The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-19
Communicated.
The Mission of Democracy and the Demo
cratic Party.

Civil government was established to
protect both life and liberty.
Democracy is the friend of social
order because it seeks to cure social
evils. 1t is the enemy of anarchy and
violence because it seeks wisely and
prudently to eradicate the wrongs that
lie DIT the root of popular discomfort. 1t
is not hostile to wealth, but 1t Is hostile
to plumber and it is jealous, as 1t should
be, $of inordinate power and OF the
growth of an Oligarchy i'll a democratic
republic.
There must be such a party in this
country if it is to remain free. Repre-
sentative Democracy is the foundation
of our political philosophy voice OF
the people. the divinity of popular
rights; and it has at all times the ele-
ments of all needed reform.
Our revolutionary fathers revolted
and would not submit to be governed by
a monarchy; and would not submit to
unjust taxation even upon tea.
What is the situation to-day? We
see this country ruled by trusts for the
trusts and by the trusts and everything
wrapped up in the coils VI trust.
Statistics proved that this year cattle
were several million short and the larih-
ers confidently expected frOnI five TO five
and half cents for their fat cattle.
What was the result? IL Was not
supply and demand. The powers met
in Chicago presided over by Lord
Armour and the dictum went forth
that 81. so should be the highest price and
the farmers were compelled to submit.
They would have hammered wheat back
to thirty cents per bnshel had it not
been due to widespread failure Of the
crops abroad amounting to almost fam
inc in the large country of India. All
the products of the earth can be corner
ed under high protective tariff and
single gold standard. Restore blnet-
alism and d tariff for revenue only
and the trusts cannot live.
The single gold standard has been the
direct cause of the financial distress
that has fallen upon our people since its
adoption; and the highest gold standard
authorities admit that it i has been pc
Rod of almost unexampled depressi on
and disturbance of trade and industry
with falling prices for nearly all the
products of human labor including land
since demonstration in 1873.
the gold standard they must accept the
rule of the trusts which means increased
wealth to the very wealthy and increas-
ed poverty and degradation for the toll
lLg masses.
A recent article written by Thomas CT
Sherman shows that $500 persons in this
country are worth an aggregate of TWEEN
ty four billions of dollars and that
| 90 900 own more that half the wealth of
the whole country while 75,000.000 are
opposed to own the other half.
We believe In honest money, the gold
and the silver money of the constitution,
and the coinage of both metals without
discrimination against either into stand
ard dollars of final payment and redemp-
ton. 1t is the legal endowment that
gives money its value and not the COM
mercial price of the bullion.
The material in hundred-dol lar
green back is worth probably the fourth
of cent and it is worth five twenty dol
lar gold pieces the world over
We believe in a tariff so adjusted as
not to foster monopolies and breed trusts
and to favor the few at the expense of the
many and that would equalize differ
ences and the general welfare of the
American people
We would then have a government of
the people, for the people and by the
people, and not government of the
trust for the trust and
by the trust as represented by
Mark Hanna, Phil Armour and Co.
"BLENHEIM",
Oct 18th, 1897.