The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-08-08

ed TO aSneS on their lips, ana then.
to punish thai party. they vote for
the other party. So it is that partisan
victories have come to be merely
the peoples ~vengeance; and always
the secret powers have played their
game.
This boss system is unknown and
impossible under any other free gov
eminent in the world. In its very
nature it is hostile to the general
welfare. Yet it has grown until it
now is a controlling influence in Am
erican public affairs. AT the present
moment notorious bosses are in the
saddle of both the old parties in
various important states which must
be carried to elect a president. This
Black Horse Cavalry in the most inn
portant force in the practical work of
the democratic and republican part
les in the present campaign. Neither
of the old parties nominees for presi-
dent canee escape obligation to these
o~ld-party bosses nor shake their
practical hold on many and powerful
members of the national legislature.
Under the boss system, no matter
which party wins, the people seldom
win; but the bosses almost always
win. And they never work for the
people. They do not even work for
the party to which they belong. They
work only for those a%nti-public inter
ests whose political employees they
are. 1t sis these interests thai are the
real victors in the end.
'"These special interests which
suck the peoples substance are BIZ
partisan. They use both parties. They
are the invisible government behind
our visible government. Democratic
and republican bosses alike are bro
Their officers of this hidden power.
No matter how fiercely they pretend
to fight n another before election,
they work together after election,
And, acting So, this political con-
spiracy is able to delay. mutilate or
defeat sound and needed laws for
the peoples welfare and the prosper
ity of honest business and even to
enact bad laws. hurtful to the peo-
pies welfare and oppressive to hon
est business. t .saie 81
ut is this invisible government
which is the real danger to American
institutions. Its crude work at Chi
cage in June, which the people were
able to see, vas no more wicked thar
its skillful work everywhere and al
ways which the people are not able
to see.
THE progressive party asserts
anew the vitality of the constitution.
We believe in the true doctrine OF
states rights, which forbids the ma
ton from interfering with states af-
fairs, and also forbids the states from
interfering with national affairs. The
combined intelligence and composite
conscience of the American people is
as irresistible as it is righteous; and
the constitution does o prevent
that force from working out the n
eral welfare.
'From certain sources VIC hear
preachments about the danger of our
reforms to American institutions.
What is the purpose of American in
stitutions? Why was this republic
established? What does the flag
stand for? What do these things
mean?
''They mean that the people shall
be free to correct human abuses.
"They mea that men, women and
children shall not be denied the op-
portunity to grow stronger and mob
Ter.
''They mean that the people shall
IldNC thC IoN1l w ~ ohi eIt
each day a better place to live in.
"They mean the realities OF lib
erty and not the academies of theory.
'"They mean the actual progress of
the race in tangible items of daily
living and not the theoretics of bar
rem disputation.
"If they do not mean these things
they are as sounding brass and tink-
ling cymbal. te1
"a nation of strong upright men
and women, a nation of wholesome
homes, realizing the best ideals: a
nation whose power is glorified by its
justice and whose justice is the con
science OF scores of millions of God
fearing people-that is the nation
the people need and want. And that
is the nation they shall have.
"For never doubt that we Ameri-
cans will make good the real meaning
of our institutions. Never doubt that
we will solve, in righteousness and
wisdom, every vcXing problem. Never
doubt, that in the end. the hand from
above that leads us upward will pre-
vail over the hand from below that
drags us downward. Never doubt that
we are indeed d nation whose God is
the Lord.. M
And so, never doubt that BRAY
er, %fairer, cleaner Americans surely
will come; that a better and brighter
life for all beneath the flag surely
will be achieved. Those who now scot
soon will pray. Those who now doubt
will Don believe.
Soon the night will pass; and
when, to the sentinel on the ramDarts
of Liberty the anxious ask: Watch
man. what OF the night" his answer
will be "Lo, the morn appeareth."
knowing the price we must pay
the sacrifice we must make, the bur
= dens we must carry, the assaults We
must misunderstanding full we'll the
cost-yet we enlist and We enlinst fol
; the war. For we know the justice o
\ our cause, and we know, too, it's GER
: tain triumph"
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