Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-11-24

cratic party today. Republicans are
and leave IN herds when
they distrust the policy or leaders Of
their party. The result shows that
Reform or revolution. Which shall
it be? There has never been a time
in the histhry of the world when so
many people were giving patient,
thoughtful study to financial ques-
tions as at the present moment. Some
thing is vitality wrong and the people
know it. The people know they are
sick. They think they know what
ais them. They are seeking the rem
edy. Affairs are rapidly assuming a
condition when 1t will be the struggle
between organized capital and organ
lied citizens. Trusts and combines
govern the country. They elect con-
gress, make and unmake laws, are in
trenched In courts and dictate party
platforms. The struggle is bound to
come Resolutions cannot prevent it.
Party promises cannot stay its course.
There must be prompt, absolute re-
form in financial affairs or a revolu-
ton in parties. The people know
that a policy which makes combines
rich and individuals poor is radically
wrong. Dollars combine to double
their value. The people are COM
bining to save their own. The issue
is here. It must be met To attempt
to evade it Is abject folly. To refuse
to listen to its demands is to invite
disaster To make the fight IN the
interest of the organized capital
against the organized citizens means
revolution! To say that the ground
swell is all caused by demagogues
and shysters is to initiate the imbecil-
ity of George the Third who regard
Washington as a rebel, Hancock as a
demagogue and Patrick Henry as
political adventurer There are many
grains of golden truth hidden in the
train loads of buncombe offered by
the Populist movement. To disre-
gard those truths is both unwise and
unpatriotic; and swings wide open
the gateway to chaos.
When the Armours can fix the
price of every hog and steer grown
on Kansas prairies, it is time to de-
mand a halt. When the banks of
Boston and New York can in one hour
close every bank in twenty-five states
and cause the loss of hard earned
millions in the interior cities and
towns, is it any wonder there wasgen-
eral distrust? When a ring of soul
less grain gamblers IN Chicago and
New York can dictate the price of the
cereals of all the West, and a United
States Senator can touch a button
and raise the price of coal oil fifty
per cent; when the coal kings in
Pennsylvania can say whether you
shall pay six dollars or twelve dollars
a ton for anthracite, is it any wonder
there is a revolution? And the tariff
had nothing to do with it.
The real wonder is that the demo-
cratic party party of persistent
obstruction, the party of constant and
continued political retrogressions,
should receive the benefit of the awak-
ening. This is a great country with
varied interests and needs. The ques-
ton of labor and capital confronts US.
It is grave and potential. It brooks
no delay. It blames the party in
power for existing conditions. Had
Mr.. Cleveland been elected in 1853
his defeat this year would have been
as decisive as that of Mr.. Harrlson's.
Majorities rule. The voice of the ma
jority must not be ignored Its rea-
sonable demands must be met or the
revolution at the ballot box may be-
come the outpost of a revolution try
ing to its utmost tension the power of
the Constitution itself