The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-12-18

DEC. ls, 1894
DEMOCRACY.


How the memories of the triumphs
of the grand old party and its glorious
past glitter and dance before the eyes
and warm the hearts of the patriotic
men who still love liberty and who still
have confidence in the future of the
nationl Democracy, as party in the
United States, had its birth, won its
victories and planted its seeds while
those mighty men of the French revol-
ution by their TaIor and patriotism
we're teaching the world that the peo-
pie were worthy Of self-goyernment,
were worthy to be charged with the
task of working out the destiny of free
men. 1t is true that here there were
10 Austerlitz, no Ulm, no BorodIno;
but here existed what even those re-
nowned victories could never bring to
France in that generation, the true
germ of human freedom. Jefferson
won far prouder victory than was
even dreamed of by Napoleon, when he
wreste' proud people from the clutch
of Gecrgs III. Then for the first time
it had ,tered the brains of the kings
of the old world that perhaps after all
the people had not only the ability to
govern the mselves, but they also had
the virtue and the integrity to do it
honestly Notwithstanding even here,
existed pacty willing and anxious to
return monarchical forms, yet SO
strong we're the democrats that while
fronting sgIst0t scy in the old world,
they had stTengtA enough left to contend
with the domestic factions of home
successful ~ sno the fate of the expert
ment with tse peoples government
was safe, / is great memory of a
great triumph; but alas! almost only
memory.
In less than hundred years after
the immortal declaration was penned,
the American government promulgated
a law by the passage of the demone-
tiziDg act which reduced silver from its
proud position as one of the precious
metals orne, the peoples standard of
value which has placed us under far
more dangerous set of tyrants than any
known in Europe in either ancient or
modern times-the tyranny of none V,
the mastery of the plutocrsts. We are
no longer ruled from Washington by
the representatives of the people. We
get our law from Wall street fresh from
the inspiration of the millionaires.
How the mighty have fallenl How
abject have become the men who
wrested from George whole continent
and the dearer pledge of the peoples
rights. Today the people in and out
of congress are debating fayorably the
Cleveland-Carlisle plan of giving the
finances of the government over into
the hands of the national banks. Shade
of Jacksoni is it true? Can it be that
after all we have learned nothing by
the mighty lessons Of the past2 Have
we been retrogrsding rather than ad-
vancing? Have we SO little spirit left
that we voluntarily return and are
anxious TO hug the chains which are to
bind US to the rich parvenues, at the
bidding even of democrats? Perish
the thought. Mol no! Let the people
arouse themselves and fight to the
bitter end rather than re-establish as
an American sentiment the plutocracy
Of the old federal party. This national
bank scheme is nothing other than
pure Capitalization. 1t is the estab-
lishment of power which will be able
to say In word just how poor the
masses may be made and how rich the
favored classes may become.
Are the people of the United States
sunken to these depths? If SO, then
there is no use struggling further. We
might as well give up the battle and re-
turn to the allegiance of what is far
more manly and noble, kingIy rule.
If such sentiment grows and be-
comes law we might as well take
long last farewell of liberty. The de.
cadence of the republic will date from
the day such law blackens the
statute books of the nation. Let us
bewarel We are being betrayed into
the hands of the Shylocks. or what is
the same thing, Rothschilds. It is not
too late yet. Let the people speak in
thunder tones as they did when Ham,
ilton would have crowned the general
of the armies. Let us reiterate, the
people rule, and no national bank shall |
give the law to us. We have had a |
taste of what that rule will be already |
in the dumb silence resting over the
west, in our silent and voiceless silver
mines and In the impoverished condi-
tion of once rich and prosperous peo-
pie Let the people stop it, the SER
wants of the bankers will not do it.
The people must themselves act, even
if they are compelled to abandon the
political theories of a lifetime to accom-
,lish the return to fair honest gov.
,rnment in the interests of all, the poor
IS well as the rich.
Think of this, democrats of the wes t,
re everything, even the money of the
lation, goes altogether into the hands
If the piutocrats.
hTHE recent joke of dimensions is
From tha Grand T,,pot;o,, Co.. T;.