New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-09-05

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tinuance Of tariff agitation if they are
retained in power, no other argument
need be addressed. The Democratic
party has spoken it's own sentence of
condemnation. 1t is dead cock in the
pit.
The Populists, on the other hand, are
very active, very aggressive, and pre-
tend to be very hopeful. But they are
not half as dangerous as they seem.
Populism saw it's high water mark in
the election of 1892. It may and doubt
less will carry more congressional dis
tricts this year than then, because there
is no national ticket in the field, and
the American people are fond of expert
menting. But it will not gain control
of any new states, and it's record in
those where it has been in power con-
dennis it surely. This country is capable
OF doing some curious things, but not of
supporting party whose fundamental
idea is the overthrow Of self govern
ment and the destruction of free insti-
buttons.
A great many people of otherwise
good Judgment are unduly exercised
over the rise and growth of the Peoples
party. There is no real danger in it,
because of the impossibility that it
should succeed in a sane community.
But neither is there anything novel
about it. Political prophets who have
the tremors because it has seemed to
spring up like Jonah's gourd, must not
forget that there have been
Plenty of Precisely Similar Instances,
that the features pres nted by the Peo-
pies party movement are familiar
enough, though aggravated, and that it
will share the fate Of the similar organ.
lzatlons thai preceded it, when the
work shall have been accomplished. It
will be shown, later, that the objects
which this party sets before it are either
impossible or evil. But first it is inter-
esting to look at it's place in our polit-
ical development. =.
For more than twenty years there has
been party of organized discomfort in
the United States. That party has ex-
listed generally by fixing UPON some real
grievance which had not yet been
wholly remedied in the slow course of
public procedure. It has drawn to it
naturally the disappointed, the dema.
gogues, the human driftwood left high
and dry on the political shore. Unable
to bear the odium that these accessions
create, and deprived of an issue by the
gradual correction of the evils against
which it was originally a protest, it sub
sides and disappears even more quickly
than it arose. What the country sees
now 1t has seen before. The parallel is
TOO close and perfect to escape notice.
The Grange Movement.
Some years after the close of the war
had permitted our material development
to go forward with great leaps and
bounds, it began to be discovered that
there were no limits to the power of
railroad corporations. There were act
ually those who asserted that the
making Of rates was an exercise Of the
sole power of the railroad; and that.
although the people might protest. thew
could not in any way limit or interfere
with this power without DENYING the
right of private property and endanger-
ing vested interests. It was as a protest
against this that the farmers Oranges
Were started; and the Granger move
ment did noble service in carving on
the war through the courts, until the
highest tribunal in the United States
had affirmed the right Of the people,
through their representatives in legis.
latures and in congress to regulate rail
road charges and compel the fixing Of
reasonable rates. Il was good fight
and great victory; and there the use
fitness of the ..GS1au GERS, ended s..