Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-09-14

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No great political reform was ever
wrought through established parties,
but in every instance, the reform
sought became the nucleus of n new
organization, which in time absorbed
the party ont OF power, and overthrow
the one in power.
The old United States bank monopo-
ly received its main support from the
federal party in power, led by Hamil-
ton. The republican party, led by
Jefferson, though protesting to be more
democratic and anti-monopoly than the
federal party, could never muster suf-
icient force to successfully antagonizc
the bank power. The anti-bank men
consisted Of Il majority of the federal
party, and although constituting ma
jority of the whole, their strength was
neutralizcd by being divided on par
tiSan lines. jackson saw that the only
way to overthrow the bank power was
TO make that central issue, rs the
basis of Il new party, and TO rally to its
support all the anti-bank strength in
both of the old parties. He succeeded,
and the result was the birth of the
democratic party, the overthrow of the
bank monopoly, the death of the re-
publican party, and the overthrow of
federalism.
After twenty years the democratic
party, which came into existence as the
friend of the people and the enemy of
capitaliStic aristocracy, became in time
the bulwark of the great slave oligarchy
and labor ormonopoly. In the meantime
the federal party had rcorganizcd un-
der the name of whig, and when the
anti-slavery agitation came to the front
in politics it was found, as in the case
of the anti-bank struggle, that a major
ity of the party in power opposed the
new movement, while n majority Of the
whig party claimed to favor it, but be-
ing divided by party lines the anti
slavery reformers We're powcrlcss.
In 1856 the free soil anti-monopolists,
following the example of jackson, re-
solved to make the free soil question n
central issue, rs the basis of new pO-
litical organization, and TO rally to its
support all the free soil and anti-slavcry
strength OF the two old parties. They
also succeeded, and the result was as
beforc-the birth of the new republican
party, the death of the old party out of
power, andt the overthrow Of the dcmOc-
racy.
Again monopoly and anti-monopoly
in new forms are struggling for the SUI
prcmacy, To-day the vast monicd cor
porationS, and the railroad and other
having seized upon the
party that broke the shacklcs from the
limbs of labor and set the slave free
have converted it into an engine of
tyranny more cruel andoppressivc than
slavery itself, The oppressed, though |
strong in numbers, as of old, find their .
strength ncutralizcd by party lines;
but guided by the lessons of the past,
they, too, have determined to make
lnti-monopoly elements within the two
Did parties, The result is easily pre-
lictcd. 1t does not require the gift of
DrophCSy.
The great mass OF both the old par
les are anti-monopoliStS. They are
Kept in the old ranks only by the power
If partisan cohesion. The party that
possesses the least cohesive power will
'all TO pieces and disappear, as did the
ederal and whig organizations. The
polls of office constitute the cohesive
,owcr, The republican party possess
IS this element and will survive, but
o be oyerthrown. The democracy
will disappear, but from its ashes,
'hTniy-likc, will spring into life and
,owcr the party of progress, the polit-
cal David, who will slay the giant mo-
lopoly.