The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-13

through the House under practical gag
law and is now pending in the Senate,
where already threats are heard against
the freedom of debate, and where a pas
sage is to be forced by the use of the
executive patronage reserved for the pur-
pose.
''This is one of the stones which the
people of the United States are to get
instead of the bread they asked for and
so much needed. Whether the promises
made to them as to other matters and
the hopes they were led to form through
the extraordinary eXpedients employed by
the monopolists in the late campaign are
to be similarly disposed of, can hardly be
an object of conjecture. A party which
openly uses the terrible power of taxation
for private enrichment and for correspond
ing oppression of the people, cannot be ex-
pected to use any other power with mod
Grafton and justice.
Although the paramount question be-
fore the people was and is that of the
single gold standard as against the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and silver,
and a mighty majority of the whole peo-
pie declared unequivocally for bimetal-
lism, either Independently or by interna-
tional agreement, as promised by the re-
publican party, we see not the slightest
indication of any determination to move
in that direction. While industries Ian
and the silver dollar is denied its natural
economic function, while a nation waits
and suffers, the tariff schedules are being
revised for the exclusive benefit of the
taX-eaters, and the gold owners are tacitly
assured that they need apprehend no en-
croachment upon their monopoly, which is,
visibIy appropriating the profits upon the
labors of civilized mankind. To the bit
ter complaints of the people, the answer
Of the Roman farmer of the revenues is
returned, namely: More taxes and dear
er currency with which to pay them.
''Federalist administrations have uni
formly run into excuses not unlike those
we are witnessing at present. But never
before in the history of the republic have
they been SO candidly avowed or so coolly
justified, as a party policy rendered nee
essary by campaign contracts in order to
secure the power thus to be abused. The
administration and congress having taken
this attitude and again thrown the gage
of battle to the allied hosts of American
freemen who supported the democratic
candidates last year-casting their mil
lions of unpurchased votes for liberty reg
ulated by law-we of the democratic party
are left no alternative but to take it up.
Our cause is far stronger to-day than
ever before. We have only to organize.
to bring right thinking and
right feeling people together in
democratic societies - where the
designs of the monopolist party in power
may be discussed and exposed, and each
good citizen, encouraged by his neighbor.
will resist the seductions and recent
threats of the common enemy-to sweep
up a great majority of representatives Of
the masses in the next House and to car
ry the elections of 1900 as triumphanfly
as our democratic forefathers carried
those of 1900.
1--WE respectively suggest that demo-
cratic societies constituted after the man.
ner of those which Mr.. Jefferson described
as very nurseries of republican princi-
ples-be established in every district, and
that the democratic, state, county and city
chairman throughout the country take I'M
mediate steps to secure the institution of
such organizations These, when united
in state organizations, and with this great
national organization, will constitute an
irresistible force in the contest before us.
To insure a popular victory. which will
inaugurate the new century, as sure prom
Use of liberty, peace and prosperity as
Jefferson's election inaugurated the last,
we require only the means of constant
discussion and the means of polling our
honest vote in spite of corruption or in
timidation. This a thorough club organI-
cation will accomplish"