The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-30

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Senators to the Legislatures of the
several States, has either purposely
Or unwittingly usurped the true
function and crippled the power of
democracy, in that Notwithstanding
that real democracy not only per-
mits, but necessarily compels the
people as individuals themselves to
directly choose and elect all of their
officers in the administration of civil
government. But this undemocratic
aD>11 usurpatory clause in our organ
&c IaNT is obviously a definite and
radical departure from democracy
for the essea1 tial tenets Of democra-
cy in it's short and final analysis is
the UNQUALIFIED rule Of the people,
hence our government is not pure
democracy, as it lost the democratic
form in our organic law which law
virtually says to the masses, you are
qualified to choose your representa-
tives in the lower house Of the
Federal Congress, but of the upper
House, or Senate so-called, you are
not, and moreover this upper House
Of the highest law making body
shall serve to check the rule of the
people, the exercise of democracy
shall consume the rights and privi-
leges of property, and which for all
intents and purposes in the Senate
of the United States has been capital.
Yes, the Federal Senate has faithful
ly served the interests of corporate
wealth, and for more than a score
of years it has been the stronghold,
the invisible citadel Of plutOCraCy
aud the trusts, and SO our bOuy poll
tic, true to it's nature, being born
distorted, has degenerated until it
today has lost almost all semblance
to q democracy, and if the citizens
would be convinced and learn how
we'll the Federal Senate has served
its unholy purpose. We have only
to behold the foremost leaders Of
that subserVient and august body.
Surely the country has not forgotten
the Senators ]. w. Bailey, A. P.
German, Chauncey DePew, Aldrich,
LOrimer, Guggenheim, and others
too numerous to mention. However
We remember the adage that birds
of a feather will flock together" and
the way the trusting birds of the
inflated trusts have fOcked to the
Senate a fellow would conclusively
judge that this august body had
actually become the permanent
roosting place of that kind of game.
Unsuitable human aVarice and greed
facilitated by corporations has
become so inhuman in it's blind
oppression and deadly discrimina-
ton and extortion that beggars de-
ScriptiOn. This predatory influence
is the deadly virus that has pois-
oned and corrupted the body polite,
in that it has laid its unholy hands
upon our Federal Senate, and has
made of it a nightly leverage to
CONTROL the course and policy of our
National Legislation. Again the
same sinister influence CONTROLS the
executive through the Cabinet and
its other vile agents. AS proof to
sustain this contention we point to
such notorious trust tools as Balm
ger and WiCkersham, of the present
regime, and BOnaparte and Carlisle
OF the past, and as to the judiciary,
it follows under the same evil
and doleful power as it is a matter
of common knowledge that the trusts
obtain for their most INSCRIPTIONS
agents an appointment as our Fede-
raj judges and their trust favored
decisions are most shocking to all
conceptions of honor and human
Justice. Then we behold the legis-
lative, executive and judiciary under
the predatory embodiment Of the
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