The Sauk Centre herald., 1912-10-31
DEMOCRATIC
BY Or: j. A. Dubois


aging. that three great political
arties cannot exist permanently in
ur country. Evidently, political
pinions find their expression in two
,olitical organizations and it is in
.vitable that one of these organiza-
ions will be radical or progressive,
he other conservative or tory. Into
me or the other of these bodies men
will go, accordingly as they have be-
ome, either by nature or by educa-
ion, radical or conservative in their
oIitical views. And upon the eternal
onfiict between these two different
methods of treating the human prob
lem, the science of government is
built.
But the relative position of two
great parties like the Republican and
Democratic is by no means a fixed
quantity. They are apt to shift
places and find themselves each upon
the others territory. Thus, the
Democratic party, after sixteen years
Of strenuous effort in summoning the
people to the corrections of certain
abuses of government which had
I grown formidable, would, l believe,
have slipped completely into the
4 hands of the reactionary element in
y hat party had it not been for the
'emarkable and matchless work of
Y Nr. Bryan at Baltimore. By the same
y oxen, the Republican party, brought
\ into existence by great moral is
l}sue, and standing for free govern
}jnent, finds itself at last accused by
Nthe enthusiastic and powerful pro-
Ngressive faction within it's own ranks
Nof having become the obedient SER
a1vant of the gigantic industrial inter-
Nests which, allowed to wax fat un.
Ter the pernicious system of special
privileges, have gained complete con-
rol CT the American market by the
destruction of competition, have de-
pauched our legislative assemblies,
bought elections and become at last
IN absolute menace to government
Tor the people.
- Now, whether or not unremitting
II lertness is always the price demand
Id by a free government, one thing
) certain; and that is that the Ameri-
an people will have to get busy with
1eir institutions in the times just
head of us. We shall have to re-
Rslrn to some OF our earlier concep-
Mons of government. And we find
fiat we have wandered very far from
.o.e ideals expressed in such phrases
with equal rights to all, with
lecial privileges to none" By the
;aolation of such precepts as are here
lo,ntained we are finding ourselves
DIV face to face with certain huge
+orporations which have grown
rough the indulgence of the people
it'll they possess a power that
threatens to control the government
self
" In the attempt which is now being
.ade to restore the government to
le people, l believe the best in
rument for that purpose to be the
democratic party led by Woodrow
STilson. The first pressing matter
hich will be threshed out by con-
: ress during the next administration
the tariff. The high protective
riff in the United States has
,wned itself. Oblivious of the warn
.ngs of Blaine and Mckinley, in its
fist expression-the Payne Aldrich
ill-it arrogantly threw aside all
lbterfuge, and stands out self-re-
.oealed as the greatest pirate of our
History. In the secrecy of the COM
hhittee rooms it's beneficiaries were
lvited to write their own schedules,
10 far had the interests of the peo-
Gle passed out of the vision of the
Professional tariff-makers.
u Do you recall the beautiful picture
: protection to American labor
yainst the pauper labor of Europe?'
1.-THE investigations made by the
United States immigration Commits
on involving forty of the principal
OifduCuco vi iAihAh5 anu
lag in all industrial localities of any
- ,portance east of the Rocky Noun
oins, revealed the fact that more
an three-fifths of the wage earners
ire from the so-called pauper ele
mt of Europe. Only one out OF
eery twenty of the laborers in oui
Mons and factories proved to be q
tive American. Under hypocrit
w plea of protection to American
Vbr the beneficiaries of the protec
IL tariff have imposed a tax upor
people of our country, and ther
NE gone deliberately to work to i'm
this same "pauper labor" and
lg it face to face. in fierce com
stion with American labor, with