The herald., 1897-11-02

sponsiotitty Tor the sentiments expressed
Srsvty a. fsr a. s' Is With Il;
proper oppression Of their visws.)
Opposition to the Republican Party
That II to Be
To the Editor Of the Los Angeles Her.
aid: Recently the Minneapolis Tribune
leading Republican paper of the north
west. said:
THE country should wake up to tht
fact that the issue we will have to meet
in 1900 Is not free silver-or, at least, not
that alone-but Socialism Of the Bellamy
stripe. All the elements Of real opposi-
ton to the Republican party are drift
ing in that direction, and If they succeed
in uniting they will constitute a for
midable organization"
And why should not all the elements
opposed to the Republican party unite
their forces and dislodge 1t from power
in 1900?
That organization, when led by Lin
coin and Summer, and Greeley, and
Thad. Stephens. and other great cham
pions of the people, was a friend Of the
masses-was, in truth, a grand old party
but now, under the leadership of Mark
Hanna, Tom Platt, Quay, and men Of like
ilk, has drifted far away from the people
and has become the ally Of the million
aire, the trust and the Shylock. The
Republican masses are still honest and
patriotic, but are often influenced to go
wrong by their leaders.
Contrast If Won will tho u,Odern dOc-
trines and tendencies of the Re-
publican party with the prin-
ciples and teachings of Nationalists, or,
as the Tribune is pleased to designate
them. Socialists of the Bellamy stripe.
Nationalism declares for the brother
hood of all mankind, and urges that ma
tions should be one great cooperative
commonwealth, in which no human
shark shall be allowed to rob his fellow
of the just reward of his labor, nor nc
combination of greedy men permitted
to monopolize land, transportation IA
cilities, money, or other public utilities.
1t declares that:
First-Railroads, telegraphs, gas
plants. water works, and all other great
industries of public nature, should be
owned and operated by the city. state
or nation, for the public good.
Second-That postal savings banks
should be established, and that all money
should be issued by the general govern
ment without the Intervention of banks.
Third-That constitutional limitation
should be put upon 1.-The injunction" of
courts.
Fourth-That the unemployed should
not be treated as criminals, but be given
employment on the highways. the rail-
roads. and other public works.
Fifth-That a graduated income and
Inheritance tax should be enacted to the
end that the burdens Of government
might be properly distributed.
Sixth-That there should be limita-
ton of the quantity of land held by pri-
vate individuals and corporations.
Nationalism has inscribed on her
banner the motto: zone for all and all
for one" and has written over the door
way Of all her temples the Golden Rule:
do unto others as ye would that they
should do unto YOU" Is this visionary?
Is this impracticable? Is this unchris-
tian? Does the belief in these things
make the believer wild-eyed crank or
an anarchist? To those who would an
swer "yes." I would suggest, go and
affiliate with the Republican party or
the gold standard faction of the Demo-
cratic party. There is where you be-
long. Their orators, a large majority of
whom hold lucrative offices. will sneer
at these principles with contempt; their
press, the stock of which is largely
owned by bankers, railroad magnates
and monopolists, will employ artists to
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longer cared asses, and as redhanded
anarchists, and the timid who looks to
his party boss for his wisdom would be
happier to remain under the sheltering
wing of his partisan guardian angel.
J. Pierpon- Morgan owns or controls
twenty-one railroad lines and is schem-
ing for all the great trunk roads of the
country. When he succeeds in that ef-
fort he will operate them so as to make
good dividends on a colossal sum of
watered or fictitious stocks, equal to
the entire cost of the roads, and will
annually rob labor of millions of dollars.
But the timid voter who fears the party
lash will continue to vote to confer up
on one man perpetual power to absorb
all the railroads of the country. The
same voter will vote for the single gold
standard that puts millions Of unearned
dollars into the pockets of the usurers;
he will vote to destroy all government
paper currency and authorize private
national banks to issue their own notes
to the people as the only paper money
that is allowed to circulate, and thus
take the government out of the bank
ing business" He will vote to authorize
coal barons and representatives of great
wealth to swear out injunctions against
laboring men, forbidding them from
holding peaceable meetings for the dis
cussion of their mutual interests and
from marching unarmed along public
highways, and if they attempt to do
these forbidden things to be shot down
like dogs.
Though Rockefeller, Carnegie, Nor
gan, Hanna and about 10000 other men
possess more property than seventy
millions of their fellow citizens, and
though wealth is drifting into the hands
of the few with greater rapidity than
was ever known in the history of the
world before, and though want, and
squalor, and wretchedness are increas-
ing at an alarming rate, yet the timid
and blind partisan will continue to
vote for the present order Of things, for
if he does not do so he is liable to lose
his job, and his party boss will dub him
a "Bellamyite" or a Socialist" and that
would injure his reputation and social
standing in the neighborhood in which
he lives.