The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-13

hincd monopolists in the late campaign.
Rut we see at this time with alarm tnat
they are resolved to grant no delay III
+be exacution of a fixed and ruthless de-
sign. They insist that taxes are not
high enough under the present law. Ihe9
are to be made higher. And the pro
ducing people already Impoverished o!
adverse legislation are to be forced 10
suffer still more in the increased prices
of their clothing, their food and other
necessaries of life, including implements
of their industries. This monstrous blll,
fit successor to the Mckinley tariff bill
of denominations itself, has been pushed
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 pas
sage is to be forced by the use of eXecu-
tive patronage reserved for the purpose
PEOPLE ASKING FOR BREAD.
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 need. 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. n
party which openly uses the terrible
power of taxation for private enrichment
and for corresponding oppression of the
people, cannot be expected to use any
other power with moderation and justice.
Although the paramount question before
the people was and is that of the single
gold standard, as against the free and I'M
limited coinge of gold and silver and
mighty majority of the whole people de-
clared unequivocally for bi-metallism.
either independently or by international
agreement, as promised by the Republi-
can party, we see not the slightest lndlca-
ton of any disposition to move in that di-
rection. While all industries languish,
while the gold dollar appreciates and the
silver dollar is denied its natural econo-
mic function, while a nation waits and
suffers, 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 visibly appropriating the profits upon
the labors of civilized mankind. To the
bitter complaints of the people, the an
swer of the Roman farmer of the reve-
nues is returned, namely: More taxes
and dearer currency with which to pay
Them
TAKE UP THE GAGE OF BATTLE.
"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 ayowed or so cooly
justified. as party policy rendered ne
cessary by campaign contracts, i'll order
to secure the power that is to be abused.
The administration and Congress having
taken this attitude, and again thrown the
gage of battle to the allied hosts of Am
erican freemen who supported the Demo
cratic candidates last year, casting their
millions of Impoverished votes for liberty
regulated 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 or
ganize, to bring right-thinking and right
feeling people together in Democratic
societies-where the designs of the mono
polist party in power may be discussed
and exposed, and each good citizen, en-
couraged by his neighbor, will resist the
SeuuCtlODS ana resent IIe THREATS Oh the
common enemy-to sweep up great ma
i0rity of the representatives of the mass
es in the next House, and to carry the
election of 1900 as triumphantly as our
Democratic forefathers carried those in
1900.
I'VE respectfully suggest that Demo
cratic societies constituted after the man
ner of those which Jefferson described as
very nurseries of Republican principles"
he established in every district, and that
the Democratic State, county and city
chairmen throughout the country take
immediate steps to secure the institution
of such organizations. These, when
united in state associa tons and with this
great national organization will consti-
tute an irresistible force in the contests
before us. To insure a popular victory,
which will inaugurate the new century
with "A sure promise of liberty, peace and
prosperity as Jefferson's election inau-
gurated the last, we require only the
| means of constant discussion and the
means of polling our honest vote in spite
of corruption or intimidation. This
thorough club organization will ac-
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