Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-10-27
HOW HI MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN
EIrog Y

ers Of tie Republican party have
s:adily retrogradei until they have
fallen head aud shoulders into the
slums Of political corruption so deep
and reprehensible IS 10 toreve. e1-
clude them lrou taking further part
in the councils Of the Government.
Steadily rs the panther's tread and
cunning as the serpent in allurInC
aud Creeping upon its prey they have
wcrmei their way into the temple OF
liberty and appropriated to them-
selves the rights and liberties OF the
people as grained by the constitution
raa K q mockc-y Of justice and de-
graded 10 the level Of ward Iolitl-
( clans some IT the members Of The
hi-heS. tribunal known to our laws.
by lavish use If colossal corruption
fumes Elchei from the people under
various ana alluElng p~retcxis they
have succeeded in placing dummies
in tneP resiicntial Office and surround
II them with interruptions manipula-
TOYS whose only recommendation TO
pace and power is the amount they
7 contributed 70 carr: the elections and
the influence II corporations. trusts
aud combines behind them.
To impoverish the people aud en-
slave labor. to concentrate
capital in the hands OF the few at the
expense Of the many, and SO control
the distribution OF money. politicians
OF the Sherman contingent, covertly
Joined hands with Z syndicate OF tor
eiga and domestic bondholders To
strike the coinage Of silver dollars
from mint laws. d~eIreciate that
metal and enhance gold, not in the
interest or the people whose money
they had taken away, but in the in
teTest Oi bankers and boudluldc7s
aud the elevation Of their yellow god.
Evidence in abundance is not lacking
to prove that the Sc parasites on the
body polite for almost thirty years
after the secret accomplishment OF
their netarioUs designs denied in toto
from the stump, sy posters, through
the press and Otherwise that they had
never intended 10 .iemouitizc silver
and pledged themselves i'll all their
platforms, state and National. To re-.
store the white metal to its place as
II was and had been for more than 50
years without let or hiudrancc in the
financial - stem of this Government.
But Notwithstanding such ussur.
ances, after every general election
carried 10y the Republican party
from 1873 UP, b. hook or crook. 10y
evasion and suhtcrIugc, the issue was
cYadcd and silver adroitly pushed
further INTO the back ground. until
1896, when evasion and h~yppcrirN
was no longer prss:b!c or tcuahlc
then the sch"uIers threw of ;Ac mask
in a single night nLd c%Xul,ingiy pro-
claimed their adhesion 10 the golden
cali and the IHstaimcnt Of the yellow
god aud by the lavish use Of 1t gigan-
tic corruption fund, gathered for the
purpose, succeeded again III hood
winking the people and carried the
election again for the Republican
party, but by Il ~lgrcatly re- .ucci plu-
raiity.
BiiUctnli-ts yesterday, mouomctnl-
lists today. Behind them is the trait
Of the serpent; before thcm.thc whirI-
wind. LIT those who withstand from
under for the people still live and the
day Of reckoning is at hand.
interruptions FChcmcrB. They
have. under various ]prctcnscs and Ut
different times and place and without
sufficient p~rovocatIGu, placed tie mil
Itary above the civil authority, isnor.
ed ilabcas corpus, suppressed or muH.
Zlcl the press, smuthsrcl free speech
and Gcnt forth the military arm to
enforce thCir demuuls. They IHy"
placed unequal burdens upon the rrp
pl" ard t" ~rruk spit" upon the de-.
icusei"ss have caused hu-bImi+ uud
fathers to seek employment through
permits only.issu"d by certain putics
in the interest Of the classcI.
And to further degrade the masses
they have employed OK c0nvicla. dcu-
pcraducs and outlaws ia deputy mar
siials to hunt down lahOrcrs aud i'm
prison them in bull pens by hundreis
without charge o' offence or pro poet
o! q speedy trinl. the iaw OF the com.
try Notwithstanding.
Under the alluriug, but misleading.
Keynote Of protection they have fDs
tered aud founded "A system OF trusts
md combines never before known or
attempted in the history OF this COM
try, nnd by farming out Our financial
systcin To a syndicate Of bankers,
they can initiate money today ana rob
the people 81 their brief earned pros
pCrity tomorrow by contraction, and
that il just what they are doing.
Inuugurdting a foreign war for tho
declared purpose of libcratiug the
Cuhans from the ,yrany Of Spain that
they might enjoy The blessings OF II
ire" government, similar "a our own,
for which they had been struggling,
The conflict was unnecessarily pro-
lpngCd in The interest Of contractors
and money grnbher1, aud its pur.
pOsca finally diverted Ia the Invasion
md conquest Of a thousand isles III