Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-08-22
DEMOCRACY OR
SOCIALISM
Specia! Privileges Are Breed
ing Socialists Like Rab-
bits in a Warren
SO SAYS GOV. MARSHALL
Weary Of the Bad Working g
of a Good System, a
Change Must Come
SO SAYS GOV. MARSHALL

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 20
Gov. Thomas r. Marshall, of Indiana
in his formal speech of acceptance
of the democratic vice-presidential
nomination, delivered to the notitica-
ton committee here today, attack
ed the republican party on the grounds
that it had fostered special privi-
leges to the point OF making men ev-
erywhere socialistic in theory if not
i'll conduct.
In this connection, he said
1t is idle for thoughtful man in
America whether millionaire or pau,
per. to longer play the ostrich Safe
y does not consist in hiding ones
head in the sands Of either senti-
ment or hope. 1t is foolish for the
vastly rich to keep on insisting that
more and more shall be added to their
riches through a specious system of
special legislation, ostensihly enact
ed to run the government, in reality
70 IJot tie people.
system VIII Not Last.
1T is worse than ignorance for
them to smile at the large body Of
intelligent Americans who regard
themselves as fortunate if the debit
ana credit accounts OF life balance
dt the end OF the year, and to assume
that the mighCY many, Who are be
coming convinced that that social
system that We call democracy is but
glittering generality, will long en-
dure rhe industrial slavery being pro-
duced
whether boiling the ticket or not
men everywhere looking upon the aw-
ful injustice of this economic system
are becoming socialistic in theory ii
not in conduct
"And shall any fair-minded man
say that il il rebounds 20 the inter
that a hundred men snail control it's
busine SIS to the good OF everyone,
that there is ANYTHING tallaciO',s III
HE theory that government instead
of TRANSFERRING business to favored
few for the benefit of all, should it,
self discharge that business ior the
benefit Of ali.
Il do not hesitate say that il ii
be impossible to res ere this repuJ-
lie to its ancient Ideals. which do
not believe and | must make the ulti-
mate choice between the paternalism
Of the few and the socialism OF the
many, count lne and my house with
the throbbing heart of humanity.
The discomfort III republican ranks
is democratic discomfort How much
of it has reached the point where,
wearied with the bad workings of a
good system, it is willing to topple
that system over and try something
new, | cannot prophesy.
But am quite sure that what
ever badges men may wear in Amer
ica this year, whatever ballots they
may vote and whatever battle cries
they may utter there are but three
grades of citizens.
"The first grade is made up of the
favored few, their hangers-on and
their beneticiaries, who think the
eagle is upon the dollar, not as an
emblem OF liberty, but as an emblem
OF power and who look upon govern
ment as an annex to their business
affairs; these are they who in the
past years of republican misrule have
turned the temple of constitutional
freedom into q money-changer's mart
and have made of the coordinate
branches Of the government obedient
lackeys of the jngling guinea.
The second grade consists of
those whose outlook upon life has
been enlarged by the civilization an
der which We live, who have been
taught by the school and the college
by the press and the masazine. Who
appreciate the good things of life.
whose horizon has been cularGed and
whose oapicity for joy and sorrow
has beer increased
Wilina 10 DESTROY idsals
"Coudilions nave become nnbaara.
Bile 10 them. They have reached the
noint where. in the STRUGGLE far than