The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
LOYALTY TO PARTY.
SUPPORT THE PARTY THAT
TAXES The PEOPLE
LEAST.
That Party il the Democratic
Party.

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Loyalty is allegiance due to trutl
and country thai is tosay, to th
sovereign. Truth is moral and in
tellectualsuyrreignty, to which al
men owe unfaltering allegiance
whatever may be the cost to them
selves. In monarchy loyalty i
due to the reigning family, when i
does not interfere with the funda
mental and irrepealable allegianc,
due primarily and solely to truth
because to be loyal to a false system
"a system that is founded fon a liz
lis treason to truth. which, ia;
| Fichte says, "nelther buys norsellS
| and from which allegiance canE5I
be transferred. | hold that the
truest loyalists in the British Em.
pire are the Land Leaguers Of Ire.
land, and in Russia the NIhlIists;
for they fight, each III its otn way,
against governments foulded on
| the false theory that equalf rights
are no! due to the people, but that
obedience is due to the classes that
rob the masses. @"
| Here in our country, where SOW
ereigrty resides in the people, the
only debatble question can be to
which people allegiance is due-to
the people of the Stase, or Of the
United States? Claiming that the
Federal Government is only an
agent of the State, hayingonly such
powers and functions as We're dele
gated to it by the States as assoyereign
entities, the Confederates held that
loyalty was due to the State, that
the man who refused allegiance to
his State was a traitor. While,
taking the opposite theory, that the
United States as a sovereign entity
was the sovereign, the North sup
pressed the Southern people as
rebels. Practically the war settled
that issue forever. What
ever may have been the intention
of the fathers Of the Union and the
founders of the Constitution. the
controversy between the boysln blue
and the boys in gray decided that
the men of this general! IN ard not
| their grandfathers, shall rule the
country.
But the loyalty due and rendered
to country has been perverted by
politicians, who have attempted tJ
transfer it to party. As far as they
have succeeded they have demoraliz-
ed the people. No allegiance, no
loyalty, is dae or can be due to party.
Show me a man who boasts that he
has always voted the Republican or
the Democratic ticket, and | will
show you a man who is proud of his
serldom TO Rings and Halls, and the
meanest class of citizens in our coun-
try the politicians.
Parties are only agencies for
translating public opinion into laws
and policies. They are necessary,
because no other machinery exists
by which a Democracy can rule the
country; but they are so often per-
verted into engines for the personal
aggrandlzement Of cliques self
elected Rings Of irresponsible cit
izens-that, to stand by q party
with the devotion due to country Is
to ensure the enactment Of corrupt
law. Party is only a means, and
the best purity to support is that
party which, for the time being, is
pledged to the best policies. | live
uptown. Sometimes | take the
elevated railroad; sometimes the sur
face cars. Now, it would he quite
as sensible, as otherwise, for me to
consider that | owned LOYALTY to
either, as 10 be told that | owed
loyalty either TO the Democratic or
Republican party. Cars aud parties
are only means of GETTING THERE.
| don't want to be taxed to give out
door relief to rich manufacturers,
aud therefore vote the Democratic
ticket. During the war voted
the Republican ticket, because | de-
sired the preservation Of the Union;
and the Republican party, at that
tins, | regarded as the best agency
for securing that result; as, before
the war broke, had supported II to
prevent the spread os slavery over
the territories Of the country. But,
to day, the welfare of all the people,
North and South, white and black,
demands that there shall be no
privileged class either fostered or
created; and the Republican policy
Of protection fosters the aims Of a
privileged class already existing, and
will create other classes whose inter.
ests are inimical to the common well
fare.
Labor isespecially interested in sup
porting gthepartythat taxesthe people
least, that administers government
most economically, that neither
creates nor squnanders q surplus,
that does not rob the horny hand Of
Peter To Eill the vloyad hand of panl.