The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-22
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Republics are ~unsrateiul, said the phi
~losopher; hut why not2 Nations have
short memories. or this fact we are to
have proof this year; indeed the very
existence Of the Democrats party, with it's
practices and theories, is proof. Twenty.
eight years ago good ~citizons knew what q
debasing and dangerous thing it was TO
have a great political party controlled by
patronage. The Democratic party could
never rave been dragged to ruin by Mr..
Buchanan, but for the enormous
power Of patronage over party action.
Yet the same party goes back to the same
debasiRg methods and the same p~erilous
thraldom as soon as il RECEIVERS power. 1t
has no memory OF it's wi disgrnceful ex.
perlence, and the sneers OF enemies Of Re.
form, with the cowardly taithlessness of
It's profcssed champions, Rave practically
destroyed it. BY what miracle comes ID
to pass that a great party forgets 30 soon
its suiierings and it's shameg The answer
is simple. Three-fourths OF its voters we're
not born. or were boys, when the DEM
ocratic party was dragged down to dis
grace by Mr.. Buchanan's patronage.
The republicans have to face the same
dificultiesl Every passing day takes from
their ranks some oil the veterans who
learned what democratic government was
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The boys cannot quite believe that the
consequences would be serious. Timoroue
old age exaggerates, they fancy, Ind the
mighty nation in its grand maturity. is
nor able, they hope. to face the foreign
competition which may once hav bra we'd
destructive to. it's Industries, The books
and the theorists tell US that free trade Is
best and atsall events Il would do noharm
TO havei it Il little ireer. and 30 many q young
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seriously disturb industries II the Demo-
crats should have their own way For
nearly Jour years past the country has
bad q Democratic President, and there
are millions who forget that Republican
laws have kept the tiger chained.
The need OF pnblic education ie not real
lied by many men in actual life. They
fail to remember that nations and parties
forget, because experience dies with
each generation. The population Of
the United States Is now about
$4,000, 600. II the proportion OF voters
TO population is what il was in 1850.
about 1900. 900 votes win be cast this
year. But not ons-eight 0f the entire
population, hardly 0ne.quarter Of tho
voting population, wsls 81 age when the
civil war began. There will be 8, 60G.DG0
votes cast By men who never voted for
President before, and about 8, lOO.0 600
more by men who we're not Of age when
Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated, and
only 2. 300, 600 by men ,fho we're then oi
age. The young men who cast their firstvote
Tor President will largely 0utnumhert those
who can remember what Bnchanan's Adj
mipistrntiOn was. r. it strarge that ed
ucation Is needed Il is strange that the
veterans who know what experiences
taught them before the war, and to whom
g Democratic. vote seems q crime against
the Republic. feel that the Nation dishon-
ora itself ia goiog back 70 the practices
and theories ot Mr.. Buchauen's Democ-
racy2 Yet, 4 they fail to make their
experience Is light TO the path 81 young
voters, the Nation may have 20 learn ths
old lesson oyur again in years ol daester
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