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Show THE SIIWER UILL. Crillclxtd bjr Chairman Beaimont,Xa- HonalXrsIflatlTe Commltlcf, Knights or Labor. A NOTORIOUS THIEF SHOT BT HIS wire. The PruLibitton Law In Sonlh Da. lota Goes Into EfTecL DARING S&HCMC BY BOULANC-IST BOULANC-IST LEADERS. Gigantic Election Frand in Chlcaro. A Calf Snccrtsfullr "Exe- cute4 bj Eltctriritj. By Telexnph to the Mws.1 TIir.hlLtCII BILL Ralph Beaumont lttcr To JIc-Ulnley JIc-Ulnley Tliereon. VASlll.NciTO-j;, April &). tlalph Itoiamont, chalrmauof Uic National Nation-al JjoglabUVe CommIUc of the Knights of Labor, has written to Major McKlnley a letter criticL-in;; the pending silver MIL IWautuont sajs in ran: ,-OnAhat grounds cf equity and justice does your party decide to confer legal lender pou era to these certificates for the purpose for which the National banks desire to uee them and refu- to farmer) and business tneta of the country the Simc privilege?" Beaumont then recalls the discrimination dis-crimination between tlietradfc dollar dol-lar and the standard dollar, and atk: "What is to hinder, under this bill, these same bankers from discriminating against this note, as it is only legal tender, for certain purposes? This bill creates money for the bonkers and notts for the farmers. "It is not notes the farmers are in netyl of; they are already burdened down with notes. It !s money they trantj with which they may LTOUIDATE THE1K INDKUTKnXISS to the bondsmen. I Insist, sir, that if you, as leader of the House, let this measure loss, creating these certificates without conferring upon them a full legal tender power to enable thee over-burdened farmers to meet their obligations, you are, guilty of committing a wrong; and matk it, it & one that both you and your party v ill have to atone for In tiie comlngCongressIonal Campaign. These overburdened tillers of the roll are in no mood to be trilled with. They are desperate. You, as leader of your party in tbe House, are on the joint of pressing a measure through the House, known as the Tariff bill, which you say Is to protect pro-tect the tillers of the soil from ruinous ruin-ous competition from abroad. 1-tt me again, I beg, warn you that since UielaU campaign, which was fought out ujan this issue, the same tillers of the soil have come to the conclusion that during that campaign cam-paign they were laboring undtr a delusion and have come to the further conclusion that It is not from competition from abroad that they arc sdfTering, but, on the contrary, con-trary, it Is from a legal discrimlna tion against them in the interest of corporate wealth by just such unfair un-fair legislation as is contained in this bliL" |