Arizona republican., 1899-03-29
MT. WatteTSOn FOrmulateS a
 Greed for Democracy.
STRONG AGAINST THE TRUSTS
The Kentucky Editor Would Abandon inc Honey issue and Expansion as Settled Que SfiOnS Of Public Policy, and Revert fo Tariff Re- form, an Income Tax and Reform of Judicial System.

Louisville, Ky, March 2S.-A cor respondent of the Courier-Journal asks
 this question:
 Accepting for the sake of argument your view that silver is if not a dead
 would you replace it, and how would you line up the party in 1900, so as to give us fighting chance?"
 MT. .Watterson answers this in an editorial of three columns, be- ginning as follows:
 ''In the present confused state of the public mind-the passing of old issues and the coming of new ones making on every side kind of chaos of factions it is not an easy task, even theoreti- cally, to mark out clear, consistent track for the free, unobstructed move ment of a great political army; and yet if the Courier-JournaI were coms>--c- ed to do this, and given the power, it would make the attempt.
 But before it began the work of re- construction it would throw out the debris of populism which has accumu- lated among the general mass of dem ocratic wreckage. It would accept the verdict of 1896 as to the currency; 1t would accept the verdict of the Spanish war as to the acquisition of foreign territory; it would recognize the ele- vation of the American union into a world-power and accept the responsi bilities of this, nor question how or why. Addressing itself to the prob lens thus newly created, it would pro pose. to deal with these problems very much as Jefferson and his associates and successors dealt with the problems which the acquisition of Louisiana and Florida and the erection into various degrees of statehood of the northwest territory raised up in the earlier years of the century. Then, having cleared the decks for action it would proceed to formulate line of domestic politics having these four ends in view:
 ''First-The destruction of combina- tions of capital designed to limit pro- duction, to raise prices, and to pro- mote monopoly.
 
 moneys by taxes fairly divided between production and consumption; begin ming with a tariff for revenue only and ending in graded income tax oppres- sive to no class or interest.
 ''Third-The recovery to the people of all franchises belonging to the peo- pie, but diverted from public to private ucoc bx tho of oOrporofi0DS and individuals, corruptly working through state and municipal legisla- tion.
 "Fourth-Such reorganization and reform of our judicial system as will remove the courts farther from the influence of the rich and make them more accessible to the poor; a result not to be reached by excited appeals and revolutionary menaces, but by calm, conservative methods, originat- ing in the benign and orderly opera tions of an enlightened public opin- ion.'
 MT. Watterson next proceeds to dis cuss the republican party, saying:
 ''The republican party is primarily party of organized capital. It was its high protective tariff policy which drove the entering wedge of class dis tinction into our body corporate, pro ducing in all the centers of population the wide and dark contrasts of poverty and wealth; and, along with the heavy hand of the unequal tax-gatherer laid the foundation for the locust plague of trusts, which threaten to swallow up both the accumulations of the well-tO- do ,and the fruits of the daily labor of the toiling many. The republican party must be dislodged from power before the country can hope for any reform of the peculiar evils and abuses which spring from the of mercenary politics and or ganized capital.
 But the republican party can never be dislodged from power by move ment so radical in it's character as to make republicanism synonymous with the preservation of the public credit and the maintenance of the public or fer. All such movements play into he hands of the republican leaders That party, which even seems to be a menace to the national integrity, must inevitably lose in national elections. The democrats could have carried the election in 1896 except that the ex- remes of the Chicago platform and the sxcesses of the succeeding campaign frightened and solidified all the con iervative clements of the country
 "Mr. Mckinley was by no means 
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