The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-13
What is a "StabIe Government?'

l. it necessary to shoot a 'stable
government" (whatever that may
mean) into people painting for tree
dom? l. the flag really an emblem
of freedom? Ii so, is it Of the l716
variety or Of the Homestead -Chica-
GO Hazleton variety? Are we GO
ing 10 shoot the BLESSINGS of liber-
ty and light" into Gomez and
Aguinaldo and their poor naked
patriots? Can't our trust masters
at least permit Us to honor the flag
in Imagination, even if it is to be-
come the sign OF absoluteism in
truth? Why does a "stsble gov
eminent have to be propped with
hayonets? l. this 'stable govern
ment?" II SO, why can't it enforce
the laws? Are there not laws in
every state against trusts? l. there
not ample Federal legislation pro-
hibiting trust~ and actually declar-
ing them c)nSpiracies? Do the
trusts cease to organize and extend
Are these trusts not at this moment
supreme at Washington and all the
State capitals? Is there court in
this country, either State or FEEDER
al, that dares modest them? l. not
the Supreme Court at Washington
trust ridden piece of mere bag
gage? Does the STANDARD Oil or
the Sugar trust pay any attention
to any court decree? Are these
trusts not prostitutlng all the pow
ers Of the COVER, ment, and most OF
the State governments a. well, to
their own ends? Isn't Mckinley a
trust servant? Isn't Alger shame
less trust agent, hourly Matching
thousands OF trusts il Cuba and all
these new possessions? Is this
trust machinery really stable
government? Is this the kind we
are going 20 shot into these people
that Providence has given Us 10 re-
deem from tyranny, ignorance and
vice.? Bah. what dupliclty.
Didn't the gold trust force Cleve-
land to perjure himself, to put u
on an "honest-money basis" in
1S93-94? Didn't Cleveland have
the effrontery to proclaim a lie in a
message declaring the bonds paya-
bic in gold alone, directly in the
face of the law, his oath and the
terms of the contract? Isn't "hon-
est-money" standing on official per-
jury, burglary of the law and rape OF
the contract? Can ''honest mon
ey' or honest government or hon
est servants cone of such environ
IN ents Can government be hon
est that denies the people the right
to pay as they promised Can a
government Of, by and for the peo-
pie continue, when the elected and
appointed servants Cd of the peo-
pie boldly perjure themselves and
force the people to double the very
Indebtedness that they have care
fully worded, to pay at their option,
and rot at tha creditors? Is this a
government at all? Isn't it, com
pared to Jeffelson's A administration,
but mere creditors directory, do
ing, undoing and refraining from
Just such things as the trusts de-
cree? Didn't the present Execu-
tive foreswear his conscience and
his oath, when he declared to the
assembled trust governors at the
Waldorf that he cared not what the
contract or the law called for, he
intended to pay them as they alone
demanded, and that no demand OF
the debtors would be effective, or
even considered? Do we call this a
"stable government? If SO, why
can it not be stable enough In 1893
s to perform what it promised, and
as it promised, in 1870? If it can
directly lace about as to how debt
is to be discharged, why cannot il
reverse in any thing else it chooses?
Is not instability in debt-standard,
instability in all things? II that
which values all things changes,
will not all things change with it?I
Can a unit that was one-elghth bill
lionth of all wealth in 1870 when
changed to unit which has be-
come the one-fourth billionth Of all
wealth in 1898 be honest or stable?
Come, be honest, be stable in your
and answer on your con-
science, can such a unit be honest
or stable? Do you really believe
that a promise to give your creditor
one-eighth OF thing is the same as
one-fourth of a thing? If all things
be condensed into eight things, and
you promise an eighth, would it be
honest for the creditor to still con-
dense 5 into 4, and then hire your
agents to force you to deliver the
one-fourth in lieu Of the eighth