The labor world. [volume], November 07, 1896, Image 11

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Is Silver Dead?
If any body thinks that the
fight against the gold standard
and corporation rule is ended let
them undeceive themselves. Gold
bugs may cry peace, flunkey ora­
tors may proclaim and flunkey
editors may write that the cause
of silver is dying, or dead, but so
long as the silver agitation rep­
resents the point of attack on
this conspiracy against human
liberty, now unfolding on this
continent, it can no more die than
can the story of Thermopylae or
Bunker Hill. There are hundreds
of thousands all over this west­
ern country who will not submit
to slavery. We are conservative
citizens, peaceable and law-abid
ing in our methods, but we will
hang higher than Haman before
we will see the republic of Wash­
ington and Lincoln reduced per­
manently to a vassalage of the
Rothschilds combination of
Europe and America.
Submissive.
Like law-abiding American
citizens the members of the de­
feated party bow to the verdict
of the people at the polls. But
our defeat does not prove that
we were wrong, nor that our op­
ponents are right. There was
arrayed against the intelligence
and manhood of the American
people the most powerful com­
bination of corruption, armed
with the most perfect machinery
of deception ever in the world's
history enlisted against human
liberty.
We submit, but it is with a
heart that despairs for liberty
by the process of peaceful evolu­
tion. We submit as Demosthenes
submitted when the army of
Phillip took possession of Athens,
as Cicero submitted when the
imperial Caesar became master
of Rome because a nation ot
cravens that cannot defend them­
selves by the ballot have not the
intelligence nor the manhood to
free themselves by the sword.
Duluth thou art a jewel.
THE LABOR WORLD
What We Have Voted For.
The republican party is com­
mitted to the retirement of
what is left of 340 millions of
greenbacks and such changes
in the national banking laws as
are necessary to give the na­
tional bank association (or
trust, rather), a monopoly of
paper issues. The redemption
of all other kinds of money in
gold means the ultimate retire­
ment of the silver certificates
and, in time, of most of our sil­
ver circulation. The future
financial history of the country
will be
First, a loosening up of the
money supply, a spurt in busi­
ness and then a contraction
that will end up in the little
.mortgaged property that is left
in the hands of private owners
being taken possession of by
the mortgagors then the
changes in the national bank­
ing laws and an inflation of
bank currency in time to boom
speculation and entrap the
voters into electing a republican
congress in 1898, We are not a
prophet, but the way of the
gold bug, in the light of his
character and ambition, is not
past finding out.
Was It a Fair Election
If defeated in a fair contest
the silver party of St. Louis
county would take its medicine
without a murmur but there is
every reason to believe that the
gold bug victory was won by
frauds of the most aggravated
character. In one precinct in
Duluth a dozen voters were
registered as residing in a cer­
tain boarding house. Investi­
gation disclosed the fact that
the lady in charge had discon­
tinued business and had not
had a boarder in the house for
over two months.
Precincts on the range, where
it was known that half the vot­
ing population had emigrated,
have come up with a vote greater
by 100 per cent, than ever be­
fore. To complete the suspi­
cions of fraud, challengers com­
missioned by the silver party,
some of them with deputy
sheriff credentials in their
pockets, were thrown bodily
out of election booths at Two
Harbors and on the iron ranges
because of their determination
to make parties suspected to
be guilty of illegal voting show
cause why they should be al­
lowed to deposit their ballots.
In the city and county probably
not less than 1500 to 2000 fraud­
ulent votes were cast.
It may be true that these re­
ports are exaggerated. The
ballot, however, is the only
semblance of freedom left to
the American people. We can­
not, therefore, allow even the
suspicions of fraud to go un­
challenged. It is the duty of
those interested to leave no
stone unturned to have a thor­
ough investigation, and if there
has been fraud it should be un­
earthed. With the power of the
government—county, state and
national—in the possession of
the tools of plutocracy, it is too
much to expect any convictions
it is too much to expect that
prosecutions for fraud should
ever get as far even as a jury
but there can at least be data
gathered that will go far to­
wards preventing a successful
repetition of such outrages in
elections to come.
We say to you that within the
next four years, if it was not
made last Tuesday, the last
stand for American liberty will
occur. And that as patriots
worthy the name of freemen
our duty will not be done unless
there is the most rigid examin­
ation into these suspicious cir­
cumstances that give rise to the
charges of fraud.
0 to 8.
Sixteen to one is defeated and
now the issue is nothing to ate.—
Broad Axe.
Lauterbach will not be com­
pelled to secede—at least not this
year.
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