Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
It's Professions and Promises
Compared with Its
Performances.
VERITABLE CALAMITY PARTY
breaches the Gospel of Discomfort and
Wastes Time in Obstructing Wise
and Beneficent Republican
Policies.

Congressman j. Adam Bede tells of
meeting typical member of the party
OF promises and calamity howlers The
democrat had just come out of a saloon
when he told Bede he had been buying
some lining for his underclothes. In
reply t. Bede's query as to how he was
getting on, the unfortunate desciple of
Jefferson answered:
That his horse went dead and his mule
went lame,
And he lost six cows in n poker game:
Ihen Il hurricane came, on a summers day,
And blew the house where he lived away;
Ahd an earthquake came when that was
gone,
And swallowed the land that the house
stood on,
Then the tax collector soon came round
Ana 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
of all chronic conplainers and kckers
You would find that, out of a hundred
of them, at least ninety-eight ought to
go out and kick themselves.
Short on Performance.
Democrats do not know the meaning
Of the word performance" when ap-
piled to doing anything for the gen
eral good, the advancement of the hui
man race, or the betterment of man
kind. As party it has been trying
to write it for more than a full round
century, and yet it has not succeeded in
forming the first letter. To do anything
constructive or of permanent benefit
utt
psychic conception, or physical capacity
to perform. Its normal attitude is with
its face to the past and its back to the
future. 1t never sees an opportunity I'M
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: Il 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 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
erful magnifying glass. 1t has been a
helpless victim of promisephobia for a
single symptom of relief in sight The
disease is conceded by the best author
tiles to be fatal, but 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-
macy, hated Washington, and early OPP
posed the cardinal principles of the Fed
eral Government. He 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
on the idea of resentment, resistance, ne
CATION, subversion and an academic ard
false conception of personal privilege,
the party has quite naturally been
''forninst" all sane measures directed
toward the healthy progress of the coun-
try and the real advancement of its peo-
pie. Being a party of opposition and
obstruction its policy has been to preach
calamity and foster discomfort; to prom
Use everything and actually do nothing.
Party Odium Under Jackson.
If Jefferson was the founder of De
mocracy, jackson is its patron saint. At
ter the Jeffersonian period, 1S01-25, came
the Jacksonian, 1S25-40. The sgnih-
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
educated classes, that enabled him act
ually to assert his claims in conflict with
the Constitution and against the idea
of Republicanism. He assumed a posi-
ton between Congress and the people. as
it were; as patriarchal ruler of the re-
public. The curse of Jackson's adj
ministration was that it weakened re-
spect for law The first clear symptom
of the decline of healthy political spirit
l was the election and reelection of Jack
- to the Presidency. His administra-
payed broad way for the demon
transformation of the American
nder Jackson. politics were
and American society was de-
rightful influence over gov
ans, Not Patriots.
Spars from the defeat of
$40 to the defeat of
brought additional dis
pom Democratic adj
trength of the party
n the Solid South,
\fraff of our great
rs mentioned the
sued policy OF
out of patriotic
br the sole pur-
lumber of slave
re the sectional
THESE years are
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