The Russellville Democrat., 1892-04-28
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ientire control of the general govern
 ment, we are directed by the Execn 1 tive tnnMittee of the National As 1 sociation Of Democratic Clubs ( 1 urge upon the Democratic people . l the Union the necessity of prompt
 efficient and general organization fol the pending conflict
 If the contest were for the offices
 alone, or for the qualification of ths
 personal ambition of individual lead CTS on either side, and if the admin istration to be chosen in any event might be expected merely to "glide I through the official routine of gov
 ernment for the term of it's ex- 1 istence, with no impairment of our i free institutions, no assanit upon the
 reserved rights Of the people, no seizure, by taxation, of their prop erty or profits to be turnsd essezst 70 l favored classes, and no restriction ] of their markets for the benefit oi
 monopolies, it would be a matter of small moment which party might succeed. But we know only too we'll that the party in power will not, and by the very law of it's existence cannot, regard the limits of the con stitution; that it is irresistably i'm peIIed by it's doctrines and traditions from Hamilton to Quay, and by the vast aggregation of private monop- olies which it embraces and com pines, and by which it is sustained, to break through the confines of the Federal Charter on every side. This is not the place or the time to develop in it's tremendous propor- tions, and with it's dreadful menan- ces, the Federalist Republican scheme of strong, splendid, rotten government, resting upomcorruption and force, and employing the power of taxation to enslave the laboring masses, in order to build up in lux ury and wealth the ruling classes All American history exhibits and attests it. But the most recent ex
 perience of the people is more than enough for illustration.
 Congress may, under the Consti tuition, tax the people to sustain their own Government. It has however, just as much right to take their lives, or sell their children into bond age, as it has to take dollar from them for any other purpose. But the Federalist party, purely to ere ate monopolies upon which to rely for political support, and to farther enrich it's favorites, boldly assumes the ungranted and forbidden power to lay taxes, with no view whatever to public revenue, but with sole and avowed view to tranfer untold millions of money from the pockets of the many who have earned it, to the cofers of the few who are licensed to siege it in yirture of their uncon
 ditional monopolies. If this can be done, there is an end of liberty; our Federal Government is utterly per Iyerted; it is not merely fraud, but despotism; and there is nothing left worth q struggle The power to take and appropriate to others the proceeds of the peoples labor is the power to enslave the people. None such can be found in the Fed Eeral Constitution. And the ques- tion whether it shall be exercised, though ungranted, and, therefore, forbidden, is the question, as Mir. Jefferson stated it, between limit
 ed and an unlimited government,
 between self-government and cor ruptcd centralization, between pop
 ular liberty and grasping and greedy tyranny, between the masses and the classes, the Federalist- Re
 publican and the Democratic parties,
 The great battle for freedom of elections in the last Congress was but an incident-albe terrible and menacing one-of this dread struggle between the great mass of the people and the banded monop- olists in coalition with a ruthless political party. The passage of the force bill would have terminated pop ular representation, it would have in
 sured, for an indefinite period, the unquestioned supremacy of the mo nopolists and their political agents, and they would have gone on taxing the people to fill their own pockets, secure ii their .control of the ballot boxes a.d the returns, until over thrown by revolution. The chief newspaper organ of the conspiracy printed but the plain truth when it
 declared that the Force bill would
 be the end oft all since it 'carries,a
 hundred Mckinley bills in it's em- l brace" Thus would the Federalist-
 Republican party grasp with one
 hand, the throat of constitutional liberty, while with the other it rifles
 the peoples pockets. and transfers
 a great aggregate of lawless plunder
 to its monopolist allies. So the is
 sue stands. We must not decieve
 ourselves. Permit this conspiracy, struck and shattered by the popular indignation in 1890, to retain the presidency and to recover the House.
 and Force bill as much worse than the last as the Mckinley bill was
 worse than any of its fore goers will
 be enacted to protect the despoilers 1 in perpetual power in order that