Evening star., 1938-01-09

ciates resorted to printing simple leaf
lets and pamphlets.
The handful OF printers and editors
who helped them were harried and
arrested with the full approval of the
great papers and magazines of the day.
This was the first effort, with the CO.
operation Of the owners of the press,
to curb the essential freedom of the
press. 1t failed just as any similar
effort would fail today
Jackson's and Jefferson's
Foes Were the Same.
Time went by. Men were not
eternally vigilant and once more the
control OF national affairs was ma
neuvered into the hands of a group
OF citizens small in number. The Gov
ernment's face was turned toward the
handful of citizens of the seaboard
who owned the Bank of the United
States and the great merchant and
shipping companies. The Governments
back was turned on the tens of thou
sands Of pioneers who were settling
the mountain regions and spreading
over into the new country that lay
westward to the Mississippi.
Jackson took up the battle of these
pioneers of the West and South and
the battle of the inarticulate Door of
the great cities. For that, like Jeffer-
son, he was called a rabble rouser.
He had to fight the same evil JET
ferson fought-the control of Gov
eminent by small minority, instead
OF by popular opinion. duly needed
by the Congress, the courts and the
President.
The Bank of the United States was
the purse and sword of the opposi-
ton, and with it were aligned all those
who like the early Federalists in JET
ferson's day were at heart in favor
of control by the few.
Only Three Newspapers
Not Aligned With Bank.
With it were aligned all Of the ma
tlonally known press of the day, with
the exception of three newspapers.
The bank sought to array all the
money in the country against him.
No one who reads the history of
their period can allege that either
Jefferson or Jackson attacked all of
the bankers, all of the merchants or
all Of those of wealth. Nor can any,
one say that even a majority of these
elements in the population were op-
posed to either one of them.
The fight was won-as all such
fights are won in the long run-be-
cause Jackson was fighting on the side
OF people, whose instincts did not fail
him. He was fighting for the integrity
OF the morals OF democracy.
Another generation went by. Lin
coin emerged-and was scorned for
his uncouthness. his simplicity. his
homely stories and his solicitude for
the little man. He faced opposition
far behind his battle lines from those
who thought first and last of their
own selfish aims-by gold spectators
in Wall Street, who cheered defeats
Of their own armies because the price
VI tieiI solu HlSnG rise, Dy army
contractors who founded fortunes at
the expense of the boys at the 'front.'
q minority unwilling to support their
people and their Government unless
the Government would leave them free
to pursue their private gains.
Lincoln, Too. Fought
For Morals Of Democracy.
He. too, fought for the morals Of
democracy-and had he lived the
South would have been allowed to re-
habilitate itself on the basis of those
morals, instead of being reconstruct
ed by martial law and carpetbaggers.
There followed an uninspired COM
mercialized era in our national life,