The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-10-23
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# GUY w. STEELE, PRESIDENT
HARRY B. HOFFACKER SECRETARY.

judge of any of the courts of the
United States Gen. George Washington
was the first President who approved
law which sanctions such opposi-
ton and the naughty and imperial
Roosevelt will for that reason de-
nounce General Washington as Pop
ulist. Government by Injunction
means the destruction of the funda-
mental principle of free government
the deprivation of citizens of the right
of trial by jury and the process of the
common law. 1t is imperialism in it's
worst form-tyranny striking not at
yellow or brown men 1000 miles
away in the Philippines, but at free
born American citizens in their own
homes and their own land. When the
Federal courts can be made inStru-
ments of oppression and injustice at
the behest of powerful corporations,
and when their unconstitutional de-
crees can be enforced by Federal bay
onets, it is high time that the Ameri-
can people should realize their danger
and unite with the Democratic party
in delivering themselves and the coun-
try from theory and practice so des-
tructive to individual and general lib
erty. Colonel Marshall discusses also
with equal clearness and force the
money question and exposes with
keen satire and strong logic the hol-
lowness of the Republican conten-
tions on this point and the curious at
titude of their allies of the so-ca1led
Honest Money League"
Editorial October 20, 1900.
''The time has passed when people
in, fho cir 0R
those who are clamoring for Mckinley
in order to save the integrity of the
currency. Their real motive in sup
porting Mckinley is different and is
carefully concealed. The free silver
bugaboo was adopted as an effective
campaign cry, and it has fallen fiat.
Mr.. Gage, the Secretary of the Treas
ury, gave it the quietus in July. 1t is
true that since then he has. recanted
and tried to contradict himself But
his first argument was his honest opin-
ion, and was too we'll fortified by facts
to be lightly put aside"
Editorial October 8, 1900.
For their own protection the Amer
ican people should call halt upon
the methods of coercion and intimida-
ton which are now alleged to be
practiced in nearly every state of the
Union. They cannot permit, with
safety to the Republic, the enforce
ment of what virtually amounts to a
boycott on the part of favored inter-
ests against those who vote as their
conscience and reason dictate. The
trusts corporations and other employ
ers of labor which say to their en-
ployees "Vote as we vote or there will
be no work for you in our establish
ment" institute thereby the most
tyrannical and wicked of boycotts
They tolerate no one who does not
slavishly adopt their views and sup
port the policies which they advocate.
They punish the man who exercises
the freedom of 9opinion and action
which is the birthright of every Amer
ican citizen, whether he was born with
pewter spoon or silver spoon in
his mouth. They blacklist the man
who has principles in conflict with the
selfish interests of his employer, and
they set up an oligarchy which they
would maintain by suppressing liberty
of thought and the free exercise of
the suffrage. The American people
should not tolerate such tyranny
| if they would preserve not only their
self-respect, but their independence.
If they submit to such despotism they
will not long enjoy the blessings of
government. They will be COM
PEELED to do their voting as their
would-be masters dictate or else go
penniless and homeless. That is the
| logical result of the policy of CO.
ercion." ssa.v
Editorial October 10, 1900.
"The American people ought to un-