The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-10

svPPASsscu Dy tne nun0FeuH or mouopo- lies and trusts that the individual citi- zen Is reduced to state of indignant put remedyless impotence. From Republican nominee one labor question: and would be disap- pointed If he did expect 1t. But from q Democratic nominee one 2aturaliy hopes for deliverance. Judge Par kers formal letter, does not recognize that such a thing as the labor question exists. He offers no solution of the trouble; and upon the calm tide Of his thst eIvi rhetoric tners IS no ny guggeston zion of our Christian republic. where capital and labor have taken each oth- CT by the throat. It is true that Judge Parker thinks tariff reform would ben ent the wage earner. So 1t would, if It were of the right sort. But Cleve- land, once upon time, sounded the defeat, was elected to do the work. Arthur German was the master build CT who framed the measure which was to lessen the burdens of the oppressed: with the job the burdens of the up- pressed had merely been shifted from one shoulder to the other. The great. warm-hearted Senator from Missouri. the free list. in order that cheaper fuel could be had by the people; Arthur German opposed the measure stubborn ,y ,y,i1 in ,1nnt. the Senate; s: When the sugar
 
 Dingley bill was about to give them. Steve Elkins brought Havemeyer and German together in personal confer ence; and the trust got what Have
 And Arthur German is Parker's man. ager.
 The 'tariff reform" of the Democratic | nominee must therefore. be taken with care; and to the Parker letter of ac- ceptance should be attached the Cor man tariff act of 1894 as Exhibit A." and the speech of General Joe Wheeler against that measure as Exhibit E." If I were President, I would recog- | nize that capital and labor have reached dangerous aptagonism. My | tablish a National Bureau of Arbitra- | tion. l would ask combined capital to choose one man. union labor to choose another. and l would, myself, as Chief Board of Arbitration should have ju- | risdiction over labor troubles and would become power for good.
 That something must be done. and few more Colorado situations would precipitate the rule of the soldier. paid | by the corporation, or by the taxpayers
 whose State officials are owned by cor The Peoples Party advocates the initiative, by means of which the peo- pie can pass such laws as they desire;
 the referendum. by means of which
 
 they disapprove; and the right to can- eel the commission of such public of- ficials as have given dissatisfaction.
 One of the evils of the present sys-
 tenn is that the people are not consulted
 when laws are to be made; they only
 hear of the legislative acts after they
 are published. Even fieet-footed law yers find 1t difficult to keep pace with
 the changes constantly being made in
 the statutes.
 The initiative and referendum would
 correct most of that: and the impera-
 tive mandate and right of recall would
 do a great deal toward keeping public officers faithful to trusts. To cancel
 the commission of the public servant
 who has been recreant to duty IS mild
 enough punishment If such a power
 be not given to people. then our stat
 utes should make the betrayal of pub
 lie trust punishable with the heaviest penalties. We shoot the private soldier
 who deserts to the enemy. The ex-
 treme penalty is supposed to be neces-
 sary to deter others from desertinB
 But when a Senator or Representative or his decision, to the enemies of the
 people, in violation of solemn pledges made to the people who elect him, Is
 his crime less grave than that or the If Cleveland had been impeached foi that mysterious bond deal. and Shiras
 disrobed for his plot on the Income tax rascality in high places dgata migst hayt ,,t | ways. The Peoples Party favors tht
 election of all officers by the people
 For one thing, this would bring tho Federal Judges to their senses, anc
 take out of their inflated souls the ides
 that they are earthly editions of Je'
 hovah. The life term in office Is so un'
 Democratic and so inherently vicious
 that it is a matter of astonishment thai
 our forefathers established 1t. It ts | safe to say that they failed to realize
 the peril. Jefferson alone saw the
 deadly danger which lurked in this au'
 tocratic body of men; and warned th' | people of the inevitable consequences
 Rut even he could not have foreseen the 1 extravagant usurpations which have become the every day occurrence ,i Witr us-the dragnet injunction, the impris l onment without trial by jury the practical abrogation of habeas corpus
 A corporation which does not own Federal Judge or two IS as mHch 's Se. Sei : not own lawyers, lobbyists, newspapers
 politicians and professional witnesses
 When our party was first founded II , | declared that The necessaries or lift
 which the poor must have to live, should not be subjected to tariff tax and that no mans industry should pc . built up at the expense or anotnsr These principles are surely sound ano . | Democratic They are expressed Tn almost the exact words of MT. Jenerson 1. whose ideal was system or nationa taxation upon luxurles m Whicn t tns | poor man neeu h'' f%' ''
 aLs, Harmed what know of the .princi' ! | nIes of Democracy at the rect or Alex
 aander II Stephens. My home was m
 bis district, and was one of the thou, | sands of young men who gathered | around him in his later years anu fought his battles against the DeWo- no cratic bosses who sought 'o o"e' 'He oiT T,noe and again he defied the Demo, cratic machine in Georgia; time aEo eoaJn they saved the machine by , l throwine to him an official nomination
 which he had not sought. He spent his ! fortune and made the last speeches ol . hIs glorious lite in the vain enort tc l in9act some Jeffersonian doctrine into
 inc post -belIum Democratic party.
 II Having learned what true Democ- | racv was from Stephens and from the
 writinrs of Jefferson, l am not willing to change the creed at the dictatton of Belmont. Pat McCarTen and Arthur Cor
 man. ,.s.,. s 1.s | ferson Jackson. Benton and Stephens, the party which calls itself Democratic has no right to do so. Tn contains no Democratic principles. It does not seek 10 Accomplish any Democratic purpoee- It has no harmony of creed. no unity
 of action, no common legislative object.
 One and ali. they would live to capture
 the offices: beyond that. they do not
 agree upon any earthly subject
 In effect the Democratic party of l today has no mission except to keep
 the people divided. in order that the
 corporations may have no substantial
 opposition. The Republican party is
 one good horse: the Democratic party
 Is another: sometimes the corporations
 ride the one, sometimes the other. In
 either event, they keep in the saddle.