The advocate and Topeka tribune. [volume], November 23, 1892, Page 7, Image 7

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EETOM OB BEVOLUTIOif .
It ia amusing but not very satisfying
to read in our exchange the varioui rea
sons assigned for the signal defeat of the
republicans at the polls. Some say it
was the tariff, some charge it to the for
eign vote, some say it was the pension
question, and so on and eo forth by the
column and by the yard. There is some
. force in all the alleged reasons, including
the one that the nomination of Mr.
Whitelaw Reid was - a serious mistake,
and that the unfortunate attitude of the
administration toward Mr. Blaine went a
long way toward giving the party a chill.
There is force in all these reasons and
all of them had great effect upon the re
sult. This was especially true in the
central and eastern states. In the west,
in the Missouri valley and west to the
Pacific, the silver question cut a large
figure.
But there is one cause for the great po
litical revolution greater than all others
combined. It was not personal dislike of
President Harrison; it was not any
charge against his administration of pub
lio affairs, for that has been perfectly
clean. It was not the tariff, for in the
region of "protected" industries the re
publicans are confronted by the most
significant losses. It was not the Alli
ance movement altogether, for, in Iowa,
republicans regained the state; they
largely increased their vote in Nebraska
over 1890; and in Kansas they nearly
overcame the G3,000 opposition majority
of two years ago. But there has been a
large and general aggregate 'oea to the
republicans from the relative vote of
1883. It was a combination of dissatis
faction rounded up in one real cause
distrust of the professions of the repub
licans. That distrust had become deep-seated
and general. There was reason for it,
too. The party of Abraham Lincoln had
become the party of the Platts, Quays
and Depews. Its promises have been
trifled with in the house of its friends.
It promised a revision of the tariff and
made the revision odious to both pro
ducer and consumer by making new in
dustries its particular pets. It wax so
framed as to leave it open to the suspi
cion that its real heart was more1 in the
interest of capital than of labor. Mr.
Blaine saw the error and sought to nul
lify it by reciprocity features. We be
lieve that America has bean vastly
benefited by the doctrine of protection,
but the doctrine of protection for the
sake of protection was not the doctrine of
the republican party of Lincoln, Grant
or Garfield. Under existing conditions
there has grown up in the United States
a state of affairs akin to those in Eng
land. There are the very rich, the mid
dle classes and the very poor.
Something is the matter. The people
know that sure enough and appreciate it
strongly. The great bulk of the owners
of three-fourths of all the wealth on this
continent live north of the Potomac and
east of the Apalachian range. It is not
the result of tneir superior thrift, knowl
edge, pluck, age or geographical position.
They are loaoers of money and merchan
dise. The balance of the United States
are borrowers of money and merchan
dise. Ninety per cent of all the interest
paid by the borrowers of this country
goes to New England, New York and
Pennsylvania. They control the money
market in all the south and all the west.
Four years ago the republicans promised
to attempt to remedy these conditions.
Two yaara ago the democrats promised
free coinage of silver. Wall street raised
the cry "that it is for the benefit of the
silver regions of the west," It was
The advocate! of the gold standard
own and control this country to-day
And that, too, in faoe of the declaration
of all parties for bi-metalism. Democrats
never desert their party on account of its
broken promises. If they did, there
would be no democratic party to-day.
Republicans are independent and leave
in herds when they distrust the policy or
leaders of their party. The result shows
that.
Reform or revolution! Which ehall it
be? There has never been a time in the
history of the world when so many peo
ple were giving patient, thoughtful study
to financial questions as at the present
moment. Something is vitally wrong
and the people know it. The people
know they are sick. They think they
know what ails them. They are seeking
the remedy. Affairs are rapidly assum
ing a condition when it will be the strug
gle between organized capital and organ
ized citizens. Trusts and combines
govern the country. They elect con
gress, make and unmake laws, are
intrenched in courts and dictate party
platforms. The struggle is bound to
come. Resolutions cannot prevent it
Party promises cannot stay its course.
There must be prompt absolute reform
in financial affairs or a revolution in par
ties. The people know that a policy
which makes combines rich and individ
uals poor is radically wrong. Dollars
combine to double their value. The peo
ple are combining to save their own. The
issue is here. It must be met To at
tempt to evade it is abject folly. To re
fuse to listen to its demands is to invite
disaster. To make the fight in the inter
est of the organized capital against the
organized citizens means revolution! To
say that the ground-swell is all caused
by demagogues and shysters is to imitate
the imbecility of George the Third, who
regarded Washington as u rebel, Han
cook as a demagogue and Patrick Henry
as a political adventurer. There are
many grains of golden truth hidden in
the trainloads of buncombe offered by
the Populist movement To disregard
those truths is both unwise and unpatri
otic, and swings wide open the gateway
to chaos.
When the Armours can fix the price of
every hog and steer grown on Kansas
prairies, it is time to demand a halt.
