Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
A ROBUST DEMOCRACY
Republican Majority In Congress
Cut One-half.
BETTER ORGANIZATION NEEDED
The Stay at Home Vote Responsible
For the Loss OF Enough Districts tn
Change Rcsult-The Trusts md Cor
porntions Have Further I~ntrcnched
Their interests In the Senate.

ANelf interests In the Senate.
The ever living Democracy never
says die. Its adversaries have report.
ed the demise Of the party of the Deo-
pie after elections have gone against
1t, but their prophecies have always
proved to be inspired by their hopes
rather than by the evidence Of dissolu-
ton. 1t is impossible to kill the party
thai represents about half the people
and nearly all the people that toll and
earn their living by the sweat of their
brows, with trusts and corporations
plundering them aud the few heaping
up riches at the expense Of the many.
Hope springs eternal in the human
breast, and with the knowledge Of a
just cause the great party of the peo-
pie will prepare for future battles for
their own salvation.
But to win Democrats must organize,
for it is only by organization that the
people can overcome the power of mon
ey to draw from their ranks all who
can be influenced by corruption on the
spot and promises for the future. The
disorganization of the Democracy has
been caused by division in their OWL
ranks and the lack of real leadership
where it was most needed. Yet the re-
suit on election day showed considera-
bic gains for the Democrats, for the
Republican majority in the house of
representatives was cut down about
orn hole h,,t 81 rvoho lJo lace, &c .o,4.
in the senate, which shows the power
Of money in manipulating political
events, is a disaster. The Democrats
gained in the cities, where organized
labor was generally their ally, but did
not gain in the farming regions be-
cause there was no we'll managed Or
g%aniZation to get out the vote. No one
believes that the farmers favor the
trust fostering tariff because so many
failed to vote or eve voted the Re
publican ticket or that they favor 9th
er forms Of subsidy for the few at the
expense of the many, yet the fact re-
mains that thousands Of Democratic
voters remained away from the polls.
With another Republican congress
elected there will be no reforming of
the tariff that protects the trusts for
three years at least, and the cost of
living will continue at the enormous
increase of nearly so per cent that nov
prevails. Those people with limited in
comes will suffer especial privations by
this continuance of high prices, and
farmers and workingmen will also find
their incomes depleted from the same
extravaganza the majority of the vot-
ers have virtually Endorsed lavish eX-
penditures, and when prosperity wanes
and the boom is over, which is sure to
happen ere long, it will be very diff
cult to decrease expenditures to meet
the reduced income Of the government.
Unless expenditures a then be great
ly decreased new forms of taxation
will be a necessity.
The trusts and corporations have
won a victory, for they have increased
the number in the United States Of
those who will refuse to consider anti
corporation legislation. The blame for
this must be placed on those who by
neglecting to vote caused Republican
members of the legislature to be elect
ed. This increase Of the members of
the senate who will be stand patters
and subsidy hunters is the most seri-
Gus result Of the stay at home vote.
The great effort must now be to so
organize for the next battle that as far
as Democrats are concerned the lag
gard vote will be obliterated in the fu-
ture.