The evening times., 1899-03-30
The RennhIican pnse.

II it is true. as predicted by Secretary
Smalley, of the Sound Money League, -
that the free silver issue of the Demo-
cratic party will be overshadowed by other
questions next year. it will be because the
other questions force themselves to the
/ font by their alarming seriousness, and be-
cause the duty of saving the country from
pressing dangers is imposed on the Democ-
racy by the deliberate neglect of the Re-
publican managers
With an audaciry that is almost sublime
the party that subsists on what it EFFORTS
from the trusts. the party that is dominated
by the hired attorneys of selfish and op-
pressive corporations, poses as the guar
dian of the national honor and safety. II
has never attempted to meet the argu-
ments in favor of free silver. but with a
license of affirmation that would cause the
boldest Western theologian to blush the
Republican leaders cry out that free sill
Yer means dishonor. reputation. and disas-
ter. They fail to show why honorable,
law-abiding, and patriotic Americans who
advocate free silver should want to plunge
the nation into shame and poverty. and
they are unable TO show that these Ameri-
cans are idiotic or any less capable than
themselves of estimating the consequences
of free silver They are silent when it is
pointed out that their positive and un-
qualified predictions of disaster that must
follow the continued coinage of silver were
not realized when the silver coinage con-
tinued for years after their prophecy. With
the stupidity of a weather quack whose
forecasts always fail, they make new af-
firmations just as rash and unwarranted.
There are people who are impressed by
the boldness of these baseless declarations.
just as there are people who suspend the
operation of their reason when a religious.
medical, or other charlatan is bold in his
assertions.
The Republican party is not the guardian
of anything but the interests of a favored
class of rich men. who have acquired dan
gerously great fortunes at the expense of
the people-favored rich men who are every
day taking advantage of their exemption
from foreign competition to form trusts
that prevent even domestic competition.
Every protected industry in this country is
aged by a few men to control production
and fix prices. They were not satisfied
with the special favor extended to them
by the Republican party, but must have
the last drop of the blood of the people.
They interest themselves in the control of
the Republican organization either direct
ly or through their eloquent hired attor-
neys. Having enormous wealth. they can
purchase the best brains and the most elo-
quent tongues in the land to delude and
mislead the masses of the Republican party
by crying out that it is the guardian of
the nations honor. Every suggestion of
restraint on the operations of the mopopo-
lies that Republican legislation has Gre
ated is condemned as socialism and an
archy, which the bamboozled Republican
masses must frown upon-to guard the ma.
tional honor and that prosperity which is
so important TO the owners of private cars.
private yachts. luxurious homes, European
palaces. for all of which the people pay.
The Hannas and Reeds are shocked when
the half-staryed. anxious, mortgage-ridden
Western farmers try TO find some remedy
for This cruel and unnatural state OF things. |
They are rated as crazy Populists, who are
only one remove from Anarchists The
men of great brains. trained in law and |
law making, who can draw UP an anti