Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-07-25
CONNIE PRODS OILY.
Strips the Sophistry From Some Recent Crit.
cisms.

IELM, July l6, 1902.
ED. STANDARD:
Through the courtesy OF friend,
am in receipt of what is designed as s
reply to some queries l put in the
STANDARD some time ago. Said reply
was clipped from what is generally
known as Little Oily" and comes about
as near answering my queries as the
capture OF the proverbial flea. 1t fact
it was SO transparent that the author
was ashamed to sign his name. / have
written hundreds of articles on various
subjects and always signed my name,
with one exception, and that was an
article on women. In that, l thought
discretion was the better part OF
valor," as my wife has nearly twice the
avoirdupois that l have, so l signed
"Dusenberry," and say, she knew who
Dusenberry was as soon as she clapped
her optics on it and hell was to nav
and no pitch hot. My wife is a female
woman and is quite sensitive on aues-
tions pertaining to the sex. Hereafter
| shall sign my name, even if it does
seem little odd to Oily. 1 have con-
siderable sympathy for one whose en-
vironments have been such as to pre-
clude him from acquiring the rudi-
ments of an education whereby he
might be able be able to post himself
on political affairs, but for the individ.
nal who has had the opportunity and
still persists in being a A." damphOol,"
have little sympathy and no admira.
ton, therefore l shall handle him
without gloves.
To my first query, "Why is it that
5000 bankers of this country are given
$347 $3.50, O2O in bank bills without in.
terest. He doesn't even attempt an
explanation. Why? Because it is I'm.
explainable and is so palpably unjust
that ten-year old boy ought to be
able to see the fraud. He simply says :
"The system makes every national
bank note as good as the same number
of gold dollars" Will you please ex.
plain, Mr.. Blank, why the bank note
is as good as gold dollars? Is it not
because the combined wealth OF the
United States is behind it? Would it
not be just as good if issued direct
from the United States treasury
through the medium OF United States
repositories without cost 20 the PEG.
pie? If not. why not? Was not the
old greenback just as good as the gold
coin during the unpleasantness from
go till '66, and for many years after.
wards, till deprecated by designing
scoundrels? l assert, without fear OF
contradiction, that it was better, for
gold hid itself in the vaults till the
trouble was over while the greenback
carried us TO victory and peace, and
we never could have succeeded without
it. The man who denounces the
greenback is as guilty OF ingratitude
as the Republican administration in
its treatment of the Filippinos.
In reply to my query IS to the adj
vance in price of manufactured arti.
cles, Oily attempts to show that while
the price OF manufactured articles have
advanced that wages and farm produce
have advanced in proportion, which is
simply not true, as every one knows.
Wheat has not advanced twenty and
thirty cents per bushel nor potatoes
$50 per ton, and if they had it would
not alter the fact that a protective
tariff filches from the pockets of the
producer all but enough for q mere
existence. Mr.. Blank, would you be
kind enough to explain to an anxious
public. in what way a protective tariff
benefits the farmer or wage Garner?
Does it benefit a man to tax him for
everything he eats, drinks and wearss
Now. honor bright, is not protective
tariff simply taking the money from
one mans pocket and putting it in
another" It is simply legalized rob-
berry and should be styled public plum
der. l believe in calling things by their
right names. Under this system OF
public plumber, the people have been
robbed of billions OF dollars and yet it
is the basic principle OF the d. o. p.
You say labor is employed at higher
wages than ever before" You are
mistaken. sir; $4,000 children are EN-.
ployed in the factories OF North and
South Carolina and Alabama ct less
than 81 per week and board them
selves. and the average wage Of adults
is less than $l3 per month. Would
you like to work for that? Men are
working in the mines Of Pennsylvania
for less than an average of SLIPS per
day notwithstanding the cost of living
has advanced 30 per cent. If the peo-
pie are prosperous, why so much dis.
content? There are more strikes than
ever was known in our past history.
You say We had pure Democracy
under Clevelands administration.
Now I won't say you lie, but I'll say
this much: If had made the same
assertion my conscience would have
said You lie like h-lr" Cleveland's
party repudiated his second admins
tratiou, from start to finish, and the
Republican party extolled it. Does
that look like pure Democracy? We
haven't had any of that excellent med
icine for more than 40 years. A little
OF it would be like good shower on
parched desert, and we'll have it yet.
"You can't fool all the people all the
time" You blow about your grand
old party, as you call it. It's a mis-
homer. at should be id old party"
have no strings on me, and am not
fishing for Office. and generally say
what please. I am an advocate Of
constitutional privilege.
Now what has your party done to
blow about? OF course it has done
some good things. 1t is seldom you
find q person so depraved that he
hasn't done something good. Let us
take survey. It has given away an
empire OF the public domain to rail.
road corporations, enabling them to
ride rough.shod over the government,
and they have made good use OF their
privilege. It has paved the way for
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