Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-07


The result of this election is ascribed
TO various causes. The true cause is
ignorance of voters together with de-
moralization. No doubt the corrupt
use of money had much to do with it..
Two years ago the landslide was to
the Democratic party. The reason
was this: Times were hard and the
voters did not know why, but the
Democrats told them it was on account
of high tariff. They said, give us n
chance" and we will knock out the
Mckinley tariff, and prices will go up,
labor will find employment, every
thing will be lovely. Well, after wait
ing for two years, times remain as hard
as ever. and the Republicans made the
voters believe that if they had control
again times would be better.
If we can tide over two years more
without coming to French revOlu-
ton, there will be another landslide
because times will get no better as the
same financial policy will continue.
Now the question Is, when the voters
flop over again, where will they land
1t don't seem reasonable to suppose
that they Will be so destitute of good
horse sense rs to flop back into the
Democratic party. Certainly if they
can be educated so as to understand
the cause of, and remedy for the hard
times, then they will slide into the
Peoples party.
1t will be the best time to educate
the masses during the next two years,
that has ever been in this country.
1t would be an unfortunate thing
2or the Populists to come into power
saafore the masses are educated better
tksn they are in political economy,
especially on finance; because ii they
did not make times better Immediately
the voters would flop over TO some
other party; and this the party w0lld
find impossible to do because the old
parties obstruct every effort to the ut
termost. The only solid foundation
for the Populist party, after coming
into power as well as before, is to edu-
cate the voters thoroughly. And the
best way TO do that is to get them to
read reform papers and literature. No
one can read q reform paper every
week for six months, and then vote
for either of the old parties if he has a
conscience and is determined to do
right.
The trouble at this point is, the
country is so fearfullv demorallzed.
Poverty and restitution demoralizes
men. To relieve present distress out
weighs the future good of themselves
and their fellowmen. The bosses OF
ha Il L L
it. Hence the great damage done by
money. Promise of any little office. or
of job of work, or few dollars will
carry many men contrary to their bet
ter Judgment
But none of these things should
abate the zeal of every lover of his
country and race in this grand work !;
because the salvation of our COM
mon country depends on the Peoples
party. If the principles of the Omaha
platform Is not applied in the Govern
ment soon we will land in the mael-
strom of violent revolution. This Is as
certain as fate. We can't carry four
or five millions of idle hungry men,
and as many suffering women and chill
dren very many years, and the num-
Der increasing constantly without very
serious trouble. Hunger knows no
law. The plutocrars cry anarchy"
all the time, just as the slavocracy
cried "abolitionist," abolish" in 1860.
The dumb aristocrats, plutocrats, by
their policy are manufacturing anar-
chists up in Washington, by the mil
lion.
We must stop the process of grind
ing them out or our country will be
torn to smitherecns in few years.
Rev. ID. Oglesby in Chicago Express.