Evening star., 1896-01-29
perfidy and party dishonor,' Is the sheet
anchor to which he clings."

perfidy and party dishonor.' is the sheet
Anchor to which he clingS."
And again referring to the President:
"1f he was honest at the start (and am
willing to grant that much) his association
with Wall street and his connections with
wealthy men had debauched his conscience
and destroyed all sympathy with the
masses"
The Senator then referred to the fall in
the prices Of all farm products. The i'm
poverishment of the farmers had destroy
ed. he said, their ability to purchase on
the one hand, while the decreased prices of
their products Of export in European mar
kets had left our debts for imports and
interest on obligations abroad unpaid.
Hence the export of gold to meet these OBJ
legations. In this connection he said IN
part:
"Rothschild and his American agents
graciously condescend to come to the help
of the United States treasury in maintain
ing the gold standard which has wrought
the ruin, and only charges a small commls-
sion Of ten millions or so. Great God! That
this proud government, the richest most
powerful on the GLOBE should have been
brought to SO low a post that a London
Jew should have been appointed its re-
ce.ver, and presumes to patronize us.
Responsibility Usurped.
"The responsibility of providing revenue
and looking after the solyency of the
treasury, which rests with Congress, has
been usurped by the President. Why is he
not mpeached? Because he is carrying
out republican policies, and the majority
in the House of Representatives feel safe
and believe that they are certain to elect
the next President and obtain control OF the
government They are willing to load down
the incompetent or dishonest democracy q
say the incompetent and dishonest de-
mocracy) with the odium of the misgov-
ernment, to lend their help by acquescence
in wrong doing. The policy is to do moth
ing-to preserve a mastery inactivity, and
only obstruct where relief could be given
The encroachments of the federal judi
ciary, and the SupineneSS and Venality-
corruption, 1 may say-of the representa-
tive branches of the government, are causes
of deep concern to all thinking and pa
triotic men, We are fast drifting into gov
ernment by injunction in the interest OF
monopolies and corporations, and the Su-
preme Court, by one corrupt vote, annuls
an act Of Congress looking to the taxation
of the rich
"The struggle from 1861 to 1865, which
dreachcd this fair land in blood, was to
emancipate four million black slaves. We
are fast approaching condition which Will
place the collar OF industrial bondage
around the necks of ten times that many
white slaves ] would not predict rerolu-
ton or war if I did not feel that relief
must come, either by the ballot or that an
effort viii i,e made in a few years TO OBJ
| tain it by bullets. You may look upon me
as an enthusiast, as an alarmist as an
anarchist, but with the sober conviction of
common sense l tell you that the teaching
of all history is belied and must sur
render the belief that like causes produce
like effects if men expect that the millions
now out of employment and the other mill
lions who are working out a hopeless ex-
iSte2ce of toll year in and year OUT. the
women stitching IN poverty, hunger and
dirt. the men bearing their hopeless bur-
deDs OF debt, all directly traceable to bad
government, will not some day have a
reckoning
Day of Reckoning to Como.
| In concluding the Senator said: "a day
Of reckoning will come unless there is no
| longer a just God in heaven. and when it
| does come, woe be unto those who have
| heen among the cppressors of the people.
The present struggle is unfortunately TOO
| like that which preceded the late civil war
| irasmuch as it is sectional. The creditor
and the manufacturing states of the North
and east-thosc which have grown inordi-
rately wealthy at the expense of the pro-
| ducing classes OF the south and west are
III girg this policy with the oesotted blind
ness of BelshaZzar. The old Shareholders
| more determined. The sordid despotism OF
wealth. to use the apt phrase of Justice
Brown, is already felt throughout the
| land"
You have already been told in glowing
| language by the eloquent Senator from Mis-
souri, that the conflict is irrepressible,' and
| it is easy to see from the temper and feeling
| of the equally distinguished Senator from
Colorado and other western Senators that
the struggle for the new emancipation has
begun. And the new Mason and Dixon s
line, which is drawn not by the surveyor
but by the denial Of the natural and inalien-
able right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness to a large majority of citizens.
will sooner or later bring together in the
bonds of union The toilng and now down
trodden masses of the cities and the euual-
ly desperate masses of the country; agrari-
anisrn and communism will Join hands
There are millions row on the march. and
they tramp, tramp, tramp; tramp the side
walks hunting work and tramp the high
ways begging bread. Unless relief comes
Trey will some day take notion to tramn
to Washington with rifles in their hands
to regain the liberties which have been
stolen from them, or which the representa-
tives have sold, and the hitherto conserya-
tive force of the republic-the well-to-fIo
agricultural class-will lift no hand to stay
the march, but join it God grant that our
country may be spared the enactment of
such scenes as were witnessed in Paris in
1850. But the fair flower of liberty planted
by Jefferson and the immortal Declaration
of the Fourth of July, 1776, watercd by the
blood of our revolutionary sires under
Washington, cannot be uprooted or smoth-
cred by the noxious weeds of monopoly and
class privilege without bloodshed''