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PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTA
TION TRUE GOVERNMENT.
Hi »m* Who Have No Voice in BecUia
I ion. Whom* Opinion* Am Neither
Heard >«.r ........... miim Fe<-1 DUeon
lent l )!!• Majority Suffer* AI»o.
If proportional representation is not
made an issue in our state and national
campaign next year, it certainly ought
to he. Our present method of election
is the politicians' stronghold. Adopt
proportional representation and he is
routed; his power is gone and the curse
of party spirit is destroyed. If ours is a
representative government, the people
.vho constitute it muot he repiesentiu .
but they are not. If an expression of
choice could be given irrespecive of
party, more than four-fifths of the
voters would declare for the free coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and
yet silver has been denied free coinage,
although both the old parties profess
to be friends of the white metal. It is
the determined purpose of the govern
ment to maintain a gold standard.
The great body of the people desire
many reforms, but there is no way to
reach them by the present method of
nominating and electing candidates •
We call ours a popular representative
government. Every symbol of author¬
ity is professedly “From the people, by
the people.” But every election results
in the interests of the politicians and
Iho people's interests are ignored and
disregarded, ft is party control and not
people’s control. This is so obvious
that all but the purblind can see It.
Such a government is not a people’s
government; it is a government of the
people by the politicians for the pluto
rais. Any man who favors it is a
partisan slave, and any one who tol
erates, or Is indifferent to it ■ un
won by of being an American citizen.
David Dudley Field, an able jurist on
whose opinion most people rely in judi
cial matters, presents the subject un
der consideration as follows:
"Suppose a firm of twenty-five part
ners. In a conflict of opinion thirteen
may rightfully control the twelve. But
at the beginning of the year, suppose It
were arranged that the parties should
bo divided into five sections, five or the
partners in each. These sections would
correspond to five districts in our po
litical partnership. Each section is
now to select one to compose a manag
ing committee of five. This committee
would correspond to our legislature.
“Now who does not see that each one
of this managing committee might be
chosen by three of the five partners in
the section, and thus the whole five of
the committee would represent only fit
teen members of tho firm, ten,'or two
in each section, having voted against
them. But th|s is not the end. This
committee ot five representing only
three-flftha of the firm are now to legis
late for the company. In this legisia
tive body of five, three would he a ma
Jority, and they could dictate the whole
buslness.
"Finally, ns tho whole committee of
five represented only fifteen members, a
majority of said committee, or three,
would represent but three-fifths of (If
teen, or nine of the whole twenty-five
members. Would anything but discon
lent and dissension, before the end of
the year , come of such an arrangement?
What would happen In a private part
nershtp upon so faulty a system, does
happen, and must inevitably happen, in
a state where a like faulty system of
government is maintained.
“The government of a republican
country must represent the people or
the people will be dissatisfied. (Not if
they the'motto. are strictly partisans, and accept
'To the victors belong the
spoils.") Those who have no voice in
leglslation, whose opinions are not
heard or heeded, will be restive under
authorlty; and it Is not the minority
only who suffer; the majority suffer
also from having no proper check, and
when at last the scale turns revulsion is
violent and dangerous.
■•if th,. •inti heard" slavery minority could
have been bv ‘their represents
lives, from the beginning, increasing
their representatives as their strength
increased, , ' not , onlv ... they, ' but , , the pro
rrLrrcr .. , , „ . ,,
procured ,hr„„ B h Poa,„. u , lo«,.,.H.„.
at a cost in treasure to say no h.ng
the cost in blood of less than half the
expendlture of the war. —Paper read
before the American Social Science As
sociation at Lowell Institute, April 5,
1870.
“One of the most serious consequences
of existing methods of election is the
fear of throwing away your vote. Many
voters would be glad to support re¬
form, but seeing, or thinking, the re¬
form party has no chance to win, al¬
though it may contain several quotas, ;
they, having a prejudice against one or
other of the old parties, will cast their
votes in order to defeat it; whereas,
with proportional representation they
could throw their whole strength in the
support of their own choice.
"Could the principle of proportional
representation have been recognized
in the composition of the house of rep¬
resentatives twenty years ago, it would
have introduced into congress a large
number of northern democrats an,!
southern whigs, men out of favor at
home, but strong enough, both in num¬
bers and position, to check the violence
that led to the last civil war.”—Ameri¬
can Law Review for January, 1872; vol¬
ume 6. page 2S0.
