St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-12
ARIsToCRACY RULES.
Why the Democrats Did Not Win
Last Tuesday.

To the Editor OF the Globe.
The battle is over, and the Democrats
are slaughtered. The question asked
is, What was the cause? Allow me
space to give my opinion. l have
watched the country for thirty-fve
years, and am egotistical enough to
cause of our defeat. Democracy in the
olden times was clothed in hOmespun,
rode in lumber wagons and lived in a
plain. homely way. This suited the
times. The country was new. Every
man was as good as his neighbor. All
met at the meeting houses. Cotton sun
shades and stoggy boots were luxury
to be used only when people went to
town, etc. Natures covering for the
feet was sufficient for the working man.
But now all things are changed
style is all the go. 1t makes no
difference how the means are
obtained to carry it out, it must be
got by fraud or mortgage. Every work
ing mans family, farmers, clerks, it
matters not whom, must have this and
that. Costs are nothing. They must,
they think. keep up with their neigh
bors. Silks and satiRs, fine shoes and
plated ware, (all shoddy) must be OBJ
tanned, because our neighbOrs have
them. In higher grades of life it is the
same. only on more extensive scale.
Look at the shoddy buggies turned out.
Look at the livery servants. not helps
as the old democracy called them.
on panels of carriages. Now all this
leads to what? TO a moneyed ais
tocraey. Grover Cleveland's plain way
of living at Washington did not
suit the times-"The beau monde"
call for fetes and a round of pleasure
and gayety and the helps, now servants,
which are the working classes, must
come down to small wages. The retail
storckeepers must carry these stylish
folks Oh their books, for they dare not
dun them or they would lose their GUS
tom. The best paying customers to a
storekeeper are mechanics and working
men. The ones who pat On such agony
are not profitable. Look into every
grade of homes, from the cottage to the
paatial residences and you'll find the
majority of them furnished at the eX-
penSe of the tradesmen. This is why
the Republican party is on top. The
American party, which is the head and
tail of it, are getting more aristOcratic
daily, becoming more and more inbred
W loIcIS IL uUUliity. IIdSOl 10 easy anu
has led them to copy foreign ways,
foreign dress and foreign extravagances.
Not ling can ever bring back the good
old days of Democracy. People will
not have it. The moneyed Democrats
don't want it lit seems), and the work.
ing Democrats have shown by throwing
away their last chance at the past cleo
ton. The prefer to be the flunkies of
an ariStocrat than free men. So mote
it be. They Northern capitalist is grad
ually taking up the South, as the vote
shows. The former happy slave will
become the serf of moneyed capital
ist. and not realize it. The poor
white man will have to take
scale of wages made by them or moth
ing. Mark! Well! Scan and in
wardly digest, what I have written.
History repeats itself. The downfall of
republics have been caused by men be-
coming effeminate from pleasures and
debauchery, riches and a love to rule,
which are followed by internal olsen
sions, and an egotism that makes them
believe they can rule the world. 1t Will
be many years yet before the United
States Of America arrives at the point of
a dissolution of the republic. but drift
ing there we surely are. Next in order
is standing army. Then what? God
can only answer. G. D. G. WILLIAMS.
perham, MIMI, Nov. 10.