The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-09

oIutionary document an abstract truth,
applicable to all men and all times,
and so embalm it there that today
and in all coming days, it shall be q
rebuke and a stumbling block to the
very harbingers of reappearing ty.
ranny and oppression
Your obedient servant:
"a. LINCOLN"
What would Abraham Lincoln say if
he could rise up at the present time
and observe latter fifty years of adj
tministration by the party which
launched into power by proclaiming
allegiance to the principles of Jeffer-
SOM that the wealth of the entire
country was owned and controlled by
very few men; that these men had
acquired the power over the currency
of the country; that they had organ
lied themselves into corporations,
railroad corporations that owned and
controlled all public utility property;
iron and steel corporations that owned
and controlled all the iron mines and
coal fields of the country; the Stan
dard Oil Company, that owned and
!, controlled all the oil fields of the
country; the express companies that
owned and controlled the transporta-
ton by quick despatch; the packing
house companies that own and con-
troll the price and supply of food pro-
ducts; the insurance companies, the
great feeder of all these / have named,
pouring in their millions into the cot
fers of these corporations; the tele-
graph and telephone companies, owned
and controlled by these same men.
making complete the control of the
currency, the ownership of all the
natural wealth and transportation
property and service, and the power to
make the price of food products.
What would he say to read from the
head lines of our journals, where enc
of these corporations had cleared a
net profit in one year of one hundred
and thirtythree million dollars and
had set aside four million dollars to
fight against. the laborers that pro-
duced it, or see where a federal Judge
appointed by his party had sentenced
man to one year in the penitentiary
} for advocating better conditions for
the laboring man. Would he say to
his party: THE man before the dol.
lar?"
who had acquired the wealth of the
country? Who were marrying their
. daughters to and handing over their
; ill-gotten millions to the crowned
heads of Europe. Would he not say:
; "They would delight convocation OF
crowned heads plotting against the
} Ipeoplee"
And with the power of federal gov.
! eminent in the hands Of the Republic
can party; encouraging, aiding and
legitimizing by Interpretation of laws
the favor Of this wealth into the hands
of these men who had gained it by
; stealth, through allegiance to the par.
: ty. Would he not say: 'They are sup,
planting the principles of free govern
ment and restoring those of classified
, ton, caste and legitimacy"
What would he say to his party who
had allied itself to these men, whose
i power over the government and the
a single man had such power ovel
: the currency of the country; that ht
| could turn off the switch in busted
: bank in New York and every bank il
! the United States would be cast intt
: darkness; that the federal president
from his own party, had dumped man.
/ million dollars of the peoples none,
: into the hands of these men, which
/ inflated again the watered stocks, ant
r compelled the people to continue t.
pay tribute to an assumed value, 81
I made by the power of the Republican
party.
S Taking in the situation as it reall.
4 is, would he not repeat his anecdot'
l of the two drunken men? | am sur
e he would not know his party.
1 will state that whatever allegiance
S to the principles of Jefferson Mr.. Liz
: coin possessed and endeavored 10 in
l. stall into the minds of his party, the,
/ have trampled down in the most ruth
Y less manner. and adopted such prime
i pies destructive of the very sentiment
= upon which the federal government
e was founded, and upon which the fire
d and independent republican canno
long exist.
e The career of the Republican part
y has been replete with abuses of powe
d to accumulate and concentrate privat
e gain.
J. I Great chunks of rottenness sloug
n off from the rapidly decaying form
s. almost daily. So much so that almos
n the entire time of the congress
n taken up in Investigations, with
It army of salaried agents, detective
If and prosecuting attorneys, runnin
e down the criminals in the service {
Y. the government.
If The young republican of today who's
e household is not supplied from til
Ie public till, and whose mind is nj
e. swaved or prejudiced by the sentimeI
,r of the rayages of war, like the dem
a crat. feels the sting of oppression, an
10 he is beginning TO look upon the 0!
% Republican party and their principle
e. as the mulatto looks upon his fathe
" and mother; ashamed of both.
4 fair illustration of this assertion hi
TO been demonstrated in the house I
n congress at this session under Il
a. title insurgents.
Q. But this is a republican governmel
a. and two great parties are essentf
" for the maintenance thereof, al