Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-03
Coo Wipes the Ground with DIV.

Coo Wipes the Ground with Oily.
For ways. that are dark and tricks that are
| vain"
The Republican party's peculiar.
ED. STANDARD:
Br'er Scobey's comments on my
communication of Aug. 10th in the
STANDARD of Goth are rather amusing.
1t is just as predicted. The d. o. p.
stands ready to claim the glory of the
dawn and Br'er Scobey suggests that
1 get into the Republican band wagon
before it's too late" That's Il good
one. Now Br'er Scobey my mother
always taught me to keep in good
company and don't propose to depart
from her instructions. l don't wish
to be understood as intimating that
there are no honest men in the Re-
publican party, but l do wish to be
understood as asserting, without fear
of successful contradiction, that the
Republican party has been dominated
by class of as unprincipled scoun-
drels, for the past thirty years, as ever
disgraced the pages of history. They
made it possible by pernicious legisla-
ton to take money from the pockets
of labor and put it in the pockets of
the non-producer, thereby building up
colossal fortunes for a few lazy barna-
cles and reducing the masses to COM
parative paupers. 1t is strange that
any man possessing the brains of a
bed.bug would would deny it. Did
they not destroy the value of our
greenback, the best money we ever
had, by the exception clause, and make
it possible for the scoundrels who en-
gineered the scheme, while our soldiers
(myself among the number), were
struggling ON the battlefield for the
suppression of slavery and maintenance
equal rights for all, to buy them in
at less than half their face value and
invest them at face value for U. S.
bonds, while the soldier had to take
them at par?
Did they not refuse to make up the
deficit to the soldier? Did they not
pay the bondholder dollar for dollar
with interest in coin by the credit
strengthening act of $50? Did they
not destroy one-half of our circulating
medium by demonetizing our silver in
'73, thereby forcing down wages to a
lower limit than i'll many European
countries and reducing the products
of labor below the cost of production,
and compelling so per cent. of the pro-
ducers of wealth to mortgage their
property for the use of the money they
had stolen from these producers to pay
them from 10 to 20 per cent. for the
use of the wealth they had no hand
in creating?
But why multiply wordsf I should
be comp elled to invent a new vocabu-
larry of words to express my supreme
contempt for q party whose record is
a record of tyranny and oppression I'M
PARALLEL in the history of nations.
If the manufacture of millionaires
and the consequent pauperism of the
masses; if the combines and trusts
and syndicates cornering most every
industry in the U. s.; if government
by injunction if total disregard for
the welfare of the producers of wealth
and strong solicitude for the welfare
and further ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the
plutocrats, are the objects of good gov
eminent, then the Republican party
is certainly entitled to the prize. l
get into the Republican band wagon!
Oh no, Br'er Scobey. When vice be-
comes virtue; when the order of ma
ture is reversed, and water by its own
gravity runs up hill; when hens quit
laying eggs on Sunday; when you
make me believe that the dawn of
prosperity was brought about by Nc
Kinleyism and not in spite of it; when
you can convince me that raising the
price of articles the consumer has to
buy by protective tariff is going to
help him; when you convince me that
Mckinley had anything to do with
the discovery of the various gold mines
throughout the world; when you
prove that Mckinley produced short
age of crops in foreign countries and
an abundance here; when you can
show that the rise in wheat is the re-
suit OF Republican success and not the
result of natural causes; when you
convince me that it is better for this
government to build and maintain
penitentiaries, jails, asylums, poor
houses and soup-houses, pay for the
support of hired soldiers and Pinker-
ton thugs to keep in subsection honest
laborers, whose wages in many in
stances barely sustains life, than to
throw open natural opportunities and
give every man chance with every
other man at the great store-house of
nature, drive around with your band.
wagon, Br'er Scobey and I'll talk to
you.
Hoping that you may yet succeed
in getting the cobwebs of Republican
sophistry out of your eyes and repent
before it is everlastingly too late, and
get into the Populist band wagon, free
from jolts, jars and discords.
| / am, yours muchly,"
| J. G. Coo.
YELM, WASH, Aug. 20, 1897.