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ATHENA ...... AUGUST 14 1896.
fob president:
WILLIAM J. BRYAN,
OF NEBRASKA.
FOB VICE PBE8IDENT:
ARTHUR SEWALL,
OF MAINE.
'Wo Crown of Thorns,
No Cross of Gold."
"AN ' IMPENDING CRISIS.
TnE San Francisco Chronicle has
become one of the loudest calamity
howlers in the nation, and sees the
direct destruction awaiting the
nation and all our free institutions
in cflHA McKinlev is defeated. It
draws this picture of the situation
"The Bryan democrats and Wat
son populists are forcing an issue
upon the country which is not un
likely to transcend, in its import
ance, those ot the currency and
tariff. It is an issuo of public
safety from the misrule of fanatics.
In this canvass the responsible and
sober men of whatever politics are
gradually getting on one side; and
on the other are all the wild-eyed
cranks who wish an enacting clause
put to their fada and their empir
ical schemes for making the idle
man hapov and rich. The cave of
Adullam had in it every one that
was in distress, every one that was
in debt, and every one that was
discontented, but the cave of pop
. iilists-democracy, besides all these,
has gathered in every one that is
insane and every one who has
grudge against public order and
every one who has a new political
philosophy, The Altgelds and Till-
raans of the Chicaeo convention
are now re-enforced by the 'Cyclone'
Davises, 'Calamity' Wellers, and
'General Coxeys:'
"It is men like these who would
feel vindicated and put in a posi
tion to assert themselves in the
affairs of government if the Chicago
or the Chicago and St. Louis ticket
should be elected. Washington
would be full of them on the 4th
of March. Altgeld would be there
a promising candidate for a seat
in the cabinet to demand legisla
tion against federal authority over
mobs. Tillman would be there
with a bill for a national gin dis
pensary, patterned after his state
barrooms in South Carolina.
Peffer would be there to work the
harassed farmers out of debt by
putting a government blanket
mortgage over their entire holdings.
Weaver would be on hand to osk
for silver monometallism. Henry
George will be in the lobbies of
congress proclaiming the silver tax
The 'cyclones' the 'calamities' and
the commonweal 'generals' .would
mass for an attack upon the su
preme court, while the followei s o:
all their schemes for government
paternalism, free homes, direct leg
islation through the referendum, a
price-of-labor gauge for salaries,
and heaven knows what else, would
create a political pandemonium the
like of which no country ever saw
before except France in the days o
Jacobin excesses. Four years
the rule of such men would strain
the safeguards of this nation to the
snapping point and justify Henry
George's jubilant prophecy of the
struggle wider, .deeper, find bitterer
than that over chattel slavery."
Were there any foundation for
ttBBcriiUUS KB lUCCD tun
would be somewhat gloomy; but
there is no likelihood of Bryan
calling around him as his advisors
such men as Altgold, Till
man and Peffer. lie has nothing
in common with them, lie is not
beholding to them for his nomi
nation, nor will he bo indebted to
theni for his election. Admitting
lowever, for the sake of argumentj
that Bryan may heed the counse l
of common people of the country,
and may per chance call some
horney-fisted son of toil into his
official (household, then compare
the influence thai will surround
McKinley, in case of his election,
and judge which will be most close
ly allied to the interest and wel
fare of the masses. Judging from
those who are most ardently ad
vocating McKinley's election, he
will choose his advisors from
among the plutocracy of the na
tion, Such men as Hanna, Piatt,
Quay, Spreckels, Huntington and
the Vanderbilts, the representa
tives of the railroad, and manufac
turing corporations, the syndicates
and trust whose purposes is to
make themselves richer and the
masses poorer. What effect would
four years of rule of this nation by
the J corporations have upon the
common people? What kind of
schemes for government paternal
ism would be engendered under
their dictation? What favoritism
would be extended to the classes
that have already grown rich from
the paternalism of government ben
eficience? McKinley is mortgaged
soul and body to these influences;
hisjnomination was secured through
their influence, and his election
can only result through their aid
Four years of their rule through
him will indeed strain the safe
guards of this nation to the snap
ping point, and will bind the com
mon people in a more complete
bond of servitude than were the
southern slaves prior to Lincoln's
emancipation proclamation.
It is now but a little over 120
years since our forefathers declared
themselves independent of tho
British crown. There is not today
a lover of liberty to be found any
where but must admits that this
declaration marks au epoch in the
dawn of popular governments now
strewn so plentifully all over the
world, now is there a despot, how
ever fond of absolute dominion,
who will gainsay that humanity
everywhere was benefited by the
manly determination on the part
of our ancestors. But let us re
view, says the Tomahawk, the
events in their natural order of
passage. The present century be'
gan in our land amid peace ana
freedom and comparative equality.
The economic differences between
individuals and families were
slight. Nearly every head of
household owned the ground where
his house was firmly -set. There
were few paupers, none from lack
of work they were capable of doing.
The poor, while many, were all in
creasing their goods. A few were
wealthy. None were rich. There
were no cities like New York, Phila
delphia, Chicago or Boston, with
their herds of miserable and hope
less humanity suffering not because
there Is no wealth, but because of
its unequal distribution. The pic
ture in the present is deeply
accentuated and forceful poverty.
