The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-07-28
Rally for True Democratic Principles I

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2s. 1871.
Rally for True Democratic Principles!
The dereliction of Democratic con-
ventions and Democratic leaders In
avowing correct positions on vital act.
i've questions, is forcing the formation
Of new parties peculiarly interested in
those issues. The workingmen's party
is an example. The Democratic party
Of former days was peculiarly the
champion of the laboring and produc.
ing interests OF the country, while its
various opponents were always the
champions Of aggregated capital. In
the abstract this is true now. But our
Conventions have become 80 cowed by
successive defeats, and those who force
themselves into the lead OF the party
80 timid, that they think only OF con-
Serpdtism THAT devilish subterfuge
which opposes all measures to correct
present evil and is In favor of nothing
but bawling about the "sacredness " OF
national debts) or some smart trick or
dodge In the shape of "new depart
ure" by which to avoid the A re of the
enemy-trundle bed patriots who skulk
from the vigor of manly struggle lest
defeat may follow-men who would be
victors without the triumph of a single
principle rather than run the risk Of a
defeat In the effort TO establish that
which Is correct
Tho principles Of the Democratic
party require that the public lands
should be held for the sole use of actu al
settlers, and that they should be appro.
priated to no other purpose whatever.
The same principles are hostile to
every form of National Banks or Ban k
ing, and require the issue of simple
treasury notes to meet such emergencies
rs can not be supplied by specie.
Tho same principles are opposed to
all complicated forms of government
and laws, which fill the country with
hordes of officials, tax gatherers, spies,
pimps and loafers, to suck the substance
of the people.
Tho same principles require that all
projects of improvement and develope-
ment that can be reached by such effort
shall be left to individual enterprise ;
and that corporations shall only be re-
sorted to in cases that are manifestly
beyond the reach of individual effort /;
and that even then they shall be secure.
ly curbed in their powers.
The same principles require that in
levying taxes all property of whatever
kind or nature shall bear its equal share
and that none shall be exempt; and
that In the levying of tariffs they shall
be so adjusted as to bear lightly upon
articles of prime necessity and heavily
only upon luxuries, and upon all in
proportion to their value.
The same principles regard all gov.
ernment as merely a necessary evil
that is only to be tolerated so far as to
restrain men from injuring each other,
which shall leave them otherwise free
to regulate their own pursuits of indus
try aud Improvement, and shall not
take from the mouth of labor the bread
it has earned and that its power shall
be limited to these subjects and its own
protection.
The foregoing are mainly the leading
characteristics of the Democratic party
and we cannot conceive for the life of
us why our conventions of recent years
overlook or shun them. If vigorously
advocated and faithfully pressed at all
times, there would be no occasion for
the formation Of labor unions and
workingmen's parties, and these would
become powerful auxiliaries that would
give victory to the Democracy at all
times. At least, if defeats would occur
they would only be Of temporary char
acter and at worst would only prove a
momentary interruption.
Oh, for another great brave JACKSON,
TO rally the masses around their inter-
csts and to crush the miserable bands of
corrupt AID timid demagogues that
have got into the lead of great parties