The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-24
THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION
4 Crisis In tho Politics Of the Country u
1T Hand.

4 Crisis In tho Politics Of the Country u
ct Hand.
That an impending crisis in the
politics of the country is near at
hand ought to be apparent to every
observer. No one can have observed
the political signs Of the time and
not be convinced of this. Many of
1.-The members Of both of the old
political parties pretend not to see it,
and, metaphor1cally speaking, are
..whistling through the graveyard to
keep their courage up''-and the
courage of other people. There may
be, and doubtless are, some who do
not see it, for the only reason that
they are not observers. With such
people the old adage holds good,
There are none so blind as those
who won't see."
There are some people who never
see any Indications of rain until rain
comes. But the masses Of the people
Of the country both see and feel the
approaching revolution. They see
and feel the heed of it. They are
daily becoming more and more dis
satisfied with the present political
order Of things. The great masses
of the people are not now so COM
pletely tied up by partyism that they
are willing to vote for the lost con-
summate scoundrel and debauchee in
the land because their party has
nominated him. When any great
party utterly disregards the wishes
of the people by nominating corrupt
and unworthy men for office, then the
people should be aroused to their in
dependence Of the party; and owing to
the education that they have lately
acquired, the masses of them will
break loose, in order to show to the
party leaders their indignation, by
refusing to elect such unworthy rep
resentatives. When any party con
! tlnues to overlook the wishes Of the
people in the support of the wealthy
corporations to the detriment of
the masses, as the Republican
party has done in this state with the
railroad corporations, the time is
coming yea, has already come, when
that party will be arraigned before
the. sovereign people of the land for
Judgment. Such parties must and
will be relegated to the past. They
will be laid aside as having outlived
their usefulness. If the consciences
Of the leaders have become so dead
Or stupid that they cannot be aroused
by the rumbling of the coming wrath
Of the people, then such party must
abide the consequences. Scriptures
OF divine truth say, "a prudent man
forseeth the evil, and hideth himself;
but the simple pass on and are pun
lshed. Proverbs xxi, 3. This is as
true of political parties as it is Of
individual men, writes 2. C. Bowen in
| the Advocate and Tribune ANY
party tnat becomes so completely in
toxicated with Doodle obtained from
the plutocratic corporations as not to
be able to discern the signs of the
| times, and prepare for the day of po-
litical judgement, must of necessity
| meet its doom and pass into history
as an abated nuisance.
| As rule, the people of the
state, and especially the agricultural
portion of them, are long-suffering
and slow to anger, and will bear much
oppression from the powers that be;
but the time will surely come when
forbearance ceases to be virtue.
Then the honest citizens will arise in
the majesty of their liberty and de-
clare their independence of those po-
litical tyrants who are leading them
into worse than Egyptian bondage.
The great monopolies of the nation
whose greed and avarice are fast sap
ping the life-blood of the laboring
| and producing classes by various
! means, among the foremost of which
is the curtailing OF the money supply,
are more cruel and tyrannical than
the taskmasters of Egypt in the time
Of the captivity of the Jews. The
citizens of the United States, COM
, posed largely of the laboring and pro-
ducing classes, have it in their power
to lay aside all party and local
prejudices, and rise in the dignity of
their power, and at the ballet box
bring liberty and deliverance to the
American people from these monster
tyrants. That they will do it in the
near future is a foregone conclusion,
and may God grant that the revolu-
ton may be a peaceful one, and that
only ballots may be the means used
to accomplish the ends of justice.
The great masses of the people
have become convinced that SUI
preme effort must be made soon in
order to preserve any portion of the
liberties that were purchased with
the blood of our revolutionary
fathers, as the government of the en-
tire nation has become so completely
and wholly absorbed by those pirat-
tcal tyrants that unless the power
that has been acquired by them is
wrenched from them soon our
boasted land of liberty will become a
myth. But we trust that large ma
jority of the free-born citizens of this
country have sufficient honor and
love of country left to enable them to
redeem it at the ballot box and that
peaceable measures will prevail. We
trust that there is yet God in
Israel, and that He will raise up a
Moses who will lead the enslaved
people of our fair country out from
under the CALLING bondage of the
monopolistic classes.