The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-15

pate our .rerxfss ty iea6tng Is 20 ssar~
doE TIA Lac o< att2ek which iHsares IL
tire Success
20 iook As TIE matter phRosophsealiy,
20 IL no. tvue tAst re forces herra4ul 20
-zzz Z q raztGGzl way are o5s-ge1 rom
tae nature Of tbs case 90 op2oss tae-r
Whole power % Z1s slightest znToa1 mars
OF attempted 20 5e Ea29s upoE tie pos
tsozg To illustrate. WAGz t1s HaEGo~
lean parry - fsss carried THE eo11,ry n2o1
q psztfo-z which declared o. ne ssavsTT
sson % slavery, II id lot propose e saAs
away gry right which the slave prSy@-
ga-dists bad exercised 20 airy extent !.
no. only did not attack slavery where y
existed but t2csEly agreed 70 protect AIl1
maintain y n the save states but tns
slave powers sAw clez-iy and !rtgLTtFeiy
thas Il the siightss; step was taken u me
lire Of limiting their privileges, thar II
sFituro1 II is entirety was az sax 4 heZ
thea said among thernss4vss-&n1 ! as
then Il ths South and often asa-1 rs
from their scezxers-swe are stronger
now 70 oppose this first step sSainfs Us
than we ever can be again /. ws &sg~
this n1ov@Easnt 20 Do ss1ccsssfuL Fof as
reason. sad no. because they expect -
immediate harm 20 come 20 tnems thsg
resolved 70 fight And they Tsrs r1zns
= snssr jsesEe.. o re sa,n1 h.y. bsas -
fought a. thai time. or a tame suTFeaaeT
made
% resemblance to that OF 10. 81 Ha-a-
Observation-Disclosures are in precisely ne
sar.. srsstllde win regard 10 the Bryan
forces IS thar occupied By the abolition
formed Republican party. The abolition
fists were very much dissatisfied with the
Republicans. and regarded them as iitle
besfer than traitors They BAD pegan ths
slavery. The Republicans had gradually
given mis- Up. aRd IN The eyes OF The aFso-
htionisos we're guilty Of trading away the
reform which they had ehampioned for
thirty years The slave was not 90 be
liberated: he Was 20 remain slave. and
even LAnc0an had pronounced against
seemed to gee mat the south was 20 be
obliged TO 6gat for the life OF the peculiar
institution upon field where its case was
weakest and that OF the North re- forxn
IN the strongest possible light. The Issue
was really, and al the bottom. the slav-
cry question. but 10 the North IL was
made to appear as a night for national
life. II 10 other g1Iise could the war
have been sustained or successfully prose
cuted.
To-Day the real question before the
people OF this country is the demand OF a
favored few 10 control the volume OF
money. and by means OF this little under
stood but enormous power 10 acquire a
more than imperial mastery over ali eS-
people st larg. do not comprehend
this question and its oyernaS1ering and
supreme importance. They cannot
BE- maze 9,5Is.. TO at understand vii + in IN
TOO late. But their eyes are open 20 the
importance OF a torationFof silver. They
can be marshaled and led 70 victory upon
the silver line. upon any other | have lit
lie hope OF success. For silver We can ell
Dc united In overwhelming phalanx. Here
the enemy IS weakest, and yet. following
the line Of necessity, plutocTacy viii be
obliged on this field TO contest the whole
matter between npeciai privilege on the
ons hand and the rights of man upon the
other.
Brethren. let US tight IL out on this line
IL II takes good many summers.
VERY truly yours.