The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-10-03
ANGELIC POPULlSTS.
Ali Knowing and Ali Good Can
Build a Heaven Out
of Politics.

| EDITOR GAZETTE.-In your issue OF Sept.
| 10Th you again make it convenient to give
| the populists another griSt of ridicule, which
seems to be your only stock in trade of your
SO called sound argument. If you really
think you can displace the principles en-
bodied in the Omaha platform by such
balderdosh, l am content that you should
be happy in such thought.
Democracy has certainly had its oppor-
tunity and so has the republicans, and what
pretty mess has been made of it. Your
real grievance seems to be that the populists
will elbow their way in between the dear
and grand old parties eand thereby cause
separation. Do not scare of this Mr.. Editor,
we could not be SO cruel as to think Of
putting asunder what gold has so firmly
joined together. We will quietly pass you
by and take our proper place at the head
and leave you in your consolidated glory.
You say the foundation of the populist
party is laid in pessimistic discomfort and
anarchistic ideas of political economy. How
wonderful the discovery after the greatest
country and nation on earth has beon
bonded and rebonded, tariffed, reYenUed, IL
censed, excised and now being free-traded,
free -coinaged, one plank platformed, yellow
mettled. gold based, debased money, good in
Yurop, 20 cent dolIared and the sound dol.
lar talked, cussed and discussed by the twin
parties until it has been wondered if there
were any sound sense in either. We have
been silver buged, gold buged and hum
buged until the value has been buggered
out of everything except $50 gold pieces.
Can any enterprising American look upon
such conditions with any degree of pride or
satisfaction; take good square look at what
we have passed through, not overlooking
the fact that at the beginning of republican
rule of government thirty five years ago our
business failures throughout the United
States were less than 1000? By increasing
year by year they reached in 1898 nearly
Is, coo. Our Indebtedness at the beginning
of the war was comparatively nothing; to-
day we are in debt. public and private, over
forty billion of dollars. Our interest ac-
count, payable in gold, is nearly two billion
dollars annually.
After viewing things as they really are
and you are yet surprised at discomfort
showing itself somewhere, I would like to
ask how much want, suffering, idleness,
shrinkage in values, foreclosures, reduction
in wages and production oflabor do you ex-
pect free American people to endure te-
fore being justified in voicing an expression
of discomfort. The situation that confronts
us today and that you are laboring to pei
petuate is identical with that of the days of
Christ when he turned the money changers
out of the temple which so increased the fire
of hate in the hearts of office holders that
they crucifed him. Most all the contro-
versies Jesus had were in Jerusalem, it be-
ing the center of Jewish politics and re-
ligion, also the capital city and hotbed of
corruption. The common people did not
question the authority Of Christ, but the
priests, scribes and elders of the people did.
We are told that history repeats itself. 1t
certainly does, for there never was period
in the history of civilization when the people
were more nearly divided so exactly as the
people were in the time of Christ than right
now. The conditions of society then led to
the qualification of Christ, after which tn y
defled the temple of God by turning it into
o market place where the money chan gers
robbed tho common people of their hard
earned living. The administration hated
Jesus Christ and despised his disciples. Just
as the republican and democratic leaders
and money changers hate and despise the
popgiists. It was the officials of the govern
nent that prosecuted Jesus even unto death.
It mattered not how badly the Jewish pee-
pie hated the Romans and their galding
yoke, the very moment anything better was