Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-15
VICTORY OF THE MINORITY.

VICTORY OF THE MINORITY.
Democratic Defeat Due to Division of tla
| Party.
| There is no reason why minor diff
ferences Of opinion should keep apart
the masses of the people who have q
| common belief in the true principles
| Of popular government. The party OF
| the monopolists, of the corporations,
| Of subsidies and taxes always hangs
| together. It is singular that the CO.
hesive power of public plumber should
be stronger than the cohesive power
of popular principles.
The monopolists, the trusts, the sub
sidized interests, the protected classes.
the tax-eaters. the people who live by
the sweat of the brows of others, never
| separate into factions nor divide their
| votes They are a unit in political &C.
| ton. With the sole object of plumber
of taxing the people to raise boun-
ties for their enterprises of industry
and speculation-enrich themselves
| by the spoliation Of the country, they
| have the organization and discipline
| OF pirate crew. They never "bolt, -
they never run third tickets, they
never separate to be beaten in detail.
1t is amazing that there should be
two or three parties of popular rights
and but one party of the spoils- It is
strange that men with great common
beliefs and aims, who have no selfish
interest in politics, who have nothing
personally to gain whether their party
is in power or out of power, should
fail to act in harmony at the polls,
while the spoliator, the plunderers,
the mercenaries never permit their
greed and rapacity to disturb their
oneness of purpose or to produce dis
Indignation in their ranks.
The people separate into political
factions over the shades of meaning in
language by which the most important
principles Of government are ex-
pressed. The spoi1smen concentrate
their forces and are sure of victory
against the divided ranks of the peo-
pie. They stimulate the differences
of honest factions in order that they
may gain their ends through lack Of
concerted action among those whom
they have considered to rob and de-
stroy.
Every republica victory in the ma
ton and in the principal states that
has been gained within the last TWEEN
ty-fve years is the fruit of democratic
divisions or Of divisions between fac
lions that should have been united in
support of democratic principles.
Their victories have been those of a
united minority against a divided
majority. The republican party is
a minority party. 1t exists because
the majority, holding essentially a
common political faith, disintegrates
at the ballot box, and votes plurality
of tickets to represent the same sub
stantial truths of popular free govern
ment.
The republican victories are the
victories of a compact minority over
the divided majority. The democratic
defeats, wherever they have occurred,
party. holding political beliefs of I'M
arated into factiono. with opposing
sets ofcandidates representing identic
al principles in politics.
The people will not come to their
own-they will be the prey Of spoils-
men and bandits as long as they fail
to become organized and disciplined
for their own protection, as their
enemies are organized and disciplined.
The many will be defeated and robbed
by the few as long as they do not COM
bine to resist defeat and robbery.
The men who have lived and &C.
quired wealth and power by subsidies,
bounties and gifts from the govern
ment of which they seized control
from the hands of the masses will re-
tain their usurped domination until
the people shall join in a revolution to
be accomplished by their united forces,
with one purpose and a common OBJ
ject.-Chicago Herald.