Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07

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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
strikingly' shown than in the absolute
correspondence of their. programme be-
tween about 1870 and 1882, and between
about 1882 and 1894. There was, in that
earlier period the same demand for
*''fat" money; reaching, indeed, far
more alarming proportions than that Of
late times Itwould have condemned
Us to repudiatienibut for the presidents
veto. It carried AWAY great and
prosperous states like, Ohio. And when
the disease grew slowly less violent, it
left upon the body Of our financial pol
icy the: malignant ulcer known as the
Bland bill, to sap our strength and ell
danger eur Life. ~
Ine ::liabof' plication, too, was
present infu1l force. ;, Those were the
years when the knights of Labor grew
strong In the land. There was the great
strike and the riots Of 1871, Labor, de-
feated and" rebel lions, would it was
thought, make common cause. with the
remnant of the Changers and the still
surviving Greenback party. Amy one
who took an interest in politics. then
cannot have forgotten the secret alarm
with which the old parties questioned
whether this new combination might
not temporarily swamp the country. 1t
was mere. flash in the pan. The sober,
intelligent voters were Disguised equally
by the; unprineipled leaders whom it
brought. to the front and by the CRAZY
quilt platform which it became neces.
sary to adopt in order to take in the
MANNED, the halt and the blind. : The
new movement that promised SO much
fell to pieces as if it had been one of
Coxey's armies. There were still few
fanatics or predetermined who voted it's
ticket; but it ceased to be serious and
became distinctly ludicrous with the
campaign Of Ben Butler for the presi-
dency.
The sequence Of these events has been
noted with some care, because again we
have history repeating itself with al
most the accuracy of copy from the
printed page. We have had Farmers
Alliances" formed, just as the old
Oranges were, to promote mutual inter-
ests and to check the aggressiveness of
corporations. At ju about the time
when their practical york was mostly
accomplished, the battered hulks of
politicians discarded by both the great
parties got control of their machinery.
Then they were united with the still
surviving demand for currency inha-
ton. This led to the craze Of the SUBJ
treasury scheme Then the owners Of
silver! n1ines"} saw, their opportunity to
foistv their product on the people at
double its act al value. So we go on to
the ''Peoples'' party with it's double ap-
peal to agricultural discomfort and to
prevailingI ignorance on the money
question: And now we have again the
great strike and the proposed union of
labor with the new organization. By
.e4aetlystbe- sameestepsh aye IL two ex-
Eperi,nents pioceeded to- the same fate.
The second saw it's prime two years ago,
will get its death blow this: fall; and
viii ;l4aisappearS in 1895 after an: jj1}ita-
ton Of the Butler cam aign. - ~ j.
There is another element that makes
this conclusion more than ever : sure.
This is the alliance of Popul1s1nH with
anarchy, and the fear and hatred which
the latter has inspired III the earlier
period referred to the people of the
EUnatea States RaeM> Ut: bis; :h6f1d faith
+ oily as tie; knew da75: Of fhe t6rtdr6s AZ
NkS5be9ia; aF~1 s64efmfA iAieqH afaf<
k1hp9ssible IT'D c4nne9 ! kith or
FsXstem of aote}pheht \o& bull Hommoh
LIFE. ! Now they have gazed Ait withih
stkiking distanue:E The Worst thht would
have happened in the 70s and earlitear,
80s if~the party Of fierce and iconoelastie'
Sfs "ed tfEd 'pIe P@Xs{ o E
rallfOdd prOpfTf11ef ana 4nJpf1OuF to our
| fhances.' N9W 4h$y 1khoT Ibe4gr.1 a
L6&weelling, a Waite, al: ali AltgSld have
taught them that the later movements
differs from the former by adding to
equal or greater ignorance an implacable
hatred of liberty. These men have been
tested, ana hake< sh3wn> that they regard
neither laW@nor public opinion, and that
they Would not hesitate toinvite q civil
war in order to fasten their despotic
wills upon the people. These are the
disciples of the new anarchy; to vote
for whom is not merely to vote for de-
based currency. and; the legislation Of
demagogues, but is to- vote, as senator
Of Minnesota expressed it, ''for the SUBJ
mission of the United States govern
ment.'' He who fears for the result of
such an appeal in this state or in the
tnation has too little faith in the virtues