The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-10

meeting the other evening favored abolish
ing the United States senate. This prop
osition of the Peoples party to elect
United States senators by popular vote or
to abolish the senate is pure buncombe,
sary to this reform has not the slightest
hope Of ratification, as the refusal Of twelve
states to accept 1t would kill it. Nothing
short of national CONFUSION, like our
civil war, would be sufficient to force
the adoption Of . constitutional amend
ment making fundamental change in the
framework Of the federal government.
The propositions for constitutional federal
prohibition, federal marriage and divorce
law, election of United States senator's and
president by the popular vote, woman suf-
frage, etc., are earnestly espoused and adj
vocated only by political grumblers and
pessimistic cranks, the fellows with q
chronic political grievance and the fellows
with a very large hive of political humble
bees buzzing in their bonnets. The small
states Of the Union would never ratify q
constitutional amendment that would re-
duce their consequence and influence in
the legislative work of the government.
The peculiar features of all the PROPOSE
tions for reform brought forward by the
Peoples party are that they are either in
stinct with dishonesty or injustice, like
free silver coinage and the sub-treasury
bill, or that they are impracticable under
our present federal constitution, or that
they are utterly dangerous and pernicious,
like the proposition to own and operate
the railroads, to purchase which would
burden the people with q debt of $40 O00,-
100000. The Peoples party states
men do not consider for q mo-
ment the fact that oil reforms Of
our fundamental government must be
made within constitutional forms and
limits. the Peoples party platform reads
like the DEGREES of Jack Cade, who in exc
cution of his purpose Ito dress the COM
monwealth. to turn it and set q new nap
upon it," headed a mob attack upon Lon
don in the reign of Henry the Sixth.
Here is some of the talk of Cade's mob,
taken from Shakespeare, which sounds very
like the jargon Of the Peoples party to-
day:
Hon Well, say I. was never merry world In
England since gentlemen came up.
Beris 0. miserable age! virtue is not re-
garded In handicraftsmen.
HoQ The nobility think scorn to 60 in leather
aprons.
Bevis Nay. more. the kings council are no
good workmen-
HoM True: and yet It 10 said, labor in thy
vocation; which 10 a. much to say as, let the
r(,xr IA I.h
should We be magistrates.
Bevis Thou hast hit it; for there's no better
sign OF brave mind than . hard hand.
When Cade addresses his victorious fol-
lowers he DEGREES that all the realm shall
be in common; there shall be no money;
all the lawyers arc to be slain, and the
clerk of the court is hanged because he
confesses that he can read and write, cast
accounts and make obligations, instead Of
making merely his mark, like an honest,
plain-dealing man" Cade calls his mob
''fellow kings" and denounces Lord Say
as traitor because he can speak French;
he tells his men to spare none but those
who wear clouted shoon, because they
only are honest men.
Cade, in the true spirit Of the Peoples
party, orders that "all the records of the
realm be burned; henceforth my mouth
shall be the parliament of England, and
henceforward all things shall be in COM
mon." Lord Say is sentenced to death
because he has corrupted the youth by
erecting. grammar school; because he
has introduced printing; because he has
built paper mill; because he blanketed
his horse, when honester men than he ego
in their hose and doublets. and work in
their Shirt" because he speaks Latin.
All this satire Of Shakespeare upon the
stupid socialism or his time hits the dema-
gogues of the Peoples party and the labor
demagogues in tina neck today. The de-
crees of Cade and his general speech is
not more idiotic and insensate for his time
and his opportunity than is the stupid
rant of the Peoples party orators today
when they address their following on re-
form in government, in finance and legisla-
ton. The philosophy of the Peoples party
is nothing but the rank, arrant, stupid
state socialism that the rutfian demagogue
Jack Cade detained to his nondescript
mob of fools and knaves. History repeats
itself, and the Peoples party is nothing
but conglomerate Of ignorance, insanity
and vulgar demagogy. Under govern
ment of equal laws and universal suffrage
such q party is as absurd and inexplicable
in politics as Mormonism. Miller
ism. Shakerism or any other morbid
plant of religion" in Chris
tian land. What 10 not lunacy
in this Peoples party jargon is nothing
but lies; gross. huge. palpable lies that
have been refuted from the official record
Of congressional legislation and the pages
of authentic political history over and
over again. The political gods of this
party represent nothing SO much as a
saturnalia of jacSasses trying to pose as
lions while stupidity forgetting that lions
never bray.
BELLAMY'S BRAINS AT FAULT.