We Americans of today are poor,
our masters are rich. We must
work, they work ub. We are the
millions, they are the millionaires.
The word millionaire may be vari
ously defined. At one time it
meant the man who had a million
dollars or property he could sell
for a million dollars. But a little
reflection reveals the fact that prop
erty has value solely because
others want it, perhaps millions;
these millions make the million
aire of today. With this idea
uppermost contemplate with hor
ror the distinction of multi-millionaire!
Let poverty muse and reflect
and find consolation if it can. We
all know, too, that every competent
statistician estimates that the
United States produces not less
than eight billion dollars worth of
new wealth every year, and that at
least 70 per cent goes to pay in
terest, rent or profits. Labor gets
two billions a year, idleness gets
six. This is a monstrous condition
from the fact that a land that is a
paradise for the idle can scarcely
fail to become an inferno for the
toiler. Now by noting closely the
characteristics of the idling cap!
talistic laud-owning, employing
class, we find the one popularity
marks them all the power to live
on somebody else, and the desire to
live more luxuriously on somebody
else intensified. The people of the
west and south have awakened to
this tiuth. Will the millions of
the east ever, find it out? The cam
paign of education now under way,
and which will intensify as time
progresses, will make of the year
1896 a memorable one. Those who
cry loudest for prosperity are the
sharers of dividens, profits and
rents. But it is not this longed for
prosperity thatlhe laboring nan,
mechanic, miner or farmer needs
so much as a new order of things.
He Btands in need of justice, inde
pendence, equal rights, social,
financial, legal as well as political.
Fears are entertained that this ceu
tury may not end in peace because
the workingmen seem in no sub
missive rnood, but will the century
end in peace if reform sweeps every
thing before it? May not the
sweeping changes now contempla
ted precipitate disorders just as
violent from the other side? We
think that there is here food for
reflection. The masters of today
can buy mercenaries to shed blood.
It can and will end in peace if the
idling class is checked in its on
ward march, rather than over
thrown, and if our citizenship is
prepared by the educational cam
paign of 1896 for the decisive vic
tory of 1900. The Charybdis of
the angry millions threatens on one
side, the Scylla of the defiant mil
lionaires on the other. But the
diabolism of a French revolvtion
can not take possession of the
American heart. The United
States, even in such a crisis, will
see something better.
A number ot Wasco county sheep
raisers have been arrested and tak
en to Portland, where they will be
required to answer in Judge Bell
ingers court to a charge of having
herded their flocks upon the Cas
cade forest reserve, Information
was filed against the sheepmen by
Henry Failing, chairman of the
Portland water commission. It is
claimed by the informants against
the sheep men that they have been
herding their sheep on the Bull
Run reserve, the source from which
Portland obtains its water supply,
and also that the herders set fire to
the timber, which may do no end
of damage, The outcome of these
arrests will probably result in en
forcing the law preventing the
herding or grazing of stock any
where on ihe Cascade timber re
serve, and in consequence the stock
business of Wasco and Crook coun
ties will be diminished at least one
third, for without the use of the
Cascade mountains for summer
pasturage one-third the sheep rais-
fers in these two counties will have
to go out of business.
There is little sense and much
less justice in depriving the sheep
men of the use of summer ranges
in the Cascades, since their flocks
grazing in the mountains aie more
benefit than detriment to growing
timber, as they eat out the under
brush and give the larger timber an
opportunity to grow. As to the
claim that sheep men kindle forest
fires, it is absurd. They dread
forest fires mow than any one else,
for there is danger of burning up
their entire flocks, hence they are
cautious about setting them out.
It is but just that the Bull Run
reserve be protected from the en
croachment of flocks, since it is de
sirable that the metropolis of the
state should have a perfectly puie
water supply, but the remainder of
the forest reserve should be thrown
open to the stock raisers of Eastern
Oregon, and we trust that the Ore
gon delegation in congress will
exert their energies to securing
such an order.
Oregon Notes.
There will be tons of wild plums and
huckleberries in the Ooquille mountains
this season. -.
The amount collected for school tax in
Coos county during ths year ending April
O, law, was u,oo7 uu.
The organization of a labor exchange
hss been effected in Coqnille and an ap
plication for a charter has been made.
Fred Ilulan, a lad of 14, died at Bly,
Klamath county, Saturday, from the
effects of injuries received by a fall from
a horse.
Among thoso mentioned as candidtt)8
for tbe vacant county judgeship of Lin-
coin county, are: Hon. J. u. Stearns,
of Waldport; Profeessor George Brelhera,
of Toledo: K. A. Bensell, of Newport;
J. 8. Booth, of Ytquina City ; William
Alexander, of Toledo; O. B. Crosno, of
loledo.
While driving bender wagon on a
farm near Dufur. Wednesday. John
Green, by some mishap, overturned the
wagon and was caught under the edge of
the heavy bed, the entire weight of Ihe
wagon and heavy bud striking his right
leg, bieaking the bone between the
knte and hip. Ha was taken to Dufur
for treatment and placed under Jhe care
of a doctor. The bone waa badly crushed
and it will necessarily confine Mr.
