The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-06-16
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Divide and be CONQUERED

There is great rejoicing among the
trusts and tariff barons generally
over what appears to be division
in the democratic party. They are
keeping their own counsel and hop.
ing to be benefited by it. In refer
ring to the matter one of our leading
contemporaries sounds the warn
ing given below that we trust all
democrats and patriots will heed:
Benedict Arnold's treason did not
faint the motives of the patriots of
the Revolution, and if our political
freedom had been delayed by the sur
render of West Point it would not
have justified any loss of faith in the
motives of the Continental Army.
There was no other instrument by
which our fathers could be freed
from unjust taxation, and the clear
heads and sound sense of the men of
that day recognized the fact. They
blamed Arnold, but not the army.
His treason but inspired them to new
effort to make the army stronger and
more effective.
The Republican party is the party
of King-the party of the trusts
and the corporations which it has
created, to which it has given the
power to tax the people without their
representation in the trusts and
without their consent as to the
amount. By false pretense, by DELHI
crate misrepresentation, by actual
forgery, the people were deceived as
to the meaning of it's legislation,
and it was not until four fifths of the
total wealth of the whole United
States had been transferred to the
pockets of four thousand plutocrats
and million friends and relatives
that they awoke to their danger and
demanded the restoration of their
rights as free men.
The Democratic party is the party
of the people-the patriot army to
which the people can alone look for
relief from further spoliation, rob-
berry and final enslavement as the
serfs of the thousand plutocratic
masters. 1t has it's Lees and it's
Arnolds, its incompetent as well as
its traitorous Generals. 1t has it's
faint-hearts and it's weak knees; it's
dissensions and it's jealousies. 1t
has no money to attract recruits,
and it can promise no plumber, if
successful, to bind its members to-
gether 1t fights only for absolute
fair play to each man and special
protection to none in the battle of
life, and its leaders are under con-
slant pecuniary temptation to sur
render to the enemy.
But the only hope the country has
is in the Democratic party and it's
thorough organization in every State.
Its rank and file cannot be bought.
Even plutocracy has not money
enough for that. The object of it's
members is to "free the people," and
however much the party may fall
short through the treachery of lead
ers of accomplishing it, nothing can
be gained by the masses in that di-
rection outside Of it. Every new
party movement must be for the
same object, and it must necessarily
be less effective to that end outside
of than inside of the Democratic
party. The same work inside the
party that will make a well drilled
and well-oflicered corps will only
produce outside of it an independent
and ragged brigade.
The plutocrat's motto is, "divide
and conquer" If the opposition to
them can be split into Democratic
Populist, National, Socialist, Labor
and half dozen other parties, such
division of itself will defeat any
peaceful revolution at the ballot.
box. Plutocracy will furnish the
money to organize as many parties
as may be required and all the
campaign funds" necessary for in
dependent movements to weaken the
only foe it fears-the Democratic
party.
The first step to divide the Demo
cratic party has been to induce few
of its leaders to openly preach plu
tocracy, to defend the trusts, to laud
a government by corporations. The
object is not to get converts to plu.
tocracy, but to split the solid oppo
sition Of the people, to disgust the
Democratic rank and file and cause