The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-08-15
1887, 1857, 1873, 1898, 1885

In an address in 1868, Lincoln said:
MANY free countries have lost their
liberty and ours may lose hers, but if
she does be it my proudest plume, not
that was the last to desert her, but
that l never deserted her"
And we will not desert our country
in this hour of her wreckage and deg
radiation.
Countries are wrecked, not by the
people, but by officeholders, When of
ficeholders want to wreck a country or
do vast injustice to the citizens they
select some word to mislead the peo-
pie; so it was with the inquisitors.
The inquisitors had men sawed asun-
der, drawn apart on the rack, burned
at the stake, gouged their eyes out
and committed other horrible deeds
and as a cloak used the name religion.
So it was on March 4, 1888, when
the members of Congress began
wrecking our country. In order to mis-
lead the people as to what they were
doing they used the word ''emergen-
cy." Of course no emergency existed
at that time. There have been but two
occasions in our country when an
emergency existed: one was in the
days prior to TIT when the question
arose whether our country should seek
to be by itself and the other was at
the time of the Civil War when the
question was whether our country
should be divided or not.
Periods of depression come. We
read there was a depression in 1897,
1857, 1878 and 1898. People have diff
ferent theories as to how depressions
come, but theories do not matter; de-
pressions come. We were told that if
we had Federal Reserve Bank we
should have no more depressions, but
we have the Federal Reserve Bank
and we had the depression.
But prior to the election of Novem-
Der 8, 1882, the newspapers and NOV
ing pictures showed US that factories
were starting up and every week some
improvement in business was recorded
somewhere in the country and if there
had been no legislative interference
with the improvement then going on
we should now have as good times as
our country ever had.
There is no limit to the harm that
has come to our country by the legis
lative interference with the affairs
of the people. The members of Con-
gress are continually saying they are
going to take the peoples money away
from them. Well, they have taken the
peoples money away from them.
Throughout this country there are
many thousands of cases where man
and his wife had saved money for their
declining years; the man had died,
leaving the widow enough to live mod
estly and comfortably. They have
taken the money away from these
widows until now they are coming to
want.
Men by thrift and saving have
built their little homes Now the men
in Congress have taken the money
away from them by higher taxes, by
forcing them to pay more than they
should for things they buy and now
they are losing their homes.
They are taking away from business
men the money that the business men
made in good times to carry on their
business in bad times and now the
business men have but little money to
carry on their business to the loss of
the whole country.
Then the members Of Congress try
to make out that the business men are
bad men and they are going to save
the country from them. But who are
the business men of our country?
They were almost entirely poor boys
who by thrift and hard work and bur-
dens almost too hard to be borne have
built up their business and they have
been kind to their employees.
The members of Congress deceive
the people by making them believe that
the business men make vast profits
The fact is that the great majority of
men who go into business fail and the
profits of the business of the country
taken one year with another is barely
six per cent.
Then the members of Congress are
itching to get control of the industries
and utilities of our country. One of
the expressions they use to deceive
the people into letting them get con-
troI Of the industries and utilities is
government ownership"
Now what the legislators call "gov-