The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-21

LII CAAO COIA1SC uOW pSuuIuS LIE
Democratic party must "be servant
of all" 1t must show itself worthy
of continued confidence. 1t must put
none but progressive patriots on
guard and continue to move forward
at the call of patriotism toward the
highest attainments of a pure de-
mOcracy Resting all just powers of
government upon the consent of the
governed, it must answer the peo-
pies call without fraud or favorit-
ism.
The great corporations must be
made to turn loose the vast machin-
cry and inventions of the age and let
the people share in their benefits.
The trust must be made to turn loose
it's strangle hold on the business of
our country and let the common man
have hope. The door of opportuni-
ty must stand open to ALL The bless
1ngs and benefits of government, like
Gods mercy, must extend to all.
But, my friends, behold a mys-
terry. The Democratic lion no longer
rOars in rage against the criminal
conspiracy" that brought forward the
scheme of central bank and asset
currency and we find our Democratic
Israel forgetting the God of their de-
liverance and turning towards Nam
mon, the god Of the heather, the
money devil.
And if the Henry amendments are
voted down and the Owen-Glass
bill becomes a law, then our Demo-
cratic Eden becomes a Republican
SodOm, the nectar of our God turns
to hemlock, and sixty millions of
people, the bone and sinew of our
land stand politically damned with
out redeemer, while Moloch and
Mammon feasting on pillage runs in
riotOus ribaldry over the helpless
farmer and the vanquished wage
Garner of our country.
If the Henry amendments are
voted down and the Glass-Owens bill
goes through then we ask Mr. Bry-
an in cOntrition and sorrow, to turn
to his last campaign book and tell us
what he meant when he said, The
Democratic party is the foe of mono
poly and pledges itself to relieve the
burdens of the masses imposed by
monopoly"
And we pray him and our leaders
to tell us in common and comprehen-
sive language what they meant when
they said in the Denver platform:
"The Republican party has so
linked the country to Wall Street,
that the sins of the spectators are
visited upon the whole people. While
refusing to rescue the wealth pro-
ducers from spoilation at the hands
of stock gamblers and spectators in
farm products; it has deposited treas
ury funds without interest in favor
tie banks. shouting freedoms bat
tie cry it said again.
'The Democratic party is the
champion of equal rights and oppor-
tunit:es to all, listens to the voice
of the whole people and guages pro-
gress by the prosperity and achieve
ment of the average man
If the party now votes down the
Henry amendments, and passes the
Glass-Owens bill, it will have
spurned the prayer of sixty millions
of people who toll, and filled the lap
of luxury with additional millions,
making those sublime sentences a fla
grant fraud and the Democratic par
ty an "embezzler of power"
We cannot believe our party will
commit such wrong against the
people. We have faith in President
Wilson and most of our leaders, yet
newspaper reports give us great
alarm.
Henry's amendments ask no favor
itism or privilege; they seek to put
the farmer and wage Garner upon the