The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-08-25
MUSCLE VS.. CAPITAL.
Democracy the Peace Maker !

NtNer Ill tllt HlSIoly VI man
was there such an opportunity for
the display Of brains than there
is to-day in America. We mean
of course, patriotic brains, "big
brains,' as it were, at that.
We find at the end of a bitter
faction fight of sixteen years dn-
ration our country torn, CONNER
cially, financially and industrally,
into shreds and patches; amidst
tho din Of crashing corporations,
npturned banks and means for
bread, we hear the shrek of the
bowling dcmagoguc advocating a
continuance of the effect, or at
least demanding legislation to
that end, without a movement to
remove the cause for all the evils
which are now prostrating us to
the very dust. The ship pounds
on the breakers, the storm bowls
astern, while incompetent Cap
tains fume and fuss upon the deck
demanding more steam to "drive
her ahcadw
1t seems to us, weak country
man rs we are, that something
better can come Of America in the
shape Of statesmen than the rant
ers who now din the public ear in
NIL this storm with their frantic
idiotcy. 1t looks to us that true
men should study more the mo.
tives of the tuners, and that they
should see that the doctor who
physiced the patient nigh to death
is little qualified to restore him
by an opposite treatment to sound
health.
Let us look at the causes which
brought about the present pros
tration of the country, and finding
theh, let us remove them at once,
and effect will cease.
America has three branches of
INDUSTRY which need the pro-
tecting care Of government; az.
ricultural, manufacturing an d
commercial. Legislation for the
one will be TO the detrlment of the
others, and all three are essential
to our prosperity, while two of
them are founded and flourish
upon the success of one, agricul-
ture. This is the industry which
HIIuI11x sur.InnrmAnf Ia Tho "'''rele
Of the country, and will do so
with profit to that muscle when
the manufacturing and CONNER
cial interests no longer require
labor as an adjunct. America
could exist and subsist without
manufactures or merchants, but
she and her people would perish
without farms. Still they are all
necessary to the happiness, com
fort aud wealth Of q people.
Understanding this, how has
the Republican party legislated
i'll order to encourage these indus
tries; to balance them evenly ?
A glance at their statutes will
give the answer.
Manufacturers and capitalists,
have been the favored few in Re-
publican legislation, and no man
will deny it: Railroads, ship lines,
sea jctties, canals and docks, bris-
tie at every step as the evidence
Of governmental care over pet
commerce. A grinding tariff on
4OOOarticles of consumption mark,
as with a monument, Republican
gratitude to its manufactures ;
while National banks and untaxed
bonds flourish as the strong box
forthe declining years ofthose pie
thoric.pocketed sailers of ships
and weavers of cloth. All sprung
from the legislation Of Republi-
cans in the interest of those in
dustries it would still persist in
protecting to the detriment of the
one, the basis Of all.
The cause of prostration is ap.
parent not because confidence is
lost, but because no avenue of in.
vestment equal to the surety Of a
government bond or a government
National bank exists, nor can ever
exist, because the whole power OF
the government is ererted to sas.
tain them even to the ruin of all
else.