The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-19
A NATURAL RESULT.

Major Mckinley, in his letter OF ac-
ceptance says: SIT is cause for pain
full regret and solicitude that an effort
is being made by those high in the
councils of the allied parties to divide
the people of the country into classes
and create distinctions among US,
which, in fact, do:not existand are for
eign to our form of government.
These appeals to passion and to preju-
dice are beneath the spirit and intel
ligence of free people, and should be
| met with stern rebuke by those they
are sought to influence, and L believe
| they will be. Every attempt to array
| class against class, the classes against
the Masses. section against section,
labor against capital, the poor against
the rich, or interest against interest,
in the United States, is in the highest
degree reprehensible. 1t is opposed
to the national instincts and interests
and should be resisted by every
citizen"
Every word of this is true. Glasses
and casts should not be known in re-
publican form of government, but sad
to relate, they do exist in the United
States, and it is to put an end to this
distinction that the allied parties OF
whom Major Mckinley complains, are
laboring. By a long system of class
legislation and paternal form of gov
ernment, classes have been created.
An aristocracy has grown up in our
midst, in practice, if not in name.
Through legislation favorable to
their interests, the aristocracy has
been enabled to, step by step, build
themselves up to affiuence, and grind
down those who have been unable to
control legislation. By these methods
they have created classes. 1t is they,
not the masses, who have drawn lines
between the rich and the poor. 1t is
this favored class that is at the found
alton of the sectional strife of which
Mr.. Mckinley complains. Had they
been satisfied with letting well enough
alone, and not have sought to enlarge
their powers and tighten the bonds
with which they hold the less favored
classes, the cry of sectionalism would
never have been heard. They are the
ones who are responsible for the con-
ditions that now exist. The actions of
the St. Louis convention in turning
over the management of the party
that Mr.. Mckinley represents to these
favored classes made it necessary that
the lines be drawn between those who
seek to manipulate the government
inltheir own interests, and those whom
they sought to oppress.
These lines were drawn by the
actions of the Chicago convention.
The toiling masses sought through the
declarations of that body to free them
selves from the oppression OF the
favored classes. Though in those dec
larations there was little of bitterness
or sectionalism, simply demand for
justice and right. And how was this
met? By a united voice from the
classes that the toiling masses were
anarchists, socialists and traitors.
For demanding their rights and lessen
ing the powers of the favored classes,
they were denounced as bowling dema-
gogues and lawless mob. Nor was
this all. Fearing the efforts of the st.
Louis convention would prove ineffec-
tive in arraying the classes against the
masses, another move was set on foot,
and the indianapolis convention re-
suited. 1t had no other object than to
more firmly cement the power of the
favored few and further subjugate the
wealth producers of the country.
II there is an arraying of labor
against capital it is the outgrowth of
che systems adopted by interests which
Mr.. Mckinley represents. 1t is the
result OF wealth having become too
ayoricious and having undertaken to
enlarge its powers at the expense of
the majority of the people. 1t is only
a child of necessity. brought into ex-
istence by the acts of those who now
condemn it most bitterly.