Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-10-13
VIGOROUS MR.. WATSON
Letter Of Acceptance Of the POpulist
Candidate.
DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS ARRAIGNED.
Mr.. Watson Says "A BIacker Chapter Than
That Which Records How Both the Old
Political tartisans United to Despoil the
Common People Of Their Land Is Not to b
Found In the Annals Of Class Legislation

Birmingham, Ala. (SpcciaD. The
letter Of Thomas Z. Watson, accept
ing the nomination of the Peoples
Party for president, was made public
Sunday. 1t is, in part, as follows
God never made a grandcr home
for his children than that which the
Cavalier in Virginia, the Dutchman III
New York and the Puritan i'll MasSa'
chusetts sought as refuge from the
systems OF the Old World. In natural
advantages this earth holds no region
superior to ours. Once it belonged
to the people With his gun the com
mon man won it, mile by mile, from
the Indians, the Frcnchman. the SAX
on and the Spaniard. What the COM
mon man did not win with his gun
he bought with his money. From
sea to sea the land which is ours be-
came ours because the common man
was ready to pay for it with his tax
money or his blood
What has become OF it? With be-
wildcrng rapidity it has been taken
from the common people ana given
to the corporations. 1t belonged ~
the government, to all the people. II
was meant to supply homes to mdi-
vdual citizens, and there was enough
OF it to last for many generations
To the extent of about 100000 acres.
it has been given to railroad corpo-
rationS; and now when a common man
wants a home in all that vast domain
he must go to the railroad corpora
tons to get IT.
"A blacker chapter than that which
records how both the old political par
ties united to despoil tthc common
people OF their land is not to be found
in the annals Of class legislation.
Gold and Silver.
"Whether the Wall Street influence;
which produced the establishment OF
the gold standard cmanated from wiser
heads than those OF Jefferson and
Hamilton may be doubted. Both OF
these great men served their country
long time and died poor In txins
bimctall SIN as system and the Sil.
yer dollar as the unit Of value they had
no selfish motive. Two lotty-mlndec
statesmen agreed upon that system
as the right system. It renamed III
force, giving full satisfaction, until
the money power in its march OF con
quest found it to be barrier, ne
money power demands standard
which it can control and one meta!
is carrier to control than two. For the
same reason it opposes governmental
issues Vt paper money. and Will never
be content until the grecnbacks are
called in and destroyed.
ITO establish the single gold stand
ard, which sets the Constitution ASIDE,
the statute had to be violated, he
word coin had to be construed to
mean gold only and the paper note,
issued on silver, had to be redeemed
in manner different from that pre-
scribcd by law,
Money Standard Not Fixed.
"Therc are at least five reasons why
the gold standard cannot be considered
as fixed
Il. 1t is unconstitutional,
-. 1t violates statute law.
q. The supply of gold might IN
crease beyond all the circulatlons OF
the money power. Thus, the standard
of value would get beyond their con-
troll. In that event the money power
itself would change the standard.
- The supply OF gold might sud
denly cease. In that event contraction
would at once set in, because the coun-
trv's expansion i'll business and IN
crease in population require a con-
stantlv increasing volume OF currency.
# the horrors OF contraction should
again come upon us by the selfish pol
lev OF the money power the people
would compel change in the stand
ard. Wall Street gave Us the pane
Of 1879; Wall Street gave lis. the panic
Of ISo, Let Wall Street give us am
other. and it may find that it has given
us one too many The American PEG.
pie have about reached the limit OF
endurance.