The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-03-03
THE APPROAC CON-
ELICZ

EL/CZ.
Judge Willet, of Alabama, rs re-
poreed to be in New Orleans on a
mission to inauGurate an opposition
to Bryan for the Democratic nOmi-
nation. He is tail to the Van
WICK boom that did not enthuse
anybody At Saratoga last year, but
the walters at the big hotels. Whit
ney was reported as having crossed
the ocean last summer to meet the
hero Of Manila, to feel of him for
cand idate to save the Democracy
1t is full time for these-henchmen of
the privileged classes to take notice |
that leaders of the people are not
| made to order, but are born tor the
work in hand. Such was the case
with Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln,
and last, but not least, the peerless
Bry an, who is the chosen champion
| of the masses in this presidential
year; and they will see TO it that
he will not be side-tracked bv
another Benedict Arnold of Democ-
racy. Of course he was not in
vited to the house warming OF
Millionaire Whitney in New York
recently, the first story of whose
but Rockefeller, Morgan and Hunt
tington with the noted Swiss, Bourke
Cochran, were honored guests.
The very idea of a millionaire Dem
ocrat is preposterous. 1t is a con-
tradiction in terms. Democrats
belong to the ranks of the common
people. They are the toilers of the
land, and the producers of millions,
but they build no palaces, form no
trusts or corporations. Goebei was
one of them and because of his de-
votion to the cause and interests of
the people against a remorseless,
grinding and foreign monopoly, he
was murdered by the rifle-bullet of
the assassin.
We are fast drifting to another
irrepressible conflict that recalls the
famous prediction of Macaulay
about the fate of Republican insti-
= tutions at the end of the ninteenth
century In America. Either tbs
people will successfully reclaim their
n right of self-government, usurped
1 by the unlawful conspirators of the
: moneyed classes. through class leg
islation, or the holy cause of De.
I mocracy and humanity will perish
: forever in the triumph of monopoly
e and imperialism. Under the pre-
a text of the barbarous policy of ex'
pansion and conquest the lnterna
oppression and extortlon tina
S threaten the very life of the repub
S lie have been concealed from pub
e lie view. The greed and cupidit,
e of the privileged classes are seeking
n to establish an oligarchy of wealth
t. upon the ruins of American liberties
IS by the subsection of the people t.
an industrial slavery more crue
W and memorable than chattel slav
cry. The indirect taxation of mo
e nopoly in factory, trade and trans
z portation, impose heavier burden
> upon the people of the Union tina
q the whole revenues collected for tn
re maintenance of the National, Stat
and municipal governments. 'tEter
nal vigilance is the price of liberty
N and it behooves the free press {
y our common country to join in tn
10 crusade against the tyranny of tn
"a Unsuitable trusts that are pressin
"a out the very l1fe-blood of the people
70 The conspiracy of the Ro6ber Baro
NJ classes against the masses, eve
TO with the patronage of corrupt at
"a ministration, bolstered up by tt
&c army, will not prevent the Verde
u of the yet free American poop
Is 'sthat free government shall nj
IN perish from the face of the earth
St,nr