The herald., 1896-09-06

and any attempt to establish perma-
nent aristocratic and autocratic govern
ment in this tountry will sooner or later
meet the same fate that befell the fol-
lowers of old King George.
The people have been deceived and
misled so often by platforms and prom
ises, by pledges made by their represen-
tatives upon which they rode into power.
that they no longer trust them, and they
have taken the matter into their own
hands and they intend to demand such
reforms as they believe will conform to
true Jeffersonian Democracy. They
nave analyzed the question most thor
oughly and they believe that they now
understand the cause and on the Sd day
OF November next they propose to ap-
ply the remedy
All hope for the freedom of the world
lies in the people Of America
All the autocratic and aristocratic
governments of the old world have large
pine that obeys all commands to pro-
tect the rich and powerful, even though
the command should be to shoot down
their fellow comrades, hence the only
hope of overturning these great auto
cratic money powers is in the prestige
and success Of the great free demo-
cratic government of America. So far
the example set by the republic has had
a wonderful influence upon the civiliza-
ton of the old world and this influence
is now causing many of the crowned
heads of Europe to tremble in the bal
ance, and if we continue in the way our
fathers trod and refuse to be bound
hand and foot by these great money
Shylocks of the world, our republican
form of government will eventually
spread to the uttermost ends of the
earth ,and the whole world will rise up
and call us blessed. But If we abandon
all the glorious principles that have
a a
centralization of the republic to march
on unchecked, as it is now tending, until
they can organize and discipline a
large army and navy, made up as 1t will
be Of the most ignorant and most SER
vile Of our own country and Of the slaves
and serfs of the old world, trained and
drilled to obey their masters commands,
then these aristocratic vultures will rule
this country with the same iron hand
that enables the czar of Russia to de-
cree death to all opposition. Just i'm
agine the condition of Americans under
such a rule. All the wars that ever
swept over and devastated this lovely
land, all the cyclones that ever left ruin,
death and distress in their wake, all the
droughts that ever parched and dried UP
the substance of the people, all the
floods that have carried away the lives
and homes of the people, all the conta-
gions whose poisonous germs have been
waited over this land upon the wings OF
the wind are as naught compared to the
distress, misery, devastation and ruin
which would follow the permanent and
triumphal entry of the arrogant and
selfish aristocracy into power. Ameri-
can voters. just think of the kind of aris-
tocracy you are building up in your be-
loved land An aristocracy and wealthy
class whose highest ambition Is to ape
the character of the royalty Of effete
monarchies, paying from 100000 to
$40, 100000 for an insignificant duke,
lord or earl as husbands for their dough-
ters and paying these large sums out Of
the riches which they have drawn from
the sweat and labor Of the toiling mil
lions What a comment on American
manhood. 1t is degrading and disgrace
full to the rich, decentralization and death
to the poor. Is it not about time that we
say to these arrogant despots take your
feet Off our necks or we will drive you
across the ocean as our fathers did your
royal predecessors? Is 1t anarchy to
protest against the wrongs of oppres-
sion? Is it anarchy to demand in our
platform that the principles of our
Democratic and Republican form Of gov
ernment, which was established by the
grandest patriotism and bravest blood
that ever flowed in the cause of human-
ity, shall be maintained? Is 1t anarchy
to criticise Judge for chanking his de-
and Is the only means Of compelling the
Vanderbilts, Goulds and other great
millionaires to pay their share Of the
burdens of the government? Just think
Of 1t. These great millionaires paying
taxes on less than 10 per cent Of the ac-
tual cash value Of their property while
every poor man IN this land owning 4