Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-29
Socialist and Republican.

Socialist and Republican.
There seems just now to be q general
disposi ton among republican and as
sistant republican newspapers to.
preach vigorously against socialism. III
line with this, many of these p9sers
are now seeking to prove that ~ Tue
new moral world the irratiopf names
of husband and wife, parepI cnllo
will be heard no more. n.iuren mln
undoubtedly be a Ppe's u oie
whole community,
The Chicago az 0nicle taxes great
Mains to protesa against this invasion.
, - ia olata tS6s seen that the purpose
!. , ~ p.a &spapers is to stir up pnpu-
assldice against socialism The,
10 s6ot conceal, if they would, the
1that socialism is growing in this
lou TRY every year. They seem to take
TT ,r granted that it is a forcs with
whi:h they must reckon. Whatey,rI
may be said with resprcs to the merits
of soc llism, it will bsgenerally agreed
that it represents the radical S on
the one hand just as the present-day
policies of the republican party repre-
sc mt the radicalism on the other hani.
Those who stand in suca terror Of So
cialism and who fear its growth il this
c III TRY GIN accomplish better and
quicker results If, instead of inveigh-
ing agains socialism itself, they band
their energies toward bringing ord.,
ont of chaos and contrib lite their best
efforts toward complete restoration
Of popular g ,vernmentso that we m ~
shape our policies along clean-cul
dem )cratic lines, method that, in-
tellisently aud vigorously employed,
will cure every public evil under which
We now suffer.
During the coal strike of last year
tns Chicago Record Herald, repub
lican paper, said that the incidents OF
that strike had made n.ore socialists
than all the literature that h.d ever
been written upon the subject L,
might have added that the evils of the
usGsystem, the impunity with which
men of extraordinary wealth imp st
upon the people, the inf Inference
which tn, trust magnate shows to tie
rights of men and to the pubic well
fare, the readiness with which public
officials yield to the .mands of ioflu-
entail persons, the bitterness with
which everyone who undertakes to in
sist upon policy that will result in
the greatest good to the greatest num-
bar is assailed as foe to honest gov
ernm snt and an enemy to the "busi-
ness interests. lit might have aided
that these things are contributing to
the growth of socialism in this coun-
try much more than all the pondero us
and complicated literature which the
champions Of that particular ,ctrine
are disseminating among the people.
| While 1T is true that socialism is
| q lding recruits these days, there is a
middle ground between the adcalism
LOT thu socialist element and the radi.
calism of the plutocratic element. II
is the ground which the democratic
| party took in 1896 and in 1890, the
lground upon which, let us hope, thu
} democratic party stands today /; indeed
+ it is the ground upon which the demo
] cratic party must continue to Stant
unless that party shall prove unwor
], thy of its name and false to its ira
l ditions.
o The democratic party represente,
d by the Chicago platform and the Kar
G. sas City platform represents not. tn
IS radi ;alism Of this day. 1t rapresent
in truth, conservatism. Those VIII
" would put a check upon socialism
e should undertake to put check upo
It plutocracy. Dem cratic doctrine, a
l. enunciated by the democrats at Oh
It cage in 1895 and at Kansa; City
Is 1900, provides the means for the r,
e establishment of popular governm ID
II In its best sense; that whenever poi
II ular government is restored, the pei
pie will have nothing to fear from th
r dreams Of the socialists or the mach
d nations Of the plutocrats Oman
d World Herald.