The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-17
PREclsELY THE CASE.

A1OLls 1AyAI1Nn 4TUtQOuAl, OntlGQ
States Senator and late Democratic
candidate for Governor of Illinois, is
|credited with the following Language
in speaking of the means used by the
Republican party In the recent elec-
ton: "The contest of the future will
be between the aggregated wealth of the
country on the one side and the peo-
pie on the other. There Is no hope OF
overthrowing the Republican party
until that is made the issue. Aud by
aggregated wealth mean the corpora.
tions, the national banks, the tariff,
and al that favors the moneyed
power"
This states tho whole c; Sc Id very
few words. Year by year the money
power is acquiring a tighter grip upon
the throats of the peoples Campaign
after cs mpaign the contributions of the
wealth of the North to swell the Re-
publican corruption fund are larger and
lar.er. Year by year capital grows
stronger and stronger and the people
weaker and weaker. But why this
aggregation of wealth in the interest of
the Republican party? The answer Is
easy enough. That party is the special
friend and champion of the richer
classes. All Of its legislation in the
ptsot anu stil Va Atr QStS Va uNtaAhAoShutAOn
have been of u tendencdy to enable the
accumulation of vest fortunes by indivi.
duals and corporations at the expense
of the delving masses. Mammoth
corporations have grown up under Its
fostering care; public moneys have
been appro .sriateu most lavishly to
ent tsrprises which had no just claim
upon public charity; tariff legislation
has been enacted and maintained which
has still further bloateG the already rich
manufactures of the North and East,
and the government has had IFS pets
which have fattened upon the miseries
of the people. 1t has been openly and
repeatedly charged that in the great
cities of the North and West immese
distilleries, owned by opulent Repub-
licans, daily send forth their hundreds
of gallons of Illicit whisky, while the
| moonshiners in the mountains of Vir-
ginia, North aud South Carolina,
Tennessee and Georgia are hunted
down by the governments paid agents
who have no bowels of compression for
tile man who is not able to contribute
to the Republican campaign.
Ola piece with these things is tho
whole policy of the Republican party
| BY this system it hes arrayed on it
| oioS, oho uSuihot thO PSOPtS,
which needs governmental influence
to promote its increase, and when 1t Il
reflected that this party enters every
campaign with this powerful auxiliary
and besides, an army of 100000 Office
holders, every ono IL worker, 1t car
readily be seen how it is that If is no
easy to beat.
We do not undertake to say whei
the rule of this money power over tn,
people will come to an end; but 1t will
continue until, as Judge Trumbul
suggests, the issue is fairly made and
stripped of all disguises, goes naked I,
the people for arbitration. The tim
will come when, all perplexing sid
questions appart, they will be callet
upon to settle this one issue upon it
merits, and then we shall learn il
whom the love of money is stronge
than the love of liberty. According a
the verdict shall be, according will b.
the destiny of the republic.