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done this thing. It seems more in
credible that having done it, public
opinion, when advised of tho facts,
does not rush to arms! Tho only
comfort in spite of tho written pro
tests of the Times (July 11, 1898)
and tho Statist (July If,, 1898), of
Lord Avebury and Sir Robert Giffen,
nation that we are at all times pre
pared to lie down in the mud and let
three or four officials walk over our
prostrate bodies.
Yours faithfully,
MORETON FREWEN.
Innishannon, January 1, 1909.
IROQUOIS CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO
Tho Iroquois club of San Fran
cisco, through its president, Thomas
E. Hayden, sends to Mr. Bryan a
resolution adopted in December as
follows:
Whereas, The Iroquois club, be
lieving in the fundamental princi
ples of the democracy taught by Jef
ferson and expounded by Bryan, and
among them: Equal and exact jus
tice to all men; peace, commerce and
honest friendship with all nations;
the support of tlie state govern
ments in all their rights, as the most
competent means of administering
domestic concerns and the bulwarks
against despotic tendencies the
preservation of the national govern
ment in its whole constitutional
vigor; economy in public expense;
the diffusion of information and the
arraignment of all abuses at the bar
of public reason; freedom of speech,
of the person, of religion and of the
press; and opposing any system of
taxation that takes from the many
and gives to the few; therefore be it
Resolved, That we. again affirm our
faith in these principles, our faith
in the people when fairly informed
and our faith in the wisdom, in the
honesty and in tte patriotic leader
ship of the people's tribune, William
J. Bryan, who, without wealth, with
out office, without undue influence
of any kind, simply by the splendid
gifts of his genius and great excel
lence of his character. hn mnri
himself the idol of millions of his
fellow citizens; and be it
Further Resolved, That this club
send to you, our late and present
leader, the above resolution, accom
panied by the club's best wishes for
you and yours, and followed by our
loving greetings for a Merry Christ
mas and a Happy New Year
ciety. Whig merchants had a diffi
culty in getting money for paper
and whig barristers in obtaining ac
ceptance for their arguments. No
motive but disinterested conviction
kept a handful of veterans steadfast
around a banner which was never
raised, except to be swept contemptu
ously down by the disciplined and
overwhelming strength of the minis
terial phalanx. Argument and ora
tory were alike unavailing under a
constitution, which was indeed a des
potism of privilege. The county
representation of England was an
anomaly and the borough represent
ation little better than a scandal.
The constituencies of Scotland, with
so much else that of right belonged
to the public, had got into Dundas
pockets. In the year 1820 all the
of Tweed together con
voters than are now on
the single borough of
all the counties togeth-
fewer voteys than are
towns north
tained fewer
tho rolls of
Hawick and
or contained
now on the register of Roxburgh
shire. So small a band of electors
was easily manipulated by a party
leader, who had the patronage of
India at his command. The press
was gagged in England and throttled
in Scotland. Amidst a popu
lation which had once known free
dom and was still fit to be entrusted
with it, Such a state of mattors could
not last forever" (but presto
change!) "The opponents of prog
ress (rational progress) began to
pqreeive that they had to recokon
not with a small and disheartened
faction but with a clear majority of
m mamm m w msj BtronR chlck.
on-tlgbt Sold to tho user at Wholesale
Prier. We Pay Freight. Cataloguo frco.
COILED SPRING PENCE CO.,
Box 231 Winchester, Indians.
8.TEM
WDOO&r
GIVEM
of evory mono-metallist authority of
every chamber of commerce, of every
reputable economist without one ex
ception. But for the tragedy and
consequent unrest, the onlsodo in
our history, though disreputab?e is
yet amusing, it shows the over
whelming Kopenik tendency in this
A HISTORIC PARALLEL
F. M. Mason of Charlestown W
Va. sends to The. Commoner a com
munication clipped from the Farm
er s Advocate. The communication
follows:
Mr. Editor: A half a century in
politics is but a- short time, and one
who takes a contracted view would
probably despair of the political suc
cess of a party often defeated, but
fortunately past records are open to
the student and from these much
hope can be drawn. A few extracts
from Macaulay's Life and Letters
by G. O. Trevelyan will show this
i-.uru iviacauiay belonged to the lib
eral party and Mr. Trevelyan states
describing the condition of the part
ies, the tory (the conservative) and
the whig (the democratic or liberal
party) in the vonr ,is9n. m-i. v
enough to assert what few or none
will deny that for a snnno nf """!
than a generation from 1790 onward
our country had with a short inter
val been governed on declared re
actionary principles. We firwi
it difficult to imagine what must have
been the condition of the kingdom
when one and the same party almost
continuously held not only placTbut
power, over a period, when to an
unexampled degree public life was
exasperated by hatred and the chari
ties of private life soured by politi
cal aversion. Fear, religion, ambi
t on and self interest, and everything
that could tempt and everything that
could deter, were enlisted on the
side of the dominant opinions. To
profess liberal views was to be hope
lessly excludod from all posts of
emolument, from all functions of
dignity, from tho opportunities of
business, from the amenities of B0-
Gold Watch
and RING
FOR SELLING POST CARDS
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cino Heel Protectors inside 'them to
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MILLIONS OF ACRES TEXAS
i Scl2?A Land t0 b0 sold by tho
State, si, 00 to $5.00 por aero: only one
fortieth cash and 40 years timo on
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DBrS2.lTSAIfANTBBD IN STATE
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