The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-20


 pleasures without making of American life a seethtng caldron of discontent Theoretically speaking, therefore, the majority of votes, having put party in power upon platform. pledged to relieve the people of these burdens, has been ruling under constitutional lim- ftations. But this is not so. Imn1e- diately after the election the minority became the majority in the sense that it assumed control of legislation with reference to special privilege. All the members of the Democratic party and all the protesting members of the Re publican party have been in the minor ity when it came to counting votes where the count fixed the cost of living. It may be said that this is mere acci- dent of politics, single illustration, and that it will not occur again. But it is no accident. It is only one of many Illustrations 1t simply discloses 8he utter folly of man remaining a member of party when the party policy ceases to voice his inner spirit. The Republican party does not recede now from it's prOtective theory. It's re- turn to power will mean again the rule of minority. and the theoretical idea of Democracy will continue to be the practical aristocracy of special privilege in this country.
 Easy For the Veter.
 The voter who cannot satisfy him. self this year is indeed censorious Eliminating the verbiage of platforms, taking their substance and viewing the candidates placed on thena,: the voter who believes that the cost of production at home and abroad should be equalized to the manufactures or this country and who wants an oH- garchy to rule may vote the straight Republican ticket; the voter who be- lieves in similar protective theory, but who prefers to an oligarchy that vote the Progressive ticket; the voter who believes this government should be turned into socialism may vote the Socialistic ticket; the voter who thinks that church and state are not separate in America and that the peo- pie have a right to settle religious questions and to determine by ballot what is good and what is bad may vote the Prohibition ticket, and all those who insist that 1t is not the busi- ness of government to equalize the cost of production at home and abroad to the manufactures until it equalizes the difference in the purchase price to the consumer at home and abroad, who believes that the only equaliza- tion jusffEable in our government is the equalization of opportunity, who thinks that public office is public trust, who does not believe that dis gruntled and defeated politicians are genuine reforners and who think that reforms are not born with sore toes may vote the Democratic ticket.
 I respectfully urge all those who are opposed to special privilege to ally themselves this year with the historic Democracy, the cornerstone of whose edf1ce is the Declaration of Independ- ence and the keystone of which is the s Golden Rule. At Baltimore it proved it's right to be, because there it arose and by its proposed policy met the needs and wants of q people Am I to be met with the statement that re- suits like those of the past four years might just as we'll have been produced under Democratic supremacy? This deny. The Kingdom of Democracy. like the' kingdom of heaven, is within us. It-eomes not by observation. It is a living. growing, vital principle. Itis as essential to the life of the man who is a Democrat as pure air or pure blood. The power to resist lying is not in the mouth but in the heart of man. His power to resist larceny and mur der is not in his fingers. Democrats. like poets. are born, not made. They lief that God made all men, not some men; that all men are entitled to an honest chance in life, unhampered and unharmed by law or custom We may separate in language church and state. but we can never have that social con dfion which we call Democracy until all men living in the republic are full, not hall, brothers; until all have been baptized in the blood of the spirit Of the revolution and consecrated at every altar set up, north and south, in the war between the states.
 Stop, Lock and Listen.
 Upon whom does this campaign call for justice? Many man devotes him. self sedulousiy to business not because he wants money for himself, but be- cause he believes that jewels and lux uries will make his wife happy. Some times. too late. be finds that which she wanted was love, not luxury. So9 too, many a man in America is dexoting himself to she making of money througA legislat1veiy granted privi- leges, not so much that he wants the money himself as that he wants to disclose the richness, greatness and prosperity of the American republic Meanwhile he has not stopped to con sfder that while the few through spe- cial privilege are adding millions to the bank balances of this country the educated and impoverished many are looking down the years and seeing at the end of them nothing but an open grave in the pottar's field. The spirit of democracy and his innate sense of justice call upon this man right now to stop and look and listen, to review xryf4o% l1v, v,oofroc A<,, @-..1~ S.o lv