Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-13

and their CONVICTION OF It's misuse Will
eliminate in revolts before which parties
of subserviency to rings, trusts and specu-
lative combinations must go down.
1t has passed into proverbial saying
that many men sit in halls of legislation
and dictate in party councils, who, were
they poor, would not be chosen to keep
the outer doors. 1t is common notoriety
that Congressman, upon the liberal salaries
they receive, often do not live within their
incomes, and we have instances of open
assertion of the fact, coupled with resigna-
tions for that reason. 1t surprises no
thoughtful man, therefore, that there is
gathering stern demand which will not
be denied, for return to such democratic
simplicity as will leave legislators free and
independent men, and in the broadest and
best sense representative of the American
people.
In the face of the facts of the time, of
venality and corruption, of bargain
and sale of place and dominance; of
rings, trusts, monopolies of land and OPP
portunity; of moneyed power; of unscru-
pulous wealth and conscienceless CONNER
cial interests, it behooves the patriotic
citizens Of the United States TO consider
profoundly to what such influences may
bring the nation.
When combinations of manufacturers
and mere party politicians; of close trusts
and wealth-congested Legislators; of polit-
ical rings and debt-ridden representatives
control the body of the legislation of any
nation, and fashion the foreign and do
nestle policy of any one people, there
exist conditions that imperil national in
tegrity and the perpetui.y of safe govern
ment
1t has been too long the habit to close
the eyes to the drift towards political
usurpation by interests not conservative OF
the veal of the people; to content our
selves with the present and trust the future
to the future; to consider party triumph as
the chief Of goals and as determining be-
yond heed of protest the truest and best
policy for the nation; to submit to the
convenient but Elusive doctrine that ma.
tional destiny is fashioned by party con.
ventions and worked out by the mere
declaration of sounding platforms.
But, unless we wholly mistake the read.
ing Of the times and the lessons of history
the time is at hand. and the protests that
are coming up from all parts of the coun.
try announce it, when the old parties must
be brought up out of the mire of personal
control and subserviency or give way be-
fore the on-pushing of resistless influences
that have their source and spring in the
conscience of the great body of the people.
There are, in short, evils menacing the
national life to-day that call for heroic
swords to strike them down, and since the
American Republic has not achieved its
destiny, we may feel assured that the
weaponry will be forthcoming.
1t is possible for the old political parties
to rise up and free themselves from the
slavish chains with which self-seeking in
terests have bound them, and to write for
themselves a new declaration of indie
pendence. 1t may be well doubted, how
ever, if they will undertake the task until
popular revolt has achieved greater mo-
mentum and the protesting people have
peremptorily turned their shoulders upon
the Establishments with which political
interests are seeking to beguile them.