Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-02-10
UNITED They STAND
BENEfIClARIES OF SPECIAL PRIV.
ILEGES WORK TOGETHER.
Struggle for Control Is Between Or
ganiZed Dollars and UnOrQanized
Votes. Political Party Lines Are
Fast Disappearing in This Gigantic
Struggle.

The struggle for the control Of
this nation is no longer between po-
litical parties but between organlz-
ed dollars and unorganibed votes.
The beneciaries of special privileges
are united, the advocates of equal
rights are divided This condition
and it's results are we'll summed up
by Milo w. Barnes, in an article
published in the National Monthly.
He says:
There is no reason why minor
differences of opinion should keep
apart the masses of people who have
common belief in the true PRINCIPLES
of popular government. The party Of
the monOpOlists, of the corporations.
of subsidies and unequal takes, al
ways hangs together. 1t is singular
that the cohesive power of pubic
plunder should be stronger than the
cohesive power of popular principles.
The mOnopolies, the trusts, the sub
sidized interests, the protected class
es, the tax eaters, the entire class Of
non-producers, who live and thrive
upon the sweat of the brow of others
never separate into factions of divlde
their votes. They are unit in po-
IltICdl dCtlOu, WIFI tle SUlo ODJeCJ OIL
plunder, of taxing the people to raise
bounties for their enterprises of in
dustries and speculation, enrichlng
themselves by the spoilation of the
country.
They have the organization and
discipline of a pirate crew. They
never bolt they never run the third
ticket, they never separate to be beat
1Afn T..
should be two or three parties of pop
ular rights and one party of spoiis.
1t is strange that men with great
common beliefs and aims, who have
no selfish interests in politics, who
have nothing personally to gain
whether their party is in power or
out of power, should fail to act in
harmony at the polls, while the spoil
iaters, the plunderers, the mercen-
aries, never permit their greed and
rapacity to disturb their oneness of
purpose or to produce disintegration
within their ranks.
'The people separate into politi-
cal factions over the shades of mean
ing in language by which the most
important principles of government
are expressed. The monopolists con-
CeHlTdle lHelI lOIceS anu are sure
of victory against the divided ranks
of the people. They stimulate the
differences of honest factions in or
der that they may gain their ends
through lack of concerted action
among those whom they have con-
spired to rob and destroy.
Every Republican victory in the
nation and the principal States that
,1x1
years. is the fruit of Democratic Gi-
visions, or divisions between factions
that should have been united in sup
port of Democratic principles. The
victories have been those of unit
ed minority against a divided maj
ority.
"The Republican party is a min
ority party. 1t exists because the
majority, holding essentially a COM
mon political faith, disintegrates at
the ballot box and votes a plurality
of tickets to represent the same sub
stantial truths of popular free gov
ernment.
"The people will not come to their
own, they will be the prey of spoil
ism and bandits, as long as they fail
to become organized and disciplin-
ed for their own protection, as their
enemies are organized. The many
will be robbed and defeated and
plundered by the few, as long as
they do not combine to resist defeat
and robbery. The men who have
lived and acquired wealth and pow
er by subsidies, bounties and gifts
from the Government, Of which they
seized control from the hands of the
masses, will retain their usurped do
mination until the people shall join
in revolution, to be accomplished
by their united forces, with one pur-
pose and common object. In di-
vision there is weakness. In union
there is strength. The gigantic
trusts, which have taken shelter un-
der the wings of the Republican par
ty, are sapping the independence Of
the citizen and the freedom of the
nation, in their remorseless eager
ness for power and wealth. 1t is
a power that knows neither coun-
try, patriotism nor morals. Money
is it's god and more is it's motto.
This great organization moves
with the unity and precision of a Sc
cret order. AS political associa-
tion, it is invisible. 1t distributes
itself among the political parties of
the day, including that most as
sumptive and insolent of all par
ties, the professedly 'non-partisan'
party. This secret influence mas
querades under various pet names
which it calls its members. 1t is
the respectable element the bet
ter class the business element the
good government men, the nation
al honor PATRIOTS and last but not
least, the Doodle element which oc-
cupies reserved seats in the temple
of this most dangerous poWer."