The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-10-27
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY
The I'm" Party and the "Out"
PARTY,

AHo BAOot OuO parry 40 SoAn5 WV"
furiously demanding of the people, with
an anxious solicitude verging upon ar
epileptic fit, if they are going supinely
to allow this incompetent In party tc
send the country and its great cargo Of
precious public interests to the dogs
Will they not arise in their usual might
and majesty and cast out the un. Amer
lean, unpatriotic and un.everything else
that.is good gang whose advent to power
has inspired us all with such distrust
and fear that they are going to monkey
with the sacred Tariff that we have all
stopped doing business and brought
about a financial panic? Will they
not come back, like returning prodigals
to their Republican fathers house and
rest them again under the shadow Of
Grandfatber's Hat, when all will be
forgiven !? Will they not come back to
Benjamin and the thirty years Of I'M
interrupted prosperity they enjoyed
under his party?
"Calling now for thee. Prodigal;
Calling now for thee;
Thou hast wandered far away,
But He's calling now for thee
For more than thirty years the coun-
try has been guided, steered Ounce
steered) and manipulated uninterrupt-
eddy by these two corpulent old parties,
respectively of "Moral IDEAS and
"Jeffersonian Democracy" And what
have we to show for it all !?
Thirty years of uninterrupted prog
ress-downwards.
Under the first twenty. -four years
application of "Moral IDEAS to the
government of the people, gigantic
monopolies came into being-as Lincoln
said he feared-and were enthroned and
sucked with the peoples blood: the
money monopoly, the railroad monop-
olies, the land monopolies, the tariff
favorites and blood suckers of every
sort and size, under whose crushing
megatherian feet everything good has
had its life nearly trampled out
liberty, manhood, independence. mu-
nicipal, state and national honor
equality before the law-before whose
advance individual employment has
been abolished, and wages cut and cut
and cut again-notwithstanding the
politicians claim, that we were improv-
ing, and the "Pure and Simplers'"
claim that the union was doing great
things and was strong enough TO do still
greater ones
Then under the term of the applica-
ton of s'Jeffersonian Democracy to
the government we saw the same old
gigantic monopolies grow on uninter-
ruptedly ito bigger proportions, still
steadily and ruthlessly trampling out
the liberties of the people and devour
ing their heritage; still steadily BUSTING
the people from field and farm, fresh all
and sunlight, and massing and herding
them N mines and factories, and fetid
industrial dungeons and tenement hells,
where no breath of fresh air ever by
any chance comes.
Again the accession to power of the
''Party of Moral Ideas" and reign Of
corruption, pandemonium of the
choisest representatives of monopoly
greed and cruelty, and universal and
shameless trampling out of common
liberties unparalleled by the worst days
of rottenest Rome.
Now again we are under the blessed
9gis of Jeffersonian Democracy" anc
the event is signalized by more thar
usual headlong plunge downward'
towards universal starvation, servitudt
and death.
$685. All chic ehvws that whichever O.
these two old parties goes up anc
whichever down, the people always g
doaon. These two old corpulence
have had 80 years to show what the,
can do for US, and they have steered u
uninterruptedly down to hell. And
in 80 years they have done us no goOc
they never will in thirty-two hundred
Their conduct during these 80 year
proves absolutely that they are but tn
front and hind legs of the arch enem,
aud beast Capital, and that there i
absolutely no moral difference between
them, save that "each is rottener thar
'tother"-but which is the whichest
can't tell If both are buried tel
thousand fathoms under the people,
ballots the earth and the air wouc
smell sweeter for their absence.
Every thinking person knows that
these two parties represent nothing bu
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