Mr. Garfield said: “lu my judgment,
the existing electoral system is the
weak point in the theory of representa¬
tive government, as now organized and
administered, and that a large proper
Uon of the people are permanently dis
franchised. There are a.unit ten thou
sand democrats in my district, and they
hava been voting there for the last
forty years wltnout an >* more hope o£
joying a representative on this
than of having one in the commons of
Great Britain.”—Debate in Congress.
If the congressional lines in his state
had been erased, and proportional rep
resentation adopted there, 10,000 demo
crats would have been represented in
congress. They certainly had as much
right to representation as those voters
who elected Mr. Garfield.
If we view the facts as they exist, we
shall see that, a fundamental principle
of popular government, that Is, the gov
eminent shall derive its powers from
the consent of the governed, has been
nullified, defeated and set aside, and the
government virtually overthrown. In
consequence, this has been brought
nbout by a wrong ufi * of the ballot, by
w ,, Jch th( , people's will has been thwart
cd, and the weapon for the defense of
tdifir liberties lias been turned upon
them to enslave them.
Is it not time to wake np to this mat¬
ter? We have been lured away by our
zeal for party, by the false promises of
ambitious and designing politicians, by
false issues when thier real purpose:
have been concealed.
The sacred trust which has been be¬
queathed to us has not been guarded.
The liberty for which our fathers sacri¬
ficed so much of blood and treasure and
pledged their lives and fortunes to gain,
and transmitted to their children In all
confidence has not been preserved. With
the ballot in our hands we have every
means necessary to regain the lost
treasure and vindicate our honor as
American citizens. There is no alterna¬
tive but defeat or victory.—Industry,
Oakland, Calif.
WENDELL PHILLIP S’ VOICE.
i, H bor, tho Creator of Wealth. Kntltled
to AU u create*,
Tho man wh wlth hiH han ds, digs
c , amg of the 8eashoro or , climbing
a ther8 apple8( or one who faB h
a bo „ out ()f hard wood , is a pure,
B , , fi , aborer an(i ia entitled to what
h0 get8 or niake8 . The man who makes
8Uch a hoe one dayi and working with it
tho next day> dlg8 twi( . e as man y clams
UH when Uo used hla hands alone, is
capita ii 8t and laborer united. He
works a , oo) wblch lB capital, the re¬
8Ult of paat labor . He l00 is an honest
laborer and entitled to all he gets. A
man who works a week and makes ten
BUch boeB> tben join8 nine less skilled
mon with himself, and they, the ten,
stiaro fairly the product of his hoes
and their toil, introduces co-operation
and a just civilization; a system which
to hold within Itself every possi
ble safeguard against misuse and to be
full of the seeds of all good results,
The man who, having made such a hoe,
] (d8 it to another less skilled man to
dig clams, receiving an equivalent for
its use, is a capitalist. Such a system
has no inherent, essential injustice in
it, and, if it can be properly arranged
and guarded, serves civilization. The
difficulty is to guard it from degenerat
ing into despotism and fraud, Tho
man who, getting possession of a thou
sand such hoes, sits with idle hands,
and uo mental effort but selfish cun
ning, and arranges a cunning network
of laws and corporations, banks and
currency, interest and "corners” to get
seven out of every ten clams that are
dug, Is a drone. We mean by an honest
system to starve him out and compel
him to work. The man who sits in
Wall street, and by means of bank
credit, buys up all last year’s claims to
raise Hie price—who, taking fifty thou
sand honestly earned dollars, makes a
( ! am Digging Company bribes
newspapers to lie about it—creates ten
banks and locks up gold, or arranges a
corner to depress its stocks then buys
"P every share, makes ten more banks
and floods the land with paper and sells
t,u F retiring after a week of such labot
with a fortune, Is a thief. Such thieves
ot thl ’ P :l »t we propose to leave undis
turbed - 0ur plau is l ° niake such
thicvos imposBible to the , future
WE NDELL 1 IlI LLll fr.
TWO HUNDRED millions.
