Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-03-31
MISSOURI
DEMOCRATS
Continued from page one.


Democrats sit on juries any more?"
The Republican emblem should long
ago have been changed to a turkey
cock, with tail feathers full spread,
gobbling that the sunshine and all the
grains of the field are from him.
I always thought it mean and I'M
patriotic to make political capital out
of public misfortune. And believe
every Democrat in the country feels
as do, that he would rather stand an
other defeat than see the poor multi
plying on the streets, cars standing
idle on side tracks, mills and factories
closed or feebly going, commerce par
alyzed and the old dependent pinched
in the provisions which industry or
affection has made for them. But If
all this had to come, as 1t now has,
believe every fair man will say, as l
do, that it is the justice of God, who
hates all slanderers and false boosters,
that Ut struck these while in full strut.
They say it was the Boer war that
brought on the trouble, the japanese
war, the notwithstanding you
please but themselves. 1t is enough
for us that it certainly was not the
Democrats. And when they saw it was
not themselves, they confess they have
been humbugging the people all these
years and slandering the Democrats.
But can the Republicans be ac-
quilted of all responsibility? Such dis
turbances always imply previous con-
ditions of disorder. In this case we
are told of swollen" fortunes, the
predatory" rich and the trusts. They
have been roundly abused and it is said
| that exposure of their doings and de-
signs has aggravated If it did not cause
| the general prostraton of confidence
from which we now suffer. OF course
exposure of wrongs cannot justly be
blamed for anything because they
should always be brought to light,
whatever the result. But how comes
1t that these were allowed to spring
up and grow to such size that exposing
them disturbs the whole country? II
this is traceable to the action or in
action OF the public authorities Their
the necessity and consequences OF be
lated exposure reach back to the same
responsible source.
= The democrats had almost unbroker
control of the government during tht
first seventy years, while the popula
ton and wealth of the country in
creased tenfold. Did anybody durins
all that time, ever near OF swollen
fortunes, predatory" wealth or trusts
We have always had rich men ant
very rich men, for wealth is relative
and we shall always have them.
should be ashamed of our people
If with their great and varied advan
tages none or but fewsof them SHOULD
gain large wealth. And citizens wht
rightly gain 1t have their own usefu
place in the state, in peace and IL
war. Only, unlike the Republicans
Democrats do not regard rich men al
the ideal of citizenship, nor think
the business of the government to pro
duce them. 1t can assure liberty t,
every one, while all cannot be rich
And the Democratic ideal is the fire.
man-free from all forms of oppres
sion and injustice, free from needless
taxes, interference, disturbance, free I,
decide for himself which way lies hi
best prospect of happiness and to fol
] low that way unmolested.
. The Americans are a just people
and they are game. If there has beer
a fair chance for all and no favor
they will abide the result, all those
and they are the great majority, VIII,
have not thrived as they feel the.
should. They cannot be stirre
against those who have done better
: Perhaps, after ALL wealth might no
r have proved blessing to them o
> to their. children. But let there b.
some unfairness, especially on tn
part of the government which is main
tanned by all for the common benefi
but which has increased the gains o
I some at the cost of the others, an
v then you have a condition whicl
drives. the unsteady to socialism an
spreads discomfort among the peopl
creating the risk of hasty and incor
siderate action.
e Now swollen" implies Immature
c ness and wrong. 1t cannot apply t
h fortunes reached by the wholesom
. methods of industry, enterprise an
:. discovery. What is 1t that has swo