or
the great body of the American people. I
am with and for the people every time,
and hence in favor of free coinage. d. ,f