Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-13
THE COUNTRY IN GOOD HANDS.

In spite of all the uneasiness that is
today sweeping like hot wind over
our land and depressing business of
every kind in every locality. there is q
cool undercurrent, quiet and firm
belief in the ability of the present ad.
ministration to right the wrongs OF
commerce, to readjust the laws OF
trade through financial legislation that
will make a cheaper money and mon.
ey better adapted to the uses of The
masses and less liable of contraction
and manipulation by the greedy mil
lionaires and unprincipled legislators.
While the extremists in all parties or
posing democracy are loud and persis-
tent in their bowling about President
Cleveland's being ''gold bug", OF
having his sympathies with that ele-
ment in politics, the great masses of
the people, regardless Of parties are
unanimous in their faith in the grand
aggregate of democracy, and are hope
full of an early adjustment of affairs to
our country's good.
And the masses are right. Democ-
racy, pure and simple, means a govern
ment restricted in all its functions to
a constitutional limit. It means that
no just powers of government can be
obtained except from the governed.
1t stands for the heabeas corpus, for
the freedom of the press, for the
rights to petition, for freedom of
speech and for the field of personal
liberty limited only where the inaliena-
BILE rights of another begins.
The pages of our earlier history is
one consumate story of democratic op-
position to public debts, to paternal-
ism in government, to high tariffs,
national banks, sumptuary laws, class
favoritisms and class distinctions.
Jefferson preached the crime of caste
and for forty years was the unbend-
ing champion of the rights of common
man. Madison, Monroe, and Jackson
each in his turn caught up the banner
of human liberty and added laurels to
the acquisition of his illustrous prede-
cessors. This record Of pioneer states
men is known in every land and spok-
en- of in every language, and has caus-
ed the d emOcratic flower to bloom and
send forth its fragrance to mankind
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In later years the weeds of rank re-
publicanism, nurtured and fertilized by
the money of the millionaire and the
labor of the poor, have choked out the
better product and covered the land
with trouble and disaster. For short
time the people reused up and did a
little wedding out, and Grover Cleve-
land, the equal of his illustrious
democratic predecessor, attempted to
carry out the teachings of his party,
but was handicapped and held back by
a republican congress.
Today the case is different. The
party of the people has full and free
swing in national Legislative halls. and
the faith of the people is strong in the
hope of relief. 1t is a momentous
time, and democracy has cause to be
firm in the right and strong in the
faith of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleve-
land. All the nations of the globe are
watching the outcome, for all are inter-
ested.
If the true democracy is firm in
adherance to the principles laid down
in the Chicago platform of 1892 all
Will be well. Our faith in the deliber-
ations of the coming congress is un-
bounded and our hope in the outcome
is strong. The masses of the people
know that our country is in good
hands.