The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-16
PUNGENr CITrzENIsMs.
The Cleveland Citizen Shows I'm tn

Riugs-A-i SyrOphantic Press De-
nOuncedbns the Agent of COrrup-
ton nndiToos Of Mnmmon.
We commend the following, clipped from
that red hot reform paper, the Cleveland
Citizen, to the careful perusal of our
readers.
1t seems stranger that the moment a pub
lie official, whether he was elected as a
reformer or not, rApudates the corporation
and rings and public pap-suckers he is
adJudged insane by the prsss-"the moulder
of public Opinior,%r 1.-The guardian of liber-
ty." etc, etc. Instead of having a free
press that dqres ito tell the truth, let it
strike YEomd1t Hay, we have today a
cowardly, slaFish institution, hide-bound
and partisano to the core. fawning and
crirging before the almighty dollar like a
dSformed, hideous serf before a powerful
master, and doing the bidding of wealth
and might as faithfully as a whipped span
lei. The press of today is the bludgeon
OF the rings of our great cities; it is the
Swapping cur that snarls and banks when
reform is mentioned, no matter how justi-
fable; it is bribed into silence when there
is scandal and corruption in their own
camp, and throws mud at honesty and in
tegrity; it defames, bemeans and insults
the poor, in sneaking manner. and lauds
wealth and snobbery to the skies-in a
word, the press of today is intellectual
prostitute and gold is it's god
"Moulders of public opinon!' Who ever
heard Of an influential newspaper taking
the unpopular side of a question, although
that side is right? 1t is the people who
first propose rsforns-and all reforms are
unpopular at the beginning, and always
will be-and when the ideas are popu-
lariZed, the newspapers take them up and
brag and blow of their influence. AS q
rule individuals with more money than
principal establish newspapers, and only
for the purpose of making more money;
honest methods and sharp practice that the
term business will cover.
The Denver organs of the grand old par
ty of morality raised the cry that Gov
elnor Waite is insane, and every rag-tag
bob-tai Republican sheet from the Atlantic
to the Pacific echoed it.
Aye sirs; maybe he is crazy. So are
all the other officials in the various states
who manfully refuse to bow their heads
to the power of monopoly, as the Republi-
can party has done for 10! these many
years. Crazy? Yea. it is almost idiocy to
attempt to rescue this country from the
greedy grasp of a damnable plutocracy a
thousand times more arrogant, vindictlve
and hateful than Satan himself-deGvered
into it's hands by the cowardly silence Of
the press and the objectionable, criminal
ignorance of the voters
AS the reformer stands by the wayside
and views with alarm the terrible, realistic
panorama pass before him, he may indeed
question MS own SANITY. Countess TdSBeu,
hungry hOrdes of unemployed, begging in
vain for merely the God-given privilege Of
living like human beings, dragging their
weary footsteps toward pauper's graves;
millions of women and children drawn down
into the whirirg, rushing stream of want
and forced into the devouring NAV of the
industrial monster leaving hope behind
and condemned to lead lives of ceaseless,
grinding toll, while the husbands and faith
ers tramp, tramp tramp; debts piling bur
dens upon the backs of those who still
able to struggle along without help, while
the blthing curse of usury silently and
surely eats up their small possessions and
swels the mighty army of enforced power
ty: all the crimes of hell Increasing so rap
idly, despite all commandments. religious
or secular, that the world stands aghast;
political rings of robbery, industrial mo-
nopolies and corporate power debating cleo
lions and legislation, driving everything be-
fore them; and perched upon the top notch
of the juggernaut of wealth sits the hideous
golden calf, guarded by the press. Let the
press beware!
Who are the anarchists in this country,
anyway? 1t would seem that the Republic
an party-the party of bsotry and intoler-
ance-is making an unenvitable reputation
for itself in harboring rebels and outlaws.
Besides having in its ranks thousands OF
mean, arrogant monoDolists who bride leg
islators and wantonly defy law, that party
has become so braZenly impudent and re-
belliouS that in, states where the people
vote it out of office the bayonet must be
called into requisition before it will relin-
quish it's hold upon the public's business.
In Kansas it's gang of heeiers and pap
suckers reDelled as surely as ever q slave
state did in 81, and in Colorado an
other wing of the party is pursuing exactly
the same tactics. 1t is about time the peo-
pie caucused this subject of anarchism.
The Republican party is responsible for
the ruin alton of more homes and the piiing
up of more debt, the enthroning of more
trusts and monopolies and formation OF all
kinds of thieving rings than any other po-
litical organization that ever was or ever
will be on earth, and labor has been the
sufferer. 1t is class party, and it cannot
live, for as it's voters beggared they
drop out. 1t hypocritically pretends to leg
islate for labor, but it never selects Ia
borers to enact laws. 1t legisates on the
same principle that a master bosses his
SerfS.
Every word of the foregoing applies with
equal force to the Democratic half Of the
twn-the two old cronies now 50 close
togo ther that it is impossible to tell which
is tother. A new party has risen that is
absorbing the brain and Drawn of this land.
1t is bound to triumph Nothing on top Of
earth can prevent 1t.