The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-22
What is the Difference?

ties of this State shows that there is
no difference between them. On
the tariff, they agree that duties
should be levied for revenue only.
On finances both favor a gold basis
and resumption of specie payments.
Both oppose official extravaganza
and corruption. The railroad ques-
ton is handled gingerly by both,
each seeming DESTROYS Of concealing
its real sentiments. The republl-
cans favor public improvements,
carried on by government. The
democrats are silent upon this topic,
and we have no right to infer that
they are not equally in favor OF it.
Even in the matter Of abusing each
other, they are in perfect accord,
each protesting to regard the other
as too corrupt to be entrusted with
the conduct of public affairs; and,
in this, We believe that they are both
correct.
What, then, is the difference be-
tween them? None is shown to ex-
ist by their own professions, and we
have no right to believe that either
only tells the truth while the other
only lies. Such discrimination is
decidedly unjust. The democrats
say that the republicans inaugurated
our present ruinous financial system ;
that they gave away empires to rail-
road corporations and endorsed the
bonds Of these besides; that they
framed an unjust tariff law; that
they wasted the public money and
property in reckless extravaganza
that they robbed the treasury by
means of the Credit Mobilier and
other schemes; that they stole mil
lions from the people. We have no
doubt that every accusation in this
overwhelming Indictment is true,
and, we also believe, that they have
been guilty Of misgovernment at
the South. History establishes all
these declarations.
The republicans declare, on the
other hand, that the democrats in
augurated the policy Of giving pub.
lie lands and endorsed bonds to rail.
road corporations; that their tariff
law was more or less protective
that their old financial system was
equally as bad as the existing one;
that they, too, administered the gov
eminent extravagantly; that they,
too, robbed the treasury when in
power and also participated in the
Credit Mobilier steal and other cor
rupt schemes since; that they have
likewise stolen from the people
whenever they could. We, also,
be}ieve all these charges, and the
further one, that democratic parti-
FANS at the South have been since
the war stirring up trouble in that
section, History veri6es every one
Of these charges.
What, then, is the difference be-
tween these parties? If the leaders
of both will lie and steal, land they
both prove it beyond controversy
on each other that they have done
and will do so,) and if the senti.
ments protested by both on all
measures Of public policy are alike,
land their platforms show that they
are why should we prefer one to
the other1 Will the people be any
better off with Mr.. Buel for Govern.
or, acting as he will, be compelled
to, under the influence of Lee, Rice,
Blakely, Ramsey and Co., than with
Mr.. Pillsbury, acting, as he will be
compelled to, under the influence
of Blakely, Ramsey, Lee, Rice s
Coz Does it matter to the labor
ing masses Of the State which mem
ibers Of the St. Paul ring rob them;
wan the pilfering by Democrat,