Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-02-18
THREE LEADERS
OF DEMOCRACY WE'RE JET
FERSON, } JACKSON AND
BRYAN.
History Never Fails to Repeat It
self Because Human Selfish
ness and Greed are Al
WAYS the Same.

or all forms Of selfishness, the love
OF money, the root OF all evil, is the
most destructive to individual growth
and national prosperity.
OF all forms Of tyrany, a pluto
cracy Is the most arrogant and in
solent, and at the same time the most
heartless and oppressive.
Never content with what it has,
like the daughter OF the horse leech
1t continually asks for more.
Its conscience scared as with a hot
iron by avarice, it has never stopped
at any means from the slander Of
Jefferson, Jackson and Bryan to the
murder of the Grachii.
Jefferson's declaration for equal
rights for all and special privileges to
none,n was intended and accepted as
a declaration of perpetual war on
plutocracy in every form.
Jefferson, among the best read Of
the revolutionary fathers, knew
when he made it that it meant to him
the most virulent and bitter abuse
from all that called itself the respec-
liability of the country.
1t is safe to say that no man in all
our history, II in any history ever re-
ceived more OF it.
Take the most and the worst that
was said in the late campaign OF Alt
geld and Tillman and it would be
mild compared with what was said
of him, which was scarcely excelled
in ferocity by the proposition of that
cross between a monkey and a tiger,
Theodore Roosevelt, to place the
leaders of the reform Democracy
against wall and shoot them all to
death.
Many well meaning men at first
shrunk from him as they very in
carnation of the French revolution
but common people soon rallied to
his support as a leader with the
courage of his eovictions and he was
triumphantly elected.
In Jackson's time consolidated
wealth had grown stronger with the
national bank in the lead, but while
at first defeated, the sober second
thought of the common people land
ed him in the White House with a
great majority. .,+.--.
Since the war however, as Lincola
foresaw, consolidated wealth y has
grown with such rapidity and to such
grand proportions that it.
Doth bestride the narrow world like
a Colossus.
The tentacles of this great devil
fish extend to every portion of the
world to suck out It's life blood.
To-day it absolutely controls every
government in Europe.
Two of the nations of the world
are yet, however, beyond it's power.
The great national debt of France
is owned by the common people as a
result Of the wise policy of always
giving small bidders the preference
over the largest and she has never
her own debts or those of
her people by contracting her cur
rency, or by any of the other devices
for making the rich richer and the
poor poorer, and she has never en-
abled her creditors to derange her
currency by allowing them to select
the kind of money in which they
would be paid.
In the United States the enormous
debts of the war and of our people
have been twice doubled, first by the
forced contraction of our currency
under pretense of the resumption of
coin payments, and second, by the
destruction of half of that coin by
the demonetization OF silver. As a
result of our mistaken policy, to call
It by no harsher name, our national
debt is all owned by great money
domestic and for
sign, instead OF being owned by
great multitudes OF our own peo-
pie as it was after the war, while our
currency has been constantly de-
ranged always to the gain Of the
by allowings the credi tor
TO demand the money most difficult |
10 get, instead of paying him as in
France in what was most convenient |
Tor itself.
Yet this overwhelming strength of |
is its weakness. The |
money power of the world aided by |
( 900 national banks and every trust |
and unlawful combination in the
country seemed irresistible In the first |
shock, yet its human weakness and
,ertain overthrow is already ap-
parent even to the more thoughtful |
managers of these great combine
tions. .'l'''' ~ ih@iiHl
When Mr.. Hanna turned over the
financial management of the cam
paign to the agents of these great
combinations who readily raised a
fund of $16,000,000 he
sounded the death knell of plutocracy
in the United States, for while these
combinations have been constantly
growing stronger their beneficiaries
have been constantly growing less
and their victims more numerous un-
til to-day they count majority of
the voters of the United States.
With Clevelandism controlling one
party and Shermanism the other, the
game of the combines with the people
was heads we win, tails you loose.
When, however, the Democracy
shook off this incubus and joined the
Populists and silver Republicans ON
the Jeffersonian platform of equal
rights to all and special privileges o
none, and nominated candidate as
true to the people as the needle to
the pole; and when plutocracy joined
issue on this platform and put their
own leaders to the front the final
victory of the people became only a
question of time.
The peoples Bunker Hill of 1896
will surely be followed by their York
town and final Independence in 1900.
HENRY L. NILES.