Ureen to the house for several ninths.
The Democratic Platform.
The platform which hat been heralded
to the people of these United States by
the ('jmocratic party in convention as
semblid, on which it Is predicted the
brilli at Bryan will be swept to victory
by a tidal wave is as follows:
We, the democrats of the United States,
in national convention assembled, do re
affirm oar allegiance to tbeee great essen
tial principles of justice and liberty upon
which oar Institutions are loanded, ana
which the democratic party has main
tained from Jefferson's time to oar own
freedom of speech, freedom of the press,
freedom of conscience, tbe preservation
of personal rights, the equality of all
citizens before tbe law, and the faithful
observance of constitutional limitations.
Recognizing that tbe money question
is paramount to all others at this time,
we invite attention to the lact that tbe
federal constitution names silver and
(told together as tbe money metals of tbe
United States, and that tbe first coinage
law passed by congress under the consti
tution made the silver dollar the unit of
value and admitted eold to free coinage.
at a ratio measured by the eilver dollar
unit.
We declare that the act of 1873 de
monetizing silver without the knowledge
or approval of the American people has
resulted in tbe appreciation of gold and
a corresponding fall in the prices of
commodities produced by tbe people ; a
heavy increase in the burden of taxation,
and of all debts, public and private ; the
enrichment of tbe money-lending claFsas
at home and abroad; paralysis of indus
tries and impoverishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to the sin
gle gold standard, which has locked fast
the prosperity of an industrious people
in the paralysis of hard times. Gold
monometallism is a British policy,
founded upon British greed for gain and
power, and its general adoption has
brought other nations into financial ser
vitude to London. It is not only un
American, but anti-American, and it can
be fastened uppn the United States only
by the stifling of that indomitable spirit
and love of liberty which proclaimed our
political independence in 1776 and won
it in the war of the Revolution.
We demand tbe immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of 16
to 1, without waiting for the aid or con
sent of any other nation. We demand
that the standard silver dollar shall be a
full legal tender, equally with gold, for
all debts, public and private, and we
favor such legislation s will prevent the
demonetization of any kind of legal
tender money by private contract.
We are opposed to the policy and practice
of surrendering to holders of obligations of
the United estates any option reserved by
law to the government of redeeming such
obligations in either silver coin or gold
coin.
We are opposed to the issuing of
interest bearing bonds of the United
States in time of peace, and condemn
trafficirig with banking syndicates which,
in exchange for bonds at an enormous
profit to themselves, supply the federal
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treasury nith gold to maintain a policy!
of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has power to coin and
issue money and President Jackson
declared that this power could not be
delegated to corporations or individuals.
We therefore demand that the power
to issue notes be taken from tbe banks
and that all paper shall be issued direct
ly by the treasury department. We
bold that tariff duties should be levied
solely for tbe purpose of revenue and
that taxation should be limited by
the needs of the government, honestly
and economically administered. We
denounce as disturbing to business
the republican threat to restore the Mc
Kinley law, which has twice been con
demned by the people in national
elections, and which, enacted under the
false plea of protection to home industry,
proved a prolific breeder of trusts and
monopolies, enriching the few at the ex
pense of the many, restricted trade and
deprived the producers of the great Amer
ican staples of access to their natural
markets. Until the money question
is settled, we are opposed to any agitation
for farther changes in our tariff laws ex
cept such as are necessary to make the
dencit in revenue, caused by tbe ad
verse decision of the supreme court
as to the income tax.
There would have been no deficit in
the federal revenue during tbe last two
years but for tbe annulment by the
supreme court of the income tax law,
placed upon the statute books by a demo
cratic congress. Tbe obstruction to an
income tax, which the supreme court dis
covered in the constitution after it had
laid hidden for a hundred years, must be
removed, to the end that accumulated
wealth may be made to boar its just share
of the burden of tbe government. We,
therefore, favor an amendment to the
federal constitution that will permit the
levy of an income tax. We hold that the
efficient way of protecting American
labor is to prevent the importation of
foreign pauper labor to compete with the
home market, and that the value of the
home market to our American farmers
and artisans is greatly reduced by a
vicious monetary system which depresses
the prices of their product below the cost
of production, and thus deprives them of
the means of satisfying their needs. We
denounce the profligate waste of the
money wrung from the people by oppres
sive taxation and lavish appropriations
of recent republican congresses, which
have kept taxes high, while the laborer
that pays them is unemployed, and pro
ducts of tbe people are depressed in price
until they no longer repay the cost of
production. We demand a return to that
simplicity and economy which best befits
a democratio government, and a reduc
tion in the number of useless offices, the
salaries of which drain the substance of
the people. Confiding in the justice of
oar cauBO and the necessity of its success
at the polls, we submit the foregoing
declaration of principles and purposes to
the considerate judgment of the American
people. We invite the support of all
citizens who approve them and who de
sire to have them made effective through
legislation for the relief of the people
and the restoration of the country's
prosperity. -
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