The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-08
THE pLurocRAr,c RALLY.



troll the DemorFAtlc Party.
The question in this country which
involves all other questions is whether
IL shall be governed by its c5.ooo.o 200
people or by the few thousand pluto
Gratis who own the bulk of its wealth
and who, by virtue Of such ownership,
claim the right TO rule.
That was the question In 1890 and
again in 1892, when the people rose,
and, as they thought. shook on the yoke.
That Is the question now when the
plutocracy has rallied and has massed
its forces to snatch victory from de-
feat
That will be the question until the
sovereignty OF the people is vindicated
and democracy is asserted against plu-
tocracy.
The millionaires OF America are
moved by strange infatuation tn be
lieve that their money is onnipotent
They had no sooner seen that they were
routed by the onslaught of the masses
of the democratic party than they set to
work in the democratic party itself to
capture control of . the organization
which had been soused against them as
70 show how formidable it Is to unjust
privilege.
They will never succeed and they are
only making il worse for themselves
at the final settlement, but they are
now in high feather at their imagined
success
After the magnificent work which
carried Illinois and Wisconsin for the
democratic party and wrenched the en-
tire west loose from its subsection to
the plutocracy, the democratic party
had within easy reach a half century OF
power as it had after the defeat OF the
federalists under Adams Seeing this,
the plutocrats set to work to undo what
had been done by assuming control as
democratic leaders. The country then
learned for the first time that MIR.
Henry Willard was a democrat, and the
democrats of the country were humili-
ated TO the dust by the spectacle of Pa
cfic railroad lobbyists, attorneys and
other dependents taking charge of the
party in the northwest and pushing for
ward for recognition as cabinet officers
and dispensers of patronage And with
this came the still more bitter humilia
ton of the capture OF the Wisconsin
senatorship by nobody. mere mil
lionaire who had never demonstrated
capacity except for getting unearned
money When this person was elected
against democrat of national reputa-
ton. who is honest enough and brave
enough TO be poor. there was not a
democrat who saw what was done but
! felt his cheek crimson with indignant
shame and his hand clinch with resent
ment.
And from that day to this these peo-
pie, in their blind faulty. have gone on
believing that because, by their none,
and their influence. they can control ar
ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS man here
and there and make him betray the
trust the people have put in him. they
can control the people and check the
forward movement Of the mighty de-
mocracy.
They will never do it They are fool.
ish in attempting it. The people have
made up their minds that they will re
store a government of equal rights. in
which the rights of persons and the
rights OF property shall be guarded
with all the power Of the people; in
which the right Of man to hold and to
enjoy his own earnings shall not be i'm
paired by laws which take the earn
ings of million to make q millionaire
OF one. The people have set their minds
on that and nothing will deter them
St Louis Republic