The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-21

ing and massive without being heavy.
1t was received with marked appro-
val by his audience and will be re-
ceived in the same way by the coun-
try at large.
The protective system defends the
few from the rightful claims Of the
many. creates what our fathers would
have viewed with dismay-a money
ed electromagnetic constitutes the
greatest peril Of the Republic.
Hamilton, the father of the Repub
lican party, believed that the gov
eminent should rest on the shout
ders of capitalists. His followers
are trying to reduce their leaders
theory to pratice.
The Democratic principle, on the
other hand, is that the government
should rest on the shoulders of no
exclusive class, but event on the
shoulders of the whole population;
that no section and no individual
should be favored by the enactments
of Congress, but that all should have
fair play and free field for compe-
tition.
The common people are beginning
at last to see that while they have
the word protection they have
nothing more. The benign princi-
pie which it represents is conspicu-
ously absent. Working men are out
in the cold.
So convinced are they that a gov
eminent which pretends to be pater-
nal is lacking in all the elements of
paternity that they have been COM
PEELED to organize in order to main
tain their rights.
The signs of the times are two
fold-namely, the aggregation of cap
ital in order to raise the price of
the necessaries of life and the mass
ing of laborers in order to keep wa
ges above the starvation point
That is the conflict which is now
raging. Both parties are determin-
ed and desperate, and though it
would be reckless to prophesy the
result, it is safe to assert that it is a
warfare which threatens the happi-
ness of the nation.
Mr.. Cleveland touches a nerve
centre when he intimates that the
protected element of the community
have gone into politics not from pa
triotic motives but to insure the
permanence of system which af-
fords them extortionate profits. The
monopolists naturally desire to con-
tinue their monopolies. In order to
do that they must have a mighty
pull on the administration and on
Congress. 1t is matter of life and
death, for if the rank and file could
dictate a national policy this abnor-
NAL condition of affairs would speed
lily come to an end. They would
very soon show that in their opinion
trusts are not private affairs but an
injury to the veal of the great com
monwealth.
The monopolists therefore join their
fortunes to the Republican party,
and under the disguise of protection
manage to maintain their standing
Their purses are at the command of
party leaders, and they have intro
duced the custom of depending upon
hard cash to carry an election. A
certain number of votes have always
been purchasable, but buying votes
as business, dividing the crowd
into "blocks of five' and openly bid
ding for the right of way to power
is characteristic of later years
Our remedy for all this, as Mr..
Cleveland points out, is to be found
in new system of balloting. The
bosses are afraid of it and that is a
strong argument in it's favor. 1t
makes the voter Independent by
rendering him invisible at the criti-
cal moment when he deposits his
ballot. He may promise, for dol
lars, to vote in a given way, but the
! promise can't be depended upon, be-
cause nobody will ever know wheth-
er he has kept it or not. The man
who will take bride will lie about
his vote No one is more keenly
alive to that fact than the politician,
and he is therefore opposed to the
secret system. 1t disturbs his cal
culations and leaves him in the
dark.
That, however, is to be the next
move. 1t is in the interest of politi-
cal honesty and of fair play. Gov
ernors, Legislators and bosses may
kick, but in the near future they
will Internationally surrender to
the will of the people.-N. Y. Her
AID
CONCENTRATION, MIR. Lucas.
Martinsburg Independent Rep.
/ Gnvernnr Wilson hos annnintnd