Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-03-29
Washiuaton Standard
OLYMPIA, WASH.
friday MORNING, MARCH 20, 1907.
Foes Of Democracy.

President Bryan. of the State
College at Pullman. addressed. las
week. teachers and citizens of tina
city on Foes of Democracy. He
gave as its most dangerous foes
caste. greed and nihilism. and de
clared that the extremes of the idle
rich and the idle poor are the great
est dangers to the country While
of course. it was intended to cover
the term in its general sense. gov.
eminent by the people collectively,
it includes about all that the term
implies in 4 party sense. While the
names of the two great parties are SC
nearly synonyms that the word Re-
publican was used at first to classify
the supporters of Jefferson, the found
err of the Democratic party, in Opposi-
ton to the Federalists, led by Ham
ilton. who favored q so-called strong
government, the minor difference
has now been so adjusted as quite
clearly to emphasize the different
meaning of the terms as used by the
respective parties.
Republican now means, or is sought
to cover, that trend so subtly and
persistently advocated by Mr.. Roose-
welt and his cabinet, that the general
government is supreme in all mat
tiers, and its power is vested in GER
tain privileged members of the COM
munity, just as was advocated by the
old Wing party, composed of the
better elements in the community.
professional men, wealthy men and
scholars" in contradistinction with
those who had to engage in manual
labor. This distinction between the
two prevailing parties ever has been
maintained, and the comparatively
privileged few have been enabled
frequently to carry their political
objects simply by want of harmony
of the many.
The definition of the term Democ-
racy is, government of the people
exercised by them collectively; in
other words, they do not acknowl-
edge any intermediary power, or
privileged class, through whom to
make their work effective, a reserva-
ton of rights to the people of each
State except such as have been con-
ferred by the constitution and its
amendments. If this wide bill OF
rights had suited all who are opposed
to the aggressive and patrician sys-
tenn of the Republicans, that party
would long ago been consigned to OBJ
ivion, under true sense of the prin-
ciples of free government; but unfor-
tunately many who are quite as much
opposed to Capitalization of power in
the form of subversion of Individual
rights, and are just as antagonistic
to the patrician classes now, waste
their influence by setting up images
of straw to be knocked down at each
succeeding contest at the ballot-box.
If the people could be but arrayed
into two hosts-the Democratic, with
popular government, per Sc, with its
power in the hands of the people COL
lectively, and the Republicans with
the supreme power vested in privi-
legged members of the community,
with an ambition to degrade Amer
lean citizenship to the level of the
heather hordes of semi-civilized
nation, can there be any doubt of the
result of the ballot?
In submitting this statement to q
professed Socialist, the other day,
with the query how a union might be
brought about of less than half q
million of that party with over five
millions of Democrats, the answer
was that it could only be brought
about by a cataclysm, the consum-
nation seemed indeed afar off when
we consider that in six thousand
years we have reliable data of only
one overwhelming deluge.
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