Arizona republican., 1904-10-10

Birmingham, Ala. Oct. s.-The letter of acceptance Of Thomas E. Watson
 the peoples party's candidate for the presidency of the United States. was
 given to the public tonight. It is in part as follows:
 To Hon. Samuel w Williams, Chair
 man Committee on Notifications:
 When two great political parties
 have, in turn. governed a country, and have between them brought about un-
 satisfactory conditions, it is but nat
 ural that a third party should arise. Citizens who have looked in
 vain to ''the two great parties" for remedial legislation lose confidence fn both after a while, and adopt one of two courses: they either submit to the evils of bad government, or protest by organizing a third party.
 To the student of history, there is nothing more saddening than the ten dency of the people to submit As a rule, political education never reaches the masses. State-craft, like priest craft jealously guards its secrets There is always the inner sanctuary which the people are taught to believe
 
 their unhOly feet.
 Again, in organized government there is a mysterious reverence for au- thority. Whatever is, is right" to the minimizing multitude; and the votaries of power never cease to deepen that 1 impression. Thus. partly from ignor- ance and partly from reverence for es- tablished authority, the people, in ev- cry age, have shown more inclination to submit to bad government than to resist it. The crimes which have been committed under forms of law by -uI- ! ing classes against subject masses al- most staggeT belief. They have been so deliberately cruel, so relentlessIy selfish, so shamefuliy unjust, that the blood of the student boils within him
 as he reads the record. What was the purpose of the law-maker in forming such heartless legislation2 The motive
 was to render permanent the rule of the Few, the privileges of the Few. the ! power and the wealth of the Few. Al ways and everywhere the result of this | sort of legislation has been the same 1 it defeated itself; and the aristocracy | fell with the state which it misgovern- 1 ed Those who rule by corruption, be- ] ing corrupt themselves, sap the very foundation of social and political or ! der; and when there is nothing in the
 masses of the people but tame submis- | sion to tyranny, there is no robust | strength left to meet the enemy, within or without
 A blacker chapter than that which | records how beth the old political par | ties united to despoil the common peO- l pie of their land, is not to be found
 in the annals of class-Iegislation. Once upon a time. we had a fnan- ! cial system of our own. Placed in. the constitution as a part of our funda- mental law, it seemed to be firmly fix t ed. For a hundred years this money
 was in operation among us. Therefore. 1 it seemed to be ''irrevOcably fixed. DO | Very wise men created this system of
 national finance. It was the one sub | ject upon which Thomas Jefferson and 1 Alexander Hamilton agreed. Those i two were, perhaps. the greatest states men this country ever produced. So l pre-eminent were they above all oth- CTS that they divided the people into
 two distinct schools of political | thought. But upon the vital subject of ] finance these master-minds reached the same conclusion; and that conclu- | sion became a part of the constitu- ] ton.
 1 Whether the Wall street influences ! which produced the establishment cf
 the gold standard emanated from wiser ! heads than those of Jefferson and | Hamilton, may be doubted Both of these great men served their country l a long time and died poor. Tn fixing | bi-metalism as a system, and the silver dollar as the unit of value, they had no | selfish motive. Two Iofty-minded ] statesmen agreed upon that system as
 the right system. It remained in force.
 giving full satisfaction. until the mon ! ey power in its march of conquest. found it to be a barrier. The money
 power demands a standard which it can | control; and one metal is easier to con- trol than two. For the same reason. | it opposes governmental issues of pa per money, and will never be content
 until the greenbacEs are called in and destroyed.
 To establish the single gold standard which sets the constitution aside. the statute had to be violated. The word. 'cOin," had to be construed to mean
 ''gold only" and the paper note, issued
 on silver. had to be redeemed in a manner different from that prescribed by law.
 THE THIRD PARTYS BUSINESS.
 A third party has no right to exist
 unless there are abuses in government which 'the two great parties" refuse to
 reform. Unless both the two old par ties are wrong, there is no room or
 excuse for third. But. if bOch the
 old parties are equally guilty of class legislation, and are equally subservient to the beneficiaries of special privil- ege. then it is not only the right Of the patriot to form a party of protest. but a duty. Civil liberty is at once q haritoaa and 2 tr-1rst We q ra 1acr-a-