The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-03-01
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DATES ARE TOADYiNG

We are not surprised that our good
friend, "Sartorius," should be "agin'
the government"
He feeds on the Appeal to Reason.
a newspaper, so-called, printed at Gil.
rard, Kansas, state where so many
political heresies are bred; news
paper that boldly declared that social
ism was on trial when the McNama-
ras were before the courts OF Cali
fornia.
"Sartorius" is in arms "agin' our
government" and does not hesitate
to say that it is the worst form of
government the world has ever seen,
and that is saying good deal.
We make an extract from a recent
communication to this paper:
ancient forms of robbery and ex-
ploitatiQn of the people have required
from two to four thousand years to
accomplish what was achieved by
our American oligarchy in little
more than one hundred years. This
could only have been accomplished
by means of misrepresentation form
of government such as ours is now,
and always has BEEN
This, of course, includes the time
when the declaration Of independ-
ence was first promulgated, when
the constitution was adopted, when
l.; cd tho dnCff-
MES of the republic, and when we
imagined that we were setting a bea-
can light to the nations of the earth
of government 'for the people, of
the people, and by the people"
But we are told in so many words
that it is now and has always been a
fraud, failure and a mis-fit.
"Sartorius" goes on further to say:
mo barbaric despotism, no feudal-
istic hierarchic tyranny, no simple,
no constitutional monarchy. could
ever hold candle to the adroitness,
slyness, foxiness, the cunning and
brutality, the Incompatible success
and effectiveness of our North Amer
lean plutocracy, faithfully aided and
abetted by our national so-called con-
stitutional Jurisprudence, and misrep-
resentative government"
Doped on the stuff sent out by the
Appeal to Reason, it is no matter of
surprise that "Sartorius" should ar
IDENTITY and innocently believe that
when the socialists get control of the
government that all the wickedness
that has existed in it for the last one
hundred years and more is going to
be changed, human nature is going to
undergo publication, and it is all
to be done by adopting the "initia-
tive, referendum and recall"
The whole thing is to be done as
easily as slipping of creased log.
"Sartorius" tells us:
This will be found entirely suffi-
cient to convert this hell of Industrial
war, Of deceit, fraud and robbery into
heaven Of industrial peace, health.
wealth and happiness for ALL"
Now, as we said before, it is all
right for "Sartorius" to believe all
this foolishness, for he is disciple
of Weyland's, and is built that way,
and we are casting no stones in his
direction, but for democrats who are
candidates for high Office to make
their appeal for votes to this class of
political thinkers to the exclusion of
democrats of the type of Jefferson,
and Jackson, and Tilden, we think ii
high time to call q halt and ask the
meaning of it.
Why, even Governor Harmon of
Ohio, following along in the footsteps
of those immortals, because he refus-
es to give sweeping obedience to
this tenet of faith of the socialists.
does not escape censure. Indeed, Mr..
Bryan uses his tomahawk on him ev-
cry day in the week.
If there is democratic party i'm
Florida we think that it is high time
that we were finding out into whose
hands it is being committed.
We shall not believe until after the
primaries that the democratic party
of Florida is quite ready to abandon
the principles that have been its
mainstay and distinctive, animating
force, for century, by adopting the
tenets of party that are wildly WIS.,
ionary and wholly impracticable.
TAMPA MEN GUILTY ON CHARGE