The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-21
YRO0MAN TALKS POLITICS.
Says That Trusts Will Rob Republi-
cans as Well as Democrats.


Carr vrooman, the Parsons PopuIfst,
discussing the result Of the recent cleo
ton said:
1--WE fought a good fight, we kept the
faith and If henceforth there is laid up
for our country four years of prosperity
and plenty l am prepared to enjoy as
much of it as any Republican can. If,
on the other hand, the trusts continue.
as believe they viii, to tighten their
grip on the threats Of the people, I'll
have the satisfaction Of knowing that
they'll rob Republicans as complacently
as they will Populists and Democrats
I'll enjoy the next four years good
fighting as much as have the last II
we have been wrong, the next four years
will prove it. If we have been right, the
next four years viii prove that
THE chief factor of how it happened
was a. failure on the part of many vo-
tiers to know or to care what were the
real causes of the present business re-
viva1 These causes were: First, a re-
action from the panic of the plutocrat
Cleveland administration. Secondly, the
increase of our circulating medium by
the worlds phenomenal output of gold.
Thirdly the four distinct wars, each of
which Increased the demand and de-
creased the supply of food and other
products; and, fourthly, several minor
reasons, such as foreign crop failures
and famines. This business revival.
which came in spite of, and in no way
on account of, the Mckinley admins
tration, has yet in the popular mind been
associated with that administration As
a result the Republican party and Mark
Hanna have received the gratitude and
the thanksgiving due to Almighty God.
by 1904 the people will have learned
a new catechism-'The Lord giveth and
the trust taketh away. Blessed be the
name Of the Lord! To - with Hanna
ismt''
Mr.. Vrooman, who was one of the
managers of the Popuiist feature of the
campaign, expresses the following opin-
ion of Mr.. Bryan:
HISTORIANS will say Of Bryan that he
was the greatest political educator of
the century. Whether we consider him
right or wrong in his economic views,
every fair man must acknowledge that
he fnaugurated a new era in American
politics His advent put an end to %
years of scrambling for spoils, by lining
up our two great parties in a struggle
for principle Our principle of that
struggle is sure to emerge triumphant.
To doubt this is treason and atheism
AS a warning for the next campaign,
Mr. Vroonan says:
EVERY Populist and Democrat should
be careful to remember what we are so
constantly urging on Republicans, that
principles are the soul, the spirit, of a
party, and that whoever loves party
name, party history or party organiza-
ton more than the vital principles Of
that party. is worse than an infidel' If
Grover Cleveland and Whitney and
their gang of plutocratic tools should
cratic organization again, the duty of
every Jeffersonian, Jaeksonian Demo-
crat would be to rally to the formation
OF a new Democracy. In that new party,
in that new physical body, would thus
become reincarnate and invincible the
great. undying principles of popular gov
eminent
Our principles can win in 1904 on one
condition-if we are true to them. To
remain steadfast and true may require
sacrifice of time, of money, of friends
and perhaps of our own favorite and all
most priceless party prejudice. But if
we are not ready to sacrifice all these
and more, if we are not ready to cling
to principle with a deathIess devotion,
and to fight fer it to the last dollar and
the last drop of blood, we are unworthy
to be freemen.
The greatest problem today pressing
for solution is the trust problem. Tt will
dwarf all other issues in 1904. Every
citizen should study it and proclaim
the truth about it from the house tops,
realizing that upon it's solution depends
the perpetuity of liberty amongst US.
Imperialism is but the latest eruption in
a new spot of the same foul disease