When the banks of Boston and New York
can in one hour close every bank in
twenty-five states and cause the loss of
hard-earned millions in the interior cities
and towns, is it any wonder there was
general distrust? When a ring of soul
less grain gamblers in Chicago and New
York can dictate the price of the cereals
of all the west, and a United States sena
tor can touch a button and raise the
price of coal oil 50 per cent; when the
coal kings in Pennsylvania can say
whether yon shall pay 18 or $12 a ton
for anthracite, is it any wonder there is a
revolution? And the tariff had nothing
to do with it.
The real wonder is that the democratic
partythe party of persistent obstruc
tion, the party of constant and continued
political retrogressions, should receive
the benefit of the awakening. This is a
great country with varied interests and
needs. The question of labor and capital
confronts us. It is grave and potential.
It brooks no delay. It blames the party
in power for existing conditions. Had
Mr. Cleveland been elected in 18S8 his
defeat this year would have been as de
cisive as that of Mr. Harrison. Majorities
rule. The voice of the majority must
not be ignored. Its reasonable demands
must be met, or the revolution at the
ballot box may become the outpost of a
revolution trying to its utmost tension
the'power'of the) oonstitation,, itaelf.
Atchwm Champion.
lire m
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Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard.
To the Bepublican Booster.
Poor thing! But yesterday, as it were,
nations trembled at thy voice. When
with clarion notes thou didst proclaim
liberty to the slave, the whole world re
joiced and sang anthems of praise;
crowned monarchs, baring their heads,
extended to thee the friendly hand and
pledged eternal friendship. Then, in
deed, thou wert a proud and happy bird.
But, now alas! in the language of Maro
Antony, ''None will stoop to do thee rev
erence." Ah yes, dear bird, I will mourn
for thee. I will weep over thy grave.
Thy sainted memory shall be entwined
about my heart and I will remember
with sorrow and regret how many heavy,
heavy burdens were heaped upon thee
until their very weight was more than
thoucould'st bear. The gold-bugs of
Wall street, the great railroad corpora
tions, monopolies and trusts, and even
prohibition in the once fair-famed Kan
sas, all climbed upon thee and brought
thee down. Hadst thou been left untram
meled free to exercise thine own gen
erous will, thou would'st long since have
extended the hand of friendship to the
fallen foe, bound up his wounds, and by
gentle acts of mercy and brotherly love,
restored his house to order; and feeling
the power and majesty of thy might, he
too would now have been kneeling at thy
shrine. But, 10! The bloody garment
must be waved until a little band of
thine own faithful soldiers at Wichita,
Kansas, proclaimed to the world that
the civil war was over, and defiant of the
party lash, extended to the vanquished
the "olive branch of peace." Oh, proud
and noble bird, whilst seeing (he shadow
of thy downfall upon the wall, thou didat
weep great tears of joy over that sainted
band of faithful followers who, amid the
carnage of war and desolation, formed in
solid phalanx around thy chariot of gold
and upheld the flag of our nation, and
there proclaimed peace and good will to
all they, too, will plant a sprig of acassia
at thy grave, and water it with tears of
love. Rest in peace, thou noble bird.
D.P.E.
A Postmaster's Wail.
THREE DATS OUT.
Three suns have set since we eet sail.
The night isdsrk; no star illumines the
heavens. Clouds o'ercast the skies, and,
oh, the chilliness of these winds from the
shore. When we embarked a few stars
were still shining, many of the northern
luminaries still cast an evanescent glow
in their orbits. True it was that one by
one the wavering ones had gone out, and
with the departure of each, more raw be
came the breeze; louder and harsher
seemed the cries of the elated opposition
as the returns rolled up the majority for
the Prophet Nevertheless, after we set
sail, 'twas indeed comforting to gaze upon
the bright spots still left sod rejoice at
their steadfastness. But alas I the dark
ness has increased. One by one even
these stars have gone out, and the shouts
which are borne to our ears tell us that
they are now shining in another political
camp. New York, Indiana, Connecticut,
Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Colorado
what! and thou, too, Kansas? Tell m
i no more. Our ears are cold, our censci
numbed. The barren outlines of the
rocky shore seem still more indistinct,
and the washing of the alkali waters cf
this salty sea dies in murmurs. Til of
no use to ruminate on our woes; to sleep,
to quiet sleep. We wrap our shroud
around our form, and lie us down to
dream dream while the bitter water
lasn the sides of our craft and tha chill
ing wind whistles through the rigjirg;
dream of the end of our voyage, of ths
golden sun of promise which we look
for to rise in W. Sterling Gazette.
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United States district court grand jury
in session in this city to-day found a bill
of indictment against T. C M&lloy,
cashier of the Cherry vale national bank,
charging him with perjury inswearirg
to a false statement of the bank's condt
tion. The bank failed and the deposit
ors lost heavily. Malloy is under $3,000
bond to appear for trial in May.
President Webb, of the same bank,
who is also under arrest charged with
appropriating f 1,000 of the bank's fund
to his personal account, has been bound
over to the United States court ia the
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