Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1893-09-08
Fusion VS.. Straight.

people govern should have some fixed
political principles else he is as uncer-
tain as the shifting SandS-American
Statesman.
What is fusion =
Fusion is fraud, a snare, a curse
to the parties involved.-Clear Lake
Advocate, Qnd.)
Fusion is an utter abandonment of
all semblance of political prnciple.- -
Henry independent, (RepD
Fusion is an act or operation of
melting or rendering fluid by heat, as
the fusion of metals, when two metals
become fluid, and are mixed, com
pound is formed in which the identity
of each metal is lost -JOhnSOn's Cy-
clOpHdia.
Fusion takes place when one sub
stance is allOyed with another. and
the value of the better is reduced and
often wholly destroyed. Steel'S
Chemistry.
For example take platinum (Which
like the democratic party is tough and
indeStructible) and lead (Which like
fusion leaders can be easily moulded
to suit any form fuse these two and
the alloy is rOttOn--WOuld not even
sustain its own weight.
Another example. Solder, when
used alone, is Of great economic value,
when properly used will unite and
mend broken metallic utensils and i'm
plements, SO the broken place becomes
as strong or stronger than the original.
fuse with quick silver and you have a
compound that will Crumble like mud
pies or rotten wood. 1t forms COM
pound which is absolutely useless in
the economy Of nature.
Again, take chloride of potash, use
full in many ways especially as med
icine, and white sugar, when alone
perfectly harmless and very useful,
fuse these two and you have simply a
high grade explosive. rivaling nitro
glycerine or dynamite.
Another example where fusion ruins.
Iron alone has wonderful strength,
will bend without breaking, will resist
the cOrrOding influences OF the ele-
mentS, and like democrats last year,
| very abundant, and birthstone, which
| like fusion schemers has a place in
natures laws hereafter, fuse these
two metals and the iron, like fused
democrats, loses its brightness and
strength and the result is worthless
compound, so fragile that any child
could crush it to fragments, and the
birthstone, like the fusion SChemerS,
loses its usefulness even for the here
after.
AS in chemistry, SO in politics, the
fusion of political parties produces
compound rotten and worthless, the
usefulness, if any they ever had, is
ended. Think for moment of the
democratic party resting upon the
constitutional doctrines and tradi-
tions as taught by Thomas jefferson
and Andrew Jackson, bOaSting Of its
illuStriOus line of successors from
Madison to Cleveland fuSing with
Gov. LOucks and Wardall. Take the
doctrines enunciated by President
Cleyeland'S last message wherein he
declares in favor of gold standard,
and gold only as the money Of the
country which would make a circula
tiOn per capita of not to exceed seven
dollars. Compare this with the plat
form of the peoples party of 1892,
wherein they declare, first: 1--WE de-
mand a national currency safe, sound
and flexible, issued by the general
government, a full legal tender for all
debts public and private, and without
the use Of banking corporations, a
just, equitable andietficient means Of
distribution direct to the people at
tax not to exceed per cent per an
mum to be provided as set forth in the
Sub-treaSury plan Of the Farmers
Alliance, or better system: also by
payments in discharge of its Obltga-
tiOns for public Improvements. Sec
Ond: We demand free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the pres
ent legal ratio of Is to /. Third: We
demand that the amount of circula-
tion medium be speedily increased to
not less than $50 per capita.
The democratic party declaring in
favor of JefferSOnian simplicity and
urging a return to these doctrines,
while the populiSts are advocating
complete readjustment of the govern
ment, insisting that the old be done
away with and all things become new,
advocating the ownership of railroads,
telegraph and telephone lines, declar-
ing for increase of soldiers pensions,
while the democrats apply the carving
knife. Take these two parties, these
two platforms, President Cleveland's
message and Gen. Weaver'S campaign
speech; fuse the two parties, or the
two platforms, or the message and the
speech, and you will have compound
not only rotten and useless, but an eX-
ploSive which, compared with dyna-
mite, would be like the great guns of
Norfolk compared with tlrecracker.
The REGISTER endorses neither the
democratic or popullsts platform, yet
1t is fair to say that the rank and tile