The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-21
MAJORITIES.
They Cannot Always BE In the
Right.

To the Editor
Election being over poor mortals can
take time for meditation. Republicans are
jubilant. and 1 can't see why the Pops
should feel bad. We made an enormous
gain, as large as we could reasonably ex-
pect. If we make as large a gain for the
next two years, we don't want anything
better. Let us only stick together and
commence now to educate for the cam
raign of SO. Let each and every one
make himself a committee of one to see
and convince his own neighbor of the utter
impossibility for the old parties to do any
thing for the benefit of the poorer classes.
Let point at the legislation for the past
30 years. 1t has in nine cases out of ten
been for the rich at the expense Of the
poor That the Republican party is no
better than the Democratic is an assured
fact. We need only point to the time
when Cleveland was elected the first time.
That was a time, the Republicans claim,
was the most prosperous era since the
war. Then in 1884 the people were tired
of Republican rule, or misrule and DEM
ocrauc president was the result. After
four years of Democracy, which, by the
way. had not satisfied the masses, the
people turned to the Republicans and
what was the result? The Republican
party was no more satisfactory than it's
antag onist So again in '92 the masses
Topped over to the Democrats again; but
the fruit of former legislato has COM
menced to ripen and a general financial
and business depression commenced. which
has reached its climax during Democratic
supremacy, and the pestiferous boil of
political and financial corruption came to
while q Damn.rl ID adj m iSt "a ar
was in power
Such is the reasoning of party dema-
gogues in the employ of shameless Insurers.
What reasoning! What exquisite logic!
Where was ever an effect produced with
out a pre-eXiSting cause? Whoever,
would like to know, saw such a phenom-
enon? Imagine a man. whose leg will
break today because a log will fall on it
tomorrow.
Another argument the Republicans have
after election is that Knute got the most
votes because he was the best man. But
a question comes to my mind, Is the ma
jority always right? If that is fact,
We must explain it by what has happened
before. AS they say must judge the
party by what the party has done. Then
theoretically we will judge the majority
by what the majority has done previously.
Take for instance during the revolution
airy war the British army was numeri-
cally stronger than the colonial army.
The British weresin the majority and ac-
cording to Republican reasoning they must
have been right and the colonies wrong.
1t was the same way with the Hellenese
fighting and vanquishing the hosts of
Persia.
How about Tammany rule in New York?
Tammany has been in power by the vote
of the majority, but is there a man in
the state of Minnesota who will maintain
that Tammany was right? So it comes
just down to this, that the majority may
be right, but not because of the majority.
The minority is not always in the wrong
either.
Now what we want to is that those
who voted for Republican rule will get
what they voted for. In the first place,
they want larger taxes, more bonds is
sued; silver to be kept as bullion in the
treasury, if at all; trusts and monopolies
to flourish and syndicates, rings and COM
binations to prosper. If this is what We
want, the majority was right in electing
knute Nelson.
Human passions are like swaying
reed Today they may approve what to-
morrow they will condemn and two years
from now the reaction will be on and
then brethren be on deck with sails out
spread and success is ours. Yours for the
cause, B. A. BURGESON
Hector, Nov. -.