No , ,, :iimiKh «oi,i a.,.. unity to
0ur Interrst to KlI ’ „„, na
h |f ^Imate of a $250,000,000 gold
outpu five years hence the director of
tl yield ' 0 '" ,n will , s probably V. reach ^ nearly * 'Una $200
* 000,000, , ami *, the .. recent . gains , , have not
•» «r, a w - "
%*££?£ " ST^
Uons w , n nQt be desperate enough to
panlc8 hereafter/’-Globe-Demo-
1
O, yes; the scramble for gold among
the nations will stop—when the milleu
nlum comes, The boasted millions of
gold produced last year will not be
sufficient to pay the regular annual in¬
terest tribute to English bond holders
and stock holders.
What does $200,000,000 of gold
amount to in this country where the
people have to pay interest on $35,000,
000.000 indebtedness? Two hundred
million dollars would only pay a little
over half the interest for one year at
one per cent—and everybody who bor
rows or loans money knows that the
nite will average five times one per cent
on all the public and private indebted
ness of the country.
The paltry $200,000,000 of gold would
not pay ‘ one-eighth part of the interest
on our debts for a single year.
Two hundred , , , million .... dollars ... , looks , .. big
on paper—but when it is spread over
the surface of the entire United States
of America it become just an attenuated
invisible vapor.
It would require all the gold money
on earth . and , that v . of eleven more worlds
of equal circulation per capita to pay
the total debts of the American people
alone.
President Cleveland’s friendship for
monarchy is plainly revealed by his
trying to seat a cannibal queen and re¬
fusing to recognize the Cubans who are
struggling to establish a renublic.
A NSW ACQUISITION.
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Western Banker.—The decline in the loaned millions. The property worm & Co again open the mints to free coin
price of silver, wheat and other pro- $1,000,000 in 1873 has gradually declined age of gold and silver as it existed prior
ducts since 1873 has been followed by with silver until it is now worth only to 1873. Western bankers can no long
a decline in the value of the securities $600,000. The only way to restore the er afford to bolster up this pro-British
(farms generally) on which v;e have value of property and prices of products policy in this country.
COM ES FROM THE FA KM
MORE INTEGRITY AMONG TILL¬
ERS OF THE SOIL.
Agriculture In the Bail, of K ' ry thing
•—And to Legislate Again s the
Farmer la to Weaken the Foundation
of Government and Society.
Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, of Atlanta,
preached a sermon to the National
Farmers’ Congress during its session in
‘“Text!’Phillipians li-vi 5: 'Look not
every man on his own things, hut every
man also on the things of others Let
this mind be in you which was also in
Christ Jesus.’
“Agriculture is ,ano ever will be, the
basis of ail other material interests,
To foster this industry is to befriend
every other industry, and to cri&Dle it
is to impair every activity whOcon- u
Tho": . °could t t,U .»i P
possibly five **
nee
f , nts or ' ■
manufacturers, „ mci a I
’
or physicians, or lawyersk « i ve ••i.
out politicians but withoui _the thn#r
1
solute essoniL i s fnr evervnuman ' 7
being is ireai and ‘‘j * 1 of
, ;
that is t o voca ion o e • „ To
11 WEAKEN ii_ ie. r VI’IJV > V FOUND - V-
1 1
of every lawful and useful indusiry.
“Nine-tenths of the men who have
risen to enviable distinction were born
and reared outside of the cltiee. The
majority of them were born in farm
houses and had some actual experience
in cultivating the soli. Look into the
catalogues of our American colleges
and you will find nine-tenths of the
medalists and first honor graduates
were from the country and courtry vil
lages. Without the new blood (hat Is
constantly coming in from the country
in less than fifty years the cities would
be
INTELLECTUALLY IMPOVER-
1SHED.
Without a constant infusion o nun
and women from country ihti.c es ic
llgi ° n %vo l ' ld degenerate into : e cat
**' formalism , Let agriculture flourish
country school houses multiply and
country churches continue to oe true to
the faith and worship of our country
fathers and mothers and our
NATION WILL BE SAFE. PROSPER¬
OUS AND HAPPY.
-•* * •*««« -r otc r;
“ “ “ ““ ^
sented in the text—‘An unselfish and
self-denying concern for the welfare of
our fellow-man, the only solvent of our
social problems.’
