Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
REPUBLICAN MATTERS.
THE PARTY OF ANARCHY.
fopuiists Have Definitely Ranged Them
selves on the Side M lawIcssnass

iopuiists uave Definitely Ranged Them
selves on the Side of LawIossness.
The Populist party il now wolf
defined as the party OF anarchy. II
seems a strange thing that in this
country. where free institutions
have obtained their widest and
worthiest expression, there should
be a body of organized men to maze
free institutions impossible by fight
ing for the widest license. There Is
no country and no government in
the world, for instance, that could
stand the strain of what we have
been through OF late. il it were to be
continuous. The utter insecurity
OF property and life and
the embargo laid upon the
transaction OF ordinary bus
mess would make life intolera-
bic. The most devoted servltor OF
liberty would, If this condition were
chronic. deliberately seek refuge IN
any other form of despotism rather
than to invite this lowest and vilest
form. For that is what it is. No
reasoning man can have any doubt
oil what are the forces ut work or
what would be the meaning of tho
triumph Of the clements that de.
manded recognition as paramount in
these United States There are
various sorts of tyrannies; but we
can think OF none more unbearable
than tho unlimited sway OF band
OF men who declared all but them
selves outlaws, and held that all out
side OF their order were not entitled
to enjoy life or liberty or the pur-
suit of happiness Several times
the world has seen established the
rule OF just such an element as this.
and every time it has made black
page in history and held back the
progress OF the race.
Now the only party to recognize,
to commend, to sympathizo with this
unholy crusade for the subversion Of
liberty is the Populist party, says
the St Paul Pioneer Press. These
disturbances, this demand for the
overthrow Of those liberties that
were fought for so bravely and have
been held so precious, are dear to
it's hope. 1t is an organized ex-
preston Of all the envy, the hatred,
the malice. the uncharitableness that
can find resting place IN the human
heart. 1t is the party of organized
robbery, seeking to take from every
man his property and from the
laborer his wage by debasing tho
currency. 1t is the party of organ
lied rapine, demanding the conlisca-
ton OF private property by the gov
ernment 1t is the party of organ
lied despotism, holding that the
acts of legislatures and the decisions
of courts do not bind its members
in the least. 1t encourages
riot. and over the hideous
acts of murder and arson it paints
beautiful picture OF that human lib
erty to which it would give the
death blow. There is no stronger il
lustration of the swlftness and steep
ness OF the downward way than tho
rise and progress of this Peoples par
ty. Once committed to the policy OF
financial dishonor and sworn to tho
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ratification of all those acts that be-
long to the brutal side of humanity,
and that society has punished and
attempted to prevent for ages, as a
condition OF making it possible for
men to live together The Populist
party is an embodiment OF all that is
worst in human nature. It's rise in
this country is sad measure of the
distance that American character
has wandered from the old type, the
old ideal, toward u type that is low
err than even that OF the old world.