Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-11-20
G. 0. =. Treatment of the Old Soldier

t.p. STANDARD:
No doubt people often wonder at
my antlpathy for the Il. o. p. and |
deem it no more than right that they
should know. OF course | cOuldn
expect voter who is conscientious
in his good for the party. 10 vote for
one who has condemned the party as
| have done The discrimination
against the soldier III favor of the
bond holder. alone. is sufficient to
deter any soldier who is not ignorant
of facts, from voting the Republican
ticket. During the whole time of
that bloody and fratricidal war, with
the exception of one month, the
soldier was compelled to take his
pay in grcenbacks which were after
wards Disseminated against hy leglS-
lation for the benefit of the moneyed
class. and the result was as antlcl
patcd. that the value of the money
that redeemed the country and paid
every soldier, Slumpcd to % cents on
the dollar. In other words, the man
with the gold tand the capitalists
had taken all the hard money ont of
circulation at the beginning of the
war; c1uld buy - - in GrccnbackS
/ for one dollar in gold. and invest
/ cm dollar for dollar in bonds, I'M
! taxable and drawing at that time
! five and seven per cent Can anyone
conceive of more dastardly scheme
for plumber? While the soldiers
were facing the bullets, and tens Of
thousands dying in the battlefield, Il
/ few unmitigatcd scoundrclS were sit
ting in their cosy offices laying their
plans to plumber the nation which
! the boys in blue were fighting to
protect
Did they succeed? What are the
conditions to-day? Just What the
patriot Lincoln predicted at the
close of the war He said Curpnr-
ationS will become enthronrd, the
money of the country will become
concentrated in few hands and all
of liberty will be lost. feel more
concerned for the welfare of our
country than did even in the midst
of war Has that prediction
been fulfilled? Are corporations en-
tlroned? Point if you please to
Il business, or industry or natural re-
source. that is not controlled 10y Il
monopoly. Are not all our mines.
railroads. factories, steamship lines.
oil wells. telegraph, telephone, and
even our timber in the hands of !;
very few? Was there ever a time in
the history of the world when such
an aggregation of wealth was ac-
uuircd in so short a time? Ii took
Old Rome hundreds of years Of con-
. quest and plumber OF other nations
to bring anything like similar condi-
tons. Rome coniiScatcd by con
quest, the Republican party by lrSiS
lation. Rome made slaves by the
sword, the Republican part. by leg
iSlation. The result is the same
but the means are different. Rom,
has rcapcd what she Sowcd; tn,
United States will follow suit. His
, tory repeats itself The Republic o
Rome was Il failure on account of th'
merccnary graSpinG. indomltabl'
lust for monopoistic privileges thu
lust for gold an utter disregard fo
, the welfare of others. The mOnopo
lists of the United States are follow
ing suit. The octopus Of monopol.
has the government by the thrna
and the supcrhuman efforts OF
l Bryan failed to loosen its fan%s
: Four years more of such lcgiSia
!! ton as we've had in the past four de
= cadcS will place the wage-earner il
$ complete subsection to the capitals
Y class, as by that time they will hav
$ complete control of all the means o
: production and all the means of dis
t tribution and will dictate the price q
: labor Search the pages Of histor.
# and you will find that the masses hay
n always pandcrcd to the dictum g
+ hypocritical capitalists. like the Ito:
&, that licks his masters hand. The
are doing it to-day walking direct
n ly into the baitcd trap set for thei
4 cnslavcmcnt, Notwithstanding tn
+ way is open for their liberty throus
a the ballot. The best and trucs
d friend the people ever had is the dc
4 feated candidate W. J. Bryan, bu
the same potent power money
- that cnthroncd, has defeated Bryan
Il The privileged classes of mankin
II have no conscience on the subject {
S privilege. History does not adduc
: one instance in which a nobility, O
5 even a monopoly, cntrcnchcd /
l. precedent and custom, has ever 70
a unfairly made restitution to soclrt
of the rights of which She has bee
dcspoiled. The iron jaws which clos
:, on the marrowy bones OF prlvllrG
never relax until they are broker
I The love of money is the result A.,
u all evil. Scliishness is the FREEDOM
: mating trait in the human character
IL J. G. Coz.
u q YELM, Wash, Nov. ID, 1908.
TIE National Council of Frcnc