The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-27

as proper subjects of governmental dis
elimination and condemnation.
"The people whom the true Democracy
would serve are all the people of the land.
Those whom it would restrain are on the
one hand the vicious and turbulent who
defy the laws, and on the other hand
those who with constituencies greed, and
in abuse OF their opportunity, wrongfully
Cypress their fellows and eat out their
substance. Above all things, true De-
mocracy insists that the money of the
people should be sound, stable, neither
shrivelng in purchasing power in the
hands of the poor, nor by its uncertain
value driving enterprise and productive
energy into hiding.
Welded TO MAD PROTECTION.
"Those who believe that crisis is at
hand can hardly fail to see that the party
in power is so joined to its idol of mad
protection, and is so Completely doomed
to popular condemnation that it is q use.
less instrument of defense against the i'm
pending peril.
81 do not fear THAT | shall be accused
of sinister designs, untitled to the atmos-
phere of this occasion, if / insist that the
path of duty and the best hope Of safety
lies in an Immediate ana earnest attempt
to accomplish the rehabilitation and re-
generation of true Democracy.
SIN large part of the country, where
financial error is most general the Demo-
cratic name can best arouse the political
sentiments of the people; and there, as
everywhere in our land, the people can
be trusted to arrive at n correct cOnclu-
sion if they have adequate opportunity for
examination and information. Let us de-
wise means to break through the influence
of the miSchievous leadership that cur
rounds them, and without arrogantly as
Stunning that no rights or hardships afflict
| them, and that no reforms in their CON
| ditions are needed, let us meet our coun-
| trymen face to face in argument and
| counsel.
eve Shall find III every locality able,
| heroic men willing to struggle against
| the tide of misconception. Let us hold
| up their hands by organized effort and
| timely assistance. Let true Democrats
| meet the passion and bitterness of their
| former associates who have assumed the
| leadership of anti-Democratic wander
| ing, with firm expOstulatiOns, reminding
| them that Democratic convictions and
| Democratic conscience cannot be forced
to follow false lights, however held aloft
1
| in the name Of honorable political com
| radship and In the memory of glorious
| victories won by a united Democracy.
| 50 turn from the way that leads to party
| defeat and destruction.
/ THE TASK IS NOT HOPELESS.
The task is not an easy one, but sure
iy it is not hopeless. The better we APP
| preciate its magnitude the less will be
/ the danger of ineffective and misguided
effort. The work has already been inaug-
4 urated by the creation of an organization
1 founded upon the declaration of Demo
Il cratic principles, so sound, 50 clear. and
4 SO patriotic that they should rally 10
/. their support every true Democrat and
supply an inspiration forbidding defeat
4 With such beginning, and with the in
4 centive to jealous effort which the tran.
a scendant Importance Of our cause affords
i we should carefully look for the alp.
\ preaching dawn when true Democracy
'reeemed, Gegenerated and disenthralled,
will bring US peace and national safety
But if relief under the restored flag OF
il true Democracy is late in coming, we will
not despair, but will remember that a
q just cause has never lost; and on our
i camping ground we will work and wait
"A with approving conscience and constant
faith, declaring like the sturdy old unre-
ID canting German reformers: Here we
II stand-ae cannot Do otherwise-God helI
IN as"