The farmers' union., 1891-04-02
A NEW PARTY.
The Signs of tho Times FortelI Great
Change In Political AnitiatIons-The
People Must Have Relief.

People Must Have Relief.
If there is anything i'll the wide world
that is calculated to give the average
Doodle politician or subsidized editor q
bad case of political nightmare, it is the
mere mention of third party. Not
withstanding the fact that they have,
time and again, demonstrated ito their
own satisfaction that third party
could not exist and could accomplish
nothing if it did exist, they do not forget
to continue to admonish alliance men to
steer clear of all third party movements.
just what will be the outcome of the
present condition of things is hard to
tell, but it requires no prophet or son of
d prophet to see that the people
are taking the bits in their teeth
aud II something is not
done, and that soon, there is going to be
the grandcst runaway from old parties
and overturning of prevailing systems
that ever astonished the moss back, liver
grown wiseacreS of any country. Nat,r-
ally the people are Slow to find fault
with. and criticise the acts of the party
to which they belong. History has
shown that it Is very difficult matter to
induce any considerable portion Of the
people to sever their allegiance to their
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indicate that the true objects of govern
ment are being prevented, men have left
their parties and formed new or third
parties which in time became the domin-
ant parties in the notion. Thus the DEM
ocratic party was once known as the re-
publican party as distinguished from the
federalists. The whig party was an Off
shoot Of the democratic party. and the
republican party of the present day
was formed of the dissatisfied elements
of both the whig and democratic parties.
The frantic assertions Of the monopolis-
tic press that there can be no such thing
is q third party and that it could ac-
complish nothing if organized is the
worst kind of demagogy and stands
| contradicted both by history and COM
| mon sense. Tic National Rcf0rmer is
not urging the formation of new party.
1t only hopes that there will be no nee
| essity for such al organization: but if
our democratic friends persist in antag-
! onizing the demands of labor and follow
in the footsteps of the republicans in
yielding to the dictates of Wall street,
there is no power on earth that can pre-
vent the formation of new party, and
one that will sweep from power both of
the existing political parties. The peo-
pie are in dead earnest and there is
strong under-current of public
sentiment that foreshadows the
| coming of ii new party. Nothing can
prevent it but q concessSn to the de-
| mands of labor. The democratic party
| has it in its power, to a great extent to
| put itself on record as being friendly to
| the measures demanded. But mere pro-
| fessions of friendship will not do. The
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| empty promises and professions of
| friendship. They demand something
| tangible in the way of relief. They Will
not be satisfied, as in the past, with a
few crumbs. The fight is being waged
| for bread and meat,-for proper recog-
milton of their rights Nothing short of
this will satisfy them. If the democratic
party grants it, well and good; if not
they will take matters in their own
| hands. If, as is sometimes intimated,
they have not sense enough to know
what they need and how to get 1t,
the sooner they find it out the better for
all concerned. If popular government
is a failure-if the people are not capa-
| bic Of government, the fact may as
we'll be known now as at any tine. They
are willing to make the trial. One thing
| is very evident; if we could induce a
few old women to leave off making cat
| MP tea for the babies for few months
in the year and go to Washington as law
makers, they could manage things better
than they have been in the past. 1t
would be difficult to conceive of course
of legislation that would make the few
| immensely rich and the many so ex-
tremely poor at more rapid rate than
| has been done for the past twenty-five
years. 1t is not worth while to mince
words: if the people do not obtain relief,
and that soon, there will be new
party, fits or no fits.-Ndtionat Re
| former.