Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-11-15
Reflections on Class Legislation,
Wdttsa Or tls papr By col y S. Felter sped, IOis.

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re otherwise. All successful revolutions nust 6n
their solution ID the acve inteIIigenCe and common
sense Of the people, Oaberwise HelIowing che out
lbuVst Of paesiCA. Tho evil Fesurns. Tbe Sverag
man does not seeem to know thatthe moral sense 9
lnatiOns never rises higher than the spirtto the law
shat control them: all statute law are eaucatiOna
either for good or evit thus the enfOrcemeht g
d good Law opperates b sanCtfoa crime. Ube erin
nal may b. . ehief'that takes 'my goods. but II
those In aatherity TO refuse 60 enforce the LAY
against theft they are the greatest crimtnal becaus
d their inAaeace they encourage crime. Our court
ape the bulwaS Of the public psace: once sur court
cerrupted then thei0antan OF civil liberty is pole
lOned.
Criminals d high places do not fear the common
IpeopIe. They do notcare for pnblicity, they lik
il; and as long as they coutsO the coufts, an'
avoid the pententiaBy, 'sthe people be damned,
the legislator 6uystthem and buy the legislator
The city boss Enowsits true, the alderman know
dts trne the legislature knows itsurue, and the fol
lows that sold their vOtes know ats true; and th
lKudge knows hew he got selected md that is trne
and the awful truth Is .corruption flows fsom III
ener snipe to he high courts Of he nation. and u
Il largely due % paEtisan politics, which aphOld
eur rotten city government, and makes It Passlbl
Ter monopOlists TO buy what they want and bSld th
power to rob the public While this s'system" re
mains the moral sense of our young men Will Gse n
higher than the prevailing mora sentimeat re
Iquisee.
The remedy for aIl this lies in an active patdoH
cOmnen sense that win break the partisan yOke, b!
voting for principtes regardless Of party nanes
Today We are not Republic in fact but 10 nam'
|Onlys The truth is, we ape under the contrOIlinl
power 1f money oligarchg, that through the vari
Gus mOnopoliescan create money panic ct WILL anl
paraliEe industry from ocean to ocean.
Let as look at this Tor moment. First, thil
money Olgarchy gets fall control Of the iegslat0l
BY ccrruphng the voters after this manner; person
ally they are not loyal TO any party In some statel
they contribute 70 the csmpAign funds Of the Demo
cratic party and - some states % the Repqblicar
campaign ilads and in no other reason than n both
cases they are trying to elect TO oCe the men they
can use In their business, men they cam control and
10 control a. Il said, they are loyal % 40 party;
their business Il their politics. Did not Havermyer
the sugar king admit this % trnei Did not MCCALL
admit before the investigating committee, On tho
New York lie insurance investigation, the same
thing; and yet right IN the ace Of this bold fact the
public press keeps tight on appealing % the paEi.
san prAiudice 81 those that ore continually being
robhedb By these money sharks, exhoTting them TO
remain loyal To- The party. Partisan pOlitica Il
surely matter of business In America and In NO
sense principle; and 10 such an extent has this
ptOli6e source ci crime been worked thak aIl TIE
GOca avenues and functions 81 society IRE buetink
with state oi ssmoney insanity.0 Today w are