The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-04-26

wars and perpetual threats OF war;
its swindling and fraudulent exchange
of goods and wealth of all sorts; its
robbing, thieving, filching and plum
dering monetary system; it's whole
sale robbery through rent, interest,
profit and taxes, and especially its
sneaking, cowardly system of indirect
taxation; it's wholesale poisoning OF
food; it's perfect saturnalia of hypoc-
risy, deception and fraud; its extor-
ton. exploitation and persistent and
continued hold-up of the weak and
ignorant many by the shrewd, sharp,
designing, unprincipled, cunning and
foxy few; it's one percentum of over
fed hogs and fourteen per centum
only of fairly well to do, while IS per
cent spend their ignorant lives in
continual toll, drudgery, poverty and
self denial for the benefit of those
Ia or Is percent, cursing their i'll
luck, too mentally benumbed and ar
tifcially stupefied by the false teach
ings of press, pulpit and rostrum!
This is our Bourgeois Republic, your
representative form of government,
your court, priest and lawyer ridden
constitutional farce of 125 years of
age.
1t has been weighed in the balance
and found wanting in about every
thing that would forward and pro-
mote a truer, better man and Wo
manhood, higher civilization, a life
BETTING individuals of the genus
homo at last somewhat removed from
our quatrumanial simian ancestry.
My democratic, or for that matter,
republican friends, how do you like
the suma sumarum of the achieve
ments of your parties? Can you tell
us the difference between 2 democrat
of the old school and a republican?
Are they not now, and have they not
ever been the same old friend of
Messrs. Tweedleduln and Tweedle-
dee, whose apparently ferocious bat
ties at the ballot box, as fought be-
tween them for the spoils and graft
involved, have been and are thesmer-
est sham and clumsiest comedy farce
to which dignified men can lend
themselves?
| Another quatrennial election is ap-
preaching. The gay and festive of
fice-seeker is around shaking hands,
smirking, smiling, promising every
thing under the sun. but meaning to
continue and perpetuate this same
delightful state of affairs; so, oh! how
inadequately pictured above!
Another four years of such brainy
management will send the IS per
cent. of the people to the poorhouse,
and goodly portion of the Is per
cent. also. These latter have been
joining the proletariat during the last
twenty years at the rate of 10000 to
| 10000 year, and four years more of
demo-republican prosperity will open
even their eyes and make them amen
able to the saner and safer teachings
of the socialists, and willing enough
to help establish a genuine democra-
cy in the form of the cooperative
commonwealth.
The remedy lies in amendments to
our organic law or constitution. 1t
never was intended to be an honest,
social contract, a democratic instru-
ment. 1t has fostered and protected
every one of the old monarchical in
situations under different and more
deceptive names; that is all.
The same results that we see in
all monarchical countries are here,
in the most aggravated form, and
plain to be seen by the perfectly
blind. Landlords, landlords, factory
lords, mining and transportation bar
ons, forming l per cent, with 15 per
cent, for their flunkies and lawyers
who are doing the tax collecting and
other dirty work for them, we have
the same So per cent. grinding out
beastly, brutal, ignorant existence as
tenants, wage-slaves, poems, serl itors,
in ignorance, poverty and degrade
ton, hated and despised by the cry
gang of exploiters whom they are
feeding and supporting in scandalous
luxury
The remedy for these democratic
and republican horrors is: More De-
! mocracy!
Figs cannot be made to grow upon
thlstles. But we can and Go amend
me constitution Ola Flc.ida sour Or.
ange tree to make it bring the fin
est, most aromatic citrus dulcis in
the world, or We take an ugly wooden
sour crabapple and we convert it into
the most perfect Albemarl.,, Pi,,pin.