The herald., 1897-10-29
Hypocrisy


To the Editor Of the Los Angelo:
Herald: All the influential Republicans
without exception, are in favor of the
single gold standard. There is no dis
putting this fact. Any pretense to the
contrary is sheer hypocrisy. Senator
Walcott and associates were sent abroad
on that bimetallic errand merely fol
show There was not the least bit OF
heart in it. 1t was a piece of patent
humbuggery, nothing more. Neither
Mckinley nor any other Republican Of
fetal expected any other result than fail
ure. Such acts of dishonest pretense
in high places have been rare in this
country, but not too rare. They are
shameful and disgraceful to the last de-
gree and public reproach. If there
were stronger words to characterize
such movements they might well be
used. 1t is the first time a president of
the United States has lent himself to
such contemplate and hypocritical
farce. Major Mckinley in his inaugural
address, and even more plainly in his
little message sent in on the last day
of the late session, showed that he had
surrendered without reserve to the
money syndicates of London and Wall
street. Tied hand and foot, as he is,
to the single gold standard, the whole
power of his administration is to be used
to fasten that iniquity upon the Amer
lean people. A commission, which he
asked congress to authorize him to ap-
point, is even now sitting in Washing
ton to bolster up that wicked scheme.
Behold Lyman Gage, McKinley's S
ioJ y,ipictor lat 70 praSi6oDt Of the
American Bankers association-is he in
favor of bimetallism? The whole gang
of them are engaged in a great conspir-
acy against the people of this country,
and the farce of sending Walcott, Ste
venson and Payne on FOOLS errand to
Europe to hoodwink the voters of this
country was part of the game. Had
there been the least expectation that
success would attend their mission
they would never have been allowed
by Hanna and Gage to undertake it..
1t was we'll understood that they would
accomplish nothing beyond spending a
large sum of public money.
Every movement that looks towards
enlarging the volume Of the currency,
unless through the agency of the ma
tional banks, where it will be subject
to the control of the American Bankers
association, will meet with no favor
from this administration. Mckinley
went into power pledged to contracted
currency, currency subject to expan-
sion or contraction only by the national
banks, and he dare not now diverge
never so little from that policy. But in
order to achieve an election he, with his
party, was compelled to play the hypo-
critic and pretend to favor international
free coinage, to which they were in
fact most bitterly opposed. Everybody
knows, and Mckinley is by no means ig-
norant of the fact, that the bankers of
the world, almost to man. are violently
in favor of the single gold standard, and
all Republican partisans in power, with
out exception, are under their control;
as, indeed, was the administration of
Grover Cleveland, there being not the
slightest difference between Carlisle and
Gage, the two financial ministers, on
this great question. The shrewder poll
ticians of the two parties realize that the
masses of the people must, in their own
interests, be opposed to their villainous
financial policy, hence the necessity of
putting forth from time to time the
pretense that they are willing to accept
bimetallism upon some impossible con-
dition, as, for example, by international
agreement. Christ said, Woe unto you.
scribes and pharisees, hypocrites"; and
shall we hesitate to denounce these
scribes and pharisees of politics in plain
terms? Cleveland Democrats and Nc
Kinley Republicans who for show pre-
tend at times to favor silver are hypO-
critics of the basest sort. c.