Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-03
THURSDAY EVENING. NOV. 8. 1883
TIE pending election is one OF dee

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Importance. The question of free coin
age, however important to tue we'll
being of the people, is aot involved.
a President owned by Mark Hanna,
the Wall street banks and the army
and navy contractors, would check by
his veto the enactment OF free coin-
age bill, even though he knew it to be
demanded by large majority OF the
people and OF the highest consequence
to their interests. The issue of free
coinage is one, therefore, that must be
decided by the Presidential election OF
1900. The people may then demand 1t
and gain it in spite Of Hanna, McKir-
ley and the money power. The Chief
importance, therefore, OF now electlng
a House of Representatives hostile to
the administration, lies in stopping all
its vile schemes of corruption, revolu-
ton and negroism. The Senate is a.
ready lost to the friends Of the people.
The republicans and monopolists will
control it. They have the President,
ready and eager tool to all their
schemes of villaiuy, aud none the less
dangerous because heis cunning, plaus-
ible and a master of smooth phrases de.
yised TO rob truth otits power. If the
House should have republican major
itv. the administration will have no
check in Congress on its designs. There
will be no Investigation of its misdeeds
aud corruptions. This is one of the
many reasons why the partisans of the
administration and their venal organs
are bending every nerve to carry the
House of Representatives. They can
not afford to have the light turned on.
But if the House should De republican
there will be no limit to their designs
and their mischief. The effort will be
made to bind the people hand and foot
and to so fortify the administration in
power By using all the arts and meth
6as OF corruption that it will be well
nigh impossible TO dislodge it il 1900.
The present enormous tariff and inter
nal revenue taxes will be maintained.
None of them will be repealed, not
even the odious stamp tax, far more Of
fensive and grievous than the stamp
tax which led our revolutionary faith
ers to assert their independence. The
game will be to keep the present three
hundred millions of dollars in the .. 5.
Treasury and even to augment the sur
plus, thus serving the quadruple purpose
of contracting the circulation, depress-
ing values, giving additional power 10
Wall street, and making everything
easy for loose and extravagant expend-
itures. If the money and contrac-
ton screw be thus relaxed it will De
for large standing army TO maintain
q colonial system and to terrorize the
laboring men OF the country, put down
strikes, and make the government
one entirely OF force and purchase.
This policy was the natural sequel and
logical result OF the Infamous agencies
of corruption, intimidation and fraud
to which Mr.. Mckinley is indebted for
his election, but the omen announce.
ment of these policies may be found in
all the organs of the administration.
Wall street banks rendered too much
aid to this rape of the national
government in 1886 to be ignored
and their demand has already been
made that the government shall call in
the silver notes, and silver, and green
backs, and give to them exclusively the
high government prerogative OF issuing
all the paper money of the country,
expanding or contracting the currency
at will, raising or depressing values at
will, with profits for the metropolitan
banks, Wall street and the high repub-
lican officials at Washington. In 3
word, the Gage bill will then be press
ed, which means that besides the
money aud power these banks, ell the
corrupt instrumentalities of an admin
istration unsurpassed in corruption will
be employed to force it through the
two houses. If a republican House be
chosen, the republican managers may
collect some toll On the passage of the
bill. but it will be passed all the same.
If the democrats carry the House, DO
such corrupt and insolent proposition
has the slightest chance of adoption.
With republican House of Represent.
alive there will be no end OF the cor
rupt jobs growing out of the Spanish
war-jobs in Porto Rico, or Cuba, Or
the Philippines, which will be put
through Congress with the cordial en-
dorsation of the administration. There
will be large jobs for the kin and the
favoriSes of the government and many
plans for the parasites and like spittles
of the administration, North and South.
In word, the scandals of the Grant re.
gime will be utterly eclipsed. The
name and power of Hanna will write
new chapter of American history.