The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-20


 boundless resources of the richest cot1n- the control of the favored few. They have observed that the laws have been enacted, construed and enforced so that, struggle as they will and act as they may, they see before them naught but long years of servitude and certain poverty. at the end. Conditions have become unbearable to them. They hesitate to hope for reform, so often has it been promised to them and so often has it been denied. They have reached the point where, in the strug- gle for that which they believe to be right, they are willing to destroy the ideals of the republic. How many there are of these do not know, but I do know that special privilege in the republic is breeding them day by day like rabbits in warren.
 The third grade of citizens it pleases me to call old fashioned constitutional Democrats. These are they who be- lieve that the equality of mankind does not consist in an equality of brain and brawn, but in an equality where by every man, native and foreign born, has an inalienable right to exercise all of his ability in getting on in the world just so he realizes that in get ting on he owes 1t to himself, to his family and to the republic to see to 1t that he gets on honestly and that he does not prevent any other man from obtaining the reward of his honesty 1f %ae T1iN Democrats believe in making money, but they believe that every dollar made should be so clean that an in fant may cut it's teeth upon it. They hold that 1t is no part of government to boost one man and to boot another and that any system of government which enables one man to take advan- take of another is not system under which a Democratic condition of life can thrive. They hold that from age to age social and economic conditions change, but that the great principle of the equality of all men before'the law can never Change while time shall last and that the honest interpretation of this great principle in statutory en- actment, judicial construction and ex- ecutive conduct will take from the life of a people the mighty avarice of the few, bind up the broken hearts of the many and loose the bonds of all who are in slavery to wrong. injustice and ignorance.
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 The individuaiism of Thomas Jeffer- son is not dead 1t has not moldered back to dust in the grave at Monticello. 1t walks the earth this day, knocking at the door of rich and poor, of wise and ignorant, alike, calling upon all men to make of this age the millennium of statecraft wherein no one shall claim to be the master and all shall be glad to be the servants of the republic.
 It cannot be that it is the system of government which is wrong. 1t is the unjust use of the system. From Jeffer- son to Lincoln the republic grew in might, in majesty, in pomp and splen- dor, and the humblest of its citizens could obtain justice, not as beggar crawling in the sun, but as man. It has not been the use but the misuse of the powers of government which has produced this discottent in the minds of men.
 The historic Democratic party moves forward now, as always, true to the principles of the Declaration of Lnde- Kbndence, loyal to the constitution and cbnfident that if men will be imbued with the spirit of these two documents and will guide their public and private life by the concepts of righteousness therein contained peace and plenty will bless their homes and come as q benison to every weary, downtroddeni and oppressed soul.
 The contending forces in America are as they are in nature. There is centripetal force which is ever draw ing the earth toward the sun. There is a centrifugal force which is ever drawing it away. These two contend ing forces, acting each upon the other, have kept this old world of ours safely in its orbit, and springtime and har- vest have not failed. Should either force become superior desolation and destruction only could result. The centripetal force would draw the earth into the sun and make it but fuel for the warmth of other planets. The cen- trifugaf force would send it whirlng out of its orbit to the northern pole of stellar spaces There are times in July when we long for the north pole, and there are times in January when we pray to be nearer the sun. But our sober second thought cenvinces us that the middle course is the safe course for the world.
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 The contending forces of political life are commonly denominated reac- tionary and revolutionary. They are the paternalistic forces of the Repub- hcan party, which would draw our government out of its orbit and con- sume it in the fiery heat of the lust and greed of the favored few, and the so- cialistic forces, which would draw it away from its constitutional. concep- ton of three coordinate branches and from its guaranty to each individual of an opportunity to assert his natural and acquired talents in an honest en- deavor to succeed. The historic Demo cratic party, of which am humble member, stands between these con- tending forces and believes that some harvests for humanity may be garner
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