The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-27
ST. PAUL, MIMI, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27, 1898.

are to be carried out. Events may
throw new light upon things. If Mr.
Lincoln had declared, before the elec-
tlon OF 1860, that he intended to is
sue an emancipation proclama tion,
IN case the threatened uprising in
the south took place; he would have
been defeated: and the slaves would
nave been slaves to this day. But
events are mighty educators, and
that proclamation finally came
IL was fully sustained by the senti-
ment of the north. Some will say
that party should have no conceal
ments; that it should expose its
whole budget of ideas at once. But
the end OF party is to accomplish
certain reforms, and to so act as to
prevent those reforms from being ac-
cOmpllshed in treason to that party
Men who do not want party to sue
ceed use an old trick to load it down
with multitude of issues as to mat
ters OF detdll, knowing that every new
proposition slices off part Of it's fol
lowing. In this state we had dis
] honest tool of our enemies who pre-
tending to lose sight of the tremen-
dous issues underlying the mighty,
! World-embracing contest, howled,-
morning, noon and night, about the
subtreasury plan-a mere incident
and detail: and drove tens of thous-
and out Of our ranks because they
would not make that the ''shib-
bOleth' of the whole campaign. And
as soon as the campaign was over he
"dried up'' and has been silent as
clam ever since, on the sub-treasury
plan! In the meantime we did not
get the subtreasury-1aor anything else!
And [ hope my friend Dickie will
pardon me for saying that 1 think
the prOhibitiOnists made mistake
in trying to found a national party
ON q single piece Of legislation. Their
following consequently consisted not
OF all who were opposed to the dis
ease, but of those only who favored
that specific remedy and nothing
else. 1t was like saying that the
sick man must get we'll on calomel,
and if he would not take that he
must die. If the fight had been
made as pro-temperance, anti saloon
fight, it would have swept the coun-
try; and with Temperance Congress
and president there would have been
no difficulty in agreeing upon proper
legislation. | think Mr.. Taubeneck
made a good suggestion recently
in an article in this paper that the
platform of the peoples party in 1896,
be the principles Of Thomas Jefferson and
abraham LincolL Let us resolve un-
dying hostility to the government of
the plutocracy; that the nation must
put forth its full poacers to help the people;
that it shall not permit corporations
to exercise the rights Of sovereignty:
and then add three great planks Of
land, transportation and finance.
With some such brief, simple and di-
rect platform let us say to Mr.. Dickie
and to all honest men:-come in and
help to drive the two, old, corrupt,
saloon-gOverned, money-enslaved po-
litical parties out of power; and then,
with the House, the Senate, the Cab
inet'and the Presidency in our hands,
let the era of reform begin; and en-
lightened by intelligence and guided
by good sense, let us proceed until
we have crushed out every abuse and
lifted every burden from the backs
Of the people.
Isn't that better program, broth
er Dickie, than to quarrel over what
we will do when we get power, and
then never get it; while
Wrong rules the land and waiting JUS
tice weeps?'
It is pitiful thing if men, who
agree as to great principles, cannot
act together, because OF difference
as to the adjustment of details,
which will never be reached unless
the principles themselves first
triumph.
AS for myself I am here to fight
the plutocracy; and have no specific
methods to suggest as part of the plat
form, until Mammon is utterly
smashed crushed and driven into
his hole. Then,-if I live to see that
day,-I shall probably be as prolific
in suggestions, and as ready to fight
for them, as brother Dickie or any
one else. So let us hook arms and
march together; and postpone the
differences, if there are any, until af-
ter the great day Of Jubilation, in
the midst Of a redeemed world.
Humanity is at stake! In the aw-
full presence let everything else be
forgotten. l. d.
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