The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-24
SHORT SERMON FOR VIEW YoRKER>.
Look at tho Candidates ana Consider What
They Represent!

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: New York
voters are to prove whether they can tell good
from evil, facts from counterfeits; whether they
are capable Of the loyalty, union and discipline
which make masterful races; or are like the
servile races, disloyal. tickle, ~fretful. t4ctional.
One candidate only, Gen. Tracy, stands for the
good that is and for better growing out of il; for
what has been proved good for all the people.
good government, good money, good times. good
wages. plenty OF work; for law and order, the
safety OF life and property, the rule of the people
by organized party; for evolution, not for revo-
luton.
George and Low stand for mushroom egoism;
for the notion that one puny mind is vast and
wise to destroy the growth 0. time. and with a
breath create a new order and recast all the
things that are. George proclaims himself
against all law not 10 h own notion. Low
proclaims himself tho only law. Low stands
for the Mugwump, free trade. soup kitchen
combination politics of 1898: for the olundcrs
that cliques and factions are better than re-
sponsible parties; that the people need govern
ment by the Lords annointed;" that a few
rich men, inexperienced in great affairs and
civil government, will do wiser and better than
the plain people IN practiccd orcaniza'ions;
for the fallacy that owning great wealth proves
the rich man TO have pure morals, strict in
tegrity, and high ability Tor the exploited arts.
tocratical. oligarchical theories.
His running mate. George, on the contrary.
stands for social revolution downward. lie
holds that the wealthy man is a more or less
guilty participant in SOCIAL crime. George rode
into fame and money on the blunder
Of the single tx theory. which is completely
sentimentalist. he deludcs himself and his fol-
lowers with the mistaken notion that tax is
therefore, it is possible 10 so direct tax that
1t will come out OF accumulated propertS or
cost OF production. the first charge on the
products OF industry. and must, therefore, re-
tax out of property, would prove any
country a bankrupt; unthritty; spending more
than it earned; sliding downward to barharism
and anarchy, George represents the mistake
that you can, by law. take something away from
nothing. or by change OF law make nothing into
something; that whatever is. is wrong; that the
plunge into the unk .0wuble is better than
cautious progress. George breaches social sui
eide as the prelude to a doctrinaire heaven. An
uitra-sympath eIic. morbid minded enthusiast.
seeing only the seamy side vi lie, he wants to
turn the world upside down and put the horse
Van Wyck stands one-tenth for the Chicago
platform. or any old thing; nine.tcnths for poll
tics that pay cRsh. He asks the people 10 forget
the past and to leave the future 10 hun.
Low; the crass;i George. the impractical. and
seek to bring back what ii fIV god i" m les RBooTp,e f has
gone forever. free trade, financial uncertainty,
Of Jobs. low wages, and the general misery from
which we are Just escapinG., They would bring
@ SaHe S cursed IL the .h nat Inn from t ps7an ice , q power
combination OF solid South with Northern slums.
making a vast and almost preponterant mass
actuatcd by passion and prejudice, defiant OF
reason and justice. intolerant, deaf 10 truth and
argrUment trading one day with Mugwump doc
trinalres, the next with blatnCrskitc dema-
gQgues and pseudo miracle workers.
This, %ruinous combination brought on two
financial panics and ten years of suffering and
misery. doubled the great fortunes by running
the small, tradesIlen and thrifty mechanics,
stripped the frugal workers of their savings
and covered hccoIntry with 'rlmpsa and hoboes
unknnwn to this country before the prolonged
panic tinics. 1t JcGred at honesty and principe,
l%narched under the motto, Anything to get
once, debauchcd politics. substituted traffick-
crs for statesmen, liars for leaders. taught that
party prlnciples were mere claptrap and jingle,
ana al1 much to destroy the priceless heritage
and only safeguard of free peoples; namely. re-
sponsible government by political parties.
DOMINATED by liked principles. The elections OF
1870 broke, this dangerous combination and
brought back responsibility in Government, for
which Gen. Tracy and the Republican party arc
Their opponents are trying to bring back ire
ruin lies. &. Y ID
NEW York, Oct. 20.