The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-12-09
Precisely the Case.

credited with the following language
in speaking of the means used by
the Republican party in the recent
election: "The contest of the future
will be between theagregated wealth
of the country on the one side and
the people on the other. There is
no hope of overthrowing the Repub-
lican party until that is made the
issue. And by aggregated wealth
| mean the corporations, the nation
al banks, the tariff, and all that IA
vors the moneyed power"
This states the whole case in very
few words. Year by year the mon
ey power is acquiring tighter grip
upon the threats of the people,
Campaign after campaign the con-
tributious of the wealth OF the North
to swell the Republican corruption
fund are larger and larger. Year by
year capital grows stronger and
stronger and the people weake and
weaker. But why this aggregation
of wealth in the interest of the Re
publican party? The answer is easy
enough. That party is the special
friend and champion OF the richer
classes. All of its legislation in the
past and all of its acts of admins.
tration have been of a tendencdy to
enable the accumulation of vast for.
tunes by individuals and corpora
tons at the expense OF the delying
masses. Mammoth corporations
have grown up under it's fostering
care; public moneys have been APP
propriated most lavishly to enter
prises which had no just claim upon
public charity; tariff legislation has
been enacted and maintained which
has still further bloated the already
rich manufactures of the North and
East, aud the government has had
its pets which have fattened upon
the miseries of the people. It has
been openly and repeatedly charged
that in the great cities of the North
and West immese distilleries, owned
by opulent Republicans, daily send
forth their hundreds Of gallons of
illicit whisky, while the moonshiners
in the mountains Of Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Tennessee and
Georgia are hunted down by the
governments paid agents who have
no bowels of compassion for the man
who is not able to contribute to tue
Republican campaign.
Of piece with these things is
the whole policy Of the Republican
party. BY this system it has array
ed on its side, and against the peo-
pie, all capital which needs govern
mental influence to promote it's in
crease, and when it is reflected
that this party enters every cam
paign with this powerful auxiliary,
and besides, an army of 1O5, 900
office-holders, every one a worker, it
can readily be seen how it is that it
is not easy to beat.
We do not undertake to say when
the rule of this money power over
the people will come to an end; but
it will continue until, as Judge
Trumbull suggests, the issue is fairly
made and, stripped of all DISCUSSES,
goes naked to the people for arbitra-
ton. The time will come when, all
perplexing side questions apart,
they will be called upon to settle
this one issue upon its merits, and
then we shall learn in whom the
love of money il stronger than the
love of liberty. According as the
verdict shall be, according will be
the destiny of the republic.
We must congratulate Mr.. G. E.
Finney upon the greatly improved
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