“Society will never get rid of its
discord and strifes and en:er upon a
u'ntil nf ahidinsr Deace anc DrosDerity
It is permeated by U* spirit and
controlled by the principle Expressed in
rhis nassaee As commonUes and na
tioas dr if t a way from ths great law
nf benevolence which Christ taught and
iSSedVthSr illustrated in all He said And did and
depravity increases and
JJ their 80C i a i contacts amt calamities
ultiply . Any legislation that contra
V enes greaTseTmon the law of Christ contained in
Hm on the Mount will be
prolific of
NOTHING BUT SOCIAL EVIL
“We speak bpeaa the cue worts «rua of ui troth uulu and auu
soberness when we say that :he power
which propels the wheels of our pres
en t civilization is not love, but greed. c
P 0 ''tlcs and commerce there is
premium on shrewdness and deception,
Unswerving honesty and true Christian
generosity are sneered at as virtues too
sublimated and ethereal to be practiced
by creatures who wear earth about
them, and who have to grapple with
h prosaic questions ’What shall ...
5Uc as
j what shall I drink, and where
w - ltha i shall I be clothed?’
“A civilization that is based solely
upon self-interest, and that magnifies
\nd rewards men who
SUCCEED BY THEIR SUPERIOR
CUNNING.
aas no power withing itself to secure
justice. There is nothing that needs
saving so much as a civilization that is
guided by no great ethical principle,
and that marches on without any re¬
gard for God and his righteousness.
The country that boasts of such a civili¬
zation is on the high road to anarchy,
nihilism and barbarism.
“Civilization is not a cause, but an
effect. It is the product of human char¬
acter. It expresses the good and evil
in the hearts of the people who sup
Port it. Any government is just what
the people make it. If a state or mum
cipal government legalizes or tolerates
such an iniquity as a bull fight or a
gambling house, or a bar room or an
indecent theatrical exhibition, it is he
PEOPLE ARE nuDOAmrn DEPRAVED fwnTTAtr ENOUGH
to de sire itr
“The t , fountain . of any civilization . iS
m the chaiacter ot the people If the
civ.l.zat.on is corrupt, It a because
corruption reigns in the hearts o the
people. Tfi.s being true civ.hzat on
can V 1 cleansed only by cleansing the
lAia'asTh38eoiUiI-riaYc ^ off^fiUe -at
moral sensibility and a feeble appreteia
of t he distinctions which God
between rigbt and wrong, there
will be
CLASS LEGISLATION, DESPOTIC
MONOPOLIES,
political rings, bribery and ballot-box
Stuffing. A righteous civilization can
be secured and maintained only by a
people who love and practice righteous
ness. We are like those foolish Gala
tians, whom Paul describes as ‘be
witched.’ We have been ‘bewitched’
by false teachers.
“What, then, is our hope? How can
society be redeemed? How can our
civilization be transformed? How can
the state be so reconstructed as to fur
nish adequate protection to its subjects
and to all of their legitimate interests?
Our answer to each of these questions
is: ‘By substituting for the law of self
interest which now dominates our so
cial life the law of love—the law of
self-sacrifice—the law which Christ il
lustrated when he became poor that we,
through His poverty, might be rich—
the law which makes each man
HIS BROTHER’S KEEPER
and requires us to bear one another’s
burdens.
“Is it your purpose to be useful to
your fellow men? If that is not your
purpose, and your supreme purpose,
you have no claim upon the respect of
mankind. If you intend to be a disci
pie of Cain and repudiate all obliga
tion to care for your brother man, you
deserve to be treated as Cain was—
BRANDED AS AN OUTLAW.
If you will not be your brother's keeper
and burden-bearer, you are his enemy,
You will seize every opportunity to de
fraud, oppress and degrade him. The
spirit that controls you will make you
A MONOPOLIST OR A GAMBLER.
or a bank robber, or an anarchist, or a
nihilist.
“But if your purpose is to he useful—
useful not only to yourself and your
family, but to the whole world- your
lif e must be a sacrificial life. You must
look out over the wide world and rec
ognize every man in it as your neigh
bor, and feel your obligation to help
bim as far as God gives you the ability
and opportunity. To serve your day
and generation according to the will of
G°d and make an enduring contribu
tion to
THE WELFARE OF THE RACE.
you must make an obligation of your
possessions and of yourself.
i! l,?alna . .
'oc-nons .. ..o
claim to be Christians heartily accept
this doctrine and conform their lives
to it, we shall see Christianity grow as
it has never grown. We shall see so
ciety quickly cleansed of its present
pollutions. W'e shall see the state
purged of all injustice and favoritism
We shall see
STRIFES BETWEEN LABOR AND
CAPITAL CEASE,
and throughout aU our borders a reign
af righteousness, contentment and pros
perity.
