Show NO MIDDLE GROUND there are arc only two sides to the question now dow before the people shall the trusi tg to whom the there re publicans public ans old eold tile the government continue to rob the people or shall hall they be restrained the democratic party in its nat national ional convention ven tion s says ays they shall be restrained that their wholesale plunder shall lii stopped i A few democratic I 1 members nerr ibers of congress may be cajoled or bribed to act with the republicans republican but the rank arid and lie file the masses of the democratic abic party parly have organized C agai against ast plutocracy they have declared war a against ain ft it and that war will bo be continued until either the democracy ni or plutocracy as destro destroyed even though 0 new leaders may have to be selected in every congressional district at each election it is a question of 0 f honesty or dishonesty shall the public and private ate trusts which in 1800 1890 before the passage of tile the mckinley McKin lcy bill levied a yearly tax or blackmail in a upon the people of for their own private gain continue this robbery and increase it this is the question that confronts ever every y voter arid and it is a question lie he cannot shirk a question he nau must answer in the negative or the affirmative firma tive there can be no neutrals in this war or only patriots and traitors only I 1 democrats awl and republica republicans us only honest men and dishonest men the issue is paramount until it is settled no other can be considered those who are no not t democrats are giving it aid and comfort to the enemy even though they do not join the ranks of the plutocrats E every very national populist socialist or prohibition organization is a secret alliance with the republican trusts no matter what the intention of the foter coter may be it is a vote lost to honesty a vote that must be counted as a vote for the trusts when the results ale aie declared The there can be no neutral voting the there can be no vote cast unless it is for the trust thefts or a against 0 ainest swallowed lip iri in this great ane one a ami nd 1 he be who is not dot against it must be counted for it and what is it lie he is for there are separate answers all alike in principle differing only in words word s tale take any one for example by false and fraudulent depres elita tion to the people that the iron masters of pennsylvania paid their workmen more per ton for making pig hon than the iron masters to form a trust and charge the people extra for every ton of domestic pig 0 iron used in this country to compel the people to buy from the pig iron trust a fine of was imposed 0 on every tot ton bought 0 by bv an american from any ally one except the trust the representation sen tation was false and fraudulent for as toon oon as the permie permission sion was obtained tle iron masters reported to the census office in 1880 that the total wages wages 0 paid by them was 1 ll 11 p per er ton that the protection of per ton gave them labor free p of cost coat and per ton blackmail fc the total blackmail over and n above ill all labor cost paid to iron masters of pennsylvania by 1 the people in 1890 was v this was but a branch of the pig c iron trust which between 1880 and 1890 divided in private taxes among 7 hi beneficiary ies for the protected trusts protected in levying 0 it the blackmail for asoo reached the enormous aggregate of if over 1 per cent of tile total wealth of the union this permission to steal this protection in theft is the law of the I 1 land I 1 the theft was inas made legal 0 by republican legislation it has remained maln ed legal by republican supremacy for twenty years it will continue to be legal dept t until made illegal by democratic legislation no other baity I 1 will ill have power to bhawe change 0 or even modify it the law cannot be repealed unless the democratic party has a working majority in each branch of the congius Con gies too large for a republican corruption fund to a aal afe act et backed liy by an overwhelming majority of the people it has bas not that majority in the senate now no and without it the law cannot be repealed the theft must continue and any attempt to it will bo be in vain I 1 the duty of every every democratic voter is plain ile he must pledge I 1 liis its life liis his fortuno fortune ani his honor to loyally carry out the promises li his is party has made to stop this robbing of the people ile he must enlist tor for the war and work early and late to induce every honest man to join hirn to prevent desertion by bv the fainthearted faint hearted and to punish traitors caught bargaining in with the enemy lie ile mut put avery other question aside until this has been fought out arid and the victory won ivon world |