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Show WHAT HAVE THET TO OFFER? Congress ha adjourned ud the politician who in and out of, congress axe dreaming of office, honora and emoluments, are already sketching out their plant, for what hai to be done now and in congress when the winter come, and then the' final preparation for the -nomination and the campaign. We aee it already. Speaker Clark says: "The Democrat have kept every promise." "Mr. liana, the leader of the Republican ia the house, says: "The Democrats have blundered." Had his early education not been deficient be would probably prob-ably have said "they fumbled." But what has either party to offer upon which to catch votes T Is it a three month' wrangle over the tariff t The people know the tariff history, pretty well now. ' Under normal conditions there has always been general prosperity ; when a tariff for revenue only has been the rule there has been prostration in business and more than one panic. Will the Republicans' Repub-licans' reiterate thoee facta f 'Will the Democrat attempt a straddle, and adopt tba old Sam Randall insistence of "a tar if for revenue, with incidental protection t ; If that ia their program then we predict that it will be with them aa it was with the old miner, who through all his years of straggle nursed the hope-that hope-that if he should ever ''strike it" he would buy suit of clothes, to to New York' City and. have one dinner, the very finest, at Delmonico's. He did strike.it, went to New York, found- the -desired place, entered and took a seat at one of the tables. A waiter approached and placed before Eim a, menu which was more than half French. Ha,, looked it over in helpless way and . falteringly said: "Bring me a plate of pork' and beans.".. And what will the Republicans have to offer?. That they have prosecuted some trusts, and have ew-tablished ew-tablished tha conservation of the western country coun-try 'a natural resources !-Will they be eatehing appeals ap-peals to the people T ' . . - ' Have they aimed one' blow at the' great gold combine. which controls the only real money in the country, and by that control holds ;the one .hundred .hun-dred millions of people in our country merely as servitors whose business is to pay. interest f . Can mortal man compute the interest that the American people have paid since the war closed Ave and forty years agot Is not a billion it the indebtedness in-debtedness made by that war still drawing interest inter-est notwithstanding the Tact tKat for the. past, ten years. (he'"net proceeds tof the industries of tbe "people "peo-ple have been quite two billions per year . Why "has not the monetary commission r pre-, sented a new financial system to the country f Is it not because of the fear that' spy system they might present with any hope of acceptance would impinge upen the power of the gold combine and its methods . .'--' . ' .The . progenitors of hia gold combine are the men who by a trick and fraud poshed through congreaa con-greaa the, first law demonetising silver,, tbe't; Bad always been as good, as gold, while it had the same recognition, and the same crowd working upon the stubborn brain of Orover Cleveland made him believe be-lieve he waa servin hia country when- he stood forth the final executioner to destroy half the money of the constitution and the world, at a time when the interest bearing securities of the nation, the states, the cities, the corporations and thle people, peo-ple, were paying interest on an amount equal to the combined gold end .silver money-of the world. By that act the miners of the west have lost 'up to date upon the silver they have mined quite 1,-500,000,000; 1,-500,000,000; it haa inflicted a loss of twice tha) amount upon the country. But it has done more. Because Be-cause of it the ports behind which are huddled half the inhabitants of the earth are closed against-our export, and by the aame legislation the imports from those countries come 'to- our porta" and are sold 60 per cent cheaper in the terms of American money than they were twenty years ago, but at the same' time leave to those importera the aame profits which they realised then! . - -. -. Do ay of our great statesmen or great eastern east-ern newspapers dare to even mention these fa,ctst The Panama canal ia so far advanced that its completion in the near future seems assured. Is there any prospect that the United States will have ships enough by that time to carry down to the isthmus the people who will desire to be there when its completion shall be celebrated f i What has either party to offer the people upon which to claim their voteat. , WO! not the final promise after all be to supply the people with just s plate of the old fashioned pork and be,anat ." '' |