The Meeker herald., 1897-07-10

uNtll IL H1sliiy Is setIltus diu IL WILL ~
fought out to finish. This great over
shadowing issue is bimetallism. vita
political wisdom that cannot be gain
said the Columbus convention of the
Ohio Democracy has declared the devo-
ton of the party il, that great State 70
the principles and precepts of the
Chicago platform. There can be no
doubt about this. and the issue fairly 10
joined.
Governor Atge!d's oratiou in New
York was full of wise reflections on cur
government as it is and no line of it was
more wholesome than this: "Revolu
tion can offer no hope to the toiler. 1t
simply means more cruelty, more police
and more military. 1t means brutal
despotism with more tlunkeyism and
snobbery at the top and more misery at
the bottom" The hope of the toilers is
in evolution, the intelligent and honest
use of their ballots. No wrong can re-
sist this warfare of the mind and heart.
This is true of the parts as well as of
the whole. of communities and states as
no friend of his fellow citizens who sug-
gests Or counsels anything contrary to
this in land where men choose their
rulers, lawmakers and judiciary
Herald Democrat.
Nobody is likely to accuse President
Mckinley of going off half-cocked on
the Cuban question. In fact, some men
are expressing doubts whether he is
going off at all.
If one may believe the especial
correspondents, that jubilee program
never could have been pulled Off success
fully without the aid of the rich Ameri-
cans.
There will be no equality Of interests
in Mr.. Debs' get-bappy-while-yop
society, as long as every member doesn't
get the same salary that is paid to Mr..
Debs.
We don't see why any ex-senator who
who isn't lobbyist should have become
offended at Senator Hale's anti lobbying
resolution, and we doubt whether they
did. 1t was the lobbying ex-senators
WHO were hit, and who fully deserved
the blow.
Senator BILLY" Mason has become
satisfied, from the regularity with which
his recommendations for office are
ignored, that President Mckinley
doesn't enjoy his funny" stories.
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When the two Stones, both congress
men from Pennsylvania. get fairly
started in their campaign for the Repub-
hcan nomination for governor Of that
state, the sparks may be expected to fly.
The Spanish have commenced to kill
Gen. GOrmeZ, in their reports of engage
The New York judge who granted
eighteen divorces at one sitting of the
court would not be considered slow even
in South Dakota or Oklahoma.
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1t isn't necessary to believe in free
trade at home in order to re joice that a
free trade victory in Holland has made
the continued control of that market by
American flour a certainty.
Ii all the lobbyists are excluded from
the senate chamber some senators may
be compelled to choose between giving
up their seats or their outside interests.
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The Washington lobbyists are much
tickled by a rumOr ahat a mammoth
corruption fund is to be expended by
several European governments and our
own sugar trust in an effort to defeat
the Hawaiian annexation treaty.
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Some Of those who are talking loudest
for Cuba are not investing any Of their
money in those Cuban bonds, payable
ten years OTTER the evacuation of Cuba
by the Spanish troops, although they