The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-05
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flee, but can be Increased ad libitum. l
never want to represent any people ser
vile ard crlnging enough TO believe that
this Kind of government is the best. When
| the peoples representatives and the peo-
pies president can't agree after sixty
days .wrangling oyer an important issue,
then let one or uhe other die quick by
the votes of the sovereign people
Inc other principle OF populism in which
] firmly believe is that ihe government
shall own enough railroad mileage to fix
a reasonable basis of freight rates and
gradually buy and build system suf-
ileient to do This Other countries are TO-
day successfully operating under this
system and why not The United States?
All commissions, whether State or inter-
STATE ,,,h have larssly proved failure so far
ton We certainly can do as well as re-
publican France or Switzerland or i'm
perial Germany in this line. SO far as
CORRuPTlNG THE GOVERNMENT
Is concerned. j would rather see it cor
rupted by fremen and brakcmen than by
the fine Italian hand of the railroad presi-
dent furnishing the campaign fund and in
return having the naming of Federal
judges and railroad commissioners and
cabinet officers History fails to record
one instance In which the mud-sille cor
rupted government though they may have
noted II Is the pampercd favorites of class
legislation, who have always inserted the
hypodermic injection of political poison
that killed the goddess of liberty. There
is nothing new or untried in the populist
platform. unless ii is the sub-treasury de-
tail which is merely successive. and to
try II would not cost Onc-half of what
Cleveland lost In discount on the first bond
sale. 1t is only those men ignorant Of the
administrative principles and details of
other civilized people who say that the
populists are proposing new and untrIed
political experiments. Even learned law
yers are sometimes very ignorant | knew
one once who in all sincerity asked OF
posing counsel, VINO read the ten com
m M p To- the Jury What State report
TO regard everything new and untried If |
not referred 10 ~ some familiar case re- |
porter. although II may be from the Bible |
Itself. II they will take time to read and |
study the popuist principles they will see |
that there are TWO sides 10 political cues |
lions and that the democratic and repub- |
lean parties are really on one and the |
same side, and even try 10 make the same |
scientific and
DELusIVE sTRADDLEs
in their platforms. These political parties
talk of the downtroGdcn Cuban and of |
the beauties of tariff adjustment ana Of (
monomotallism and bime,alism Just to
keep the minds of the people off Of the
necessity of "A change that viii pIvc them
power TO sct,le all these and other unes-
tons as fast as they come up In congress.
tonsressmen want to pose as men of ori-
tGrlcal ability, ana presidents as Men with |,
more backbone than the ordinary animal, |
and a little proposed change In tariff or
finance, with occasional funeral obsequics,
has answered their purpose for thirty |
years. l think the populists can win In |
TEXAS, even without campaign funds fur
nished by corporations or perpetual office
holders, but II they don't win you viii see
democrats falling over each other to put |
"A plank in on the official fee system or
some other live issue that they Will lind
N the platform of the dtspised popullst |
Tho pic enter is for holding on 10 his Joh
and small matter of putting in or leaving
out o' platform, or even OF straddllng Or
fYsf.aH 10 4
II he can Keep the voter from leaving the
grand Old democratic party which does its
whole duty when IL keeps him in office
THE PoPULiSTS WILL CARRY TIcXAS
and get II out of "A rut and clear up the
political atmosphere. The party stands
for genuine popular sovereignty instead OF
a sham peoples government, where a vote
amounts TO nothing except delegation of
absolute power The party don't indulge
in glitterng condemnation of corporate
power that will induce some poor devil to
tear up a railroad track and then put him
in Jail for II, but which never materially
effects the power or transportation
charges II proposes distinct ana specific
for the evils II points out. II de-
psnds for success upon the judgment ana
not the prejudices of the free American
citizen II don't promise 10 put George
Gould in stripes or to take his property by
delegated absolute power-that greatest OF
all curses political. 1t merely proposes BY
lawful means 10 reclaim those powers OF
government that have been sold TO the iaT-
ored few. If II is in any sense revolution
AIRY. II Is only in so far as is necessary TO
recover for the people those rights that
have been stolen from them by political
rsdors II will destroy the basis Of class
legislation aud thereby remove all occasion
far a revolution of blood and conilscation
that may be produced by irresponsible rep
holding on TO power ana daily
abusinr il. When II comes to snow
down In this country. If there are only
Two parties, one will be an earnest parry
Of the people and the other WI Dc a pa nns
o. OH, ~ e,eve in and contend for more power
\, the people, and the other FOR NOR nor
power IN the servants 81 me eof dsacrny
,,, ar Is a living burlesque on Jefferson, =
.mu' in The south have enough followers
10 give a tea party.
AFTER NOVEMBER
n will consist Of an army OF coioheis anu I
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