Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-01-11
SOCIALISM THE PRODUCT Q
REPUBLICANISM.


Without seeking to discover any of
the minor reasons for the recent rapid
increase In the membership Of the So
cialist party, it would be entirely safe
to assert that its growth is very large
ly due to the maladministration Of the
Republican party during its almost
uninterrupted reign or fifty years
The Socialist party, when its con-
stituent parts are analyzed, will be
| found to have been principally re-
cruited from dissatisfied Republicans
of revolutionary instincts, the fiot-
sam and jetsam of all other parties
except the Democracy, drawn into the
current of Republicanism by specious
promises, a multitude Of make shifts,
and a hypocritical profession of deep
solicitude for the welfare Of the
masses.
| Giving the Republican party an al
most fanatical worship, to find itself
| finally wretchedly deluded, this radi-
cal element, unwilling to ally itself
with the Democratic party because of
! its conservative tendencies, is f1ocking
to Socialism, loud in its denunciation
| of Republicanism which betrayed it,
had its support.
Violent in it's inception, maintain
ling itself simply by expounding at all
times the doctrines of expediency, the
Republican party has ever been the
! favorite camping ground for the ex-
ponents OF all kinds of unstable and
fantastic isms.
| Born of the passions of war, it
cunningly prolonged its tenure, first
by promoting and fostering sectional
animosity, and in later years by
adroitly parading itself as the friend,
champion, protector, and benefactor
of the veterans of the civil war, their
widows and their orphans.
After these hypocritical tactics had
ceased to have their former poten-
| tionality, it inaugurated it's crusade
| of cajolement, to corral the indus
trial masses, by propagating the en-
ticing dogma of Protection to Amer
ican labor"
| With this alluring, but artful slo-
| gan it succeeded through a long ser
les OF years in deluding the struggling
! toilers, while permitting the benefi-
ciaries of fraudulent tariff to in
crease tremendously the cost of all
| the necessaries of life, and to defeat
| income tax legislation, in exchange
for enormous contributions to its
campaign fund for corrupting the
! franchise.
! Now when its time-worn profess
sions of profound concern for the
welfare of the poor working man are
no longer effective in holding its an
tagonistic groups together, it finds a
sane segment of its followers joining
the Democratic party, while the wild,
rambling, revolutionary element is
jumping into the whirlpool of Social
| ism.
Except for brief period in the
second administration of President
Cleveland the Democratic party never
had complete authority. in the past
fifty years, to place upon the statutes
of the Government any constructive
| legislation
AT that time the effort of the party
to make into law one of the cardinal
principles of the Democratic faith,
was nullified in the Senate of the
| United States, by several Senators,
who owed allegiance to the Demo-
cratic party. joining with the Repub-
lican minority in so amending the
Wilson tariff bill as to deprive it of
| its most vital features.
The emasculation Of this bill, in
| tended to carry out the declarations
of the platform on which President
Cleveland was elected to his second
term, alienated many of those who
had assisted the party in overwhelm-
ing Republicanism and was made the
basis for the charge that the Demo-
cratic party had shown an utter in
capacity to administer the affairs of
| the nation.
For this apostacy on the part of a
| few Senators who renounced the sol
emn promises of Democracy, the
party was bitterly assailed, shorn of
power, and at the succeeding cleo
tiOns sent into unmerited exile
The Republican party was thus
given another long lease of life, to
multiply its previous evils hundred
fold, whereby the monopolies of fif-
teen years ago are made to look like
pigmies, when compared with the gil
gantic trusts that control all forms
of industrial life to-day.
Last year a large portion of the
patriotic electorate, in all parts of the
Union, seemed to awaken to the fact,
that unless Republican policies were
soon reversed, and the Democratic
party restored to its ancient heritage,
| the revolutionary element to which
the Republican party, by power of
vicious legislation has given birth,
will soon rear itself on the wrecks
of all parties, and make short work
of that portion of the Declaration of
Independence, which blazons the,
truth that all men are created equal,
and entitled to the inheritance of
"life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness
| When a homogeneous Democracy,
stripped of its false servants, is
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