Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-21
IT Is TO BE A CAMPAIGN OF
BRAINS.


pectfully call the attention of the Demo.
cratic party to an old adage which is
peculiarly appropriate to the present 20.
litical situation
Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens.
This is to be a unique campaign. To
sum the matter up in a single phase, tits
to be a campaign of brains. Both Of the
candidates are personally above reproach.
They are men of acknowledged ability
practical, executive, administrative
There should, therefore, be no abuse in
the canvass, but a clean and hand to hand
fight on principles.
The people will do a good deal of hard
thinking between now and November,
but many Of them lack the materials on
which to base a sound judgment.
There are, for example, four million
farmers in this country. They are mostly
at such a distance from cities that they
never hear the hum of daily discussion
as we do in New York, where big CUES.
tions are in the air and a man makes up
his mind as unconsciously as he bteathes.
They are isolated and read few newspa.
pers-indeed, have very little leisure in
which to do it. Yet their votes count.
They are just as much interested in the
welfare of the government as any of us,
are as patriotic, have just as much at
stake, and during the wal went as will.
ingly to the field, at as great a sacrifice.
Then there are millions of mechanics
and artisans hidden away in cities, towns,
hamlets, who feel the Importance Of their
votes as never before, but who don't
know where to look for facts, figures,
arguments, to enable them to get at the
gist of the tariff question. They are wage
earners, but they are also men, Ameri.
cans, who see that there is something
wrong, a screw loose somewhere, which
allows combines, trusts, syndicates to
get on top, and gives them a bludgeon to
smash the heads of the working classes
with whenever they dare to strike. But
exactly what will right this wrong and
tighten this screw they can't find out.
The Republicans, verywisely we think,
and shrewdly too, are flooding the CONT.
nent-every nook and corner Of it, out
of the way places miles from a railroad
station-with public documents, pamph.
let's, printed speeches, statistical tables
all, of course, on the side of protection.
But what are the Democrats doing
Why, trusting to luck. They are not
half as smart as their opponents, and for
get the clear fact that a weak cause we'll
presented and pushed is more likely to
win than a righteous cause that is left to
take care of itself. The Democrats have
gone to sleep, are drowsy, yawning and
blunderingly stupid in their inactivity.
They must wake up, start the grist mill,
keep it going night and day, put two facts
and two arguments wherever the Repub. |
licans put one. 1t can be done easily,
because they have them, and it is due to
an intelligent people that it should be
done. This campaign must be made a
liberal education for ten million voters,
and there never has been a time when
calm, deliberate exercise of brains was
needful.
The policies Of the two parties can be
very simply stated. II you want to be
taxed as you were during the war; if you
think it a good thing to work hard all
The year and then to have the govern.
nent come toyou andsay, 81 onlyneedten
dollars to pay expenses, but Pm going to
lake twenty, and Congress will easily
ind some means to squander the extra
en- if you want the people divided up
INTO two classes, al aristocratic, capital
site class, which absorbs everybody's
and a poor class to do the drudg.
cry without any hope of ever bettering
their condition, then you will do right to
vote the Republican ticket. That party
is a party with a tendency, and it is a
tendency towards an aristocracy, a ten.
dency to crowd the laborer to the wall
and to pin him there forever. If that is
your idea of free institutions all right,
90 ahead. You must do your own bust.
ness in your W way.
The Democratic policy is to reduce
taxes to the low water mark Of federal
economy. When the government wants
money let it ask for it, tell us what it
proposes to do with it, and if the people
think the object is a worthy one they
will pay up; but if they don't think so
they won't pay up. Neither the Presi.
dent nor Congress has the right to lean
the treasury with one hundred
millions of peoples money in it and then
do as it pleases, with the classic remark,
"D--n the public" No, the public
run this country, President, Congress
and the whole colcern, and it hasn't re.
signed, and doesn't propose to.
If the taxes are too high, lower them.
In doing this, if you are compelled to
take the tax off of clothing or off of
whisky, the party that chooses the
clothing is the peoples friend and the
party that chooses the whisky is the
peoples enemy. If it is better to have
an overcoat than a glass of rum, then
you know how to vote, but if you have
any doubt whatever, look into the faces
of your wife and children and that ought
to settle it.
Yes, it's to be a campaign of brains,
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