The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-16
OLD ISSUES DEAD.
A Time for New PARTIES "of the People
and for the People,"

OLD ISSUES DEAD.
A Time for New Parties .of the People
and for the People,"
The people should fear the great Of
to-day, so-called. writes Harry Hinton
in the National Economist. No grind
ing laws of oppression and tyranny
ever emanated from any class except
the great so called. ALI the tyran-
nous class legislation of the United
States semanated from the great As
a rule the greater they become the
more dangerous they become. It would
be god-send to the republic if the
old party regimes, with their old war
horses and champions could be at
once eliminated from American poll
tics. and new methods new ideas and
new men at one fell swoop be installed
at the capital. The old parties have
lived long enough. They have become
cankered and dusty with age and
crime. They have performed their
mission. The country needs them no
longer. Their continued useless ex-
istence is at variance with the con-
tinued existence of a free people.
They have brought calamities enough,
corruption enough. oppression and
injustice enough. Why should they
live? Why should they be a menace
to the Republic? Can not the people
form new parties just as good. and let
all the old memories and prejudices.
verom and venality fly away? Is it
not /. elimination devoutlv to be
wishets Who will deny it? Every
patriot from the gulf to the lakes an
swers, Amen! With these solid rea-
sons we appeal to every man to at once
repudiate these two old useless hays
and seggregate on new lines. It mat
ters not what your platform may be.
This government belongs to the peo-
pie. and what they may do is their
own business and no one else's. We
fear not the people. No one need
fear the people. The powerful party
leaders are the dangerous characters
and the coadjutors the plutocratic
press. The one poisons the body pol
tito so the other can Cypress and en-
slave.
The two old parties are tyrants.
Their ways are the ways of tyranny.
Let no man support tyranny in any
shape. The difference between them
is small, mainly about the tariff.
Cleveland was elected on tariff plank
that Republicans might adopt. These
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unite. if necessary. without jar. All
that gives them life and existence is
their convenient organization for
grinding out place and plumber. Let
every reader OF this at once repudiate
these machines and commence to work
to form two new parties. One has
already started called the Peoples
party. Let those who differ with the
Peoples party commence to organize
a national party. Let there be two
new parties in the field Let the old
ones die. Let these two parties be
OF the people and for the people. Dis
card the old venal horde which. has sat
like an incubus in this nation so long.
We welcome any party which is of the
people and for the people. it matters
not what its platform may be. Now
is the time to commence, SO as to be
ready by '92. Why will you stand
idle while your house is burning? If
you can not agree with the Peoples
party, form one you like better. Are
you going to deny the facts I have
stated. that the two old parties and
their leaders are dangerous to the Re-
public? If you deny these facts and
believe they are all pure and right
stay and be enslaved. Otherwise flee
from these political Sodoms and Com
Orrahs.
Moreover we will ask the people,
how do you know you are the governing
power in this nation? You have done
nothing to prove it. But if you will
down party or build up party you
Will furnish some evidence you have
a power in this government. As the
case now stands, there is not one lot
of evidence to prove that the govern
ment has not already passed from the
control of the people, and that they
are not the mental slaves Of prejudices
and hatreds and party bosses. You
can not prove your manhood and that
you have a peoples government with
out you prove your ability to build
up and tear down parties. When you
prove to the world your ability to do
that you will have made one of the
grandest strides in popular freedom
that has ever been made in the annals
OF time. You will have sloughed of
the old skin of plutocracy and all the
old ways of political sin, and will
stand forth in new garments of truth
and integrity. Let the township meet
and make its political platform. Let
all the townships in the county meet
with their separate platforms and re-
serve what they can unite upon. Let
the counties meet in state convention
and compare notes, holding fast to
that which is good. Let the states
meet in national convention, compare
platforms in the same manner and
launch forth the National party fresh
from the people and for the people.
Then we will have two parties made
and built up by the people, so. that we
can discard the two old plutocratic
parties and all their rubbish. We
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