Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07

ments Have Been Crushed
by the: Loyal1American Peo-
pile, Who Have Become
Weary Of the=New Anarchy:
This years political battle will put an
end to the career Of that: body of Or
ganized evil known as ): the Peoples
party. That is the mission Of +Republi-
canism, and it will not fail Of success.
The Democrats have ia ken care of them
selves. No enemy could possibly have
put them in, the position (which they as
stunned voluntarily: ~ Anything more
stupendously laundering and democrat
izing than Mr.. Cleveland's two letters
could not be conceived. ) In the first,
when he tried vainly TO stop th4 stam+
pede Of the house to the senate bill he
characterized< that measure 'sas* It deS
served. Hs<denounced it as unworthy
of the Democratic party, as a piece of
''party perfdy and party dishonor."
That was bad@enough, but: ~..~.
His acknowledgements Is Worse.
e
His own. act had made it impossible
for him to approve this bill: : Unlike
most men; when caught between. the
devil and the deep sea, he chooses a lit
tie of both, {: In his letter to Mr. Catch-~
ings, which<closes, as Democrats hope,
this most astounding "epistolary per:
fornance by the PRESIDENT, he declares
that he permits the bill to become a law
only because, it marks a step on the
road, and that the fight for free trade
will still go on. So Democracy goes
into this campaign weighted not only
with the plumbers and crimes of it's past,
but with the more dreadful promise
Of repeating them in the fu-
ture. To the people who have
passed through this most calamitous
year, who are taught by the instant re-
vival Of business as soon as the tariff
agitation is over, that this was the
cause of their distress, and who now
hear the prophecy Of Democratic leaders
i'll the house and senate confirmed by a
Democratic president, promising con-
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.
Populism Saw High Water Mark in 1902.
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 experts
menting.> But It will not gain. control
of any new states, and its record IN
those where it has been in power cons
dennis it surely. This country is capable
of'dolng some curious things, but not of
SUPPORTING, party, WHOSE s:tupQameptal>
ideais the *oNerthrQWsd .set> govesrn+
ment andthe destruction Of free insti-
tutio14s. t,'sN.f
A great 1hany people Of otherwise
good Judgment are unduly exercised
over the rise aid growth 81 the 1s 8
party. There is no real danger in it,
becaNsp Or the > ilRpG5FssiEaht5 a. It
shad sncce6d1a II liz saff6 coH II II
But&aneithet is st4era ayttfnA Ro1ef
aboSe it. PtafAa4 pppHts }wh$ have
theNemoae Efdaass. g.. It IA q ssti Sdttd
epNHg up like Jonah's gourd, must not
forget that there have tbdeh'' n = f']':T57:
T1bnty of Precisely Similar Instances,
that the features pres nted BY the Peo-
ple paff SaYIlf f33oYenfff| f1el famiii9 r
wiA:shareItlb| fate Of the similar organ-l
izati1ns; that. ptScedeh! it,; when athas
work shall have been accomplished. It
w1lSbe shown, later, that the objects
which this party sets Pefore;it. ara either
IMPOSSIBLE on evil. But first it is inter-
estf1g to look at its place in our polit-
ica1 Developments. "a IL 3>s%1 = t"
For more shan twenty}'yyeArs There has
been]a PARTY Of ofganized disco1ltent III
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.
publ procedure. It has drawn. to it
naturally the disappointed, the dema-
gogues, the, human driftweod 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 protest, it sub
sides and disappears even more quickly
than it arose. What The country sees
now it has seen before The parallel is
too q Jose 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 tie power OF
neutrality-suspicious. There weresacta
ually those who asserted that the
making Of rates was an exercise of the
sole power of the railroad; and that.
althoughthe people might; protest. they
could not in an3 wax limit tr ia ltt,ea fese
v;fA, tbixs SSoxw ne q - 4ra