The Labor enquirer., 1884-09-06
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THE TWIN RELICS.
Denver, August is, 1884.

. The qnadrennial contest between the
TIVE old parties is now under full head
way, but never in the history of the
country has such apathy been exhibited
bv all classes as 20 the result. No one
outside of the oficeholders on the one
side and those who desire to obtain Office
on the other seems to take any but the
most languid interest in the success Of
either party.
3 So far as the democratic party is con-
cerned, there is no manner of doubt but
3 that it is now making its last struggle,
1t has been beaten SO long and 80 often
that, even if it were to succeed it would
not know what to do. 1t would be like
grinning skeleton placed in command
of an army of flesh and blood. None
but the sleepy minded, the dark
thoughted, the unthinking and the non
progressive care anything about it.
! On the other nand, the republican
party, which has grown and lived upon
( the abolition of negro slavery, has, by
its constant trucking to the money
power, fastened upon the poor white
laboring people of the country slavery
far more vile and infamous than that in
the south ever was When the history
of that party shall come to be written it
will be seen that its sympathies were
with every other race in the land except
that of its own blood and kindred; the
negro, the. Chinaman, the Indian, horses
z and cattle in the streets and in thefelds,
all, all have found in its ranks the, most
ardent champions, but the poor white
laboring man and woman, to whom the
country is indebted for everything which
it possesses, toll on and Oh, scoffed at
and spurned as though the.' were lepers,
and not single voice from its leaders
has ever arisen in their defense. Its
whole career, from its first accession to
power to the present time, has been so
strange and inconsistent that it reads
like a tale of insanity. Aud now, bloated
with alteration for the power of money
and rotten with corruption, like herd
of wild cattle on stampede, with head
and tail erect, it is plungines onward to
the deep abyss of bsrbarisnl, with ever
increasing velocity. The people have
nothing under the sun to hope from it,
but everything to fear and dread. 1t
fcares for nothing but plunder.. 1t hates
1.-The poor white man with all the venom
of q reptile. Its newspapers, all con-
trolled By few capitalistic scoundrels,
who haye stolen all they have from the
laborers, fatty refuses to pay any atten-
ton to the cries of the poor. They are
utterly destitute of independence of any
sort and seem totally incapable of ex-
pressing an intelligent opinion on any
question of public policy. In the thick
jabber which their columns daily pour
forth may be seen the unmistakable ap-
proach of decay and dissolution, That
such fungi as these should find root and
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flourish in nation as young as ours is
indeed ominous that there ID something
wrong. What that something is, tits the
duty of all thinking men to lend their
strongest energies to finding out.
AS to the democratic party, nothing
better can be said of it. W4lile the re-
!. publican party has pursued its career
like one impelled by insane ideas, the
democratic party has existed like one
afflicted with senility. It has to all in
tents aud purposes been dead these
thirty years. Both parties have been
truthfully called the twin relics of bar
barisn. Neither one of them possesses
the slightest idea of what the people
want. All that their leaders care for,
and hope for, is an opportunity to steal.
They are set of unclean birds. ready at