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LET LOGIC RULE.
Alvarado Bulletin.

Alvarado Bulletin.
Abuse and ridicule wont answer the arg1-
ments of the subtreasury advocates, nor will
it convince the people that the subtreasury
scheme is a foolish heresy. To indulge in
abuse and ridicule is to play into the hands
| of the peripatetic lecturer who asserts that
the democratic orator, unable to meet his
arguments, las he is pleased to denominate
his reckless assertion) resorts to that self
same thing.
There is nothing in the subtreasury; it is a
bundle of absurdities and had its origin in
the fertile brain of a visionary, who has time
and again led his followers into trouble and
difficulties; but the people demand its falla-
cies, If it be a fallacy, be exposed and vitup-
Grafton and contumely will not convince, as
it never did convince, the people of its errors
and absurdities.
The people are patriotic now SIS always
they want to do right and will do right, if
they know what right is; they are striving
as never before to educate themselves in the
economics of government; but few there are
who wouldn't open-eyed to destruction, or
would willfully lead their neighbors and
! their country to destruction; they are will
ing, anxious and waiting to be convinced
they are wrong, if they are wrong; and it is
the duty of the democratic standard bearers
to convince them by solid arguments and
irrefutable facts that the subtreasury advo-
Gates are blind leaders who are leading them,
or attempting to lead them, into errors which
will only impose heavier burdens on already
overwhelmed shoulders.
The farmer has the burden-and heavier
burdens no other class ever bore-of govern
ment to bear and he has, as indeed he should
have, the sympathies of the body polite
These burdens are the result of republican
class legislation-the result of an alliance
between the money power on the one hand
and the republican party on the other-and
it is the duty of the democratic party, its
mission, to rear now, as in the past, its hand
in his defense. Let him once understand
that the democratic party is his friend; that
the relief sought to be extended through the
sub-treasury, even if it works as well as
claimed can only be temporary and that the
only permanent relief can come through
reduction OF the tariff, and the farner-the
sub-treasury farmer-will be in the future, as
in the past, true to the only peoples party
that ever existed in the United States But
he must be, convinced of that through the
head, by solid argument and convincing
logic. Appeals to reason never yet failed to
conquer prejudice and overthrow error, while
abuse and ridicule win a sympathy which
makes the foolish strong. Then let the cam
paign of education go on, persuading and
convincing, not forgetting That we are all
friends and neighbors and that honest men
and true differ in opinion, as indeed they
have right to.
Let the good work go on. The democratic
party has everything to gain and nothing to
lose from fair, free, full and manly discus
sion of its great principles which have stood
the test of time and which will continue as
long as free government exists; but let the
discussion be conducted on that high plane
worthy of the great party of Jefferson and
jackson.