West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-05-18
Is he Republic 0 EdIue?
sp ,olai CONTRIBUTION Tor rqr Arers.

Our government 10 handicapped !
Democracy. Democracy is OF two
well-delincd classes: Pure Democ-
racy and Representative Domoe-
racy. In n pure democracy the
people meet and make their own
laws. In representative dsmoc-
racy the laws are made by officers
chosen for the purpose. Our re
public is representative democ-
racy. Assuch il is failure. Our
representative misrepresent US too
efien. They can do as they please
and we have no power to compel
them to pass a law or to restrain
them from passing unjust meas
ures. We may petition, only to be
laughed at, but we cannot call
them to account.
The common people want an
income tax. 1t is enacted, and
afterwards defeated by court APP
pointed by the President and the
Senate. No man in the United
States ever voted at the polls fer
President or United States Sena-
tor. A man has splendid chance
to vote for another man called an
elector to vote for president, aud
to vote fer other fellows who are to
do his voting for Senators of the
United States. The representa-
tive-the one man for whom the
American voter can vote-is not
called upon to help appoint supreme
judges. They are appointed by
men elected by electors whom we
are said to elect and by men chosen
by State Legislatures vino are
elected by the voters of the several
States. If we get man to do piece
of work for US and he gets another
fellow to do it for HIM, when done
it is likely to be of advantage to
everybody concerned except our
selves.
Men are discouraged. They say
there is no use in going to the
polls. How often do we hear that
repeated. How far are they mis-
taken?
Silver was demonetized, if not
surreptitiously, without the issue
ever being presented to the people.
Now the bandit bankers are i'm
portuning the President TO call an
extra session of Congress to retire
the green back that draws no IN
torest, and to empower the bankers
to issue the paper money. Their
bank notes will draw two interests.
one from the United States or
other bonds, and another from
bunk notes based upon these bonds.
That will burn the peoples candle
at beth ends. The meanness Of
this surreptitious financial move is
that they carefully kept it in the
background both of the past cleo
tons. 1t would have defeated Nc.
Klnley in '96 and it would have
defeated Republican Congress
last fall, had it been avowed as an
issue. They aim to farther their
financial vampire upon the coun-
try 30 that it can suck away for Is
or 20 years and peoples president
and congress will be debarred from
doing anything for the people. be-
cause these legalized robbers will
have entered upon the PLAIN con.
tract of furnishing money for the
country and it is unconstitutio
to impel the obligation Of a con
tract.
A republic is country in which
all share equal protection of the
laws and equal opportunities. AS
NNeA WI BD'Vi uibuJ 10 - lhlluTbs
The trust has nulllfitd the laws of
supply and demand, and leyies it's
tribute upon the people who must
purchase It's output as shanelessly
as ever the pirate Moors levied
their tariff upon tie keels that en-
tered the Mediterranean. They
practice CO operation to finish
among .he operators who enter the
com bine or trust. They practice
out-and-out socialism among their
own class, but uihili.m toward the
people. Yet they are The patriots
who attack socialism.
The spirit Of The Declaration OF
Independence has vanished. Where
Is the consent Of the goUeri,ed in
this country any moro than the
consent Of the Filipinos They