The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-09-14
PLANTER.
CcntraliZntiOnO Of Government
Cleveland n Dictator.

The SantO Cruz Gulf, some time
ago, declared that: "There is a
powerful tendency at the present
time to subvert the original form
and purpose Of our government"
AS an indication of what the flu.
ture government is intended to be,
if secured, it quotes from the San
Francisco Argonaut, as follows:
"Slowly, but surely. this country
is drifting toward Capitalization.
State lines will one day be as in
significant as county lines are now.
States will he hut expressions;
state governors but shadows. In
every state-whlch will then be a
federal district-there will be a
federal official, appointed like the
governors of our preset territories.
Behind them will be arrayed the
federal government and the army
of the United States-the pitiless
machine. Bayonets do not think,
ties of local friendship, feelings Of
kindred, do not appeal to the
troops of the United States" .lf
How much farther, 1 ask, must
we travel to see the entire fulfill
ment of the above predictioni Is
a state anything more than feder-
al district at the present time, or
it's s'governorn more than q ''shad-
owi" Are not officials "appOintedn
who override governors and behind
whom ssstands the federal govern
ernment and the United States
armyw How much longer will the
American people allow the dicta-
tor, Cleveland, to trample all law
and. constitution beneath his feet
i'm his mad rush to build up and de-
fend the mOnopolies of the c0un-
tryi He regards neither law, JUS
tice, the constitution nor his oath
of Office. He should now be i'm.
peached, or by some Cromwell be
hurled without ceremony from his
throne at Washington. The peO-l
pie should no longer in patience
bear his tyrannous dictation. sH
Talk of anarchy! The real anar-
chists are at Washington at the
head of the government; and they
want to increase the standing army
to 4OO, 900 men, they think it will
require at least that number to
hold GO, ,OO0, 600 of loyal American
citizens III awe of them and perpe-
tuate the rule of the oligarchy that
is crushing the American nation,
plundering them of their substance
bringing them down to pauperism
and starving millions of them
They expect us to be law abiding
while they trample humanity and
human law under their feet. 1t is
not only our right, but it is our du,
ty, to rebel against, despOtism that
would crush human rights. They
are not created by law, nor can
they be suppressed by law. They
are natural, they are inaltenable,
they pertain to man by virtue OF
his manhood; nothing can be law,
however or by whomsOever enac-
ted, that does not protect the equal
rights of man; all else are merely
fiespotic DEGREES in the form OF law,
that should be defied and trampled
under foot. Governments only ex-
ist to protect human rights; they
derive their only just powers from
the ''cOnsent Of the governed"
When they no longer serve the on
ly purpose for which they have a
right to exist, they should be abOl-
ished and new governments should
be established in harmony with JUS
tice and human rights. '
G. w. THURsTON. 'f
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