Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-06-02
SOME SOUND DENSE.

Ohio V dley BImetalic LeaRus met at
Louisville, Ksntucky y, yes 0er lay and
was called to or Ter by Judge James
b. Farvn, President OF tho League,
who delivered a lengthy address
from which we clip the following:
~Tuose who call themselves Repub-
leans today ought to, take well 20
heart the words Of Abraham Lincoln:
i see i'll ithe near future crisis APP
proachlng. that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of
my country. AS result of the war,
corpora Lious have been enthrohed aud
an era Of corruption III high
places will follow, and the
money power OF the country will
en- teavor to prolong it's reign by
working Upon the prejudices OF the
people. until all wealth ID aggregated
in few hands and the Republic is
destroyed. l feel at this mcment
more anxiety for my country than
ever before, even in the midst OF the
war ...
Il suggest to those who call them
selves Republicans to compare. the
words of Lincoln with those of Han
ma, the ~orls of Secretary of War AL
ger, and the course ut the nominal
President, Mr.. Mckinley, l am not
ole Of those who believe III denounc
ing resident Mckinley. don't be-
h"ve ne ever caused any thing 70 hap
pen SINCE lie WAS born.
Contrast Lin coin with Mckinley.
Remember the lives that we're lost,
the blood that was she'd, the property
that WIS destroyed, to bring freedom
to the blacks. Then remember that
more helpless Filipinos. have BEN
shot To death by this administration
than have been killed by the Spn.
iards III three hundred years, and
then imagine what Lincoln would
have done had he been conducting
the administration. These Filipinus
have never harmed this country they
have never harmed or attempted t.
harm single citizen of this govern
ment; and III the face Of these facts,
there Can he no reason or excuse Ill the
heart OF any citizen for their murder.
The proposition that this g,vernment
has bought them ut 81 head dues
not justify their killing. We do no.
cnticise or do we denounce the sol.
ders. Their duty is TO obey orders,
and they are not res ,onslbIe. We
honor the heroic deeds and mourn
their courageou3 dead. Those who
are responsible are in no place Of
danger, nor will they be. Tho bullet
has never yet been made to go out Of
the mouth Of gun that coukI catch
up with the rear parts OF Alger or
Hanna.
u know that it was declared by
those who opposed us in 1896 that the
gold standard advocates own all the
mtelli gence and all the knowledge of
the country, and that we were too
ignorant and too stupid to know what
was best for our welfare, and shat we
should leave these matters to the gold
standard people, whose only desire on
earth was to benefit somebody else at
the expense Of themselves. But il
seems to us In our feeble, anarchistic
way OF thinking, that if there Is any
thing in this government ton big for
tile average lawyer, mechant, doctor
or farmer TO understand that thing 10
0o hIg for the government and ought
70 0e put out OF it. Ii our gold stand.
ard bre'hern have monopolized all
the intelligence and knowledge as
well as all the money they ought not
70 abuse us. but ought to look upon
us with sympathy and listen to what
we have to say with performance. or
course, we caunot hope to think with
the intellect OF gold standard man
but 1t does seem to me-, with all tine
certainty possible accorded to tho
feeble mind of a Democrat film. u,,