Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-12-11
THE OLD PARTIES.
WHAT REMEDIES DO EITHER OF
THEM OFFER TO THE PEoPLEi


and Debauchery That Are Going On?
what About Reforms That the People
Want?
What do the Republican and Demo
cratic parties offer as remedy for tho
great drink waste that robs every pro-
Queer, whether he touches intoxicating
liquor or not, of the fruits of one days
toiling every nine;
Nothing.
What do they offer as q remedy for a
corrupting and debauching poison traf-
fio that is daily creating an army of
purchasable voters to be sold to the
highest bidder on election day?
Nothing.
What do they offer as remedy for
the power of the ginmill in politics,
notorious for preventing the nomination
and election of good men to Office?
Absolutely nothing.
What remedy do the Republican and
Democratic parties offer for the biennial
blight to the business interests of the
nation, which comes from their parti-
san agitation Of the tariff-a question
largely of business details?
Nothing but continuation of blight
ing agitations.
What do they offer for unjust indus
trial conditions that in so years, while
increasing the wealth of the nation from
s.. 900, 900, 900 to 500, 00o,e00, 600,
have concentrated II per cent of that
wealth in the hands of less than 0 per
cent of the families?
Nothing. These parties refuse even
to admit the injustice of such condi-
tons
What do they offer in place Of a finan-
cial system that in 40 years has pro-
dnced A, 900 millionaires on tho one
hand and an army of tramps and pau
pers, with strikes, lockouts and panics
on the other?
Nothing These parties desire no
change.
What do they offer as a remedy
against the growing power Of trusts, "
which limit the production of necessa-
ries, reduce wages and maintain an ar
tifcially high standard of prices?
These parties have given US an anti
trust law, but they take care that no
man shall be elected to Office who will
disturb the trusts. -
What remedy do the Republican and
Democratic parties offer for unequal
and oppressive railroad, telegraph and
telephone rates, and for the exaetions
of monopolies, the franchises of which,
though granted by the public, are oper-
ated upon the principles of ''The public
be d--dp' and "What are you going
to do about it?'
Nothing These parties are the serv-
ants of monopolies.
What is the Republican and Demo-
cratic remedy for oppressive land mo-
nopoly and the holding for speculative
purposes of lands that should be used
to relieve overcrowded tenement dis
tricts and to give opportunities to will
ing labor seeking employment?
They have no remedy.
On the contrary, the Republican and
Democratic parties, protesting to repre-
sent the people, withhold from the pro-
lection and privileges of the ballot one
half of the citizens because of sex.
The Republican and Democratic par
ties protect the representatives of actual
minorities in the right to legislate, but
refuse representation to minority par
ties.
They protect by license the rumseller
in his debauchery of the citizen.
They protect the benefciaries of an
unjust monetary system by increasing
the bonded debt of the public in time
of profound peace.
Their leaders break, without scruple,
every prediction promise where it con-
ficts with personal or party interests
In the name of our fast departing lib
erty, why should the toiling masses,
why should the citizens who desire to
see equal opportunities for all in the
race of life and government that shall
make it easy to do right but hard to do
wrong-why should they longer sup
port these parties?
The Prohibition party stands by its
platform utterances, pledged to every
reform here enumerated. 1t is the only
party that stands for all of them The
so called Peoples Party. by ignoring to
a large extent the liquor evil and in
many cases by actually nominating sa-
loon keepers for Office and giving them
important positions in party manage
ment. has shown, like the Republican
and Democratic parties, that it is un-
worthy of trust where the peoples in
terests are concerned. As parties now
stand, the Prohibition party alone is
worthy the votes of sincere reformers. -
Voice.
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