The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-03-07
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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A country run BY knovish Big Bust
ness is like the Naples described b
William =. Gladstone the negatior
Of God erected into system Of govern
ment." After Sedan, when the lille.
Of France withered on the grave Of heI
departed glory, that shrewd old Scotch
Catholic, James Gordon Bennett, tic
elder, in sadness remarked France
needs a mon. And SO she did, and
these United States are in just as sore
want Of mon in 1912 as France
was in 1870-one with the ken to
watt thought from Indus to the
Pole, one with heart TO dare and a
sand to do, for nearly all are agreed
that the political and social problems
that now confront this people are as
grave as any that ever pestered the
minds, or challenged the genius, Or
animated the patriotism, Of statesman,
This government is little more what
! was the day William Mckinley was
inaugurated president in 1897 than the
Rome of that Brutus who slew Caesar
was like the Rome Of that Brutus who
banished Tarquin From the moment
the Dingley tariff law was enacted in
1897 Big Business has been king and
It is king today. All it has to do when
it wants an extension Of privilege is
to threaten to create a money panic in
Wall Street. Being in absolute cor
troll Of billions, four groups Of capi
talists in New York City not only give
orders to the government at Washing.
ton, but they have in keeping the com
mon veal which they can make the
common i'll whenever the whim seizes
them.
Many years ago London. Punch had
comic cartoon that showed spoiled
child, an urchin under ten, who ap-
preached his granddad and holding out
his filed hand, said, Grandfather, |
have eaten the cherries, and if you
don t give me a shilling III swallow
the stones, and the fond old fool, II
stead Of taking the imp across his lap
and soundly spanking him, as General
Andy Jackson, in metaphoTical way, |
did Banker Nicholas Biddle, gave him
the shilling, as Col Theodore Roose
welt did Gary and Frick when, under
a threat to make ruinous panic, they
extorted from him indulgence to vio-
late the law and absorb for tho Steel
Trust its chief rival, the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company We need
General Jackson
Big Business would be all right if it |
did not arrogate to itself corrupting
privilege, and no business is legitimate
that allows single one of its directors
to accumulate $l00,0OO,OO0 Andrew
Carnegie made out Of steel several
times that sum, and he boatsed that he
made an additional fortyseven mil
IiOnaires, some of them worth more than
$l0O,o0O,00O each. These gigantic prof
It's were the fruit Of extortion. Cap
ital got too much, labor too little, and
the consumers were spoliated to create
an odious plutocracy whose magnates
dwell on Fifth Avenue within a pistol
shot Of want and squalor and misery
and pain, and disease and death, and
then they pirate Of equality and fri
umphant democracy, aud all Of it is
nothing but mass Of canting, lying
rot.
That sort Of Big Business has got to
retire from business. The people
through their government at Washing
To the Democratic Voters Of the BIZ
Congressional District
hereby formally announce my
candidacy for the Office Of congress.
man from said district to the 63re
Congress, subject to the Democratic
primary to be held next summer
Owing to my familiarity with condi.
tons in Washington (being the con.
lfidential clerk to the speaker Of the