The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-01-09
THE SEA COAST ECHO.
TOO TRuE.

cracY mas passed away. The Times
Democrat says "1'he democratic
party nplled $500, 900 votes out OF
$4,000, 200, carried 22 states out Of
40 and one elector in California and
one in kentucky besides, electlnp
176 electors out of 447, and is de
cidedly the liyest corpse which any
journalist has attempted to embalm
since 1852" Tie News testiGes as
follows:
"The Bay st, Louis Echo regards
the scramble for ''protect,on" % n
sign Of the decadence Of the demo
cratic party. In reality it is but a
manifestation OF that greed which
has existed amongst certain classes
of producers and which is ever alert
to seize an opportunity 20 pick the
pockets Of the public. Democracy
has nothing to do with IT, The re-
cent election proved that six and a
half million democratic voters en-.
deavored TO protect the people
against legaliztd spolation. But in
that struggle they received ia front
and resr the fierce onslaughts of an
overpowering host bent on plumber,
and were temporarily overthrown.
And for a space The people will be
the helpless victims Of triumphant,
rapacious monopoists, syndicates
and trusts. But The Echo should
not despair. The democr; tic party
survives and will gather strength for
another round"
We would rejoice TO view demo
cracy in the same light as do oul
esteemed contemporaries, but alas
we cannot. We can discover no fact
IN the premises to sustain the con
viction that that democracy whicl
stood on the field Of battle aud il
defense Of labor opposed the ap
proach Of greed and corruption OF
the heart strings d. our gover9rssSs,;t
is still predominant. MT' scotbin,
denunciation Of the crime abo,, !
.tns 2eFl,ctfatsI on nine-ien,ns Of th
American people comes from II
throat. Its eyes are closed, and th
hosts Of wrong doing and oppression
are bearing down upon the unpro
tected with all the ferocity and gree,
OF the vulture. Aye, comrades
where is democracy?
Protection is the gulf which sepa
rited the two parties. But it ha.
been bridged, and with Samue
d luglas McEn.ry as leader we be
mold part OF our heretofore south.
ern tariff-revenue democrats boldl,
walking over It. Will our conten,-
porar es tell us what means this? Car
miserable 100000 dem ,crats
socialists, populists and God know.
what preserve and carry TO victor,
the doctrines of so great q part,
when The leaders have deserted il;
But the $500, 900 so called demo
cratic vote cast in the November
elec ton is irrelevant TO the issue
Had II been four times as large the
fact would still remain that, with the
Remuneration Of its principles, de-
mocracy has rendered itself a being
without existence. In submitting
I1ha result of the late election as eyi-.
dence Of the existence of democracy
our contemporaries lose sight OF the
fact that the democratic vote was
cast for revenue policy, and not
protection. Protection would have
reduced il as fire does snow, snd
justly 80 too, for no man could vote
fer protection and remain q demo-
crat. There is 20 difference be tween
democratic protection and repuhli-
can protection, and, as far as we are
concerned. we would much rather
advocate that doctrine in the ranks
OF the latter party, for then we
would feel we were in our proper
sphere and could do the work re-
qnired OF US without perjunng, de-
flaming and traducing the former,
Democracy has been done for.
The commercial interest of the coun-
try has preached its eulogy, and tie
commercial interest as was recently
demonstrated, is not to be disputed.
We DO not know what upheavaI
the future may hold, we cannot say
what condition government protec-
lection of commercial interests ma I
lead us into. The irfamy may cry
to heaven and bring down the gods
OF anger upon us, or it may simply
reduce us TO an abject state Of SER
yitude. Events may resurrect the
greatest and n7blest party ever con-
ceiyed; but for the present--it is
dead. Peace to its ashes.
1t was wholly Unnecessary, says