Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-18
Republican Tendency to Centrali-
ZatiOn.


The constant drift of the Republican
party towards Capitalization and autocracy
is a characteristic that seems inherent in it,
and ever and anon it needs a wholesome
dose OF Democratic corrective.
The party can no more change in this re-
spect than the leopard can change its spots.
II comprehends within its folds the politi-
cal descendants Of those who at the end of
the Revolution desired to make the govern
ment a monarchy modelled after that Of
Great Britain. This contingent of Tories
and lovers of caste and privilege next or
ganized as the Federal party and sought to
have monarchy introduced surreptitiously
in the guise Of a strong republic, biding
their time till they could gain power enough
to introduce the forms and pageantry of
monarchy as well as the substance, but the
masses Of the people steadily resisted this
idea and constantly set it back as fast as it
was advanced.
The mouarchical idea, however, has more
than the nine lives OF cat aud still lives
and endeavors to struggle forward under
the fostering care of the Republican party.
The Federalist party burdened with more
odium than it could carry, shed its skin
like the sleek serpent that it was, and took
a new name, and it frequently repeated
this manOeuver at one time sporting the
appropriate title of Kuownothings, en-
deavoring to establish political prescription
against some of the best bone, muscle and
intellect Of the land.
This, the most disastrous attempt of all,
so plainly showed up the true Bourbon
crab-crawling characteristics of the monar-
chical contingent that they again shed their
serpentine cuticle by endeavoring to hide
themselves in the midst of the herd, in the
newly arisen Republican party, where they
remain today slyly influencing its policy
and steering it to sure defeat
It is true that few years ago a lot of the
more rif-rafy and brainless among them,
with a view to hasten the arrival Of the
British system, which even the Republican
party was pushing too slowly for their eager
snoDbishness, organized as A. P. IS. This
puerile attempt was so quickly and sharply
rebuked by the great. honest Democracy.
loving American people that they quickly
skunk back into their old refuge, the Re-
publican party. What they will do next
will, without doubt be as weak and futile
as their various efforts in the past, just as
sure as a foul garden produces only weeds.
In view of the constituent parts Of which
the Republican party is composed it is not
wonderful that it favors the wealthy and
aristocratic few and riots in extravaganza at
the expense of the over-burdened people.
It was the powerful effects of these char.
acteristics of the party that drove it from
power twice in the last eighteen years, and
will again do so in the near future just as
sure as the sun rises in the East. Every
measure that the accumulated wealth of the
country cOnceives aud advocates finds its
prompt and willing champion in the Re-
publican party. The lobbyists of corpora
tions and trusts furnish the managers of
the party with sophistry to try to convince
the people that continual heecing is for
their benefit, but the masses can be trusted
to perceive that the robbers no are hold
ing them up are not doing it for the benefit
Of the dear people, and they will appoint a
day Of reckoning when accounts will be
squared.
The oleomargarine bill has been passed
by a Republican Congress and signed by a
Republican President. It is for the sole
benefit Of the creamery trust It drives out
Of existence a cheap and wholesome article
Of food as good as butter, according to the
opinion Of skilled chemists and the opinion
Of those who have used IT, This enables the
creamery trust to put butter as high as they
will, and at the same time put down the
price Of the milk they buy Of farmers to
anything that pleases them.
They at the same time put as many an
noying restrictions as they dared ION the
butter made directly by the farmer, stigma
tizing It in the oleo bill as renovated or
process butter" The farmers boot is heavy
and hob-nailed, however, and the Republi-
can party will soon feel the weight Of it on
the most bulbOus part Of It's anatomy.
Taxing one useful commodity out Of ex.
istence In order that another may command