The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
The CouN1RY's PERIL
ENDS THAT MUST BE MET BY BOTH
THE OLD PARTIES.


From the Minneapolis Penny Press.
The not unexpected and what might
have been reasonably anticipated has
materialiZed, and the Democracy has
again been showed under and buried out
of sight, beneath an avalanche of popu-
lar disapproval which seems to be in ac-
cordance with the eternal fitness OF
things and only accentuates its inutility
as a party of the future. The country is
promised a great change by restoring the
Republican party to popular favor LOT
one do not anticipate any Improvement
in the times SO long as the octopus ana
the Wall street vampires dominate the
business interests and dictate the hnan-
eial policy of the nation. The country Tor
the last two years has been between the
devil and the deep sea, and for the next
two years it will probably be between the
deep sea and the devil And so there you
are. The Republican party is no longer
that grand, noble and virile party that 1t
once was. The glowing periods ana mag
nificent word paintings of our friend f.
F. Davis Esq. no longer befit her She
no longer pitches her tent on the eastern
hills of progress and meets with smile
the rising sun Of ever increasing pros
perity. She has outlived her usefulness
and she has become Superannuated, mOfl-
bund and mossgrown, and cesspool OF
corruption. She has not vitality enough
to shake off the barnacles that have fas-
tened upon her. The country Will be just
as prosperous unQer Democratic RUE DIS
under Republican domination so long as
the present conditions obtain and it mat
tiers not whether the present colossal
crawfish be at the helm of state or some
machine politician takes his place. Like
causes produce like results, and if the
proposition be true that the future can
only be safely judged by the past, then
in the light of the past the Republican
party stands condemned. For under it's
rule the most gigantic, StupendOuS mon
umental institutions for defraudlnS the
people have found means to thrive and
this boosted party Of purity has taken
no pains to legislate them out of exist
ence. By the sufference and neglect of
the Republican party the farmers are
being taxed 40 per cent more for the
transportation of their products than
they would if proper legislation had
squeezed out the watered stocks Of the
railroads upon which they declare bogus
dividends. The bill of Senator Wash
burn intended to destroy options was
killed by the apathy Of the party and the
dealers in wind wheat, and options
gained an easy and signal victory by ma
nipulating the bill out of sight. No laws
Df congress have been passed protecting
the laboring man against the greed of
corporations. No courts Of arbitration
no courts of Cancellation have been insti-
tuted. No means have been provided
that the poor man could have recourse
to in order to protect himself against the
IdpdClty Oh the ITCH. Even the law tLdt
was enacted allowing laboring men to
form unions for mutual relief and pro-
lection has been declared uncOnStitu-
tional by one of the judges of our higher
courts. But he has. in my opinion, only
proved himself a satrap of satanic juriS-
prudence, and he doubtless would make
. better inferior judge of the inferior
courts of the inferior regions, which in
polite parlance is called sheol.
For all these things and more I hold
h. WY nrcfh1 Ia hn
cause it has suffered them by default to
exist, and has therefore become particepS
criminis If the question be asked why
l do not consider the Democratic party
a correspondent in this arrangement, I
answer, the reason is obvious, for where
there is no sense of moral responsibility
there can be no real moral delinquency.
/ consider the Democratic party in pre-
cisely that predicament, the apothegm of
Abraham Lincoln with regard to fooling
the people may be cramped to read a
fellows All the people may be wrong
part of the time; that would include both
Democrats and Republicans; and part of
the people may be wrong all the time"
That would point to the Democrats; but
all the people cannot be wrong all the
time, for that would include the Peoples
party, which would be quite improbable
Again it is claimed by some that the
times are improving; that the times are
much better, ETC., under Democratic
IL
the Wilson and German schedules, which
by the way is the real robber tariff. for
it robs the laboring man. There can be
no material change for the nation is sink
ing daily farther and farther into bank
ruptcy. With the balance of trade
against us, with the revenues diminish
ing. the treasury resources are at the
mercy of bond holders and stock jobbers
The man who would be pleased with
these times must be an Optimist of the
fircf for Snph 4
the desert of Sahara an oasis and Noah
food only small shower after all. If
the times are good it must be to those
who have salaries or fixed incomes, or
those who enjoy a monopoly. But to the
laboring man and the farmer the times
are as hard as adamant; the farmer of
today is surrounded by abundance and
yet he is Handicapped by low prices or
almost no prices, and paradOxical as it
may SEEM his very abundance has
ruined him. 1t is safe to say that there is
not one in fifty who can pay one dollar
of his mortgaged Indebtedness if he pays
his other debts. The reason is plain, for
if it cost So to produce an acre of grain
and the farmer gets but S. for it, how
long will it be before he is driven to the
wall? If manufacturer receives for a
piece of cloth S. which costs him So to
manufacture, how long could his factory
run? Good times and the Democratic
party in the saddle can never come to the.
front. Good times and the Republican
party at the helm is an almighty doubt
full factor. The Independent voter and
civil service reform are the true agencies
by which prosperity can be achieved
The octopus, the moOch that now sits
like an incubus upon the industries of the
country, has got to be destroyed The
improvement in the times that is now
claimed by some reminds one of the
problem Of the frog in trying to get out
of the we'll. If the times advance three
feet today and fall back two feet and
eleven inches tomorrow, the question
arises how long will it take to lift the
times out of the hole that has been dug
for it. Aye, there's the rub. For who
can tell how deep or how damnable is
the chasm in which the times have been
submerged So in taking leave of this
subject of the two old parties one may
be excused for hoping that they will well
come each other with CORY hands to hos
pitable graves and thus make room for
a party of retrenchment and reform,
without having recourse to revolution.
will end this screed by recapituatng as
follows:
Let all the railroads of the country be
owned by the government. If nine roads
can combine under one management with
three billions of capital then ninety and
nine can be combined under the govern
ment. Let there be an export bounty on
all farm products SO that farmers can
recoup themselves for the excess they
have to pay on imports in support of gov
eminent. Let all salaries, from president
down to pOundmaSter, be cut in two, as
there is no excuse for keeping salaries
up TO high water mark when all the nee
essaries of living are cut in the middle.
Let all uSury laws be revised and made
so stringent that the poor debtor that is
now under the harrow can lift his head
above the entangling environments that