The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-09-06
END or ORGANIZED EVIL.

lHu VI ulIuhNlLLU LvlL,
DEMOCRATS HAVE CLOSED
THEIR OFFICIAL CAREER
And This Years Political Bat
tie Will Explode the Peoples
Party, as Other Similar Move
ments Have Been Crushed
by the Loyal American Peo-
pie, Who Have Become
Weary of the New Anarchy.
This years political battle viii put an
end to the career of that body of or-
ganized evil known as the Peoples
party. That is the mission of Republ-
canism, and it viii not fail of success.
The Democrats have taken care of them-
selves. No enemy could possibly have
put them in the position which they as
stunned voluntarily. Anything more
stupendously laundering and democrat
A6kA1S tAhS4 &aAs SiCNO1tiA0 WV tNSNN4o
could not be conceived. In the first,
when he tried vainly to stop the stam-
pede of the house to the senate bill, he
characterized that measure as it de-
served. He denounced it as unworthy
of the Democratic party, as piece of
''party perfidy and party dishonor."
That was bad enough, but
His Latest Performances Is Worse.
His own act had made it impossible
for him to approve this bill. Unlike
most men, when caught between the
devil and the deep sea. he chooses lit
tie Of both. In his letter to MI Catch
ings, which closes, as Democrats hope,
this most astounding epistolary per-
Torrance by the president, he declares
that he permits the bill to become law
only because it marks step on the
road, and that the fight for free trade
will still go ON. So Democracy goes
into this campaign weighted not only
with the blunders and crimes of its past,
but with the more dreadful promise
of repeating them in the fu-
ture. To the people who have
passed through this most calamitous
year, who are taught by the instant re-
vival of business as soon as the tariff
agitation is over, that this was the
cause of their distress, and who now
hear the prophecy of Democratic leaders
in the house and senate confirmed by
Democratic president, promising a con-
tinuance of tariff agitation if they are
retained in power, no other argument
need be addressed. The Democratic
party has spoken its own sentence Of
condemnation. 1t is dead cock in the
pit.
Populism Saw High Water Mark in 1899.
The Populists, ON the other hand, are
very active, very aggressive, and pre-
tend to be very hopeful. But they are
not half as dangerous as they seem.
Populism saw its high water mark in
the election of 1892. 1t may and doubt
less will carry more congressional dis
tricts this year than then, because there
the American people are fond of expert
menting. But it will not gain control
of any new states, and its record in
those where it has been III power con-
dennis it surely. This country is capable
of doing some curious things, but not Of
supporting party whose fundamental
idea is the overthrow of self govern
ment and the destruction Of free insti-
buttons.
A great many people of otherwise
good Judgment are unduly exercised
over the rise and growth of the Peoples
party. There is no real danger in it,
because of the impossibility that it
should succeed in sane community.
But neither is there anything novel
about it. Political prophets who have
the tremors because it has seemed to
spring up like JOnah's gourd, must not
forget that there have been
Plenty of Precisely Similar Instances,
that the features pres nted by the Peo-
Piles party movement are familiar
enough, though aggravated, and that it
will share the fate of the similar organ
izations that preceded it, when the
work shall have been accomplished. 1t
Will be shown, later, that the objects
which this party sets before it are either
impossible or evil. But first it is inter-
esting to look at its place in our polit-
ical development.
For more than twenty years there has
been party of organized discomfort i'll
the United States. That party has eX-
listed generally by fixing upon some real
grievance which had not yet been
wholly remedied in the slow course of
public procedure. 1t has drawn to it
naturally the disappointed, the dema-
gogues, the human driftwood left high
and dry on the political shore. Unable
to bear the odium that these accessions
create, and deprived of an issue by the
gradual correction of the evils against
which it was originally a protest, it sub
sides and disappears even more quickly
than it arose. What the country sees
now it has seen before. The parallel is
too close and perfect to escape notice.
The Grange Movement.
Some years after the close of the war
had permitted our material development
to 20 forward with great leaps and
bounds, it Began to be discovered that
there were no limits to the power Of
railroad corporations. There were act
ually those who asserted that the
making of rates was an exercise of the
sole power Of the railroad; and that,
although the people might protest, they
could not in any way limit or interfere
with this power without denying the
right of private property and endahger-
ing vested interests. It was as a protest
against this that the farmers "Granges"
were started; and the Granger move
ment did noble service in carrying on
the war through the courts, until the
highest tribunal in the United States
had affirmed the right of the people,
through their representatives in legis-
latures and in congress to regulate rail-
road charges and compel the fixing of
reasonable rates. 1t was good fight
and great victory; and there the use
fitness of the "Grangers" ended.
! Not so the Granger" party, how
ever. The movement had attracted the
demagogues and shysters then. They
insisted that it must be perpetuated In
a political organization. As its native
issues disappeared they found new ones
for it. These were, of course, first, cur
rency imitation, and second, the cause
of 'labor." The lack of originality IN
these fellows who act as wet nurses for
new political parties was never more
str;L;,1olv shown than in the absolute