Show EUl TORiA E 18 william McKi iiley was nominate dt st louie en june lelh and yet benj butterworth bent the follow inn dispatch whon the iee were subsequently assembled at saint louis washington D C july 18 1896 hon A J warner where in st loni wi 1 letter reach you I 1 am devoted to the cause of bimetallism firm as a rock will write fully answer signed and benjamin butterworth stood airm as a until the gold standard cam caien bureau supplied him plentifully with rocks and bent him to denounce that which he bad approved and to champion anat which ho had theretofore assaulted as the crime ot the century some of the matter in a jetter from this butterworth henry M teller under date of march 1896 well worthy even at this day helen to worda of hon benjamin butterworth who deplored dep lorea the trampling of principle under toot for the advantage of anty the policy of eold standard has been in the name of an honet dollar the descriptive term honest being used for what has proved to be the dishonest purpose ot fleecing every producer in tho land until the people debt adden tax ridden monopoly ridden and to the up are in a stale of rebellion the judiciary indeed is left but unhappily there ie too to fear that the confidence ot the people in that last stronghold ot freedom for the de fenee of their rights is beine affected by the beneral demoralization and may be slowly undermined this is less it in any deerea the fault of the judges than of the general demoralization that the influence and corrupt use of wealth in other departments ahna induced yon know perfectly well and it would be to deny it that noth ins is more generally believed than that the greit national conventions about to assemble will be controlled by listic combines that each convention will er deavor with mere worda and pharasee phra see that like the delphic oracle have two interpretations and mean one thing or another as the vindication of tho oracular utterance may demand to satisfy the political of the situation instead ot courageously meet ine the lust expectations of the people you know that each year oar politics become more corrupt and worthy men arct to reject the moral certainly of the fact because competent leeal proof is not As an inevitable result the foundations upon which rest the only living hope of preserving our form of government are being surely undermined by lie corruption influences and power of wealth in the bands and under the control of mm who either fail to understand or are indifferent to the fact that our free institutions cannot survive long after such influences become and they are fest becoming supreme in the land bee in view of the frequent easy victories of women and iris over men and boya when engaged in intellectual rivalry in schools and co lleces one must believe that any opposition today must be based on jealousy of their capabilities or benr of their competition at the rate that women hove recently proving their intellectual superiority or equality to men it will soon be in order for some one to opplee the hillier education 0 men end conand that they should be reserved tor work that requires merely physical effort and in which chev con to excel chicago times herald |