The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-09-20
Ghflrmprrat-S Star
DEMOCRACY To THE RESCUE

'>10 u
ugc OF a scoundrel.' If some modern
photographer, following the examplo
# Mr.. Boswell's doughty old scholar
undertake To lind a new delni.
ion of goiAInmcnt he might call II
the art OF decciving the pcoule
Site Of the ready means of comm.
nicatio: and the ample vehicles Of in.
formation accessible TO all men tlese
busy days Of the railway and the tel.
graph, how little does the simnlo
farmer as lie follows his pl0w. or Tho
honest merchant as he reads BY Tho
light OF his evening lamp, know
about the real movements and ma.
tiyes OF the professional politicians
away of yondcr In Washington,
Each must look through other eyes
than his own +; and, like as not, both
together can only see as through
glass darkly, rarely having any cer.
tain way of telling the true from the
false report!
WSG was it said awhile ago that. Il
he were King for a day, the first use
he should make OF his power would be
to hang one-half the members Of the
U. S. Senate, To condemn the remain.
ing half to life Imprisonment. and Ia
suspend the sessions of the National
House Of representatives for five
years? Whoever he was he had
head to him; and. il he had included
in his sweeping category the General
Assemblies of all the States he woll1
have augmented the value Of his pro.
posed b%cncfaction. II all the lcgisla.
tive functions of Government could
be stopped during the next half dozen
yeats, leaving things precisely as
they are, and the people, free of All.
t%ation, to pursue their own bent, the
country would emerge from the be.
riod Of happy radiance, richer, fairer,
happier. 1t would make havoc with
the politicians. however, who live
and thrive off the confusion they
are able to work in public affairs.
What does the average politician
care how long the determination Of
an issue is delayed. or how it is dcci.
dcd, If, through its agency, lie is able
to retain his seat in the Senate, or the
House? lie takes ms stand on the
one side or the Other-whichcycr lie
thinks will be popular--and there he
stands, and yawps and yawps, abso.
lutely Indifferent to the result so that
it does not effect him. Is it the TARIFF
Well, he Is for Protection, or RcyC
nue-only, as the bias among his ow
constituency may be, or may seem
behaving waited non-committal
long as he prohtably could-and
rest is left to chance. Thus, when
the Tariff was the issue, the edwards
and tho .ascals were united in the
wcll-woin policy of now yotl-sec.it
and now-you-don't, designed to throw
dust INTO the eyes of the voters and
to keep each Of the rogucs who lives
off Office in a steady job. II Il dlsln.
tercstcd clear-sightcd man should ap.
pear upon the scene and propose, by
simplifying the process, to clear up
! the mystery. he was at once discover
cd to be an enemy and denounced as
an impracticable. Is it money? The
same to the same: great cry and 1T
tie wool except to the professional
pOlii icians, whose trade would be
ruined, and whose occupation gone
If the people could get down to bed
rock, stripping the argument OF tue
Surplusagc artfully contrived to en-
vclopc it and reducing it to the plain,
primal facts involved.
The Tariff Act, passed by the last
Congress, though it was deficient tha'
the president refused to sign it, wa
denounced by the Protcctionlst Of
gans rs ruinous tn MANUFACTURING III
tcrcst. Yet. that interest has CONT
ahead uninjurcd, gradually wages art
being increased, and little as the re-
lief was, the country is recovering Us
lost prosperity. Even the Mckinney
ties are forced to shut down on thel
campaign of calamity.
As soon as the last nail is put in TN
cUftin of the frcc-silvcr humbllgge'!
we shall come on solid ground again
but before that last nail is drive"
work viii have to be done, and serloV'
work, for the Silver Combine, like u"
gigantic Whisky Trust which ha
just gone to pieces, has millions .
money to spend, since, II it can go
fifty cents worth OF silver legallze'
into hundred cents worth OF thepeo
PIES labor and produce, and lorce'
upon the country, it will reap man
hundreds Of millions in profits.
Asa Protectionist, no less than u
Il natural friend of organized rapac'
ty, the Republican party dal'Ies wiz
this movement to rob the people
All the old ffat-money Democra.
arc in with IL, Of course, bacReu =
the Silver Kings of Nevada inc w
Oradn.
The Democracy OF the Union, ~
by Cleveland and Carlisle, with Nc,
lucky upon the right wing OF tfc ~
vancing Army, arc against o'0'
maintaining the integrity OF tnc w.
tion, the honor. OF the flag, the moa'
: Of the people; but, please God ~.
will prevail ; they will carry e'c',
thing before them all the barrels, ~ |"