Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-17

The odious relationship of master and
slave will then have been established
without the physical presence of the
auction block. The unchanging status
of the multitude will be then abiect
financial dependence coupled with in
dustrial degradation, while the self
constituted keepers of the people will
proceed to ornament themselves with
the plumage of an European aristo-
cracy, bedeck themselves with the i'm
perial titles of lord and prince, and en-
Joy their unquestioned prerogative,
TO rob and plumber to their hearts con-
tent.
GOLD STANDARD DENOUNCED.
Yes, the programme is to utterly de-
stroy the use of silver for primary
money; to destroy outright one-half of
the worlds metallic money;
to dry up etfectually and
forever more one of the worlds never
failing fountains Of re-cuperaoive,
fructifying power. To make primary
money artl6cially scarce 30 as to mark
the price OF labor and its products
down, down. lower and lower; to legis-
late the value OF the gold dollar, up.
up, higher and higher; to increase still
crease thai has taken place. the in
come OF the creditor class by diminish
ing, nay by destroying, the power of
the debtor to earn the dear dollar
wherewith debts alone are payable;
this is the matured plan Of the gambl-
ing fraternity. There is as yet one re-
lieving feature, this infernaiism cannot
be contaminated except with the &C.
tive assistance of a majority Of the peo-
pie. With neither voice nor vote of
mine shall the democratic party ever
be committed to such an unspeakable
scheme. How we'll we all remember
the bold effort that was made last year
at Chicago to force the democratic
party into an unholy alliance with It's
ma tural enemy, the republican party
to fasten this iniquity upon the coun-
try, but with our illustrious neiphbor,
William j. Bryan, at their head the
democratic masses refused to be repub-
licanized.
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION scoR-
ED.
But let us hurry from the field OF na-
tional to that of state politics. Without
the aid of q search light we find the
ground here as th;ckly strewn with tho
debris of broken republican promises
and violated pledges as we do around
Mckinley headquarters. The tactics of
Mark Hanna Except that they were ap-
piled upon larger scale) were not more
audacious than what we have witnessed
in Iowa by the party in power. To the
great national humbug of Mckinley be-
ing the advance agent of prosperity, be-
ing now nearly ten months ahead Of his
show and the terrible truth leaking out
like water through q sievet hat there is
no show on the road, that the whole af.
fair was a fraud from the start, like
Barnum's Cardiff giant, just to fool the
people; to this national humbug We have
considerable OF parallel here in Iowa.
Don't you democrats remember, Ut has
not long transpired) the oft repeated:and
able bodied promises the republican
party made concering prohibition? How
they would assemble at the street
corners and assume the favorite
attitude of the ancient Pharisees, that
looked straight up into the heavens and
thanked their God that they were not
like democrats? How they did VOW and
re-vow ten thousand times oyer that
the settled policy of the republican
party is prohibition, and that mover.
no never, will it take backward step
on that great, moral, oyershadowing Is
sue." Oh, how we were reviled during
those campaigns; how the democratic
party was DETAINED for honestly advocate
ing fair measure of personal liberty.
how they did sic the women and the
children onto US; how they compared US
to murderers and likened US unto horse-
thieves; how the maledictions werepour.
ed into our ears and hurled into our ia.
eth that we were bad citizens; that wo
were no patriots, that we did not love
the flag; that we were possessed of the
Internal desire to inaugurate in this
glorious commonwealth of ours q re-
gular reign of terror; to fasten q system
OF laws upon the state under the admin
tration of which life and property would
be insecure: the high standard of the
people morals became degraded, and the
character of our young men be ruined.
A CAMPAIGN OF HYPOCRISY.
With few honorable exceptions.
how the pulpit sounded and rssounded
with frey denunciations of the demo-
cratic party! Sunday school professions,
bible classes, dignitied ministerial as.
sociations, rowing evangelists, hys-
terical women, irresponsible men, pro
fessional politicians in the pay of rail-
roads and other monopolies; all these
people united in solid opposition to
the wicked democrats. They all inhal.
ed copious draughts of that sweet. scent
ed perfume that radiated from republi.
can headquarters; all bedecked them.
selves with that boisterous sanctimoni.
BUSINESS that gave to those prohibition
campaigns the character of areligious
crusade. You democratic sinners all re-
member with what righteousness the
combination orators would hold up the
"blue-eyed boy''-(I think Willie was
his name; they always carried him
along). This ''sweet boy' they assured
US was his mothers precious darling"
the very apple of his fathers eve" and
the constant companion of his sweet
faced sister," and as they held him
tremblingly before their excited audi
ences everybody was assured that he
was the certain victim of democratic
cussedness. But, alast, these very people
who so delig hted in the singing Of the
songs OF their own praise; who wore so
persistentin theiranxiety for.the states
welfare: who were SO heroically self
sacrificing in their determination torres.
cue the morals of the old people and
the lives of the young from impending
destruction, all Deliberately nlannad ~