“To reddem society —to remove it
from its present basis of selfishness
and plant it on the foundation of the
golden rule of the gospel will require
heroic courage, great sacrifice and mar¬
tyr-like endurance on the part of men
in every calling. In putting your busi¬
ness on the basis of the golden rule
you would
SUFFER GREAT LOSSES
for a time. You could scarcely compete
with men of selfish and fraudulent
methods. Bankruptcy might overtake
you. But in making the sacrifice you
would have the fellowship of Christ.
You would manifest His spirit, magnify
His truth and grace, and extend the
conquests of His kingdom. This would
compensate you a thousand times for
your material losses.
“I am confident that among the men
who till the soil of this country there is
MORE INCORRUPTIBLE INTEG¬
RITY
than can be found in any other element
of our population. For more than two
thirds of a century agriculturalists
dominated the government and social
life of this nation. It is now dominated
b>. monopol ists, money lenders and
that the changf has been
PROLIFIC OF ANYTHING BUT
GOOD,
either to the material or moral interests
of the masses of our people. It requires
no prophetic gift to see that a return
of the agricultural classes to power
would result in a revival of that vir
tuous simplicity and uncompromising
integrity which characterized the
American people in the
BETTER DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC,
“Gentlemen of the Farmers’ National
Congress, if you are fighting for the en
thronement of truth, purity, fair deal
ing and Christ-like charity in the gov
ernment and social life of your country,
and are determined to be loyal to your
convictions, even to the last extremity,
you are knights of a nobler chivalry
than ever
UNFURLED A FLAG OR UN
SHEATHED A SWORD
on any of the world’s historic battle
fields, and for each of you invisible
fingers are weaving an imperishable
chaplet.”
Olney and the Railroad*,
Olney, the railroad and trust attor
ney, whose salary in these positions ex
ceeds his salary as attorney general in
the president’s cabinet, has permitted
the Central Pacific railroad to turn a
large portion of its $6,000,000 of a sink
ing fund to the payment of interest, in
violation of the Thurman, act, which
authorized the formation of a sinking
fund to be 25 per cent of the net earn
ings of the road-this sum to be cov
ered in the United States treasury for
the liquidation of the principal of the
railroad’s debt, the bond aided roads
having pledged themselves to pay the
interest upon the debt to the govern
ment outside of this fund It will be
^half of thlTpeopie'aTagalnsi
the the railroad'killed railroad., Killed him him politically politically, but out
endeared him to the people. ns m
famous tool of trusts and corporations
ua n teJ t0 state o gotem ent P o
ceenings against the railroads which
should laie een nougriL many yu
a S° and whlch have been begun
u P° n 1 eir 11 ceut ai llle 0 pa> ‘; ® la ‘
tere « due th , « ^rnment. had they
no t had f n ^tarney m the presidents
® , ' met 0 00 a ’ tel tneir la i t e=LS
- -
Th ® raliroads , of p the ^ntry are m open
violation of every measure intendea in
\ S «, ettle with
; T - tn
do , it just , . by retaining ’ . . ‘ such ', consum
mate rasca ls as Atorney General Olney.
_ p ^ u . Advocate.
Alu>rhpr Fectl!i3r CJock .
The most peculiar clock in the world
is that in a tower in the court yard of
the palace of Versailles. Upon
. b of a kl in anv por tion of Eu
* be ban d is set at the moment of
and remains in that posi
t j oa until another king passes away.
This curious custom is said to have or
iginated ^ t he time of Louis XIII.
The old parties are getting together,
Reformers must unite.
A VOICE OF WAS NINO.
AN ENCLISH WRITER MAKES
SOME OBSERVATIONS.
And Chief Justice Brown Says that
Bribery and Corruption Are So Gen¬
eral as to Threaten the Very Structure
of Society.
Wealth Maters: “I have watched th«
rapid evolution of social democracy
in England; I have studied autocracy
in Russia and theocracy in Rome; and
I must say that nowhere, not even in
Russia, in the first year of the reaction
occasioned by the murder of the czar,
have I struck more abject submission
to a more soulless despotism than that
which prevails among the so-called
free American citizens when they are
face to face with the omnipotent power
of the corporations.”
