The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-02
PLANKS FOR POLITICAL PLAT-
 FORMS.

| EoIt Ms.
 Continued from the Journal and
 Courier of May 27.)
 Act II. Popular sovereignty should
 prevail as against corporation rule
 Explanation: We are not opposed to
 corporations and trusts as such nor in
 any way hostile to their legitimate prop | erty rights, nor unmindful of the in trinsic good incident to industrial or | ganization.
 The movement from individuals to partnerships, to corporations, to trusts
 and hereafter to octopuses, is an eco-
 homie development along laws of na- | ture, an effort of nature to economically organize industry and the movement has an irresistible place in the nature | of things and will continue until the in- | dustrial organism can so wiring from na-
 ture the most possible with the least pos | sibe expenditure of human energy. As a political party we have no war with
 natural law
 | But on the other hand, the owning of | states by railroads, oil interests, steel | and coal combinations, etc.; the buying | of legislators by the mess of pottage | known as the free pass; the adjusting of statutes in the interests of corporations solely with the interests of the people left out; the appointment to the bench
 of creatures who decide issues by refer
 ence to pulls" and personal bias rather
 than by merits and who value life if
 taken by railroad corporations, as nom inal only; the shirking of tax burdens and robbng the public of their street franchises by corrupting the peoples
 representatives; all this and more re-
 suits from the usurpation of sovereignty
 by great corporations, in which usurpa-
 tion the people have already too much
 acquiesced.
 With corporations sinking into 20, 30
 50 and 100 million dollar trusts, yea with
 the steel interests threatening to com
 bine into an 800 or a 1000 million dollar
 poy-octobust-us, if corporate tenden
 cies of usurpaton continue on propor- tionately and approximately the public continues on in the direction of abdica
 tion, what is going to become of the loosely organized institution known as the general public, with concentrated flying wedges of this kind let loose against if?
 A billion dollar trust represents all the capital that a thousand men, with present facilities of production, can pro- duce in a thousand years. or as against 4 single man power it represents a three hundred million man power. It will take more Davlds than Teddy Roosevelt | to protect the public and stand against | such Golahs.
 Our friends, the Spaniards, can't make <,t,t Iat, nh I,itt T iSi y,tp ested outsiders can diagnose their case fairly well. Tn 1492 they banished the | Jews, that is their banking and mercan- tile class. Had they been permitted to stay they would have conserved and col lected capital in Spain. would have been | loyal hens laying golden eggs on which Spain could forever have drawn for sinews of war. They would have made | Spain rich. In 1909 Spain drove forth the Moors. But the Moors introduced sugar-cane, cotton, rice and the null berry into Spain; they were the best az rculturalists of Europe; further they were engaged in the manufacture of products famous everywhere, such as the blades of Toledo, silks of Grenada leather of Cordova, etc.
 Tn driving out the Moors they ban ished their farmers and manufacturers, but the Moors were practical class, would have intermingled with the Span iards and furnished q basis of practi- cality and common sense much needed in Spanish character.
 Tn 147S the Spanlards under Ferd- nand and Isabella, introduced the inqu- ston, and it ran for $50 years, and in that time it burned and destroyed 350,- poo people, the very flower of the popu- ation of the peninsula. In about HOO A. D., under the Moors, the population of Spain was 20,0O0 GOO. In 1500 A B., under Ferdinand and Isabella it was about 12,000000, and under Charles IT., in 1880, the population was only 6,00O00 having dropped 4,OO000O in seventy years.
 The inquisition banished, of Jews and Moors, about 3,000,000 and killed about . ,ne-half million more, including thou lands of dissenters not Jews nor Moors.
 If man was brainy and independent, f he thought for himself land had cour- ,ge, he was sure to be a heretic and |. marked for destruction. The inquisition truck at brains, talent, independence, thrift and industry. Here was
 nation that at one and the same time vas hostile to its own farmers and merchants and bankers: hat as soon as any symptom of courage r intellectual power appeared any ihere, at once struck it down. The in- entity of the banished Moorish me- hanics was sadly needed behind Span 'h guns in the late war.
 The survival of the fittest is an in ttute of nature plan, purpose and bought of God; the Spaniards set at aught Gods thought, reversed the or CT of nature, and for $50 years had in ractical operation the survival of the ( nfittest. The result was the produc- on of a nation of pipe dreaming Don uixots who couldn't hit the broad side