The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-23
ONE IN SPIRIT.

thO iCuoouo " lto
organization and why it's success is nee
essary for the common good the peoples
party says: "The nation has been
brought to the verge of moral, political
and material ruin, the people are de-
moralized; the newspapers are subsidized
or muzzled; our homes are mortgaged
and the land concentrating in the hands
OF capitalists; the urban workmen are
denied the right Of organization for self
protection; imported pauper labor beats
down their wages; a hirelirg standing
army unrecognized by our laws Is estab-
lished to shoot them down; the national
power to create money is appropriated
to enrich bond holders; a vast funded
debt payable in legal tender currency
has been funded into gold bearing
bonds thereby adding millions to the
burdens of the people; silver has been
d%en,onetized to add to the purchasing
power of gold by decreasing the value of
all forms of property as well as human
labor, and the supply of currency is
%purposely abridged to fatten usurers,
bankrupt enterprise and e~nslave indus
try"
The peoples party, in making these
charges, simply reiterated those which
have for years been made by the demo-
cratic party. 1t finds abundant reason
to make the charges but it should have
drawn the line there and not gone out of
its way to say that neither of the old
parties can be relied on to provide a
remedy. 1t is true the republican party
cannot for it has been tried and found
wanting. But the same cannot be said
of the democratic party. During all the
years in which the evils spoken of have
sprung up the democratic party has not
had control of both the legislative and
executive departments of the govern
ment a single hour. 1t had the presi-
dency four years but a republican senate
killed every bill passed by the lower
house to provide remedies for the evils
SO Justly complained of by tn, peoples
party. Therefore, when it says that
neither of the old parties can be relied
upon to provide a remedy FOR the evils
named, 1t says more than is warranted
by facts for the democratic party has
been fighting for over a quarter of a
century to bring about Il change in all
the matters named by the peoples
party.
One patry and n only is responsible
for the evils enumerated in the peoples
platform, for every one of them was con
ceived and born and has grown up un
der republican domination. That party
sired every n and is now nursing them.
The only way to get rid of them is to get
rid of the republican party. The demo.
Gratis have been trying to rid the country
OF it and the very men who now consti-
tute the rank and file of the peoples
party were the staunchest though mis-
guided supporters Of the republican
party and did their full share toward
fastening the evils of which they com,
plain upon the people.
A review of the situation shows that
the democratic and peoples parties stand
side by side in the endeavor to bring
about that change in our tariff and
monetary systems so much desired by
the country. They have a common OBJ.
ject in view-a common purpose guides
them. Common sense suggests there
should be no contention between them
Each should so act as to bring about the
desired result. With "a common enemy
before them they should work together
to dislodge it from power. If the peo-
pies party prefer TO labor under d sep
arate organization it should at least con
fine its operations to states which it is
able TO carry, and leave those controlled
by the democracy to be cared for by the
democratic party. it being taken for
granted, of course, that in all the states
the weaker organization shall throw no
obstacle in the way Of the success of the
stronger. The object is to defeat the
common enemy. Between the demo-
cratic and peoples parties it should be
crushed out of existence. The two are
irresistible. In spirit they are but one
for the voice of the people is the
voice of democracy.