The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-10-17
~DEMOCRACY'S BATTLE.
At As Fighting For Equal Rights For All,
Privileges For None.

IL As Fighting For Equal Rights For All,
Privileges For None.
The Democracy Of the United States
knew what it was about and knew what
It would have to face when in national
convention it declared for free coinage
of gold and silver and a stable dollar.
1t knew that it would have to meet all
the tremendous power of the whole
privileged class, who have come to be.
lleye that they possess q divine license
to prey npOn the masses. A nation of
2G, coo, GOO was taxed to starvation to
maintain the 1000 on 5000 aristocrats
who glittered around Louis XVI and
Antoinette at Versailles, and those COR
geous gentlemen and ladies were not
more profoundly convinced that Provi-
denCe had created France for their bene,
lit than are our WI money ~grandees
that their special inter~ts are para
mount to all other considerations. That
they should rise in a body against the
Democracy when it has the courage to
declare war upon their unjust privi-
leges is only natural. 1t is only natural,
too, that all the faithful retainers of
the plutocracy should draw the sword
and charge upon the Democracy with n
fury superior ever to that of their mas
ters. 1t has ever been so with retainers.
AS there are Catholics more catholic
than the pope" so there are multitudes
OF dependents on the wealthy who are
more capitalistic than capitalists. Such
OF these dependents as have called them
selves Democrats obey the law Of their
parasitic being by going over to Hanna,
advance agent of the plutocracy, who is
WalloWing i'll money.
But as the United States happens to
be populated chiefly by men. not COO
lies, the Democratic party asks with con-
fldence for the support of the plain peo-
pie, whose battle it is fighting. The
contest, as q contributor to. The Jour-
NAILS fund for the education of voters
happily put it, is between those who
make things and those who take things.
The issue is too clear to be obscured.
On the Republican side are ranged all
the men whose hands are habitually in
the peoples pockets, all the men who
seek to use the power of the government
to further enrich themselves, all the
shcarers Of the wool of the labor sheep,
all the men who understand and prac-
tice the art of getting much for little.
These are the kind Ct enemies the De-
mocraCy is and ought to be glad to fight.
They are the natural foes of the Dem
ocratic idea, and their success in this
campaign would advance pro~digiously
the movement for turning the republic
into an oligarchy.
The plain people are not to be de-
oeivod. They know with which party
their interest, the interest of the coun-
try, lies in this great struggle for the
supremacy of manhood over money. AS
for the leaders who have gone, let them
go. Generals who deem it wise policy
TO be friendly with the enemy are not
the sort Of generals who win victories
that tell for Democratic principles and
the welfare of the masses. The party is
better off without them.
Every American who owns himself
and stands by the doctrine that the ma
jOrity Of its citizens should rule the re-
public for the common good will vote
for Bryan. Equal rights for all, privi-
legas for none; that is true Democracy.
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