Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-08

the farmer and the manufacturer Of
their home market and the laboring
man of a job. The money that had been
hidden began to peep out again, the
wheels that had long rusted in idleness
felt the magic touch Of prosperity and
began TO whirr anew; the lofty stacks,
which had long reared their smokeless
heads above ~tireless furnaces, once more
helched forth evidences Of life within
the shop; the wan face of the lahorer's
wife took on its old time animation, her
eye its former sparkle. her torn and
faded gown vas changed for a new and
fairer one, and the children, with happy
hearts and smiling faces, were again put
into school. The table was supplied
with its old time plenty. The farmer
mad been feeding the laboring men, as
tramps, from his kitchen door without
compensation, but the tramp of yester-
day has become the self sustaining la
boring man OF today. This created a
lively demand for wheat, for corn, for
hogs, for sheep and cattle. They rose in
price until wheat, while yet in the hands
or the farmer, reached a dollar, and as il
rose in price the mortgage on the farm
decreased. And by some sort OF devilish
trick of Mark Hanna's, silver declined
with the decrease in mortgages instead
of rising with the advance In wheat. In
the midst Of these untoward conditions
for our free silver friends we have rea-
son to believe that n change Is about to
come over the spirit OF their dreams, and
at the opening OF the next campaign the
word will 20 forth to drop the silver
question and assail the Republican ad.
ministration with the billingsgate of a
fish monger's wife. But another Repub-
lican victory at the polls next fall will
only be the preliminary skirmish to our
great political battle which will be
fought in 1900, when the Ormuzed Of DO
litical and social righteousness shall try
financial conclusions with the Ahriman
Of revolution and destruction; for the
final battle must be fought, and the
forces that make for our highest c~ivilza-
ton must triumph or u republic must
perish as every other republic has per-
ished that has gone before.
They tell us that the battle Of 1900 will
be a battle for a return to the principles
OF J%effersonian Democracy. I want to
inform them that those cherished princi-
pies reached their elimination in the
doctrines of secession and notification
in 1861 they were shot to death on the
fields Of our civil wal between '6l and '65.
1t is only lately that they have dared
again to lift their hateful heads. As
they were crushed thirty five years ago
beneath the heel Of the Union armies so
they will be again ground to dust by the
tread OF patriotic millions in 1900. They
tell us also that it will be a battle for the
return to the principles OF Jacksonian
Democracy. / want also to inform them
that the doctrines Of that species OF
Democracy were announced by "Old
Hickory" himself, "To the yictors belong
the spoils," and the "trader on borrowed
capital should 60 bankrupt" These doc
trines, too, have crumbled before the
footsteps Of our advancing civilization.
The efforts OF the Bryanites have, and
will continue to prove abortive. The
the polls in 1900 is Hamiltonian Democ-
racy. The spirit of jefferson and the
spirit OF Hamilton have warred with
each other for more than a hundred
years. The conflict between them is ir-
repressible. They tend ever in opposite
directions. One is the spirit OF progress,
the other is the spirit Of retrogression.
AS they manifest themselves today, one
is the spirit of love, the other is the spirit
OF hate. Jeffersonian Democracy, which
is modern Popocracy, sits in idleness at
the street corners and scowls at Hamil-
tonlan Democracy as 1t rides by with
happy wife and rosy children. Hamil-
tonian Democracy, which is modern Re-
publicanism, builds school houses and
churches and extends the confines OF
civilization; Jeffersonian Democracy
builds still houses and keeps them going
with its patronage. Hamiltonian Dem
ocracy breaches the gospel Of good will,
liberty OF conscience and political free.
dom.
1t also sings the songs Of labor and
proclaims the gospel Of work, while
Jefferson Democracy sits IN idleness in
the market place and growls at the OPP
preston Of capital. Hamiltonian Demo-
crazy sings peans; Jeffersonian Demo
crazy walls premiods. Jeffersonian Dem
ocracy goes backward; Hamiltonian
Democracy goes forward and when it
conquers at the ballot box in 1900 the
forces Of Organism, T%illmanism, Alt
geldism, Pefferism, Debism, and George
ism, discomfort will disappear, peace
will live in all our homes, and smiles
will play upon the face OF labor, and all
the people may JOIN in the patriotic
words Of that old song:
Columbia, Columbia to glory arise,
The queen ofthe world and child o fthe skies.
w. {. RECTOR,
Washington College.