Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-10-01
SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY.
Ii is Apparent to All What the
Republican Party Stands For.


lican party, than in an editorial in
the New York Journal of August {.
1902, from which we quote the fol
lowing:
"The duty of the Democratic party,
as well MS its interests, is to fight the
Republican party, not to compromise
with it and initiate it.
"Republicanism, as we now see it.
is fO' midnhle foe. 1t the party of
wealth founded on privilege
and monopoly.
Every eminently respectable thief
IN the country is H Republican.
Gall the criminal trusts which
make business Of plundering the
people are ofiicered and directed bv
men who make the cause of the
Republican party their own.
"All the railroads which conspire
with the trusts to kill of competition
back the Republican party.
Gall the protected interests which
fatten under the tariff and srll goods
cheaper to foreigners than they do
to Americans, are ardentlv Repub-
lican.
"The Food Trust is Republican.
The Coal Trust is Republican.
"The Republican party continues
to employ the language of patriotism.
and To assert devotion to the peoples
welfare, but it has ceased To h,. moved
by concern for the public good.
"The Republican party Of 1902
represents only public interes's.
"These private interests. organized
to tax the people for private profit,
possess in combination, enormous
power. They own the Republican
party, dominate Congress, and have
in their service most of the news.
papers of the country, nearly all of
the magazines. not "A few pulpits,
and majority of the colleges.
"Ths explOiters of the people need
'respectabIlity' in their business, and
they know how to let it now quite ss
well AS they did century ago, when
about everything that WAS 'respecta-
BILE and conservative lauded the
centralizing and monarchical Hamil-
ton and exhausted the resources of,
hatred and calumny upon the Demo.
cratic Jefferson.
"NevertheIess Hamilton, who
wanted government by property aud
the better classes, was abandoned bv
the people for Jefferson, who believed
in equal rights to all and privileges
to none, and thus the real republic
WAS created.
Equal rights to all and special
privileges to none"-that is the prin-
ciple upon which whatever organi
zatiOn' the Democratic party of 1902
may need must proceed.
"War upon trusts, war upon mo
nopoiy, war upon government 10y
money, without conscience or sense of
patriotic obligation-that is Democ-
racy.
"And that is the antithesis of mod
ern Republicanism, which has become
but the political lackey of pluto
cracy, that mas no respect for prop
erty until property has passed into
its own possession and out of that of
its rightful owners.
Against this plutocracy. which
has no purpose but to fill its pocket
no aim in politics save to get from
government, through tariff and other
class legislation, continuing license
to plumber the people, the Democratic
party must battle ceaseleSslv, if it IS
to be worthy of its name aud mission.
"The Democratic masses under
stand the great, the vital issue
between the parties, if many of the
advising sages do not.
"The Republican party Is owned
by the trusts"
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