Graham guardian., 1904-04-22

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Behind the Quay machine in
Pennsylvania, for example, is the
c ,nfederated corporate wealth of
the state.
AT Washington the plutocracy,
fully as greedy as that of Rome, is
behind the party in power. No
bills for the relief of the people
from extortiopate prices for the
nect ssaries Of life can get through
Congress. To this party, the politi
cal agent of the plutocracy, the
skyscraping Dingley tariff, which
enables the trusts to become
monoplies and to sell cheaper
abroad than at home is sacred.
The language of lofty patriotism
is babitually employed in defend.
ing a perfected and gigaptie seheme
of continuous robbery under cover
Of the law, In behalf of the trusts,
which are ranged behind the Re-
publican party, the Republican AT.
torney General proclaims that he
will not enforce the Federal stat
utes and the Republican President
upholds him in his course.
II mean that this system | have
been describing" says Mr.. Stetiins,
"is a form of government. 1t is
the government, We must not be
confused by constitutions and
charters. A revolution has hap
pened,"
What be asserts as TO one state,
is trHe of every state in which
"business interests" of the kind re
presented by the criminal trusts,
the predatory rich. are dominant
1t is true of the national govern
ment, because the Republican
party, which is in power, is owned
by the trusts
Ifthe American republic is not
to go the way of the Roman repuh
lie, if the people are not to throw
up their hands and settle down
helplessly to,acceptancc of the rule
of the plutocracy, there must be II
counter-revolution--a revolution
which shall eject the party Of the
trusts and bring the country under
government on the Democratic
principle of equal rights and no
privileges.
There must be no more attorney
generals like kuox, no more sus-
pension Of the statutes in return
for political support, but enforce
ment of the laws we have aud the
enactment of other laws, which
shall restore the people to their
own and make them, instead of the
trusts, supreme at Washington.
Aud there must be steady, intel
ligent progress toward law Gre
ated environment, in which the
fittest to survive, the fittest to sue
ceed, shall be honest men, and not
able rogues.
There must be public ownership
of public franchises, public utili-
ties, if an end is to be put to traffic
in those franchises-a traffic from
which the greater part of our poll
tical corruption comes.
Were it not that the people of
New York, to illustrate, had per-
mitted their laws to be in such a
state that It is practically legal to
steal the enormously valuable sub
ways Of the metropolis, we could
not have the spectacle of the pub
lie will being overridden in the
legislature in the interest of the
Belmont syndicate.
And if the people did not toler-
ate legislation by Congress in be-
half of special interests at the com
mon cost, there would be no poll
tical party acting for the pluto
cracy, and while rendering this
sordid service, actually claiming
superior conservatism" and ore
spectability"
1t is bad enough that the coun
try should be afflicted with one
such party.
But what shall we say of the
efforts making to capture the part
ty of the people for the plutooracy
alsoy
The men engaged in that sinister
enterprise are the most dangerous