New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-07-07
Ideas of Others.


mas. He said:
eve are at present defeated, thrashed,
thrown-down nation of peasantry. We
have no longer social problem; it is
now struggle fer life. The political
question is not how to teach the people
to vote right, but how to get their votes
counted when they do vote right. No
impartial man can doubt that Bryan
was the real choice of the American peo-
pie. The industrial question at present
is not how to get the full reward of your
labor, but how to get any kind of job.
11illions are struggling, not for money,
but just to keep what they have; not to
get homes of their own, but to escape
the poor-house and the Jail.
"The terrible question now is not
what is the best legislation to work for,
but whether legislative reform is posi-
BILE, so long as monopolies exist.
eff we pass a city law in favor of the
masses it is vetoed by the state; if we
capture the state we are undone by con-
gress and the senate, and, towering above
all, stand the president and omnipotent
supreme court.
"Every department of government is
now controlled by Mark Hanna. The
man who was only nightmare year
ago is now horrid fact. The most in
famous labor crusher in tile country is
in power. Everything yields to his whip.
He is master of a rabbit congress, a
grounding senate and sawdust presi-
dent. The king maker and the slave
maker has himself become the govern
ment. do not denounce him as an IN
dividual; he is the incarnation of mo-
nopoly.
"What does this new social democra-
cy' of Chicago mean? 1t means that the
people are being driven back to barbar-
ism. The bees have made the honey,
and now they are voluntarily leaving
the hive and striking for the woods to
'better their condition. Siberia has be-
come a social ideal to the American un-
employed:
"The dry rot of degenerAcy has begun
in this republic. In this fair month of
June, when all the birds are merriest
and all tie flowers are blooming, young
men and young women are committing
suicide and staining the green grass
with their blood.
"Every newspaper is record of muir
der and disaster and death. Every day
there are hold-ups and assassinations,
ard hellish assaults on little girls. Surely
hen, this is 10 time for private SQUAD
bles and hair-splitting and moral lazi-
ness. If you have suffered personal
wrong, think of the nations wrongs and
forget your own. If you have private
attliction, sink it in the SORROWS of the
race.
'The last ecclesiastic shall bury the
last monopolist; and Pierpont Morgan
shall he regarded as we today regard
Kidd or Jesse James. There'll come a
time some day when this shall come to
pass. The war between the money pow
er and the people will seem as unreal as
the war between the first settlers and the
Indians.
conservatives will declare that every
body knew monopolies would have to
be taken by the people; and little chill
dren will listen with horror and amaze
ment to their grandfather's stories about
these savage times"
Tom Watson of Georgia, in discussing
the Nashville Conference, remarks
''We would really like to know how
Populist principles are to grow by being
traded off, first to one of the old parties
and then to the other, and we especially
hunger and thirst to know how warfare
on both the old parties is to thrive wher
an office barter exchange is established
with both. We trust the Nashville con.
ference will decide the vexed question
of fusion in such a manner that no Pc
pulist can be uncertain of the party
doctrine. Our own belief is that no gen
tleman will remain In the Peoples Par
ty if the idea once gets abroad that Pc
pulism and Hessianism are synonymous
terms. If our voters are mere mercenar
les to be traded for Office in any marke
where there is u demand for them, NJ
decent man will be caught in that com
pany.
The trouble with Watson is not new
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