Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-31
A Wall OF Woe.

4 terrible wall of woe is going III
from the camp of the Populists ovel
the name of government wh,ch noa
obtains in the United States, and the
American, the national organ of that
party, voices the feelings of the leaders
in the following words:
The masses of the people being just
it needs but to establish a government
of those people to insure a just govern
ment. This is the doctrine of democra-
lism and in this lies its strength. We
| recognize that We have not now such
just government; we recognize that we
have government in the interest of the
few and the d~espoilers of the many
The paragraph quoted is very pretty
and we'll written, but it lacks one essen
tial, that of truth. Had it been written
in 1898 it would have very nearly COW
cred the situation which obtained UNI
der a Democratic administration, but in
1899 the country is living under a pro-
tective policy, and no man who honest
ly desires to work need go without en-
ployment at good wages. This state
ment is s~ubstantiated by the increase
of wages in all industrial enterprises
| and the appeals which have been sent
| out from various manufacturing CEN
tiers for more help.
AS the American says, the masses OF
the people are just, and from that very
| fact came the result of the presidential
election Of 1896. Free trade had been
given a fair trial with disastrous results
| to every industry in the land. Popu-
lism offered no panacea for the evil poll
tics. which cursed the country from 1879;
to 1897, but fiat money, and in the years
that have passed that n of circu-
lating medium had brought bankruptcy
and sorrow to the entire land. On the
other hand, the Republicans boldly de-
clared that protection and sound money
would restore prosperity. For more
than a quarter of a century previous to
that campaign, aside from four years
of Democratic ruin, the land had been
under a protective policy, and every one
knew the beneficent results of such 8
law, and when the test was made al
! the polls a Just people declared thai
further experiments along the lines Of
both Democratic and Populistic doc.
trine were neither needed nor wanted.
The assertion that 1--WE have a gov
eminent in the interest of the few an(
diculous as it is %groundless. Say wha1
they may, the Democrats cannot get
away from the fact that the masses OF
the United States are today running
| The war with Spain vas not begun until
the people in the country became tilleC
| with righteous Indignation over the
conditions which prevailed in Cuba as
a result from Spanish rule; President
Mckinley did not outline any policy re
garding the Philippine islands until he
made a trip through the middle west
and learned the sentiment of the peo-
PIE VII tlldl dutSllDl, dlu Ill GNtlS IIldl-
ter tina came before the last session OF
congress 10 action was taken until the
members of the house and senate hear6
from their constituents. At the pres
| ent the government of this country is a
government of the people, for the peo-
pie. by the people," and so long as time
shall last it will so continue.
For the purpose of securing offices
and patronage the Democrats and Pop
ulists are endeavoring to create dissat-
isfaction among the voters, but they dc
not understand the American people,
The intelligence of the masses is of as
high a standard as that of those who
imagine that they have been appointed
by Divine power to be leaders, and sc
long as that intelligence permeates the
rank and file of the land there need be
no apprehension concerning the govern
ment, neither can the Populists hope tc
come into power in this country.