The Nevada County picayune., 1908-10-29
FROM THE, COMMOVEIlP:> ?
 MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER
THE FIRST VOTER.

Young man, great responsibility at | taches 10 your first vote As you be-
 gin, so you are likely to continue The momentum that carries you into party at the beginning of your politi- cal life is apt to keep you in that party unless some Convulsion shakes you out of it. Start tight, and i'll order that you may start right, exam
 inc the principles of tie parties and
 the policies which they advocate.
 There are two great party orsaniza- tions in the United States, one 50
 years old, and the other more than a
 century old The Republican party
 has been in power almost uninterrupt-
 edly for more than half q century, and
 under it's reign abuses have grown up
 which threaten the perpetuity of the
 government and endangar our civil
 ization. So great are these abuses
 that Republican reformers are now
 pointing out that something must be
 done-and what can be done? The
 first thing is to undo the things that
 have been done, and the party to
 undo these abuses is not the party
 which has done them, but the party
 which has protested against these
 abuses and pointed out remedies.
 The Republican party has turned
 the taxing power over to private indi-
 viduals; it has allowed monopolies to
 grow up and assume control of the
 industries of the country by granting
 privileges by law and by giving immu-
 nity to the large violators of the law;
 the Republican party has permitted
 the fortunes of the predatory rich to
 become so large that government is
 corrupted, politics debauched and
 business polluted.
 The Democratic party proposes to
 withdraw the taxing power from pri-
 vate hands, to so legislate as to make
 private monopoly impossible, and to
 enforce the law without discrimina-
 ton. It proposes to protect legitimate wealth and punish these who attempt to plunder the public for private gain. On which side do you stand, young
 man? Are you with the masses in
 their effort to restore the government
 to its old foundation and make it a government of the people, for the peo-
 pie and by the people, or are you with the Republican leaders in their ef-
 fort to perpetuate the party in power by selling immunity in return for campaign contributions?
 There are always two parties in the country, and one is necessarily nearer to the people than the other In this country the Democratic party is p"ar-
 CT to the people than the Republican | party. Its leaders have moro faith in the people and are more anxious to | keep the government under the con l trol of the people. Take the election of United States senators by the peo- pie as a test. The Democrats want to give to the voters chance to elect | and to control their representatives in the United States senate. The Dem ocratic party in the house of repre- sentatives passed the first resolution l for the submission of the necessary constitutional amendment They did | this eight years before any Repub- ! ican congress did it. The Democratic i party has thrice demanded this re 1 form in it's national platform. The | Republican party has not done so. | Why do Democratic leaders insist 1 upon this reform and Republican lead CTS oppose it? There can be but one answer-the Democratic party is near CT to the people than the Republican party. Young man, will you stand
 with the people or against them?
 The answer to this question affects your country If you are with the people your influence, be it great or small, will hasten their victory If you are against the people. your in fluence may retard that victory But while in the first instance il is your country that may gain or lose by your action, you must remember that in the long run your own position in politics will depend upon your con duct. You cannot fool the people al ways You may lead them astray if
 you dare, but they will punish you
 when they find you out. You may
 work for the people without their rec ognizing 1t at first but you can trust
 them to discover the character of your
 work and to reward you accordingly. If all the men guilty of trust connec-
 tions were retired from active partici. patton in the management of the 2. O.
 D. campaign, the rooms of the Repub-
 lican national committee would resem.
 ble an air dome resort in January
 AFRAID OE THE lGAI