Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-09-28
COSMOPOLITAN.

.The Statesman" is the name of a new
monthly magazine published in Chicago.
Walter Thomas Mills, A. NJ, and Rev.
A. J. Jutkins, D. d., are its editors. IT
is constructed on the "Roman Punch
plan, or as Frenchman expressed it, is
made up of ''contraries." The political
student will find all the variety he can
ask for when he has finished cutting it's
leaves. Every hasty, every faction and
every annex of a faction has hearing
within its pages, and what is one of its
best features there is an agreeable alb
sence of the diffuse style in it's articles.
The first paper in the October number;
"Why Support the Democratic Party?"
is by Hon. A. II. Colquitt, United States
senate, who gives condensed reasons for
the faith that is in him and bravely
states among other things that "the great
party of the people is unalterably COM
mitted against all legislation that tends
to foster certain classes and monopoies.
It resents, as unwarranted invasion of
the rights of the people, all public meas
ures which tend to create cast and which
lay burdens on the many in the special
interest of the few. The watch-word of
the democracy is "No More Pillage for
Any One, Justice for ALL
Next comes, "Why Support the Repub-
lican Party?" by Robert NJ. Hatfield, D.
D., Evanston, Ill. The writer gives his
views with the ring of bedrock convic-
tion and D. D. convulsiveness. The
good divine is equally good politician
as one OF his utterances will bear evil
dence. "No political party is made up
of men who are perfect, but, take it all
in all, the republican party is the best
one the world has ever seen. An over
whelming majority of the friends of tenn
perance, of law and order, and of what
ever things give strength and dignity to
a state, are members Of this party and so
far as know and believe, have no
thought of abandoning it. Now and
then little fellow withdraws from it's
ranks, under the impression that his
withdrawal will create a great chasm,
but he is missed about as much as the
fly from the buffalo's horn
"Why Support the Prohibition Party?"
is demonstrated by Isaac X. Funk, D. D.,
New York, who regards neither of the
great parties of to-day as adequate to the
task of the great moral revolution to be
brought about by political prohibition.
Mr.. Funk quotes Victor Hugo as saying
that "Waterloo was more than battle
it was change of front of the universe"
and adds, "the triumph of the prohibi-
ton party will be much more than VIC
tory for prohibition; it will
be change of front of the
nation" He objects to all compromises
in the shape of licenses or taxation for
revenue, and sees in prohibition solu-
tion Of sectionalism and the color line
in politics. "Local option" is delusion
and snare-a method that never set
ties anything, and very loose in it's
morals, as the writer compares it to "a
policy Of voting polygamy out of the ter
ritory Of Utah by counties, and to say
where it is not voted out it is legal. 1t
is rolling the stone up hill with great la
Dor and expense to see it roll down
again."
"WhySupport the United Labor Party?''
is responded to by Hon. Robert Cowdrey,
the presidential candidate for that party.
Like the other writer's he makes out a
strong case for his side. He argues
from his standpoint that "protection
cannot increase wages, neither can il
build up industries or give labor more
opportunities to be employed" The