The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-02

A dispatch is sent out from Washing
ton City announcing that Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama, is d~enouncing both
the present political parties for their
inastion in regard to antitrust legisla-
tie4. He declares that republicans and
democrats are alike afraid to tackle the
question in earnest because of the pow
erful none and political influences
welded by the big combinations of cap
ital in his country. He predicts that
there will sOon be a new political Organ-
iZatisn of national scope which will
h"ye the courage to join battle with
these powers and will succeed in crush
ing them. He offers no plan for the or
gaaizing of this party or the accom-
plishment of its purpose. but says the
latter will not be done by "tinkering
With the tariff" but through congress
sionaI legislation under the powers now
granted by the constitution for levying
taxes.
La this dispatch Senator Morgan is
susted as saying:
Il cannot see that there is any great
difference between the leaders of the
democratic and republican parties on
the question Of trusts. Whichever par
~ is ost of power cries out against the
octopus; whichever party is in power
hugs the octopus tot it's breast. Politi-
sal affiliatiOn seems to be no shield
against the creator of great wealth.
Seldom, if ever, has a question of
such overwhelming Importance arisen
In cur economic development. 1t is
--Aori- Co. .n1r+Snn nrl ~ will hn
solved. The republican party may
solve it, or the democratic party may
solve il, it may be that before a solu-
ton is found a new party will arise on
the ruins OF the old ones. The solution
may come soon or it may be long de-
layed. 1t depends on how speedily the
American people awaken to their peril.
I am inclined to believe there will be
dark days before the awakening comes
days full of want and suffering and
disaster. My belief also is that out Of
the demand for a solution of this queS-
ton will be wrought a political reVo-
fution-a revolution that will shake
present organizations at their base. per
haps wipe them out.
THE strength corporation wealth has
attained in the United States is calcu-
lated to fill one with awe. The presi-
dent and the congress are pigmies be-
side it 1t is feared by the leaders OF
beth political parties. The pot has no
ground upon which to criticise the ket-
ties blackness. Democrats and repub-
Iicans alike on the stump rave and
shout and profess eagerness to engage
in mortal combat with the giant. They
come to congress or assume executive
office and their limbs are paraliZed and
their tongueS silenced.
There is one power, however, greater
even than that of corporate wealth-the
power of the American people. 1t IS
slow in the arousing, but once aroused
no wrong can stand before it. The
1eaVen already is at work-the people
are beginning to think. The very poor
are the first to feel the expressions Of
she trusts.
Conditions for them today are very
lard and growing harder People Of
moderate circumstances and of COM
narrative wealth do not so soon feel the
weight of the burden. but il Is bearing
down upon them; and sooner nr later il
will become intolerable. Then they will
i0in with the poor to fight a common
battle, and whatever pose them will
be swept away. For men in high places
who are serving two masters that daV
will be a day of reckoning"
We cannot see that there is any ne
cessity for forming a new party for the
- POSS VI tNS
and depriving them of their unlawfully
acquired powers. The republican party
will not seriously take the matter in
hand. Any earnest effort in this direc-
ton by 1t would be the signal for its
downfall. 4 creature of these monop-
Giles, it cannon afford as d party meas
ure to attack them, though it tries to
HnnI tho npOn1a into tho h0liaf that il
intends to do so.
The relief from his evil could be had
trough the democratic party if its
leaders would display more indepen-
dence and backbone. Their conduct il
the past few years, though. has caused
the people to have very little more fattn
IN their p~rotestations than in those o.
the republicans. If the democratic par
tY will prove TO the people that ii - in
earres and has the courage to mai ltliH
its convictions it will secure thsir sup
port, and there need be no talk IF the
formation of a new party. Blu: this as
surance must not be mIcn longer de-
layed. The people are becoming tired
of being given stone when they Cry
for bread. They want parry pledges
carried out. Let the democratic pa:ly
convince the people of its sincerity in
making these pledges Of relief aid t
will again become the party OF the pee
pie. But if it will not do this. then
Senator Morgan's prediction is likely
TO be fulfilled.
1t is now up to President Castro to
end the trouble in the Caribbean. He