Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-10-14
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and the farmers and the artisans and
workingmen, who have no interest IN
Wall street or the fluctuations of
stocks and bords. any of the proposed
legislation will be disastrous. 1t will,
rs it is intended to do, give the money
kings more firm hold of the manipu-
lation of the money Of the country and
overtax the public to pile up large
surplus for the benefit of the few.
The policy pursued by the piesent
and last administration of the retire
mcnt of the greenbacks and the re-
funding of United States bonds with
the large premium paid to the banks.
has about exhausted the resources of
the United States Treasury to aid the
banks. Secretary Shaw has indeed
exceeded his lawful powers by accept
ing other securities than United States
bonds to secure the loans TO the banks
of the surplus, which loans now ex-
coed $150,000,OGo, and upon which
enormous sum the people receive no
interest.
The difference of opinion of the Re.
publican factions on the financial
| question will probably be harmonized
by the coming Congress, but it bodies
i'll for the taxpayer that President
Roosevelt, who is trying to arrange
program that will be satisfactory. is
taking council with George w. Perkins
of the banking firm Of J. P. Morgan
& Co., and with II. G. Prick of the
steel trust. The recommendations of
these trust magnates at their late visit
to Oyster Bay are hardly likely to be
for the welfare of the taxpayers. The
only hope for the people is that, when
thieves fall out honest men get their
dues" but even then they have to
| fight for them.
A Strange Republican Dectrlne.
The plutocratic press are especially
enamored of what Governor Durbin
of Indiana said the other day, that
1.-The man who violently assails, by
word or deed, the laws of the country
such as ours commits crime not only
of infamy but of insanity"
AS Governor Durbin has refused to
honor the requisition of the State of
Kentucky for one of the alleged muir
derers of Goebel, when the law and
the constitution requires the perpetra.
tors of such crimes to be delivered up
to justice, because Powers, who has
been indicted for the said crime In
kentucky, happens to be a leading Re
publican politician Of that State, Is
hardly n fit man to read lectures on
what is right or wrong. To violently
assail law that is robbing the people
/ of the United States, such as the Ding
| ley tariff law, is crime to the trust
magnates who profit by 1t. To de
nounce the laws in several States, that
tax the small home and the little per-
sonal property of the poor man, ,on its
full value, and let the corporations and
the millionaires off with paying only
20 or 80 per cent, is insanity according
to Hanna and the Republican leaders
! in Ohio. To all such the law Of their
own making is too sacred to be tam.
pered with, and Governor Durbin only
echoes the cry of the trusts and cor.
porations, who in most cases have paI
for the unrighteous lava tney holsNd
sacred.
1t is a strange doctrine that the Re
publican leaders are preaching In these
days, that to denounce a,alaw Is q
crime. How are bad laws to be repeal
ed unless they are violently assailed 4
How is the Ubiquitous and unjust tar
| if law to be reformed or repealed un-S
less Its robbery Of the poor man and,
its aid to the trusts and the plutocrats
are exposed? All laws that created
monopoly and unjust taxation. or that
donate to corporations, are as the appla
Of their eye to such Republicans as
Durbin, and to attempt to repeal such
is to them "a crime not only Of infamy,
but of insanity"
But when the shoe pinches their own
foot and the law is in their way, these
plutocrats not only assnil 1t but disre>
gard 1t, and have even purchased per-
Jurors and hired reporters to commit
the greatest crime against the Ameri-
can commonwealth by stealing Presi-
denotes and Congresses and Legisla-
lures and defeating the will Of the
| sovereign voters.
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