The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-04-22
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| trusts of the country.
Mr.. Altgeld severely characterized
Mr.. Cleveland's first administration and
said that it was all in favor of trusts
and rlooopolies.
In 1892 Altgeld said that Cleveland
again came to the front through the
influence of trusts and was severe on
his actions during that administration.
Cleveland was the enemy Of labor. Alt
geld said, and mentioned his action in
the strike of 1894. and his use of the
FEDERAL troops in obiurgative terms.
Then he spoke of tbe bond issues he
had made. and. continuing. said:
Venezuela Episode.
| while al these transactions were going
on the country heard, with a blush of
shame. the reports that some OF the Wall
street stock spectators were carrying the
president of the United States on their
books, apparently as silent partner, in
| some of their transactions one speculator
frequently boasting that he had set aside
certain blocks of stock in pending schemes
| for his friend. Grover Time passed and
as his administration began to draw to-
ward close and its real chara cter began
TO be understood by the public and the
disgust and condemnation of the American
people was everywhere heard, the country
| Il
| Dy the president threatening war with Eng
land. 1t came so Unexpectedly that people
could not understand IL.
There had for 25 years been pending a
dispute between England and Venezuela
| IN regard to the boundary line between the
| territory of the two countries There was
nothing new in the situation. 1t had been,
and was still, the subject of correspondence
| between those two governments, but the
president, without ascertaining the facts
| 10, tgo,,
| Mitigating the Monroe doctrine. Our peo-
pie believed in the Monroe doctrine, and
we're at first pleased to hear it referred to,
but when the astonishment subsided. they
began to ask what it was all about then
the absurdity of the whole performance
the French opera-like craftsmanship of Il
all became apparent, the president not
knowing what the facts were. did not
know whether the Monroe doctrine was
| involved. Congress let him down easy by
providing for the appointment of a COM
mission to find out whether there were any
| facts in the entire case which were of in
| terest to US. That commission was APP
pointed. 1t has not yet reported and 1t is
| doubtful whether it ever viii, and the en-
tire episode is almost forgotten.
Another Solution.
"The managers of the administrati ton,
seeing that the country was condemning
its policy and seeing that their saturnalia
of bond jobbing and money making by
l
come to an end unless some thing was done.
and knowing that hAxAmerican people fa
vored the Monroe doctfine, hit upon the
brilliant idea of having the president issue
this proclamation, believing that 1t would
| arouse the patriotism of the country, cause
a movement among the people in his favor.
| so as to enable these managers to renom-
| mate him for the fourth time and reflect
him for the third term. But the patience
of the American people had run its limit
and tIa eOlA Cot Had 1r1r
an end and Mr. Cleveland, who originally
| entered the white house poor, now retired
the possessor of great wealth.
He had thrice been nominated and twice
elected president by the great democratic
party of this country. He had spit upon
every one of its tenets. He had trsmpled
every one of its principles into the ground
and he had succeeded in destroying its
hopes. year before his last term ended.
| when the democrats began to cast about.
| they found that everything they held sa-
cred had been turned over to the enemy.
| the country was weary and the situation
| was hopeless.
1 Party In Despair.
| MANY stalwart democrats doubted
whether they could carry single township
in the United States. Hamitonism had
| been put on horseback by the so-called
democratic president, and we were being
cursed for it, In their despair the demo-
Gratis OF America rose in their might and
overthrow this false god with all of the
money making priests who hung about his
altars. Then they kndled new fires upon
the affairs of liberty. they raised again the
banners of jefferson and they went forth
and fought the greatest battle for justice
and humanity ever fought on this conf
nent. and to-day you see their tents all
over the country. They are in the fieli,
they are eager and anxious for the fray.
they are determined to redeem this land
and in this great fight we behold Grover
Cleveland joining hands with Mark Han
ma for the destruction of the party that
made him. We see him joining hands with
the forces of corruption and debauchery
that are running our country, but the ca
rousal of the stall-fed classes. the long
| night of dissipation is nearing an end Day
is dawning and the democracy viii soon
enter upon the morning of new and glori-
Gus career.
Contrast Summed Up.
"Glancing now at the administrations Of
Mr. Cleveland, we see the palsied hand of
greed shaping the policy and marring the
destiny Of a great nation; we see golden
| gods bonded altars. syndicate priests and
interest-bearing gospels; we see the dol
lar made the master and man made the
| slave: we see toll disheartened and hu-
! manity weary; we see hypocrisy enthroned
and false pretenses sanctihed; we see pa
triotism sold and find honor on the market:
we see people betrayed and democracy
| crippled and, finally, we see ii all amid the
contempt OF the honest and the curses OF
the poor But when We turn to Jefferson
we breathe a different atmosphere. We
stand beneath a different sky and gaze on
a different sun. Here are the affairs of lib
erty-equaiity and justice-from which
| radiate those forces that encourage the
toiler that cheer the patriot. that ennoble
a people and that build state.
Here we see a man who courted not the
rich. who served humanity, who faced OBJ
loquy, who stood for principle, who be-
| trayed no constituency and who shirked no
duty, and, finally, we see him loaded with
| benedction, his memory encircled with
glory and his name enshrined in immor-
ta.ity Oh. my countrymen. comparison Is
impossible. but contrast is instructive.
Since his day generations Of public men
equally learned, equally able and equally
industrious, have lived and have gone,
| whose names are forgotten and whose
ashes are lost. They did nothing for hu-
manlty; they traded In influence. they Jug
gled In politics and they lost a career.
| Now. my friends for nearly 2,0o0 years
| the disciples Of Christ have gone to His