The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-11-05
BANKING ON PREJUDICE.

| BANKING ON PREJUDICE.
| There has never been country or
community in which there have not
been discontented classes, who imagine
a change would be beneficial to them,
and if this craving were satisfied forms
of government and policies of admin
istration would not haYe the least sta
bility. This same feeling of unrest
pervades every phase of human So
clety, and prevails IN churches as well
as in politics. That these disciples of
unrest do not constitute e majority of
any people is an evidence that the
world is not going backwa but pro-
crossing forward, and that they exist
in the United States is no evidence
that free institutions are failure. In
place where shiftless men will gravi-
tate to the gutter, and thrifty, indus
trious people better their condition,
there will be discomfort, and these DIS
tinctioss will always exist, for gravi-
tatlon is natural result of shiftless-
ness and elevation Of industry and
economy. The world has existed for
nearly four thousand years and these
h.
and it is reasonable to suppose they
always will continue.
During the past four years the
greatest prosperity known to any coun.
try has been enjoyed by our people;
but still the spirit of unrest is abroad
in the land, and the fact is made ap-
parent by Democrat and Populist at
tempting to make political capital of
the prejudice of this class. They do
not attempt to produce any argument
to prove that the country is retrograd-
ing; but at every opportunity they
take up the senseless howl of the dis
contents, and preach plutocracy and
combination of capitalists. And they
do this In the very face of facts and
figures, which are the results of care
full investigations of men who have ex-
amined the amount of wages paid and
the condition of laborers generally.
These figures prove that the price of
commodities are less thar they were,
and wages higher. But the Demo
Gratis have no afiliation with such cold,
impassioned truths as are based upon
mathematical calculation. 1t is enough
for them to know that there are citi-
zens of this country poorer than 9TH
ers, and If they can arouse their jeal-
ousy by exaggerating their condition
they may secure their votes. This is
the alpha and omega of the campaign,
according to their view, and they will
not mIss an opportunity to accomplish
this object. 1t is the same plan that
the anarchist and communist follow.
and the only difference between these
and those who adopted the Chicago
platform is that the dynamiters and
bomb b-throwers are honest and believe
in practical solution, while Demo
Gratis are dishonest and aim to work
these prejudices for partisan ends If
Mr.. Cleveland is elected they know
there will be no change in the status
of labor and capital, and the anar-
chist believes if he can kill few plu-
tocrats he will work general reform
alton.
After November 6th, whoever is
elected president, we shall hear no
more from Democratic orators of the
burdens suffered by the people until |
1896, when it will again become prom
lnent in their speeches. This has been
the plan adopted by Democrats In
every campaign for the past thirty
years. When they are out of power
they feel the popular pulse, and follow
the indications. They pull down
where they cannot build up, and ad-
vocate the unsafe theories of wild ia
natics to pave their way to the public
purse.