Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-08-23

majority OF votes, having put a party
In power upon platform pledged to
relieve the people Of these burdens, has
been ruling under constitutional lin
itadons. But this is not So lmme-
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
fly when 1t came to counting votes
where the count fixed the cost of living.
1t may be said that this is a mere acct
dent of politics. a single illustration,
and that 1t will not occur again. But
1t is no accident 1t is only one OF
many Illustrations 1t simply discloses
the utter folly of a man remaining a
member of party when the party
policy ceases to voice his inner spirit
The Republican party does not recede
now from its protective theory. Its 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 Votsr.
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 them, the
voter who believes that the cost OF
production at home and abroad should
be equalized to the manufacturer of
this country and who wants an oil.
garchy to rule may vote the straight
Republican ticket; the voter who be
lieves in n similar protective theory.
but who prefers to an oligarchy that
the president shall be the state, may
vote the Progressive ticket; the voter
who believes this government should
be turned into a socialism may vote
the Socialistic ticket; the voter who
thinks that church and state are not
separate In America and that the PEG
pie have 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 it is not the bust
ness of government to equalize the
cost Of production at home and abroad
to the MANUFACTURED until 1t equallzes
the difference in the purchase price to
the consumer at home and abroad,
hi AI,N Nf,lty loo
ton justifiable In our government Is
the equalization of opportunity, who
thinks that public office is a public
trust, who does not believe that dis,
gruntled and defeated politicians are
genuine reformers and who think that
reforms are not born with sore toes
may vote the Democratic ticket.
respectfully urge all those who are
opposed to special privilege to ally
themselves this year with the historic
Democracy, the cornerstone of whose
editice Is the Declaration of Independ
ence and the Keystone Of which is the
Golden Rule. AT Baltimore 1t proved
its right to be, because there 1t arose
and by its proposed policy met the
needs and wants of a people. Am
to be met with the statement that re-
suits like those of the past four years
might just as well have been produced
under Democratic supremacy This
| deny. The kingdom of Democracy,
like the kingdom OF heaven. Is within
US. 1t comes not by observation. 1t is
a living. growing, vital principle. 1t is
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 muir
der is not in his fingers Democrats,
like poets. are born, not made They
are born with the fixed. unaIterable be-
lief that God made all men, not some
men; that all men are entitled to an
honest chance In life. unhampered and
unframed by law or custom. We may
separate In language church and state,
but we can never have that social con.
dition which we call Democracy until
all men living in the republic are full,
not half, brothers; until all have been
baptized in the blood Of the spirit Of
the revolution and consecrnted at every
altar set no, north and south, In the
war between the states.
Stop, Look and Listen.
Upon whom does this campaign call
for justice? Many man devotes him
self sedulously 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, he finds that which she
wanted was love. not luxury. So. too.
many a man in America Is doyoting
himself to the making Of money
through legisladvely granted priyi-
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-
slider that while the few through spe-
cial privilege are adding millions to
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