Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28

er view the republican party has &C
knowledged that it was wrong ant
that the democratic party was right
the n adopting from mercenar,
motives what the other has Away,
maintained from principle. Honest,
is always worthy of respect, and tn,
man who draws a sharp and we'll de
fined line of demarcation between
liberty and license and in %conscienc.
and good faith maintains that dis
tinction %inviolate, that man deserves
the respect, if not the plaudits of the
just. After all it is not SO much what
one believes as whether or not he
honestly believes it.
"The republican party in the nation
has paralleled in silver the record oil
Iowa republicans on prohibition.
Pretending to be the friends of silver
it has won its votaries and MAINTAIN.
ed itself in the ascendancy. Its friend.
ship for the white metal is the friend
ship of Judas for his Savior. 1t is the
friendship that betrays. 1t is the
Brutus that stabs his Caesar in the
back. 1t administers poison under
pretense of soothing pain. 1t is the
kind of friendship that creeps with
drawn dagger on its unexpectant vic
tim while night enshrouds and sleep
disables. At last the mask is DOTTED
aad there stands revealed to all the
world the hypocrite and sneak. 1t
promised bread to labor and it gives
it a stone.
"Our country has been invaded by
the enemy. Pool and trusts and CON-
bines and monopolies and syndicates
have swarmed upon us while we have
been lulled into repose by the siren
song of the gold standard advocate
in league Herewith. Blundering
has wrought its wreck and
ruin undisturbed. P%artisanship has
gained the %ascendency over principle,
and what a long line of noble ances-
try has taught us to revere, is viewed
by the party leaders with disdain. 1t
is an era of corruption in high places.
Capital is petted and feted like a rare
while labor bears the burden of
the day.
The single gold standard has for a
quarter of a century wrought its sub.
tie and insidious work of death and
desolation, disaster and distress. Its
and apologists, its paid
hirelings, it's whipped slaves, its hyp-
Noticed subjects, its %hypocritical de-
fenders-all have taught. us that we
grow richer by taxation; that power.
ty and starvation are evidence of
overproduction; that it is better to
base our financial system on debt
than on prosperity; that the moro
money we dig out of the earth, the
more we add to the worlds wealth,
the more money we get in our peck.
cts the poorer we become; and that
an Intangible nonenety called "conf-
dence" is all the fabrication needed
to set the wheels of industry in mo-
tion.
"This endless catering to the money
power must stop. Muscle and money
must have an equal show. Taxation
must be equitable and just, and the
mortgage Indebtedness of the improv-
erished farmer must receive the same
consideration, the same exemptions
as the stocks and bonds and moneys
and credits of the millionaire. Rail-
road passenger and freight tariffs and
the salaries of the state and county
officials and especially the salaries
of the superintendent of the various
institutions in the state must be re-
duced to a scale commensurate with
gold standard conditions wrought by
q quarter of a century of laundering
legislation. All attempts at disfran-
chisement must be met with over
whelming defeat. Constitutional pre-
negatives must not be abridged. The
fatal grip of corporate power must
be taken from the throat OF legisla-
ton.
ITO this end there must be a change
i'll business all around. From presi-
dent of the United States down to
road supervisor the country needs an
Alternative. With 16 to 1 as the watch
word, the allied forces under the sill
yer standard will rally to victory in
Iowa and the nation, and pave the
way to the Inauguration in 1901 of
the American whose is at once an in
SEPARATION and a prophesy--William
Jennings Bryan.
Il desire that no one shall attempt
to torture the foregoing article into a
personal thrust against any member
of the present legislature. For every
member OF the senate, and every
member of the house with whom
have the pleasure of a personal ac-
quaintance l have no feeling but that
OF respect and I accord to every other
member of the legislature the same
right to arrive at a conclusion based
upon his W analysis of conditions
and environments as l have endeay.
orcd to do. j. r. GoRRELL.
Constipation