The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-06-20

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financial embarrassment should not git
down and look into each Others face
In mute despair. neither will they re-
gain financial soun1ness Or the c9ad-
dence Of the business community BY
recrimination and quarrel; nor WIN
any members Of the firm aid in its
restoration to solvent stfeug,h by IN
angry insistence upon the continual
ton Of the business methods which
have invited It's embarassnsa.. The
Democratic party is very far from po-,
litical insolvency, but no one here
should be offended BY the suggestion
that its capital and RI aspects have
suffered serious injury since Mr.. Til
den was elected president. Then and
afterwards northern Democratic states
were not rare curiositi,. forth'sn
Democratic senator's, now practically
extinct. were quite numerous, and
northern Democratic governors, now
almost never seen, were frequently
encountered. II this state Of impair
ment exists, an instant duty presses
Upon the managers of the Democratic
establishment and one which they
cannot evade with honor. Those ~ us
less prominent In the party in tire
rank and file are longing to be led
through old Democratic ways to DEM
ocratie victories. We were never more
ready TO do enthusiastic battle than
now, IL we can only oe lna-shaled out
side the shadow Of predestInad defeat.
Is IL too much to ask ou. leaders to
avoid paths that are known to lead
to disaster Is 1t too much to ask
shat proven errors be abandoned ard
that we be delivered from a body OF
death and relieved from the burdtns
of issues which have been XII hy
the DEGREES of the American ps ople !?
Ought we not to be fed upon some
thing better than the husks OF defeat?
II these questions are met In an hon.
est, manly fashion, / believe 1t VIII
be productive Of the best kind Of DEM
ocratic harmony.
In dealing with new issues we OF
the Democratic faith are extremely
fortunate in the simplicity Of Demo-
cratic standards and the ease with
which new questions can be measured
by those standards. A party based
upon care for the interests of all the
people as their aggregate condition
demands, with no unjust faovritism for
any particlar class; a party devoted to
the plan of popular government as
our fathers ordained 1t, and for the
purpose which they sought to estab-
lish: a party whose conservatism OPP
poses dangerous and un-American ex-
periments and yet puts no barrier in
the way of genuine and safe progress
ought to be able to deal with new
conditions In a manner quite consist
ent with Democratic doctrine and
stimulating to Democratic pulses and
instincts, Let us not forget, however,
that II is not in the seach for new
and gaudy issues nor the interpreta-
tons OF strange visions that strorg
and healthy Democracy displays its
splendid power. Another party may
thrive on the ever shifting treatment
lof' popular restiessness. or by an in
sincere play upon uneasoning preju-
dice and selfish anticipation-bu the
Democratic party, never: Democracy
has already in store the doctrine for
which it fights its successful battles
and 1t will have them in store as long
as the people are kept from their own,
and just as long as their rights and
interests are sacrificed, by favoritism
in government care-by inequality Of
government burdens, by the encourage
ment of huge industrial aggregations
that throttle individual enterprise. BY
the reckless waste of public money
and by the greatest of all injuries as
it underies nearly all others, a system
of tariff taxation whose robbing ex-
actions are far beyond the needs of
economical and legitimate government
expenditures. which purchases sup
port by appeals to sordidness and
greed, which but continually corrupts
the public conscience.
" What but an infatuation with the
visage of defeat can explain the sub
ordination of these things by Demo-
Gratis when they prepare for battle
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