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NUMBER 80.
moderate incomes in England, and
no increase in the larger incomes.
NOT AN EccENrRIc occIrpprNcr

NOT AN ECCENTRIC OCCURRENCE.
| Nor does the late election show
itself as an eccentric occurrence
All our recent experience shows thai
whenever the American people, b,
any lapse of judgement or other mis-
chance, take the Republican part,
on their back, they begin almost al
once frantic effort to shake off tn,
calling load. That party swept the
country in 1872, and settled down tt
its permanent control, but in two
years a great tidal wave swept then
out of power wherever the PEG
pie could reach them. Again in
1880 the party received supremacy
and in 1882 the tidal wave of 1874
was repeated in all its sweep and
volume.a Its success in 1888 is even
more quickly resented, for the PEG
pie have in memory and have learn.
ed to cherish with higher honor, as
it recedes into history, the admins
tration of Grover Cleveland, with
its aggressive courage and intrepid
fidelity to them. They are learning
that Cleveland fell in battling for
their rights; that he was stricken
down because he would not betray
the trust they had given him, and
they mean to take him upon their
shoulders and bear him in triumph
back to the White House in '92, and
may you and l brethren, be there to
see it donel
On the great issues of day a
majority of the people of this coun-
try are and always have been Demo
crats-some of them possibly like
the man who had been speaking
prose all his life without knowing it,
or yet unconscious of the fact. They
resent the intrusion of the federal
power in the affairs of the States.
They resent the intolerable burden
of government by special interests.
PLuTocRAcY AGAINST DEMOCRACY.
But it is well to remember al
ways, as Mr. Tilden wisely said,
that the Democratic party. has to
start to the polls with much more
than a majority to count on a ma
jority of voice in the ballot boxes.
The money power is and always has
been its implacable enemy. That
power has never become truly loyal
to free government. 1t is not will
ing to trust itself to the people. 1t
aims to control the government and
to use it as a machine for its own
enrichment. 1t demands a close
government, a government of privi-
lege, and so in every general election
the Democratic party encounters its
gigantic and well massed force, ex-
erted in every form that such power
can display itself; in coercion and
terrorism; in all the methods of de
ception and delusion, and if necessn-
ry in every form of bribery, direct
and indirect. And TINS we lose
many who start out with us to fight
the peoples battles. The elections
just held are therefore full of en-
couragement, and full Of admonition
to us. Their lesson to us is, Or
game! Organize! Keep the issues
clearly defined before the people, and
press steadily the advantages gain
ed Form Democratic Societies
everywhere as the propaganda of a
true faith; as the common schools of
trustworthy, unselfsh citizenship,
that will be too enlightened to be
deluded or cajoled, and will value to
highly the precious rights at stake,
to desert them for coercion or barter
them for price.
VIM. l.. WILSON.