Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-03-01
Mr.. Dockery's Address.


was held at the opera house to lis
ten to Hon. L. J. Dockery of Boise,
on the issues of the day. Just prior
to the speaking, choir sung Orally
round the Flag to piano accompa-
niment. Miss Mabel Payne, vice
president OF the Democratic Club,
in the absence Of president AXE,
called the meeting to order and in
troduced the speaker.
The speaker, as soon as the APP
plause of welcome had subsidized
then in an able, pointed and elo-
quent manner delivered a mastery
Grafton, holding the audience spell
bound. Facts that would not adj
NIT of controversy were ably
brought forth.
! While he respected all religions
and their ministers, yet he thought
that if ministers attended politicrl
meetings oftener they could learn
something of true christianity. The
doctrine preached by so many, that
we should be reconciled to the con-
ditions in which we are placed as
being the will of God, is simply
brazen blasphemy. The truth of
the matter is, that God had moth
ing to do with it, but the unfavora-
bic social conditions to-day are the
result of mans inhumanity to man,
and such are the conditions forced
on us to-day by the powers in
Washington. v lille the speaker
does not despise republican, yet he
considers it the duty of a republic
can toward mankind, as well as
his country for its welfare to travel
under the new Democracy's banner.
The present financial bill was laid
bare and thoroughly dissected. 1t
simply, when exposed, is mass of
| financial rottenness. 1t turns the
control of the peoples money over
to the banks, calls in the greenbacks
and substitutes Understanding
bonds for them, and then makes
the national bank notes the only
paper currency of the country. 1t
leaves the currency at the mercy of
these institutions, and gives the
president full absolute power to call
in government notes at his discre-
ton. The banker may deposit
100000 or more bonds with the
treasurer of the United States and
draw his interest on same, and
then issue that amount of notes and
put them out to the people and
draw bic interest from the borrow
ers, thus double-shooting it on the
people, and then will follow the
money trust, the greatest and most
devilish of all, being the concentra-
ton of all banks into one grand
bank with headquarters in some
large eastern city, and from thence
stretch out its octopus arms all over
the country, catching all in its grasp.
Mark Hanna says there are no
trusts, and the republican leaders
claim to be antitrust. That claim
reminded the speaker of the fox aid
the farmer The farmer was busy
fixing up his chicken house, and be-
ing asked by Mr.. Fox what he was
doing, and the fox being told, said
"Old man, I've been in the chicken
business long enough, SO leave it to
me to look after them-go on with
your planting"
The proposition of Republican
leaders to-day to lease the public
lands, was next ably handled by
the speaker. 1t was shown up to
be villainously unjust proposition,
to shut out the poor man with few
head of cattle, sheep or horses, try
ing to get ahead, from the ranges
and turn the public grass over to
the big stock concerns and cattle
and sheep kings, and there being
no longer any grass for the poor
mans stock, he must sell to the big
stockman on whatever terms the
big man is pleased to offer, and
after awhile, when the big stock
man has eaten up the the little
ones, stock trust will be the re-
suit and serfdom will follow later
on, as the land will be absorbed
next.
On expansion, the speaker de
clared expansion to be one thing
and Imperialism another. Expan-
sion is acquisition of territory, tax
ing in the people of that territory
as American citizens, giving them
equal rights that all citizens enjoy
The Philippine proposition does
not confer citizenship on the people
of these islands. There are eight
million of people there purchased
from Spain for twenty million dol
lars-S2.50 a head, male and fe.
male-and they are defined az
American subjects" This is i'm
perialism, and is against the prin
ciples of our Declaration of indie
pendence.
While the republican party was
elected on bi-metalism, subject t.
international agreement platform
its leaders have departed from tina
principle and fastened the gole
standard on the nation. Is silve
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