These are the words of an English
writer who has recently made a study
of our municipal institutions. And As¬
sociate Justice Brown of the United
States Supreme Court, commenting on
the above, says:
“Granting this to be overdrawn—for
I am unwilling to believe that corpora¬
tions are solely responsible for munici¬
pal misgovernment—the fact remains
that bribery and corruption are so gen¬
eral as to threaten the very structure
of society.”
Justice Brown in his article in the
August Forum, from which the above
extracts are taken, says, by way of ex¬
planation of municipal corruption,
that:
“The activities of urban life are sc
intense, the pursuit of wealth or
pleasure so absorbing, as upon the one
hand to breed an indifference to pub¬
lic affairs; while upon the other, the
expenditures are so large, the value
of the franchises at the disposal of the
cities so great, and the opportunities
for illicit gain so manifold, that the mu¬
nicipal legislators, whose standard of
honesty is rarely higher than the av¬
erage of those who elect them, fall an
easy prey to the designing and unscru¬
pulous. Franchises which ought to net
the treasury a large sum are bartered
away for a song; privileges which
ought to be freely granted in the in¬
terest of the public are withheld till
those who are supposed to be most
immediately benefited will consent to
pay for them; gross favoritism is
shown in the assessment of property
for taxation; great corporations are
permitted to encumber the streets and
endanger the lives of citizens, while
every form of vice which can be made
is secretly tolerated.”
Speaking of corporations in general,
Justice Brown referred to the fact that
“they have a practical monopoly ot
land transportation, of mining, manu¬
facturing, banking, and insurance."
“The ease with which charters are se¬
cured has produced great abuses.” The
advantage advantage i4atf4?lh:u'& the^ofiTi thejf"efier of limited liabil
••.jRfc-pa*»*« paArto is t<j
avoid paying their obligations, to cflish crush
out rivals; charters are secured in 6ne
state to do business in another or oth
ers, so as tb bring litigation into Fed
eral courts. The eminent writer de
scribes the gross frauds of railroad con
struction companies and the “wreck
ing” process, and the vast profit, or
rather plunder, thus got under cover oi
law.
Speaking of the trusts he said:
“Worse than this, however, is the
combination of corporations in so-called
trusts to limit production, stifle compe¬
tition, and monopolize the necessities
of life. The extent to which this has
already been carried is alarming, the
extent to which it may hereafter be
carried is revolutionary. Indeed, the
evils of aggregated wealth are nowhere
seen in more odious form. If no stu¬
dent can light his lamp without paying
tribute to one company, if no house¬
keeper can buy a pound of meat or
sugar without swelling the receipts of
two or three trusts, what is to prevent
the entire productive industry of the
country becoming ultimately absorbed
by a hundred gigantic corporations? If
a railway company originally organized
to build 100 miles of road has by fifty
years of consolidations and leases be
come the undisputed master of 10,000
mUeg of lranspor tation, what is to pre¬
ven( . jt - n anotber fift y years from mo
nODO ijj>i n g half the traffic of a conti
nen f?”
when a man sitting on the supreme
benc h of the United States thus writes
peo pi e should be aroused to act.
; Delays are dangerous. But what can
. done w itli the great corporations,
monopo ;i e s and trusts? The process of
. conso ii da tion and the development of
j s a forward movement in the
j; ne j abor saving, of economic serv
ice It cannot be checked, but monopo
HeS sh0Uld b6 forced t0 P ay
the government, and they 6 ®
bought up by the government as fast
as by complete consolidation and single
organization they destroy competition,
So rap i d j y are monopolies absorbing
ihe wealth and resources of the people
and grasping all power that prompt
and radical measures are our only sal
vation. The danger at present is that
monopo iistic control of political parties
and the press will keep the people ig¬
norant of the danger-and particanly
prejudiced until violence and anarchy
w ill follow.
_
The trusts, the banks and every cor
that .. . has grown rich . , under , the ..
! porauon
shadow of special legislation passed by
the representatives ^. of the two old par
: „ a e fi g btin g the People's party
lh ls is the best evidence that the Peo
. pie’s party is the only one that is an
j inveterate enemy to monopoly.
No doubt Secretary Carlisle tells the
truth when he says that “the silver
men will fail to control the coming na
ticnal convention of either the Demo¬
cratic or Republican party.” Too true#
The Democrats are to be congratu
lated on losing Brice and Gorman—but
the country gains nothing.
