The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-03
TO THE VOTERS
OF the United States OF America.

Niotieu WITH tne rlSht OF elective
franchise, on the eighth day of No
vember next, you will be called upon
to exercise the highest duty OF citizen
ship. Upon your action depends the
control of the next House of Repres-
entatlves of Congress. Every vote for
a Republican candidate will be an in
dorsement of the Republican policy
and approval of the record made by
the last Congress.
The Republican party has come to
be the agent of the trusts, the great
corporations, and the great banks.
The truth of this statement is borne
out by the public records of the past
thirty years. Since the close of the
Civil war every demand Of the money
power made of Congress while under
Republican rule has been substantially
complied with and every demand of
the people substantially denied.
At the dictation of the money pcwer
the legal tender money put out during
the war was destroyed, whereby prices
were cut in twain. By legislation
hostile to silver and treasury notes the
volume of the currency has been kept
so limited that prices have again been
cut in twain since 1873, SO that dur
ing period of thirty years, by means
of financial Legislation the producers
and laborers of the country have been
impoverished while the wealth of the
rich has been quadrupled. By means
of this legislation more than fifteen
billions of wealth created by the thirty
millions who live upon the farms has
been transferred from those who pro-
duced it to the Golfers of the rich.
The Republican party opposed an
income tax even in time of war.
They passed the DINGHY bill, inten-
tionally framed SO as to favor the great
trusts which have contributed millions
of dollars to the Republican Campaign
fund.
In the last Congress they surrender
ed to the Pacific railway steal; they
voted against taxing corporations; they
even voted against taxing the trusts.
They authorized the issuance OF FIVE
hundred millions of bonds when there
was not the slightest necessity for any
issue. They have abandoned inter
national bimetallism and are now
thoroughly committed to the single
gold standard.
Those appointed to Office in the
army were the sons of the rich or dc
tated by those with a political pull.
The worthy and competent were turn.
ed down for the ignorant and incom-
petent resulting in more sickness, suf-
fering and death in our army than
came from Spanish bullets and Spanish
fevers.
For the great wrongs done our vol,
unteers no one is punished. Only
whitewashing committees, holding star
chamber proceedings are organized to
cover up the outrages and excuse if
not justify crime.
Vast sums of money have been
wasted in eXtravagant contracts given
out to special favorites or to corpora
tions which make political subscrip-
tions; and where speculatlons have
been discovered the records contain.
ing the proof have mysteriously dis
appeared after reaching the War De
partment.
Only Democratic Congress can
be expected to. investigate these
wrongs and bring the guilty to the bar
of public opinion and to punishment
The shadow of the Gauge bill hangs
over the country. If the next House
be Republican that bill will become a
law. All existing federal currency
save gold will be destroyed. The en-.
tire circulation of the country will be
in the hands of the banks to whom
the sovereign prerogative of issuing
money is to be surrendered. A bu
reauocracy is to be established whose
officers are to hold their places fol
twelve years so that three presidential
terms must pass before they can be
dislodged. Bonds are to be issuec
without limit to buy the gold witt
which to redeem the bank notes. The
government is to get out of the gov
eminent business and go into th'
guaranty business for the benefit o
the banks. A monster banking trus
is to be organized TO swallow up al
the banks outside of the great cities
for these agents of the Rothschild
are to have the power to establish
branch banks wherever they will. |
this monstrous conspiracy is to be de
stroyed it can not be done by return
ing Republican majority TO the mex
House.
1t is given out from the Treasur
Department that the war revenue bill
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