New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-12
nately burdened beyond any useful public pur

L pose ana Tor the
BENEFIT OF FAVORED FEW,
the governments under prelext of an exercise
| of its taxing power, enters gratuitously into
partnership with these fayorites to their advan-
tage and TO the injury of vast majority of our
people This is not equality before the law. The
existing situation is Injurious TO the health of
our entire body polite It stiles in those all
place selfish greed and grasping avaricc. DeYo-
tlon to American citizenship for it's own sake
and fo- what it should accomplish as a motive
to cur nations advancement and the happiness
of all our people, is displaced by the assumption
that the government, instead of being the en-
bodiment OF equality, is but an fundamentally
through which especial aud individual adyan-
tages are TO be gained The arrogance of this as
sumption is unconcealed 1t appears IN the sor-
did disregard OF all but per onal interests in the
refusal to abate, for the benefit of others, one
lota OF selfish advantage. and in combinations
to perEetuate such advantages through efforts
to control legislation and improperly in
The grievance Of those not included within the
circle of these beneficiaries when fully real
lZed, Will surely arouse irritation and discon-
tent Our farmers, long suffering and patient.
struggling in the race of life with the hardest
and most unremitting toll will not fail to see in
spite OF Misrepresentation and misleading fall
lacee hat they are obliged to accept such prices
for their products are fixed in foreign markets
where They compete with the farmers OF The
world: that their lands are declining in value
while their debts increase, and that without
compromising favor they are forced by the action
of the government to pay for the benefit OF
others such enhanced prices for the things they
need that the scanty returns of their labor fail
TO furnish their support or leave no margin for
accumulation. Our workingmen, enfranchised
from all delusions and no longer frightened by
the Cry that their wages are endangered by a
just revision of our tariff laws. will reasonably
demand through such revision steadier employ
ment, cheaper means of living in their homes,
freedom for themselves and their children from
the doom of
PERPETUAL sERyTTUDE
and an open door to their advancement beyond
the limits of a laboring class. Others of our
citizens whose comforts and expenditures are
measured by moderate salaries and fixed in
comes w1lIlnsist upon the fairness aud justice
OF cheapening the cost of necessaries for them
selves and their families. When TO the selfish
ness of the benefciaries OF unjust discrim1na-
t1on under our laws there shall be added The
discomfort of those who suffer from such dis
elimination. we will realize the fact that the
benehCent purposes Ofour government, depend.
ent upon the patriotism and cOntentment OF our
people, are endangered. Communism is a hate
full thing and menace to peace and organized gov
eminent. But the communism of combined
wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overween-
ing cupidity and selfshness, which insidiously
undermines the justice and integrity of free in
st1tutlons, is not more dangerous than the COM
munism OF oppressed poverty and toll, which,
eXasperated by injustice and discomfort at
tacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule. He
mocks the people who proposes that the govern
ment shall protect the rich, and that they in
turn will care for the laboring poor. Any in
termediary between the people and their gov
eminent, or the least delegation of the
care and protection the government owes to the
humblest citizen in the land makes the boast of
free institutions a ghttering delusion and the
pretended boon of American citizenship shame
less imposition. A just and sensible revision of
our tariff laws should be made for the relief of
those OF our countrymen who suffer under pres
ent conditions Such revision should receive
the support of all who love that Justice and
equality due to American citizenship, OF all who
realize that in this justice and equality our gov
eminent finds its strength and its power to pro-
tect the citizen and his property. of all who be-
lieve that the contented competence and COM
institutions than colossal fortunes unfairly
gathered in the hands of few. of all who APP
precate that the forbearance and fraternity
among our people who recognize the value of
every American interest are the surest guaranty
OF our national progress, and OF all who desire to
see the products of American skill and ingenuity
in every market of the world with resulting
restoration OF American commerce.