The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-10


is before me in which you PROFOUND dr
your editoriaD several questions, among
which are the following:
'Wili the president at the national en-
campment to be held in Cincinnati repeat
the kindly words uttered a Buffalo2 Viii
he tell his comrades why they have not
been able to realize upon these promises2
and why they have been turned down fol
cVlhansE and why he enforces civil ser
vice rules against them. why he gives aid
and announcement to Spain, and why
he favors the retirement of the green
back, why he continues to follow in the
/ footsteps of Cleveland?,' etc., etc
Mr.. Editor, if you will permit and will
agree not to eliminate part of the reply,
] think l can answer those questions sat
lsfsctorily and intelligently for the pres
Comrade Mckinley. like others who de-
sire the suffrage of the people to get into
Office Of emolument and power. and
when in TO retain these Offices, Will do as
he has done before. He will laud the old
soldiers for their bravery and gallantry
on many fields of battle. He will paint in
vivid colors their sufferings in the south.
tell how they went forth in the time of
peril and the nations danger, etc. etc,
and the old soldiers will throw their caps
aloft and shout themselves hoarSe. He
will then get down from the lofty pima
Gle of patriotism and tell how some people
want free silver. want deprecated dol
lar. to pay off the nations defenders in
dollars worth only "A cents. How the
bonds of the government. and the interest
thereon, must be paid in the best money
in the world, viz, gold. the nation s
debt must be honored. " our credit must
never be doubted etc, etc.
He will tell the old soldiers to have
patience, and as you advise the old
soldiers Of The Stillwell post (who pro-
testing al the injustice heaped upon them
by a president and his appointments.
from whom they expected so much). to
have patience and be guided by wisdom
nohler than passion
ny = "a eli
fellows the G. 4. r. of Stillwell post
must be-
Ii Comrade Mckinley viii do nothing.
how can a petty congressman?
Do these old soldiers not know that Tom
Reed. the speaker of the house. will not
permit any action. any bill to be intro
duced except after his official vising?
Are there not scores of old soldiers in
congress nOw2 Are their months not
shut? Is there a Republican congress
man who dare say his soul is his2 The
pensions for the defenders of the flag.
say the bondholders who not only con-
troll Comrade Mckinley, but the Repub-
lican party.
Mr.. Editor. every old soldier appreciates
your efforts in their behalf; we believe
you are honest in your desire to help
them: but. my God. must we continue to
beg for this paltry pension Must We
grOval in the dust? Must we he lick
sptters; must we become liars that we
may receive the pittance dOled out to US
SEuGSlUslN by lueSe whom We nave pld~efl
in power, that these Shylocks. these
vampires. these cormorants. may con-
tinue TO prey upon the substance of the
people?
Mr. Editor the old soldiers are getting
few in number; they are not the political
force they once were. Then, such being
the fact. is il not better TO denounce as
best we can and hurl from power those
who have. for 80 years. been holding the
cup of promise TO our lips and breaking
il TO our hearts. who are making US
their tools. al the dictation of British
bondholderS. who are not content with
striking down half the money of the
world. and thus ensiaving us. but seek
by that very means to make us their po-
litieal and financial vassais forever.
President Mckinley viii pirate about
the honest dollar and tell the old SOL
dierS they must be paid in the best money
i'm the world; that the widows savings
mist not be deprecated by any act of
the nation" etc, etc.
But he viii not tell them that the home
made Sreenhack was good enough for us
Did ignorant fools from 81 10 e.. and is
good enough for MS today. He won't tell
them thar on March ], 1866, the nation
iebt was S2-S25.o00.o0O and on March l.
1896, Just 30 years after. it was 81. 257 $4,000.
Notwithstanding the TACT that we have
paid s.. 6S5. 1900 in interest alone. almost
IS much as the original debt. Think. you
Did soldiers, if you have the courage to
interest alone $500 .0o0. and yet after
having paid nearly twice the original
ieht. it has reduced it only one-half.
lie will not saw that these United States
ponds were bought by greenbacks worth
70 cents on the dollar at the time. that
hese sharks these nigh prieStN in the
of gold. with $500 in green |
PACKS purchased a 81 600 gold bond. He |
wont tell the old soldiers that when ]. !
oierpont Morgan. Of the Morgan. Bel |
mont and Rothschild gold syndicate. was |
allied before the senate committee and !
sked why it was that the president must |
20 to him. and him alone for gold. replied /
he must come to him, as his syndicate !
controlled all the gold in the world /
What q condition that nation of TO- |
0e.f01 of free % men should be COM !
lelled 10 beg of handful of money gam
,lers and sharpers 10 be allowed to con- |
uct their affairs at whatever rate of /
ribute these monarchs might choose to !
Shame on American manhood that per-
nits t.
Oh. Mr. Editor. let us for once he men:
eJ Us invoke the spirit that animated US
rom 81 TO s.. and again speak out. Let
: no longer be slaves, let us hurl into the
eeth of Comrade Mckinley when. with
orked tongue. he covers us with fulsome
artery. that h. has been false to every
rust. false to the teachings of Abraham
lincoln. false TO the common people VINO
laced him in power.
Mr.. Editor. the financial lines are being
rawn tighter and tighter around US. Man
the creature. The slave to his neces-
tiles. and when his necessities are lash |
loks into the faces of his hollow-eyed /
hildren, when the icy blasts of winter
age about his freless hearth and his
hildren shrink and cry from the deathly
hill. il benumbs his faculties il saps
is manhood. and makes him a coward
II arouses within him the tiger and
lakas him a demon. See. and let the old
)ldieTS see, the spectacle of the presi-
rnt of the United States, Comrade 81
lckinles at the feast of Belshazzer. in
CIV York. in a building costing SO 900 600
irroundad by the i.09J representatives of
loo 0a0e $50 i'm gold each plate costing
90. intoxicated by all this glitter of gold
nd wealth. telling these human mon
rosities. these men who never toiled nor
)un. who never did a brave deed never
fled a hand to defend the flag these
lman Vultures. that the national debt
-incipal and interest. shall be paid in
lld''-gold purchased by the blood and
II of the nation; think. you old soldiers
this feast of the financial gods and I
len at the Shivering. hOllow-eyed child
n of the old soldiers standing before |
m. begging for bread.
Mr.. Editor. these may be strong words /
II not strong enough for the occa sion |
each the old soldiers to stand upright !
ice more. to be men. and not permit |
e fear of not securing an increase of a
tiful pension to make of them cringing
lrty slaves. CHARLES CRANE
Tenth Ind L. s. N. +. Vet 63rd Ind.
Salt Lake April l. 1898.
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DELIRI0US WAR PRESS.