Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-03

E% = that 1t sometimes looks as though
S19SesAf$ there is no hope Of changes for the
better. Rather it looks all things must continue
to drift directed by the classes and the masses be
damed. Kansas friend Of Olden times, comes for
ward with anew thought, and to us it looks like
a lucid one. Hon. R. III. Nichols, of Howard, Kan
sas, in a letter to his home paper on national
thought, says in part;
had voted with the republican party several
years after had become convinced that wealth was
realizing profit from our protective system to the
disadvantage Of soil and labor interests; hopeful
however, that the evil would be corrected by that
party; and now as an eX-republ can with democratic
symtOms do not wish to be less consistent. And
though not in sympathy with all the 'isms" that
party keeps in its platforms, and not having been
tested and pronounced ''SimOn pure by those who
boast Of democratic ancestry and unbrOken iealty to
party. nevertheless have faith that the national
democracy, additionally free trade party, at no
time yielding to the tarih system to an extent be-
yOnd government needs, will undertake to regulate
the avenues of trade as herein indicated, though
admit my disappointment at the inactivity OF dem
Ocratc senator's and representatives in the last con-
gTess believe that they should have been first to
ask for free trade with Cuba but not having done
so should have given prompt and active support to
Cuban reciprocity satisfactory to the administration
''The regulation Of the avenues Of trade so as to
make it possible for the prudent business man with
limited means to transact any business he may
choose to engage in without the consent Of corpora
q
leader who can take the people into his confidence
and lead on to victory; leader who dares demand
apparently arbitrary changes in systems by uTg
ing the repeal Of the tariff law and the support of
the government by direct taxation levied on actual
value with the possible addition Of a small per
centum on excessive annual profits; q leader who
daIes instruct the that there longer exists
q reason why the man of limited means with large
family should give more for the support of the gov
ernment because forced to buy Of the protected
articles for the support Of his family than the
Of wealth with small family and few needs for such
protected articles; this is the indispensable and first
necessary step toward circumscribing the power of
corporations and trusts-this done and the task will
be easy, and until party shall have begun this
work in manner and form as will convince the mass
es that the effort will be nncOmprOmising, the re-
pubcans win continue in business at the same old
stand.
sI have given it as my belief that the democratic
party had opportunities not to have realized victO
~ in 19O0 but opportunities for record making after
its defeat in that year and to prepare for Just such
victory in 1904 as Lincoln prepared for in 1858
And though somewhat disappointed, I have faith
that national democracy will yet improve the OppOr
tunity and that through the agency Of that party,
stimulated by the growing spirit Of independent
partisanship, conditions of trade will be so regula
ted as to prevent repetition of the inequality of
prices disclosed between the dates of the passage Of
the Dingley tariff Law and the republican national
convention Of 1900. Believing that hosts Of your
candidates will declare for free trade before the close
of the campaign and hoping that you maybe able at
least to inhict severe rebuke against candidates
whose methods in attending nominating conventions
on a special train chartered for the occasion with
bands OF music and thousand ''rO0ters" have ex-
cluded poor men from political hOnOrs.'