The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-25

mate results and accumulation of effort
and enterprise should be denounced as In
trinsicaly criminal, and their possessors
be treated as proper subjects OF govern
mental discrimination and condemnation.
The people whom true democracy
would serve are all the people Of the land
Ihose whom IL would restrain are on the
one hand the vicious and turbulent, who
defy the laws and, on the other hand.
those who with constituencies greed and
IN abuse of their opportunity. wrongfully
Cypress their fellows and eat out their
substance. Above all things, true democ-
racy insists that the money of the people
should be sound, stable, neither shrtvelinC
in purchasing power in the hands of the
poor. nor by its uncertain value driving
enterprise and productive energy into hid
ing.
Those who believe that a crisis is AT
hand can hardly fail TO see that the party
In power is so Joined to its idol of mad
protection and Is so completely doomed to
popular condemnation that 1t is a useless
Instrument of defense against the impend-
ing peril
I do not fear that / shall be accused of
sinister designs, unfitted 20 the atmosphere
or this aston, IL insist that the path
OF duty and the best hope of safety lie in
an immediate and earnest attempt to ac-
compiish the rehabilitation and regenera-
ton OF true democracy. In a large part of
general the democratic name can best
arouse the political sentiment of the peo-
PIE ana there as everywhere in our land,
the people can be trusted to arrive at a.
correct conclusion If they have ade-
quate opportunity for examination
and Information. Let us devise means to
break through the influence of the mis-
chieVou5 leadership that surrounds them
ana without arrogantly assuming that no
rights or hardships affiict them and no
reforms In their conditions are needed; let
us meet our countrymen face TO face In
argument and counsel. Let true demo-
Gratis meet the passion and bitterness of
their former associates who have assum-
ed tho leadership of antt-democratic wan
derings, with firm eXpostulations, remind
ing them that democratic convictions and
democratic conscience cannot be forced to
follow false lights, however, held aloft;
and let us at the same time entreat them
In the name of honorable political COM
radeship and in the memory OF glorious
victories won by a united democracy to
turn from the way that leads the party 10
defeat and destruction
THE task is not an easy one, but surely
It Is not hopeless, the better we appre-
ciate its magnitude the less will be the
danger OF ineffective and misguided effort
The work has already been inaugurated
by the creation Of an organization founded
upon the declaration of democratic princi-
Piles, so sound, so clear and so patriotic,
that they should rally to their support
every true democrat and supply an inspir-
alton forbidding defeat. With such be-
ginning and with the incentive to Jealous
effort which the transcendant importance
of our cause affords we should carefully
look for the approaching dawn when true
democracy. redeemed. regenerated and
disenthralled will bring US peace and ma
tional safety.
but, II relief under the restored flag of
true democracy Is late in coming we will
not despair but will remember that a Just
cause has never lost; and on our camping
ground we will work and wait. with APP
proving conscience and constant faith de-
claring like the sturdy old unrecanting
German reformers Here we stand-we
cannot do otheTwise-God help u.s..