The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-16

WteH ne NOlu beue Nc lnd Deen buying
ON lining for his undcrclothes. In
reply to Bcde's query as to how he was
getting on. the unfortunate disciple of
Jefferson answered.:
THAT HIS horse went dead aud his mule
went lame,
Mud nc lost six cows in a poker game;
Ihen a hurricane came, on n summers day,
And blew the house where he lived, away;
And an earthquake came when that was
gone.
And swallowed the land that the house
stood on,
Ihen the tax collector soon came round
And charged him up with the hole in the
ground"
Bede said that his friend thought that
WAS carrying the single tax too far. But
if you could analyze his case and those
nj all chronic complainers and kickers
you wodld find that, out of Il hundred
of them, ut least ninety-eight ought to
20 out ard kick themselves.
Short on Performance.
Democrats do not know the meaning
of the word performances" when ap-
piled to doing anything for the gem
eral good, the advancement of the hui
man race, or the betterment of man
kind. AS a party it has been trying
t" write it for more than n full round
century, and yet it has not succeeded in
forming the first letter. To do anything
constructive or of permanent benefit
seems utterly beyond its moral and
psychic conception, or physical capacity
10 perform. Its normal attitude is with
its face to the past and its back to the
future. 1T never sees an opportunity UNI
til the issue has been permanently set
tied by the Republican party and public
sentiment Then it will stand up, with
unblushing and inconceivable effrontery,
and say: II did it,"
If the question of locomotion, with
it, depended upon the two limbs of prom
Use and performance, it would limp
through its course a loathsome deformity.
The promise leg would reach several
times around the earth and then to the
moon, while the performance member
could not be found, intact, with a pow
crful ~magnifying glass. 1t has been a
helpless victim of promisephobia for n
hundred and one years, INT there is not
n single symptom of relief in sight. The
disease is conceded by the best author
tiles to be fatal, but Il slow death car
ries its own peculiar form of retributive
punishment.
Founded on a Mistake.
Jefferson, its father, while a man of
deep learning and consummate diplo-
~,acy, hated Washington, and early OPP
,,osed the cardinal principles of the Fed
oral Government. lie organized the
Democratic party to aid him in this OPP
position. Washington and Hamilton
wanted a strong protective government
Jefferson wanted a weak Government
that would govern the least" Founded
an tho iJOo nf rnvon+,,,pt ros;e+n,oo $40
CATION, subversion and an academic and
false conception of personal privilege,
the party has quite naturally been
.fornimst" all sane measures directed
toward the healthy progress of the coun-
try and the real Advancement of it's peo-
pie. Being a party of opposition and
obstruction it's policy has been to preach
calamity and foster discomfort; to prom
Use everything and actually do nothing.
Party Odium Under Jackson.
liz Jefferson was the founder of De-
mocracy. Jackson is It's patron saint. AT
ter the Jeffcrsonian period, 1SO1-25, came
the Jacksonian, 1S25-40. The signifi-
canoe of the jackson era of Democracy
lies in the fact that he was able to build
a machine from the rabble or the less
educnted classes, that enabled him act
''abiJ H. uSsSA u IFS III III SOlIulCl I'LL
The Constitution and against the idea
Of R%epublicanism. He assumed a posi-
ton between Congress and the people. as
it We're; as Il patrinrchal ruler of the re-
public. The curse OF Jackson's adj
ininistration was that it weakened re-
spect for law. The first clear symptom
of the decline of Il healthy political spirit
VAS the election and reelection of Jack
son to the Presidency. His ndministra-
ton paved a broad way for the dcmor-
;. alzlnS Transformation of the American
people. Under Jackson, politics were
yulgarizcd and American society was de-
privcd OF its rightful influence over gov
ernmcnt.4
Partisans, Not Patriots.
The twenty yeats from the defeat of
Van Buren, in 1910 to the defeat of
Douglas in. 1860 bought additional dis
aster and odium upon Democratic adj
ministratiOn. The strength of the party
has always rested iii the Solid South,
and the uleducated riffraff of our great
cities. During the years mentioned the
Southern Democracy pursued a policy of
territorial expansion. not out of patriotic
or broad motives, but for the sole pur-
pose of increasing the number of slave
States. and thus preserve the sectional
balance in the Senate. These years are
memorable in history for the struggle
for territorial acquisition, the struggle
over the Wilmot Provlso, the Compro-
misc of 1850, the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, for the long agony in Kan
f,as, for the sensational bred Scott de-
,%rision, and for tha reconstruction of the
party on strictly sectional lines.
Rapid Moral ecar.
During all ,hese weighty history-mak-
ing years, the Democratic party was
che willing acconDlice of the Southern