The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-09-13
URVEY.
ent Situation
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se ~ returned from a protract

q nc, pouth DdkOta, Chau-
sauqua' and including many interven-
ing points.
nnd, IN mixing with men, that the
strikes, the tariff issue and politics
iae,nerally are engaging the minds and
'"iung the mouths of the people.
If we could get rid of our politicians
and labor agitators land for the whole
business ] prescribe rough on rats
then the men of this country could go
10 work, and work and frugality will
soon solve the problems and settle the
questions. You cannot leeislate a.
country into morals and into prosper-
ity; at last the individual must be re-
formed.
find in the west, as well as in the
south, that the populists are moving
Tor all there is in it, and when sit
down quietly and ask myself: "Whence
this populist party? What is its pedi-
gree"' | am forced to the conviction
that the democratic party is its father
and the republican party its mother.
! 1t is legitimate hybrid, and as hybrids
do not propagate l suppose the child
will die without issue.
The two old political parties are re-
sponsible for the ideas and conclusions
reached by the masses. In the south
the democratic orators on every stump
have propagated the doctrine and
taught the idea to the people that the
republican party had inaugurated class
legislation, that the law oppressed the
poor and favors the rich, and that the
great masses were being down trodden
by the force of vicious statutes.
These good old country brethren sat
around and heard these doctrines
preached from every busting until. by
and by, they began to believe them.
and to-day the populist patty In the
south and the west, the Child of the
teachings of the two old parties. has
formulated its creed and organized its
forces upon the false positions and
hurtful lies propag'Ated by democratic
and republican orators in order to de-
feat each other The democrats of the
soueh are Dat reapipg the legitimate
harvest o. the sowing.
l ar, perfectly candid when | say
.na|,S haven't heard political speech
N twenty years in which the orator of
the occasion, whether he was demo
cratic or republican, did not try to
show the people how they were OPP
pressed and how the rich were getting
'riehersnd the poor were getting poor
er, and no field of wheat ever stood as
the product of wheat sown in that
field more legitimatcly than the popu-
list party stands as the fruit of the
sowing of the political orators of the
day. The democrats begat the kid and
now despise it.
The republican party in Kansas is
doing the same thing now. The kid is
somewhat bigger than it's mother in
Kansas and seems to be handling the
old soul without gloves.
Political orators and labor agitators
are largely responsible for the condi-
'tion of things in the political and in
'd0strial fields of our country. What
spectacle with us to-day in every state
and on every stump-party arrayed
against party, with every imaginable
lie and damnable dirty trick-each as
sailing the other and pulling for sue
cess. Not only is this true in the coun-
try at large, but in Washington city
the president and the lower house are
pulling for n settlement of the tariff
issue and the senate is putting on
brakes going up hill.
Patriotism and party fealty and
pledges and platforms are abandoned
by those who would serve the trusts,
ignore the prosperity of our country
and perpetuate the depression which
has we'll nigh crushed the life out of
the commercial and industrial circles
of the land.
The labor agitator profits by strikes
and friction in the labor world.
The politician and the official can sell
their votes for the highest prices when
the lines are most clearly drawn and
the official bodies most equally divided.
am one of those unfortunate people
who make up the majority, perhaps, in
this country, and who cannot help
viewing with suspicion the character
of the official who fights most strongly
for trusts and monopolies and assumes
the air of injured innocence when a
question is raised as to his integrity
anu nuciJy
No jackass in a barn lot ever kicked
and prayed more vociferously than Cor
man did the other day in the United
States senate. He will make few people
believe that he is the peer of Grover
Cleveland in the honesty of his purpose,
in the courage of his convictions and
in the patriotism of his efforts. There
is not much danger in that animal
when you are out of reach of his heels
and out of hearing of his voice.
Mr.. Hill, with his game, is under
stood by many. The income tax, when
ever it is mentioned, gives him hydro
phobia, and when Cleveland stirred the
hornets nest Mr.. Hill fell in line with
Mr., Cleveland in order to widen the
breach and forever make it impossible
for the senate and house to agree upon
any deal at all. | have thought all
along that Mr.. Hill wasn't two-faced
man, because l thought if he had an
other face he would not wear the one
he does, but evidently be has two or
more faces, and it is hard to tell which
outfavors the other.