The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-24
Where Quarrels Ends.
st Louis Repu bile.

on the underlying principle of JET
fersonism-that the highest degree
of freedom consistent with the pro-
lection Of other human rights is
the highest degree of happiness
ask that party leaders address
themselves to the duty of promot-
ing harmony and good feeling
within the party. In thus asking
for the preparation prudent lead
ers will always make on the eve of
critical campaign they look ahead
to the consequences of demoraliz-
ing disputes and jealousies.
Before all other Democratic du-
ties is that of retaining control of
the Government. IF our own par
ty does not retain control, the pow
er will pass into the hands of the
same Republicans who enacted the
Mckinley law, who nearly passed
the force bill, who favor the gold
standard, bonded debt and lavish
appropriations, who would abolish
all internal taxation in order to
perpetuate baroninl tariff and
who would gladly engage in for.
eign wars to increase tariff duties
and ravish from states and individ-
uals yet a larger share of power
than was taken under the martial
law of the Civil War.
There is not the remotest possi-
bility that the loss of Democratic
control would be attended by any
thing except the succession Of Re-
publican control. Have any Dem
ocrats been so blind for 81 years
that they are blissfully unconscious
of what Republicanism would be-
gin to do if it once more held the
House, the Senate and the Presi-
dency?
Hatred of the South has not sub
sided. The words of Vhad Stevens
in 1867 were no more venomous
than the words of Frye and Hoar
are in 1894. The influence of the
privileged tariff interests is strong
er now than it was during the war.
Republican pension pledges are
out which more Tanners and
Raums must redeem for the en-
richment of claim agents and the
impoverishment of the Treasury.
1t took only one Republican Con-
gress under the leaders who are
still in command of that party to
fix $500,000,Oo0 annual rate of ex-
penditures. 1t might take only
one more to teach us familiarity
with $1,O0O,0O0,0OO a year.
Democrats who have been in the
thick of our long contest for the
people against privilege and CEN
tralization are keenly alive to the
facility with which new powers
can be grasped by the Government
and the painful difficulty with
which single power is wrested
from greedy hands. 1t is easy for
the servile cohorts Of IL Republican
majority to take control of elec-
tions, sell tariff schedules to organ
lied buyers and to mortgage the
Treasury to any desired amount.
A single order from the bosses, II
single vote in each house will do
any one of these acts. And then
the people must struggle step by
step for years to get back what
they lost; must pay the taxes to
the uttermost farthing that mani
pulated finance can exact.
This is not speculative politics. 1t
would be well for all the States of
the Union if they knew of these
dangers only by mental deductions.
We know because we have paid
the price. We know because, after
years Of intense labor and zeal for
improvement, the wealth of the ma.
tion Is not in the hands Of the peo-
pie. We know because the Nation
al Government, in spite of enorm-
Gus revenues, is to-day borrowing
money, and because the Southern
States are still paying the debts
saddled upon them by a plunder-
ing and constituencies Republican,
ism of the force bill breed. The
evidence of the danger is in the
bitter, cunning and powerful op-
position which consronts every re-
form in the present Congress.
If there ia Democrat who
soothes himself with the idea that
there ~ nothing more In a. breach
between the President and Sem
ators of the party than an enter
tainment for dull winter, he
must be young or has let his mind
sleep.
Breaches of this sort 60 far some
times They haya hoon Lnn,,, .