The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-10
ISSUES OF THE NEXT CAMPAIGN


washington, June 6.--(Staff Speciality
is a good thing to bark back over past
political ground and see where we are
"at." It is good thing TO, once In a
while stop the discussion OF particular
measures in order to pass in general re-
view the political situation
In almost every contest in which politi-
cal parties measure their strength through
an appeal to free and intelligent suffrage
there is a fundamental idea underlying the
antagonism in subordinatlon to which all
the detail Issues are arranged.
This, It seems to me. is conspicuously
true in respect to the impending presdcn-
tial contest. There is now distinctly
drawn line between two classes--thoss who
produce the wealth and those who absorb
and control it,
The greatest piece OF machinery for
transferring the earnings Of labor and en-
terprise to a non-industrial class is pol'u-
cal. In the control Of government asrn-
cies legislative, executive, and to- often
judicial. the operators and benenciarios
of this transfer of the profits Of labor find
their most effective instrumen.ality. EGy
exercise of the control only increases the
power for its continuance. Ac,ion ami re-
action between concentrated wealth and
governmental authority are reciprocal AS
wealth grows its governmental inlrerce
increases and with this increase comes in
creased power for further acquisition.
Wealth is in the saddle 1t mas so long
controlled governmental policies that 81
has become arrogant. It demands nothing
short of absolute surrender and submits
sion to all its dictates.
The republican party has SURRENDERED
and yielded to this demand. The geuniue
democracy refuses obedience ana dehantly
1aunts in the face of this powerful purse
proud aggregation, the Chiclgo piatftrn.
This makes the issue.
The overshado wing issue, however. is
not. as some people seem TO think. be-
tween wealth and poverty. II Is between
great wealth and different grades of me-
diocrty. The simple wage Garner who
has no higher ambition than to live by his
wages. is interested, to he sure, but is
not nearly so much Interested as solc
others.
1t is the man of moderate mems who has
something but not much. 1t IS the asp,ratt
to a fair competence. it is TIE indus,gious
and enterprising with small holdings at
present. hut with a justihpble hope of In
crease, aud, above ALL the property owning
debtor in every walk If life, whose In
terests are most directly involved N this
controversy, and their name is legion
They are the real defendants in the case
in which plutocraay is Dllntn, because
they have something to lose.
In this case the repu1licln portg has
been retained for the pl7iniF 1t has row
become the official representative Of every
trust and of every spe,je5 of, oyergrowa
and graspins wealth T. stands spoi scr for
them all. 1t is from that party these
trusts and immense aggreSations Of wealth
draw the breath OF ;ifa
or the moro than 100 trnsts. most OF
them formed since this ADMINISTRATION
came into power, and VITA csritsliza-
ton OF more than $4,000 100000 every one
OF them is committed to the support Of the
republican party Tn Expressed Object
Of these big corporations is 20 destroy a.!
competition based ur~n small carital To
simply crush the ruluc al lie out o: the
man with mediocre n!canS At the head
Of these trusts. as 4 sort of patriarch,
stands the gold syndicate, aiming through
the governmental control OF money and
the money standard at the conhscation Of
the property of debtors and tax payers.
This stupendous aggregation of criminal |
wealth is the very hulwark, the backbone
of modern republicanism. Then follow
the smaller fry First comes the powerful |
combination OF bankers. aiming not only |
like the gold syndicate, to ruin present |
debtors by a change in the money stand
ard. but at a control Of the money volIre /
by which the alternative imitation ami de-
preston all future accumulations OF IL
dustry, enterprise and thrift may he con
hscated. If here and there may be found |
a banker who is not a republican he IS 70
be resarded as a phenomen
Then, in addition there is an army OF
spectators who desire to exploit the trop- |
ical islands, which by the fortunes Of wal
have fallen under our control 1t is uc.
der various preteNts, such as duly to
Chstianize the heather. responsibility
to other nations for good government, or
obedience to mysterious and irresistible
destiny they conceal or, rather, try to
conceal real purpose to secure by con.
quest the opportunity to Appropriate tbs
labor and plumber the possessions of these
island natives.
with very rare executions these self.
STYLED eNpansionists nock With the other
birds OF prey and dll eonGcnml a3socil-
tior in the republican party.
There they are, all o: tnam--tho trusts,
the gold standard robbers, the interest
CATERERS, the ralto1l masnates tle
bankers the spectators in Aasn aud blood
foreign and domestc--tnsy arc all in the
republican party
Is if difficult then 'akios a broed view
oi undeniablo facts to understand for
what the republican party now stands,
Can any ons with half en- eye ana desire
10 be fair fan to zee the. II hes f3llen an.