The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-11-03
THE PEOPLES PARTY.

The Peoples party presents Is
kt are in no way sectional,
as universal and broad ae
lire country. No~naeihber OF
of the old p<rtfes pretends to
Do satisfied witt the present condi-
| ton of affairs but each attributes
the difficulty and disturbances to it's
opponens The republican claims
.iat the country's woes are caused
by the laundering policy of demo-
cratic legislators, while the democrat
asserts that the evil is produced by
the impossibility of at once coun-
teracting the bad results Of repub-
lican domination. s.
1.-THE worst feature Of this situa-
ton is the fact that they are both
partially correct. The two parties
that have alternately controlled the
destiny of the nation have practi-
cally lost sight Of the true welfare
of the people and have devoted
themselves to struggle for place,
power, and plumber. Added to this
is the tendency to cater to those
corporate or individual interests
which dictate party policy, bnd
suggest and purchase legislation.
1T may be said that any party
will have similar tendency VI cor
ruption on the attainment to power !;
but this is scarcely q valid argument
against a radical change. Every
political party had its period of
youth and innocence. Hthe demo
crat refers US to the craftsmanship
of Jefferson or the lofty patriotism
Of Jackson, we can remind him
that those were the days of the
youthful vigor and honesty of the
party, of resistance to inherited ar
istocratic forms and usages. on one
hand, and to the domination of
concentrated money power, on. the
other. Then the people believed in
the party and sustained it, and it
undoubtedly worked out bene6cent
results. But when the power of
slavery became prominent in the
councils of the party and all it's live
blood was poured into that foul
channel it fell from its high estate
and became democratic in name;
the substance had vanished. Then
came the republican party, built up
out of the ruins of the old whig
party, and reinforced by the free
soilcrs who infused the vital current
of a living principle; and in the ter
rible combat with slavery it grew
into a mighty power. But if we
are to judge by results, the mainte-
nance of principle has fallen into
The background in this party also.
The interests Of bankers and bond
of railroad magnates and
stock epeculators, of oil trusts and
sugar trusts, and every unholy com
oination of cunning and greedy
men, maddened by the thirst f6r
money and power, are consulted by
oarty leaders and legislators before
he concerns of the common people,
yho produce all the wealth and
prosperity that the contending 4po-
itical hosts are seeking to grasp:
n the midst of all this, the average
otter plods along, giving only a few
lays out of the year to the consid-
ration of grave questions that
eeply affect his happiness, and
ven his very existence, and when
lection day comes meekly votes
Or one or the other Of the great
arties which has held him in
hains in the past.
1--WE were promised relief from
ar financial and industrial diff |
ulties if the Sherman silver bill
ras repealed, and when that repeal
, voted at the call Of our fund,
olding and money-lending classes.
nd We have bowed ourselves in the |
ust before the golden Moloch of
treat Britain and Wall street, relief
, as far off as ever. We are now
old that the Wilson tariff bill will
'olvethe problem, and every indus
y will advance toward prosperity. (
"How long are the American
eople to be deceived by this trivial
onsense? Can We not see that
1ese are but the red rags that the
parish bull-figLter faunts in the
zee Of the Infatuated and tortured
east while his attention is called
,om the cruel sword Of the matador
'hieh is to deal the deadly stroke?|
Tho. people should control the
,gulatim Of finance and the distri-
ution Of the products Of industry
! the interests Of. America andl
ntil W moyesin that direction No:
eal progress can b possible. r
Vhen did ever . financiGs or mon
y-lsnder advise the government
gainst his own intsrest1 Ia al
DO manipulations to which our
urrenl has been subjected, 10 80 L
DO persietelt, cunning hand 81 the
money posvef ever seeking - H.
reass IL portion Of intefsst 10 b.
aid By khs prodpcsr A ~ most
ostly medium of sxohaneo.
y" We did not fight tie Civil War
trough 81 ! dependents npon fold.
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