Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-01-09
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
THE OUTLOOK.

An election battle has been fought, and ap-
parently lost, since wrote last for the AGI-
rAToR, but there is no room for encouragement.
Refoi ms do not always travel along the lines
of political parties. The politician is mistrust-
ed, and for good reason.
1t is not absolute evidence of perfect trust
that the Republican party is retained in power.
We are rather to infer that the Republican
party is more to be trusted than the Democratic
party The people teel that since Jefferson,
the Democratic party, in its leaders, is not the
friend of the masses. Democracy stood tor
chatte slavery. Democracy fired on Fort
Sumpter. Democracy, headed by George b.
Mcclellan, stood for peace and base surrender
of all he principles conteuded for by Lincoln
and Grant, after the cause of the Union armies
was assured of success. Democracy, under
Cleveland, stood for the money power To-
day, the Democratic party is divided. house
divided against itself cannot stand. Be assured
that no great progressive movement will come
through the Democratic party. Ne must look
elsewhere.
The natural forces that burst upon the earth's
sutface in great earthquakes and sundered
mountains are centuries in preparing. There
was an anti. slavery sentiment for hundreds OF
wears before there was Brney, Fremont or
Lincoln Lincoln and the civil war were the
climax to generations of education and agita-
ton. No political party, as whole, destroyed
chattel slavery. The Abolition party was the
nucleus around which clustered and crystalized
the forces of a great reform. The men who
prepared the human race for the overwhelming
onslaught on chattel slavery are scarcely known
in history. Theirs was the slow and silent
working of minds known only among the low
ly, the obscure and the despsed. Prominence
and ability encountered bowling mobs and glib
bets.
\ God does not choose the great or the mighty
men to do His bidding in the uplifting OF the
human race. Humanity has humility and un-
se6shness for its companions.
Brvan and Craddock have had their counter
parts in other movements than present-day
movements. They cannot control the old or
panizaton sufficiently to win success for even
the most trifing reform. Traitors within the
lin,s defeat the bravest of armies. Bryanism
has no hold on the mere politician, and, there
fore, cannot lead the party to victory. No
other man in tie party is worthy of any true
reformers support.
Politically, reform lies within some party
that has not yet attained to prominence. The
Socialist party seems to be the coming organiz,
atio-. The late vote indicates strong setting
in OF the tide looking to the abolition of wage
slavery.
It is the same old battle, under new condi.
tons The power Of might obtained and exel
cised through the vast accumuations of ths
capitalist Of natural resources has now to be
met on the battle field Of the ballot box.
s The politicians who are 6ghting tor th'
masses are few and far between. Not only
oeu party, but new men, are called for.
rhe masses are rapidly ripening for concen
j.. ION and general forward movement outsid
ne lines of all old parties.
Jetersonanism bore tine iruit Of its time an