Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-21
preIN WITH TIE PEOPLE.
r.s Democratic Idea Is to Ele-
 vate the Masses.
TEEN ALL ARE PROSPEROUS.


 .o,;ne to Their Employers For What a.an,v They May Choose to Bestow.
 r,eories of Government Contrasted.
 n.oro are two ideas of government.
 ln'.s oro those who believe that if you lhei ,ecislate to make the well to do lsnayons luss a, their prosperity will leak Epapo7ph plv9p OH those below. The Democrat uiioE9 .daa has been that if you legislate to V al.a i inc masses prosperous their pros laav aitv will find it's way up and through ps.r2 .ly class and rest upon it.-William s'els pryan in the Chicago Convention.
 ' n fbis telling contrast Mr. Bryan has tiarea not only an epigram, but sci u'. atiec formula. The Republican theory sI,1, p tbo relations of the government with .so national prosperity is and has been ,torallv ,as as he states it.. The influence n't ae tbis theory has been especially marked a tbe tariff policy with which the name nf .i william Mckinley has been conspic- uously identified. Nobody pretends that thsra % is anything in any tariff law that o;vos anything directly to a workman, eshonkeener or clerk, and 1t cannot be .ar;onsly maintained that such laws oonfain any direct benefits for farmers. ma benefits of high tariff, according to fla advocates, descend upon the masses by way of the large employers If labor. The tariff enables the manu 4oetnrars and mine owners to tax the community, and then. by the hypothesis, tbey impulsively divide their gains with their workmen in the form of higher wages. and the workmen, in turn, shed nrogperity among the tradesmen and farmers
 From the foundation of our govern ment the two ideas to which MT. Bryan refers have striYen for the mastery. The old Federalists, of whom the Republic ans of today are the legitimate descend ants. it4rd ia en ordered hierarchy of society, with the gentleman of prop erty at the top and the working masses looking to him for guidance, employ ment and protection. Take care of the gentlemen. was their motto, and the gentlemen will take care of the people. Their ideal was the benevolent squire, living on his landed estates and sur rounded by a happy, loyal and reverent tenantry, to whom the gracious lady of the hall would take delicaeies when they were sick, and who would con- entedly take up their abode i'll the workhouse when they were old.
 Opposed to the Federalist idea was that of the untamed Democracy, which held that every man was the best guard ian of his own fortunes, and which asked nothing of its "betters" but plain, ordinary civility and-little of that " The clerical, editorial and ora torieal fshwiyes Of today could have taught the alarmed responsibility of that time nothing in the way of abuse of the demagogues whose revolutionary doctrines were subverting the order of society. But the Democratic idea won and became the basis of our system of government. Up to the time when the Republican party was captured by the plutocracy it had created the people were recognized as the source of nation al power and wealth. Nor have they given up that idea yet. It is hard to make dependent peasantry and prole tariat of race bred for generations 10 carve its own way in government and industry.
 Even if the average millionaire were bursting with philanthropio impulses and never would consent to rise without pulling up everybody below him, it would still be repugnant to American instincts to have a crowbar inserted ill the social fabric to lift the top, in the expectation that the rest would follow. The more natural way is to lift every 'alng at once by raising the base. But cases have been known i'll which men of wealth have risen without exerting themselves to pull anybody else with tnem. This fact intensifies the popular astaste for the Republican plan of rais- ilg society by the top. There is prev Aent fear that the advantages bestowed upon the upper classes'' may not get mi themselves evenly distributed, after all. ine masses prefer to make sure by hay ,4g the process begin with them. New York Journal.