The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-06

despise monarchiaI governments who
are hampered by afistocracy, and
where the masses are forced to sub
NIT to the rulings and will of the
higher class.
| But for our boastings we are forced
to admit that we are ruled by the
moneyed class, the financial interests
of this vast country. We can not
truthfu1ly assert that we are governed
/ by laws of our own. The grip of the
moneyed powers on our government
is so firm that we, the common peo-
pie, have no voice in the National
body of our lawmakers.
The Harriman-Roosevelt contro-
versy brings this fact with such con-
viction and with such force that there
is and can be no misunderstanding on
this point of self-government. This
controversy between the President of
these United States and Hartman,
the railroad king, proves conclusive
| ly that the money interests are
sought for financial support and that
their interests are protected by the
government in return for the hnan-
cial support they have given the gov
eminent at election times.
| 1t is a sad commentary to make.
Could Jefferson know of this he
lieve his services to the country all
/! for naught. Deceit, corruption and
intrigue have taken the place of hon.
or, integrity and uprightness in
dealing with the people. The spell
binders go forth to preach the doc
trines of self-government, hypnotlse
their hearers, and again and again,
we go to the polls and give the cor
ruptionists and deceivers the victory.
| Will revelation after revelation of
wickedness and crookedness never
have any effect on US, are the lies
that are passed to be forgotten when
the polls open and will we, as people
at large, again see the repres sentative
of the moneyed class at the head Oh
our country as its chief executive?
| Charges and countercharges are
made by those who control both po-
litical parties, Republican and Dem
ocratic President Roosevelt now
charges Hartman as a liar for say
ing that he, Roosevelt, asked him for
a contribution to the Republican
| campaign fund in the last national
election In the last Democratic
convention it was claimed that the
moneyed influences of the party, aid
ed by Republican influences, brought
about the defeat of Bryan's nominal
ton as the Democratic nominee. Al
ton B. Parker stood firm for his con-
victions, but his convictions and the
plank of the Democratic party as
given out at this convention were so
near akin to the Republican doctrines
that they could hardly be distinguish
ed one from the other The moneyed
powers brought this about, and later
brought about the defeat of the
Democratic party.
mere Is only one HAL HOW DC1OtS
the common people of the United
States who stands free and uncor-
rupted by these evil influences. and
that man is William Jennings Bryan.
He has stood the test of time, all the
black artof diplomacy and intrigue
has never besmirched him, and if the
people of the United States want
government of their own, it is up to
them to bring about his nomination
and election in the next Democratic
national convention. Whether Re-
publican Democratic or Populist, it
is the duty of every common citizen
from Main to California, to let the
moneyed interests of the country
know that they can no longer rule
us.
Patience has ceased to be virtue,
and it is time now that the people
awake from their long slumber and
| wrest from the powers that be their
control of our government.