The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-22
MUST GET TOGETHER
WILLIAM F. Villas TALKS OF DEM
OCRATIC HARMONY.
LET PAST BURY ITS OWN DEAD
THE PARTY THE ONLY HOPE OF
THE PEOPLE.

Supporting the Party In Powers
and All who Believe ia Use of Gov
eminent for Private Advantage
Are With Them-The Powerful
Combines Built Up by Means of
Protection Have Acquired a Mas
terry of the People Never Seen Be-
fore i'm Any Land, He Declares.
Milwaukee, July 21.-The Hon. Will
liam F. Villas, who was Secretary of
the Interior in President. Cleveland's
Cabinet, was recently asked by Mr.. A.
F. Warden, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee, to give
his opinion respecting political condi-
tons, the possibilities of Democratic
harmony, land the assurances of the
party's restoration to power and the
relief of the people from Republican
maladministration." MIR. Villas replied
to-day in part as follows:
Nothing can be more evident to one
who takes broad view of the nature
of affairs, or of our political history
than that achievement of good is only
to be won by leaving to the past the
burial of it's own dead, and pushing on
undisturbed to the great ends open in
the future. 1t needs but thought up
on the immensely of the concerns of
so numerous a people, upon the happi-
ness that belongs of right to the mill
lions of home circles which are the
treasures and reward of the freemen
of America, both to show the futility
and sin of trying to block progress.
with the half-burned fagots of extin-
guished controversy, and to impress on
every high-minded man the sense of
duty to so discharge his part toward
the hopes of the future that he need
never cringe before his respect.
The Hope of the People.
whatever the alignments on past is
sues, the Democratic party remains to-
day the hope of the people of this land.
On no other can be placed any just ex-
pectation of a rescue from the menac-
ing conditions that beset us. Anyone
can see, who will see the truth, that all
the combinations of greed, all the plot
ters who work upon our government to
win special gain at the cost of the peo-
pie at large, are to be found supporting
the party now in power for the Demo-
cratic party they have, as always, only
/ hostility. 1t must. of course, be so; be-
cause whoever will sacrifice the public
| good for private or class advantage can
expect no countenance from a party
which stands devotedly for the common
welfare of all. Many there are indeed,
who know that their prosperity will be
| sufficient If 1t consists with justice to
| all; who prefer that justice without any
| personal reckoning; and who, If so al
! lied as to share gains derived at the
cost of their fellow men, would rather
yield than hold them on such terms.
| The truth remains that, If ever deliver
| ance is to come from the rapacious
combinations now in real control of the
country's affairs, if the abuses of pow
er which have put to shame our ma
tional principles and traditions are TO
fad redress, the relief must spring from
party which will unite the people In
defense of common welfare, in unfiinch-
ing hostility to it's insidious and pow
erful enemies.
'The overruling need is of concen-
tration of opinion and a cooperation
In political action by the people.
Trusts the Greatest Danger.
Under the false and deceitful name
of protection to industry, there has
arisen such a system, of com bining de-
vices of legislation with the vices of
business management to obtain mas
terry of the people as was never before
seen in this or any other land; the
iniquity of which 1t would be hard to
find any parallel for, unless in oriental
countries.
AT the pace the movement has at
tanned, ii can be but a few years, If
1t go unchecked, before substantially
the entire range of manufacture, min
ing, trade and transportation will
stand composed of a few masters and
millions of employees, the latter con-
strained to trade only at what may
be called practically 'company's stores,
and all agriculture will be helplessly
ensnared. as it already is to no small
extent. Liberty in the pursuit of live
lihood will well nigh have disappear
ed, for, with the devices of our mod
ern invention, it Is unnecessary longer
to manacle the condemned with ball
and chains.
THE people must aim their stroke
at the root of the poisonous tree. 1t
is idle to complain of mere incidents,
to merely attack particular evils, to
begin lawsuits against some special
conspiracy The policy of the illustrious
Grant, whose objective was not the
capture of towns or the subjugation
of districts, but the destruction of the
armies of secession, must be ours In
the intending conflict The victory to
ne WOHy winch alone Is worth winning,
is the otherthrow of the grand CEN
trail, governing conspiracy of protec-
ton. When that browning mercy
shall be vouchsafed the very purif-
cation of the nations soul by the fires
of the strife will easily enable it to
subdue the lesser forms in which Sa-
tan is embodied in our national life.
THE contest cannot be longer post
poned, but with the utmost peril to
the rights of our countrymen Though
master now, protection knows it's dan
ger, and is vigilant to secure every ele-
ment of strength, every coign of van
tage,' and. as ever. on both sides of
the field. 1t is making new alliances,
controlling more industries, increasing
it's political power. How arrogantly it
has but just defed' the appeal of ma
tional kindness and justice, bound, by
the law of its preservation; to
stand by every confidence in whatever
enactment.
A Painful Record.
at is a painful record we have
written on the pages of three years
past, for Americans who look to Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison, the Ad-
amses and their compeers of the dec
laration and the constitution, for the
rule of national conduct that should
enlighten the world with the love and
truth of liberty. And that same must
yet be wiped off by future treatment
of the unhappy Filipinos according TO
the principles we have inherited. or,
so surely as justice rules the world,
America will bitterly atone for it In
resulting suffering Of her own. But
not at once can all national wrongs
be redressed and those borne by our