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When neither
NEEDED. of the national
partisan organiza
tions in the United States represents
any principles or policies of pure and
urideflled patriotism , a third party is
needed.
The republicans of the country are
organized into a large machine for
making and getting offices , and the
whole aim and object of the managers
and operators of this machine is to bet
ter their own political and financial af
fairs without regard to the general wel
fare. The recent appeal of Foraker to
an Ohio convention of place and plun
der hunters illustrates the low grade of
intelligence to which the statesmanship ,
of which he is a luminous type , ad
dresses itself. In that speech Mr. Fora
ker ignores facts in finance and history
of the country , and utters absolute
falsehoods as truths. He knows , and
all decent , thoughtful citizens admit
that the statements made in that har-
rangne , as to the causes of the panic of
1893 , are lies.
Primarily the cause of that financial
cyclone was the Bland-Allison act a\ \
1878. It was an
First Causes. act so dishonest
and wicked thai
acting President Hayes vetoed it and
gave cogent' and unanswerable reasons
why it should not become a law. Bui
over his just veto , by the votes of McKinley -
Kinley and other petty partisans , the
bill became a law.
It was a disastrous failure. It did
not , by the coinage of silver at the rate
of four millions of dollars a month ,
keep up the bullion price of that metal.
On the contrary , it declined daily. Then
came the next make-shift , the so-called
Sherman act , also a republican measure.
By the operation of this law the govern
ment became a silver junk-shop. It re
ceived silver bullion up to about four
million ounces a month , and paid for it
at the market price in treasury notes.
[ t issued ware-house receipts for pig sil
ver to circulate as money. The two
acts named the Bland-Allison act and
the Sherman act put 'so much bad
iurrency afloat that good money , under
the inexorable operation of the Gresham
law , fled the country.
All that Fire-Alarm Foraker attributes
to Mr. Cleveland and his election is re
futed by Mr.
Cleveland's First Cleveland's first
Administration. administration.
It was a success
ful , clean and economical man
agement of public affairs. It
quit business with between three
hundred and four hundred mil
lions of dollars in the national treasury.
The talk of the time was upon the
question "what shall we do with our
surplus money in the national treas
ury ? "
In March , 1889 , the Harrison adminis
tration began a solution of that prob
lem. In four
Harrison. years the sur
plus had dis
appeared. In its stead a deficiency
and a vacuum had materialized. The en
tire accumulation under four years of
Mr. Cleveland had vanished ; and
this , too , under the benign rigor , 'hi
stopping profitable trade , of the McKinley -
Kinley tariff. These facts are not over
thrown by the vaporings of Fire-Alarm
Foraker , whose pedigree- political , is
kept by the Chicago Record-Herald.
In March , 1893 , the second adminis
tration of Grover Cleveland .found that
four years of
1893. Harrison a n c
MoKinleyism as
to tariff duties on imports , hac
drained the treasury dry. It founc
debts due , the payment of which hac
been postponed by Secretary Foster for
weeks and mouths. It found not enough
money to pay those debts and meet cur
rent expenses. It found letters from
Mr. Foster and positive orders from
him as to the issuance of bonds upon
which to borrow money with which to
run the government. But the Harrison
administration "stood off" creditors ,
like an intending abscouder , until it es
caped into history. It left nothing in the
; reasury , where four years previous Mr.
Cleveland left three hundred millions.
And now Fire-Alarm Foraker , whose
career was exploited as that of a fakir
and a fraud by Kohlsaat in the Times-
rlerald , of Chicago , only a short time
ago , attempts , with mendacity and
Dravado , to obscure the truth and ob-
iterate the facts of history with flatu
lent declaration. Surely a new party is
needed. For "justice is itself the great
standing policy of civil society ; and
any eminent departure from it , under
any circumstances , lies under the sus
picion of being no policy at all. "
What is the policy of either party to
day ? Who can map it out ? Following
either an alleged republicanism or an al
leged democracy as now run , where will
this republic bring up ?
An educator of
HORSE SCHOOL , equines has set up
a speed college for
the development , training and disci
pline of young.horses , at Nebraska City.
The professor advertises to take colts
of every breed , including Shires , Clydes
dales , Peroherons , Standard-bred , and
make them trot , all in the same time ,
one mile , two miles or three miles.
This horse system of .education , the
professor declares , is modelled after our
remarkable public school system , in
which five six ten and
, ; fifteen-year-old
human beings , of various strains of abil
ity and blood and of infinitely varying
capabilities for study and the acquisition
of knowledge , are made to trot mentally
in the same class and make the same
speed intellectually. When all the colts
trained by this modem educator of th'e
horse trot in all of the
, two-twenty , pu
pils of the public schools will acquire
learning with equal certainty and
celerity. Equality is thus made bylaw.
But speed of mind and body are in
herited.
The Farmers'
STRUCK. Union may demand
next year that fifty
pounds of com make a bushel and that
fifty-six pounds of wheat do the same.
It has struck the farmers that they
ought to strike for less pounds of grain
to the bushel in order to meet the less
number of hours in a day's labor as de
fined by labor combinations. Even the
old notion that two and two make only
four may be amended , or reformed , and
two and two may make five. ,