The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
The st. Paul Globe on the Populist
Party.

The st. Paul Globe. of June 18th. is
very emphatic in refusing to "fuse"
with the Populists. This is amusing.
Nobody axed you, SIR" she said.
But it proceeds to discuss Mr.. S. M.
owen and our humble self, and it's
comments will be interesting to our
readers. It says:
"This incongruous (Omaha) plat
form mirrored the mass represented
In the convention. On the one hand
were the socialists of all degrees,
whose views found no sympathy even
IN the party which had partially ap-
Piled their principles, and whose sole
recourse was independent action. On
the other hand were the people, in
dividualists at heart, who distruSted
the sincerity of the Democratic or
ganization, believing that it is con-
trol]ed by influences in sympathy
with those which dominate the Re-
publican party. We are forced to ad-
nit that the present session of Con-
gress affords ground for this distrust
TO those who take narrow view and
Judge the whole party by the acts of a
few men, accidentally in place where
they can defeat the wishes of the par
ty. OF these two elements Mr.. Don
nelly and Mr.. Owen are fairly repre-
sentative types; the one believer in
the divine origin and power and mis-
sion ofgovernment: the other in the di-
vine origin of man and his power to
regulate and conduct his own affairs
for himself better than they can be di
rected for him. The one prescribes
governmental interference for every
social i'll, and, in the next BREATH in
his denunciation of corporations,
trusts, monopolies, the money power
all creations of overnment-makes
the strongest possible argument. that
OF demonstration for the limitation
instead of the expansion of the powers
OF the social organization"
What blunder-head is this fellow!
The aggressions Of corporations,
trusts, ETC.. he says furnish the
strongest argument against enlarging
the powers of government. Here is
his syllogism:
l. The trusts, corporations and
rings are robbing the people.
2. There is no way to stop them eX-
cept by legislat tion, or mob violence.
3. The Democratic party is opposed
to the people taking the law in their
own hands: and equally opposed to
laws being passed to restrain the rob-
bers.
4. AS the rings, trusts and corpora
tions can neither be resisted by mobs,
nor restrained by the ballot box, they
must go on and the people must be
ruined.
5. The government had perfect
power to create the corporations;.
monopolies, ETC., but she has no power
to restrain them. Once born they are
omnipotent.
And this is st. Paul Globe Demo
cracy. God help us.
And then this writer says that we
have been preaching "the divine
origin of government" We have been
doing nothing of the kind. Every is
sue of this paper proclaims him falsi
fer. We said in Caesars Column"
that government was ''no more sacred
than cooking pot" Like the cook
ing pot it is simply made for mans
use, comfort and advantage.
We concede that this editorial
writer has no brains, except such as
are needed for the merely mechanical
functions of life, but even then he
should tell the truth. We can admire
an intellectual liar: but compound
of fool and knave is something like
the monstrosity we once saw-a cross
hnt np,6 Wy
Where is II. p Hall that he permits
such stuff to go into the Democratic
organ?
But the screed goes on.
"Mr. Owen and four-ffths of his
party are free traders; not revenue
tariffites, but for free trade with all
it's consequences. Many Democrats of
extreme logical tendencies are of the
same belief. Mr.. Donnelly, once
free trader, discovered that the prin-
ciple on which it is based is hostile to
the socialistic principle, and now ad-
vocates protection. Given the abso-
lutte power and Mr.. Owen would not
put into force the subtreasury and
land loan schemes; Mr.. Donnelly
would do it hilariously. We doubt
whether, if clothed with power and
responsibility, Mr. Owen would let sill
YER be'coined at ratio of 16 to 1; and
we have no doubt that, in the same
position, Mr.. Donnelly would coin pa
per disdainfully regardless of ratios"
There is scarcely word of truth in
all this.'
l. Four-ffths Of the Peoples Party
are not free-tradess, unless the consti-
tuition of the United States shall be
first changed. For if there was no
tariff the taxes for the support of the
national government would have to
be levied directly on the people: and
the constitution of the United States
provides that direct taxes shall be
levied on the basis of popetlation,- NOT
WEALTH. So that the people of Min
nesota, overwhelmed with debt and
mortgages, would have to pay as
much. per capita, as like number of
neonle down East, who own the mort
cages. and are rolling in the plunder
of the West.
3 Mr.. Donnelly is not MCKINLEY
nrotectionist: at the same time, for
the reason just given, he is in favor Of
q tariff on imports, instead of direct
+axation. on the basis of population
And he can see no reason WHY that
+oriff should not be so adjusted, with.
in reasonable bounds, as to help our
aun workmen rather than the worL
mon Of foreign countries. The man
who rents a store, and lights and