Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
Insurgency
Against
Privilege
Congressman Fowler of New
Jersey Tells of Insur-
gents in Worlds
History.

Patterson, N. j., July 25.--In a
strong address, predicting victory for
the progressive movement under
Theodore R~oosevelt's leadership,
Representative Charles N. Fowler,
candidate for denomination and
aspirant to the seat of United States
Senator John Kean, declared Satur-
day afternoon that every forward
movement in the last 1900 years has
resulted from a protest against wrong
and an insurgent movement for the
right.
Mr.. Fowler is being fought desper-
ateIy by the Kean machine. Victory
In his fight for denomination will
make Fowler a force to be reckoned
with when the time comes to name a
successor to the senior senator from
New Jersey. The address was one OF
a series In which Fowler is defying
the bosses, barring ring-rule methods
congress and pledging himself to keep
on battling for the enactment into
law Of the progressive pledges OF the
republican party's platform.
WHAT IS AN INSUFFICIENT?
MI. Fowler said In part:
"We have heard a good deal, In
these latter days, about insurgents.
Have you ever thought it out and fix
ed 1t clearly in your minds what an
insurgent really is; what part insur-
gency has played in the history OF
Anglo-Saxon civilization?
"Every protest against established
wrong during the past twelve hundred
years has been the voice of insurgency.
Every protest against wrong Is an
lnsurgent for the right.
INSURGENCY 1900 YEARS OLD.
From the establishment OF the
English government in the ninth CEN
fury, In the reign OF Alfred the Great
every forward and upward movement
has come from a protest against ex-
listing wrong and an .nsurgent move
ment for the right. Privilege never
Yields anything voluntarily.
"The Capitalization and abuse Of
power by King John led up to the
Magma Charta from him by the
barons on the field OF Runnymede.
The barons we're protesting against
the wrongs Of the king, and we're in
surgents for their rights " unto
the death.
AN INsURGENT VICTORY.
"But by 1910 privilege had united
together the barOns and the kings in
Z common cause against the people.
Hampton and Ppm protested against
existing wrongs, and the bill OF rights
vas the result OF their insurgency
Charles 1. was q blind and unyieldinR
- the Bourbon leaders OF today, and
he lost his head. Tho people came
into their own under Cromwell and
the commonwealth.
but privilege never eases to strug-
gle for mastry. Now it Is the mastery
Of power, now Of the very bodies and
souls Of men. A reactionary move
ment followed the restoration of
Charles II. Again privilege prevailed
again the people protested against
existing wrongs, and Insurgency
gained . new and broader character
OF liberties under William and Mary.
OUR ORIGINAL INSURGENTS.
Insurgents crossed the Atlantic
and planted = new nation on these
shores. George Washington, Samuel
Adams and Thomas Jefferson protest.
cd against British privilege, and In
surgency rave US the declaration of
Independence. william Lloyd Garri-
son. Wendell Phillips and Abraham
Lincoln protested against the privi-
lege Of property Ia human beings and
q Insurgents against the slave power
waged and won the civil val.
ROOSEVELT THE LEADER.
"Organixed wealth, through the
forms Of Law b,gan to encroach upon
the rights Of the people, its greed ever
growing with It's bolder aud boider
aggressi0ns. Theodore Roosevelt pro-
tested against these legalized wrongs,
and y IN insurgent demanded =
square deal. that il, equal opportuni-
ties for al the people under just laws.
Under the leadership OF the great
twentieth-century insurgents there Is
: new crusade against privilege which
d nationwide.
THE ISSUE OF TO-DAY
what, then, Is the issue OF today7
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