The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-16
WHERE IS THE NECESSITY!

The strangest hallucination which,
it seems, the third party advocates
and adherents cling to, is that both
the old parties have failed in their
administration of government in the
interest of the people, and the very
few found in the South are disposed
to claim this of the democratic party,
and, forgetting date and history,
always say during the past quarter
Of century.
That the administration of govern
ment has not been in the interest of
the masses of the people during this
period we admit is true, but the gov.
eminent has been in the hands of the
republican party, with the exception
of four years during Mr.. Cleveland's
administration, and then the senate
was republican. During all this Pc
rod Of republican rule, high pro-
tective tariff has been the leading
feature Of its policy and dominated
the country to the encouragement OF
concentrated capital into powerful
corporations of manufacturing inter-
ests, resulting IN the moneyed de-
mands for still more protection, un-
til they have been enabled to increase
the cost to the people of the goods
produced, and decrease the cost of
production at the sacrifice of the
laboring classes until a plutocracy
actually reigns supreme.
Arrayed,agai this firmly and un.
yieldingly, has been the democratic
party; election after election has this
party msrshalled its forces, through
the press and from the stump, pro-
claimed the oppression resulting
from the tariff and its Legitimate off
spring, upon the people, its cry has
been for the masses, it's doctrine has
been a revenue sufficiently large
only for the legitimate and economi-
cal expense of government; it has
declared that people governed the
least are governed best, and by this
process of education have at last
awakened the people in all parts of
the country to at least lay aside
party prejudice and fairly consider
the great questions of government as
presented by the democratic party
of the country.
| Now just when this great work
has been accomplished and victory
Iseems achieved in the judgment of
the people, there arises this cry OF
certain disquietting men men whose
vaulting ambitions lead to think that
they are ordained of God and men
to rule, to adjust all this wrong
which they claim, and start out with
: the false alarm that the democratic
party as we'll as its natural foe, the
| republican party, are against the
people and can no longer be trusted
FL The FLoRrD1AN wishes time and
; space would permit it to review the
!. history and condition Of the farming
b and industrial classes during the
years the government was admins
e tered by the democratic party. The
q farmers were the most Independent
. and purest Of the population; ths
mechanic and lab, rer everywhere
. were happy and content and loyal t.
! the government and its laws. A
, certain French Statesman, visiting
i this country during the administra
elton Of President Polk, and writing
!; back TO his country, wrote: 9Th
: working people are the freest ami
: happiest people on EARTH" wage
/. were not so high, but ell the neces
!. sities and some of The Injuries wer
4 correspondingly low in price. Tn
3 opprsssor, if there was one, foun'
S himself confronting : competition j