The midland journal., 1896-06-05
No Reform Possible Through Old
Parties.

NO NCAOA IOSoADAS AhAO0Sh YIN
Parties.
The old political heathens of Delaware
failing to find any argument in their
mythology to confound the preaching of
the single-taxers, after trying the methods
used by the copper-smiths and charm
makers of Ephesus against Paul, and with
similar results, have adopted Weyler's
methods to crush the Cubans, and COM
menced filling the jails with single-tax
speakers. They haven't got to the shoot
ing point yet, but are moving in that
direction.
Last week William Koran was arrested
in Dover, and sent to Jail for 80 days
without trial by landlord magistrate,
charged with noisy disorder" Horan
was making single-tax speech on the
street, place where all political parties,
the Salvation Army preachers and ven
ders of notions are in the habit of speak
ing, and making the same kind of "noise." "
Tbs country. state and nation is mo
nopNiy cursed and ridden, and every one
who raises voice against the land mo-
nopoly, the money or banking monopoly,
the corporation monopoly, the trust mo-
nopoly, the whiskey monopoly or any OF
the many class privilege abuses that tram
pie the people under their iron feet, is in
danger of being ostracized by the elite
monopoly class, brow-beaten, boycotted,
slandered by their subsidized and de-
bauched press, and finally imprisoned
without trial. 1t only remains for that
class to adopt the Spanish butcher
Weyler's method of shooting at daybreak.
1t is only a question of time when the
tyrants will reach the shooting point, il
the reformers do not get together and by
voting solidly together overthrow their
enemies at the ballot box. The single
takers or any other reform movement
will never make the least advance through
either of the old parties Trial after trial
should convince them Of that.
The Peoples party offers them the only
political avenue open to advance. 1t is a
party formed by the plain people as a
protest against every class abuse and
hoary political wrong, which have their
hiding and abiding place in those old
unprincipled parties. As rats harbor and
burrow in old slaughter houses and ware
houses, every social and political wrong
finds secure shelter in the two old par
ties, and from which they will never be
routed until those old parties are over
thrown. The single takers may convert
every man in Delaware to their doctrine
except the incorrigible land monopolist
and his hunting dogs, the guerilla poll
ticians, the old parties being permitted to
remain in CONTROL and not one practical
result will be gained. When the single
idea reformer learns that the road to sue
cess is the massing of all reform forces,
then there will be hope of advance.
There are seemingly many lines or
issues of reform, and the disciples of each
believe that it is the one and only requi-
site TO bring back to the people their lost
prosperity. But these reforms are single
chain composed of many links. The old
parties with their hired Mameluke army
and guerilla politicians denounce all as
"isms," and not one will ever be allowed
to enter within the ranks of either old
party. They will promise everything
and will break every promise when placed
i'll power. They always have done so and
always will. The introduction of any
great political reform would destroy both
old party organizations as effectually as a
coat of lime will dive out sorrel from the
farmers fields. The political soil, like the
farm, needs new constituent to drive out
the noxious growth of poisonous weeds
which the two old parties represent. They
have become propagating gardens for the
growth of moral weeds and political
bramble and must be broken up and re-
seeded, and reformers who expect ever to
see their principles grow and produce
fruit must turn in and help clean out the
weeds and noxious growths which have
taken possession of the goody heritage oi
freedom bequeathed to the people by the
great pioneers of liberty in 1916.