Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-19
BUFFERS LETTER.
Con,Inuea rrom rhlrd Page.

I y
.lec ion for members of congrers In
that state, j,02l votes only were thrown
10y all parties In the electi On of mem
DER of congress, while lat the West
where a free ballot IL still in the hands
of every man, the same election 63,-
2S6 votes were required in the election
of n CT n IRE ssuar.
And this Is called cqi o. representa-
lion of the people In the government !
Let every true American ponder
upon these figures, and inquire.
whittier is the country drifting? If
such inequalities are possible In the
beginning, what will be the end? Let
the people arise In their might and
bring back the government where our
revolutionary fathers placed 1t, on the
foundation of freedom, with equal
rights, equal burdens, equal privi-
leges. ana equal powers to all men.
now THE PEOPLE LOST THEIR con-
troll OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Why have the people lost or for
borne to exercise this great power? AT
first there were two parties contendlng
for great principles; the Federal
against the Democratic The one rep
resented the CAPT alist, the monopolst,
and those believing that kingly gov
ernenmsnt was best, If IL was a home
trnment, a though willing to aid
In the expulsion of King Georges
government. Hamilton aud Adams
led this; Jefferson and Madison led
the other.
The divisions were 80 great that In
that day there was no third party.
When the Federal party was in power
we had the alien and sedition laws,
aud Judges appointed at midnight,
and aristocratic forms of Office.
Under Jefferson and Madison the
people held sway aud called them
selves the demo cracy, as in fact they
were; aud then republican simplicity
of manners, economy in government
and respect for the rights of the peo-
pie were the order of the day.
This state of things continued until
the time of Jackson; i'm his admins
iratlon n great banking monopoly wss
broken down. Then arose only minor
questions between the parties, indus
trial and economic, about which there
was really not much difference. And,
unt,l the quest of the abolition of
slavery arose. 1t was ex-
ceedlngly difficult to distinguish
the parties by their pla forms,
except that In the Democratic plat.
| forms there was always II pledge to the
resolutions of '0S. This contention on
the slavery question produbed the war.
| How the war enabled the monopOlisls
TO get possession of both parties, ! have
already shown. Sine then, actual
differences between the parties in
matter of principle have in fact died
out, or only enough kept up to have n
distinction. Witness the attempt of
TIE Convention ut Chicago 10 make its
platform appear tra tie as nearly as
| possible like the Republican platform
on the tar II question, and yet not lie
| thes M.
THE MoSopoLIsT ALWAYS WINS IN
ELECTIONS.
The cunning of the mDnopoli5ts and
CAPT ali-ts has taught them that If
thu, y can only keep the people of the
country voting according to party
liues, they then can govern the coun-
try whichever party prevails Did
need evidence of thi-, II would be in
the declaration ascribed to the largest
and ahlest railroad king in the coua-
try, MIR. Gould, who il said to have
tei titled before committee, In sub.
stance, that when he had Democratic
legisla ure to manipulate he was n
Democrat, and whenevera Republican
Legislature, he was u Republican.
hat Is TO say, to carry his
measures, he helped elect, by his
money, Democrats and Republicans
: indiscriminately; but both sets of his
members were Always Gould men.
No moaopoiist cares which party
wins. He l. only anxious that the
nominating convention OF each party
should nominate II candidate whom
he can contrt !.
Thus are the people played with
aud kept apart bv the Fetish, called
party allegiance ever bound to the
chariot win of their oppressors.
LABOR NEVER WINS AND WHY?
Might We not learn something from
the fate of the African nagroes? In
their own country, each tribe had its
7 Fetish aud they fought each other for
Its supremacy, and both sides sold the
, prisoners captured in those battles to
the white man rs slaves. So the
laboring man votes for his
, Fetish, the Dea 0,ratic parry;
4 and the farmer votes for his Fetish,
: the Republican party, and the result
/ is that both are handed over rs captives
! to the corruptionists and monopolists
whichever side wins.
4 Mark this; the aborers aud the PEG.
pie never win!
, Let no man say that desire to array
4 one class in this country against an.
= other class. Not 80. wish to set al
classes against the corruptonists, tn,
e plundeTers and the absorbers Of
r other peoples earnings wrongiully by
t bought legislation, and speaking fol
, the whole people l desire to array
/ them against such men only. And Il
TO any II seems differently let him
| reflect that among the common people
, OF the country there is no politica
|. bribery, corruption or desire to do any.
> thing except to have good govern
a ment under which men may earn fo
3 themselves and families u wholesom,
+ subsistence and u fair competence.
4 Every convention of either party |,
: prevented, If possible. from nominal
ing any pronounced friend of tn,
e laboring man or Anti. Monopnlist /,
i high office. Witness the fate of Mr.
;. Thurman, the most accomplished Dem
!, ocratic statesman OF all, in the conven
y ton calling itself Democratic at Chi
Y cngo.
!. voTE TOGETHER, is THE oNL,
O REMEDY.
O What then Is the remedy for thes
y 80 monstrous evils? How can tn
Y people, the true Democracy rcposses
n themselves OF their government, /,
:. make laws To protect their own inter
v ests and to redress those great wrong
e and cause the plunderers to disgorp
Y their rohberie, trom the traasur,,o .