The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-05
MUST UNITE.
PlutOcrats Will Have to Combine
Against Reform.
ST. Paul, Nov. 80.

PlutOcrats Will Have to Combine
Against Reform.
The Republican wave that has swept the
political sea has verified the fact that this
government has drfted into a political
condition that capital to hold it's power
over the industries and control the govern
ment unite regardless of party to break up
and check any move on the part of the
people for reform. We see the capital ele-
ment of the Democratic party-desert the
principles of the Democracy and join the
Republican. If we could look behind the
political curtains we would see that the
prime movers who shape and bring around
| political results are men who make use
| of party to advance their private interests.
| Patriotism and party allegiance is a toy to
| be laid aside whenever it stands in the way
of uniting capital and marshaling the
| political forces to hold and keep the people
under their influence.
The people have been decoyed to jump ON
| the political lever to boust the plutocrats
| to higher degree in power.
| The deluded debtors and wage owners will
stand with empty sacks while those who
| have manipulated the election will walk off
| with the spoils.
When will the people learn that plut
| ocracy looks upon them as suckers ready
| to bite any political bait that may be
| thrown out.
The Republicans can not give the people
| prosperity, it is a political captive under
the control of the money power. 1t has
no political liberty. only to act in the in
| tereStS of the CapitaliSt.
The Republican leader in grasping the
| political power has given the country a
| warning that will aid the people to judge
| the political character of those who dis
| regard the moral and political honor that
| should unline the election of this republic
| The last election was a test of political
| power. The final struggle to advance the
| party of reform to higher plain of power
| and give the people political benefits and
| constitutional rights was received by the
| money power as d step toward consummat-
| ing a principle that would make the people
| more Independent and undermine the power
| of plutocracy The blaze of political free
| dom, equal rights to all, special privileges
| to none, must be suppressed. The money
| power gave the signal for party shifting
| and marshaling of forces. The Republicans
recruited their forces from the Democratic
| party. Political tricksters payed by cap
| ital have been sent throughout the country
| to distort the truth and blow beautiful
| bubbles to catch the unposted voter
| Those stump manipulators deluded the
people by making them believe that the
| Democrats are the cause of the nara times
| The Republicans had control of the gov
| eminent for 80 years When they gave it
| up they left an empty treasury. 1hey
| also left nest of conditions, and Demo-
| Republican principles for Cleveland TO
| hatch out They make him the scapegoat
for Republican sins He is held with po-
| ntical contempt by the Republicans and
| for purpose Is not the political bubble
| transparent? Some one must be thrown
! out of the Demo- Republican art to make
the people believe that the shifting OF ad-
| ministration will cure the ill that the
| paople complain of They cannot reverse
| the natural law of conditions that spring
from emo-Republicanism. You cannot
| change the spots of a Demo-Republlcan
leopard by shifting the animal. 1hey botn
| chew the same financial cud. They both
| feed out of high protective tariff manager.
| But the mo-Repubican capitalists fnd
| the tariff a suitable decoy to detract and
| lead the people away from discovering the
true cause of the hard tunes. me IN
| creased purchasing power of gold
The echo of gold vibrates throughout the
land to mock those who are crying for
| bread. Give gold is the cry OF the
| CAPITALIST who basks under the blaze OF
| his diamonds while the debtor gives up his
| last bushel of wheat to get a few dollars,
| which has been made dear by financial
| manipulators The fruits of his labor
has been swept from his Keeping. he is
| left to SILVER for the want OF suitable
| garments, conscious of injustice ms politl-
| cal mind cannot grasp or trace the autnof
| of the wrong He does not realize that
the god of his trouble is the gold dollar
that has increased in it's purchasing pow
err and lowered the price of his wheat.
| Gold has become the financial chariot in
which few ride in their avarce career.
The people look upon it as the king OF
all value-they bow to its influence and fall
under it's weight and are crushed by their
own God.
Like the miller that circles around the
candle public prosperity is destroyed by
the object that charms the misguided
victim.
The Demo-R Republican capitalists agree in
one fundamental priciple, the holding of po-
Htical power over the people, which consti-
tutes the basis of their political action.
They are Joint owners in one political foot
BALL which is thrown in the campaign
arena. They place on its exterior suitable
devices that will mislead and excite the
political mind. They send experts into the
field who are skilled in the art of decep-
ton, blind to the principles that lay back
of the throne. The people go mad over the
political game. Many Democrats join the
singing mass. like herds of wild buffalo
they realize no danger ahead. Their God
given brain is in political whirl for a
Republican victory. Capital looks on with
mirth. Their political device works like a
charm. The political bait has been swal-
lowed. The people are once more caught on
the hook of plutocracy. The results are sat
isfactory to capital. They have had feast
in the past; they hold the present and now
seek to reap the future possibilities that
may spring from a deluded people. Is there
not a God in Israel? Is there not a Moses
who will strike the political sea and let the
people escape from the iron heel of the
| plutocratic host? Can American manhood
| bow to political degreda ton? Can ne be
| Indifferent and fall in the arms of Morpheus
| on the verge of a dark hiatus ?Well paid
| silver tongued orators transmogrify political
rogues into saints, and with skilful argu,
| ments will twist political evils into acts OF
righteousness The fountain of political So
| phistry sends forth beautiful bubbles that
will enchant and weave a web that viii
| catch a political mind. Unconscious of the
device played upon them they eanter to it,
influence like the hen on the nest of hawk
eggs. they little know the character of the
bird they are Matching out. Blind to the
! principles behind the throne they throw
themselves into Republican ranks to carry
! out a principle in the interest of the money
| power and close the door of reform.
| f. f, DAVIDSON.
Appleton, Mimi.
| Wnshburn Out.
| To the Editor:
Please find enclosed 81 to renew my sub