Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-04-01

Paper Of the City OF Aberdeen.
fNANT FORCES IN
WESTERN LIFE"

y April number OF the Atlantic
", appears an article from the pen
Mell-known writer, Frederick j.
under the above caption.
Historical contribution it deserves
Deserved for future reference, since
IAN account of the origin and char
&the people who have settled the
states, with special reference to
HI OF their political ideas. One of
pveries made by the writer OF this
that reform parties uniformly
with the sturdy yeomanry, the
mechanic and wage-earner gem
sho, being unfamiliar with ma
)litics, and coming largely from
anical society OF the east they in
islike Of fraud, trickery, Cypress.
kopoly and kindred evils.
< other Investigations of Mr. Tur-
Institutes an inquiry into the ORR
purposes OF the people known to
politics as populists. And this
mike many who talk and write
hlbject has the good sense to dis
Between that motley class of adj
10 the party known as anarchists,
other and more numerous class
impose the bone and sinew of the
e sincere, honest, simon-pure re-
Nhose main purpose is to correct
hd overthrow the gigantic wrongs
/. Mr.. Turner says:
kold, the Populist is the Ameri-
fer no has kept in advance OF
puic and social transformations
oveitakcn those who remained
While. doubtless, investigation
ancestry Of the Populists and sill
who came to the prairies from
Northwest would show some pro-
4 Southern origin, yet the center
tent seems TO have been among
pf the New England and western
current. Ii New England looks
at these men, she may recog-
lem familiar lineaments Of the
farmers who fired the shot
ind the world. There is signiti-
he fact that, with the exception
he prairie states, the colonies OF
northwest, gave Bryan votes in
lection in the ratio of their pro-
persons Of native parentage.
kota, with the heaviest foreign
was carried for Mckinley, while
kota, with a much smaller for
went for Bryan. Kansas and
rank with Ohio in their native
b, and they were the center OF
pulism. If we follow back the
lich CT the Puritan farmer, we
how responsive he has been to
how persistently he has resisted
nents on his ideals of individual
y and democracy. He is the
the higher law in bleeding
elore the Civil War. He is the
hist Of Iowa and Wisconsin,
against German customs as an
i his traditional ideals. He is
: Of Wisconsin, PASSING restrict
H legislation. He is the aboli-
anli-mason, the Millerite, the
if'lagist, the Spiritualist, the
of Joseph smith, OF western
Follow him TO his New Eng
in the days OF Shays's REBEL
money, stay and tender laws,
banks. The radicals among
England farmers hated law
capitalists. Il would not trust
Abraham White, in the ratifi-
|vention of Massachusetts, in
Pgh every one OF them should
\. These lawyers cried Amos
and men Of learning, and
pen that talk so finely and gloss
RS so smoothly to make US poor
eoplc swallow the pill, expect
Congress themselves They
et all the money into their own
then they will swallow up all
k, like the Leviathan, Mister
yea, iu t rs the whale swal-
onah'. Ii the voice of Mary
e sounds rauCous to the New
IAN to-day. while it is sweet
pc eais OF the Kansas farmer,
hdcr the utterances of these
Fmers of the Revolution and