The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-20

appropriate to others the proceeds of
the peoples labor, is the power to
enslaye the people. None such
can be found in the federal constitution.
And the question whether it shall be exer-
cised, though nngranted, and, therefore.
forbidden, is the question, as Mr.. Jefferson
stated it, ''between a limited and an I'M
limited government" between self govern
mont and corrupt Capitalization. between
popular liberty and a graspinR and greedy
tyranny, between the masses and the
GLASSES. between the neutrality-suspicious.
and democratic parties.
The great battle for freedom OF elections
in the last congress was but IN incident
albeit q terrible and menacing one--of this
dr. ad struggle between the great mass of
the people and the banded monopolists in
coalition with a ruthless political party.
The passage of the force bill would have
terminated popular representation, it
would have insured for an indefinite period
the unquestioned supremacy of the monop-
olists and their political agents; and they
would have gone on taxing the people TO
fill their own pockets, secure in their con-
troll of the ballot boxes and the
returns, until owe thrown BY revolution,
acy printed but the plain truth when it de-
cla1ed the force bill would be the end of
all. since it carried a hundred Mckinley
bills in its embrace" Thus would the fed
eralist-republican patty grasp, with one
hand the throat of constitutional liberty,
while with the other, it rifles the peoples
pocketx, and transfers a vast aggregate Of
lawless plumber to its monopo,ist allies.
So the issue stands. We must not deceive
ourselves. Permit this conspiracy, struck
and shattered by the popular indignation
in 1890, to retain the presidency and to re-
cover the house, and 4 force bill as much
worse than the last, as the Mckinley bill
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be enacted to protect the despoilers in per
petual power in order that they may revel
in perpetual plumber.
How shall this hideous disaster be
averted? There is but one way under
heaven. The people must organize in their
OWN defence. We have already been ad-
yised. both by the monopoly leaders and by
the national democratic committee. that
the contest will be largely a contest of
clubs. Political methods change with cir
cumstances. As in the earlier days of the
republic, when the question was, as now,
between strong government in the interest
of tho classes and free govern
mont in the interest of the masses,
the democratic society becomes again
the resource and The resort of the op-
pressed and alarmed people. A system Of
democratic societies as nearly uniform al
may be throuRhous the union will carry the
popular cause to complete and hnal tri-
umph IN 1882, just rs certainly al did the
ship of the immortal jefferson.
1t is the natural and voluntary
organization of the people, first, in their
nelghborhoods; second, in their states, and,
third, in the union, to expose tho purposes
and to meet the onset of the trained bands
OF Capitalization and monopoly. Wsthere-
fore urge the timely formation of primary
societies in every district, and their eatly
union in state societies and in this rational
association.
Ihe general committee OF the national
association of democratic clubs, consisting
Of four members from each state and terri
tory, will meet at Chicago on the 21st Of
June. and the time and place of tho ma
tlonal convention Of democratic clubs will
pc determined, and the call duly issued.
Wherever the democratic societies of any
state shall have formed a state ~orpaniza-
ton, the latter will be entitled to eleven
delegates at large in the convention.