Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-09-09

very ones who should be on the re.
form side. who. should help push the
reform along Men who have nothing
to gain except their own degradation
Will fight reform more fiereely, more
1rrationally, than the directly inter.
ested class This strange phenomenon
can hardly be explained by the ex-
PLANTATION that these opponents of re.
form are ignorant and prejudiced AZ
ter Pontius Plate had judiaially in.
CURED into the accusations against
Christ and declared him innocent the
course-fibered Roman poptlace shont.
ed itself hoarse, cruelty him, cruelty
him! This same spirit in a more OF
less modified form has played q signi.
ficant part in all the history of our
race. To denounce the reformer as
an agitator, to invest him with the
dread quality of populist and an.
archist, to misrepresent, to hound, to
prosecute him who has the will and
ability to point out the wrongs under
which society suffers and to offer
remedies, is the favorita method EN-.
ployed in our day to postpone or 10
kill outright every reform movement
The poor whites" of the South were
long a greater mainstay of slaverY
than the slave owners themselves.
The fact that the inferior status of
the blacks in large measure degrad-
ed the poor white" in no sense re-
strained them from vigorous de.
tense Of black slavery. .c...
ago, William Larrabcc. Ge.oina. O
Iowa, performed one of the mosl L.
borious and painstaking tasks ever
undertaken by the executive of any
State. He revealed in the most lumin-
GUS way the piratical tactics Of rail
way managers. Instead of being re-
warded with seat in the United
States Senate. the corporations with
the help of the republican voters re.
tired this splendid public servant For
over twenty years LaFollette has
fought for right and justice in Wis
consin. Instead Of the people standing
true to him they desert him from
time to time in such numbers as to
make his task SO great an ordeal,
that an ordinary man would never be
equal to 1t. When Cummi.ls, of Iowa,
showed the nerve and ability to Crap
pie with the same problem the cor
poraticns have united against him, re-
ceiving the support OF the very peo-
pie who should stand true to Cum
Minis.
Panics.
The most distressing circumstance
connected with monetary manic such
as we have been compelled, sreriadic.
ally to endure, is the less inflicted on
small deposltors. comparatively roor
people who are the least s!ie TO bear
the loss. Mr.. Bryan. sustained hy the
entire democratic party. t.'lSYands a
measure that will eliminate His ugly
feature from all future rHni,s. And
indeed 1t is difficult TO sec lrw /, panic
could gain much headwav II 5re could
so arrange the bansine E.stness that
run on banks would net ny.,,r. 1t
Is this panicy condition So Infectious
and demoraliZing as t:le enl5., rcy it.
self. that we would renaer ,rcssible
by compelling the creation of q fund
by the banks out of wAich any de.
positor could be paid at any tine. re.
CARELESS of the insolvenrv CT the
bank itself. A more eomrrn sense
reform has never bean rra:csSd hut
like all demands for justice /. will be
opposed by some of the vert people
who should be the NEST strenuous in
securing its adoption. Some dust
throwing expedient will he Invented
and used TO distort the vision Of mar
row partisans. SO as to render the
adoption of this reform as difficult as
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