The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1894-11-17
THE cRANKs OF popULrsM.

IdE CRANhS OF POPULISM.
The San Francisco Bulletin says the
general rout of the Democratic party
was not all that was accomplished No
vember 9th by the peopIe-''the semi-rev-
eolutionary Populists are laid out also."
Which is quite true, as also is the further
expression that ION many points the
Populist party was little less than
scavenger for the Democracy"
The fact is that the Populists, while
embracing in their party large number
of sincere and good men, is infested by
host OF impracticables and another host
of chronic GROWERS, who proceed to
preach calamity, woe and desolation
from premises not founded in truth, and
to rouse the people to revolt against their
own interests by the assertion of schemes
700 vain and visionary to be even en-
titled utopian.
Witness, for instance. the vigor and
bilious energy with which the party
prosecuted the campaign on the assertion
DIODGILY
OF the nation is mortgaged, and that the
membranes aggregate more than the
value of the property. Tens of thou
SANDS OF people accepted as true this
wl4d-eyed assertion, and whoever dared
TO call for the proofs was hooted and viii
Ned and pronounced public enemy and
the tool of the money power. The Gov
eminent was thereupon moved to make
Official inquiry into the matter, and at
cost OF nearly million of dollars ascer-
famed the truth. Such statistics had
never before been taken, and the Pom
lists actually had not even the shadow of
fact upon which they had based their
libel.
The records proved that the assertions
quoted regarding farm property are with
out foundation, and that the conditions.
instead of being gloomy and threatening
concerning farm property incumbrance
as whole in the United States, are quite
the contrary.
These Populists have deIuded labor to
considerable extent into the belief that
all mankind not within the Populist
ranks is at enmity with the artisan. the
laborer and wage-earners generally.
Such advocates of Populism as the
senile Waite of Colorado shouted and
roared and worldly waded in woe and
desolation, until some sensible people be-
gan TO think that really nothing but the
overthrow of American institutions
would serve the ends of righteousness.
Indeed, since the election Waite has de-
clared that the revolution must come.
by the ballot if possible" but otherwise
if necessary.
But Colorado has spewed Waite out of
It's throat, and written contempt for him
upon the election returns. Of course he
declares that ''the money power' is re-
sponsible for his overthrow. If that be
conceded for the wit of the thing, the
money power has done good Job Tor
once.
The Republic of America is not on the
AOdQs IL Is u61bu6E III the LDrOeS
of death, nor is it in need of communistic
doctoring. 1t has ills that must be and
viii be cured, reforms that need to be and
viii be accomplished, and one of these is
the closing of the gates to the admission
of any more Of the communistic and an
arcbistic gang that has crawled into pro-
mInence through the Populist party. The
good men in the organization will come
out of 1t in time, and join hands with
genuine Americans, who love their coun-
try too well to see it suffer the disgrace Of
rule by the elements that pose in the
Populist ranks as reformers. There is
unrest; there is need for reform; there is
corruption; nor is it surprising that such
should be the fact, but we believe the
American people are equal to all correc-
tions needed without blood, hatred or
waiIing, or the assistance of the cranks
of Populism.