A Great Cry

We face today, as much as in 1892, the full national issues between democracy and republicanism. We elect the house - our lawmaking body - and in one-third the states elect legislatures which will have to choose senators. The issue before us is no more and no less than the control of the federal government. As the voter listens he hears a great cry. It is the voice of the G. O. P. from the sands of its Sahara, to which place it was exiled in 1892. It is a hoarse cry, for the poor thing is thirsty. For thirty years it was nourished on the wine of government control, and it finds the alkaline waters of its desert exile too parching for a throat so trained to elixir. In wheezing notes it urges upon the people its claims to a new grip upon the reins of government. It cries: "Return unto me, O ye people,. and I wilL.refurn unto you, ■ Lo, the burdens you have borne, I '. will ease. You are riiscontented. It is wel!, for we all know tbat the party to whom you gave the power did not find a way to relieve you at once frora the heavy burdens you were bearing (aside, winking the other eye, That we put upon you) and because they did not at once do this, and find a way to run the governrnent without revenue, return unto me, I, the well known G. O. P., will ease you. How, do you ask ? Ah, your present unskillful physician did not understand your need. For thirty years we have trained your brawney sinews to the toil of burden-bearing, and now they have so far relieved your condition that the reaction makes you discontented. Be not deceived by them - the dems. What you need is a greater burden, not a less. Come to us again, lie in our lap of government, Oh, Sampson, while we toy once more with your crown of strength and. yes, in a playful mood, even clip it from your head. We were wrong tothink words could hold you. Come while in love for you we test you yet again. (Aside, still winking the other eye, We'll blind their eyes and make them grind our milis forever, this time). Do not let the democracy farther loose the dogs'of war upon our crown princes, whose industrial ventures we have fathered and cared for "y bonuses until today no foreign aristocracy can compete with them in wealth and style. Ah, the precious pets, relies of good oíd feudal times, when we of more common mould were vassels and villians. Ah. To think those rascally dems. should come like vandals to destroy those dear creatures and to claim that this dear land could dare to hold up its head above if it had not these blessed millionaires. Oh believe them not my people! Surely you can see that the party which in thirty short years have so managed that twenty-five thousand, just think, only 23,000 people, own over one half the United States and their (65,000,000) sixty-five millions of dear friends do their back-door-yard work, and accept as their part a división of the other half. On this most equitable división, you have, each, in the appórtionment of wealth 1-2600 part of a dollar to one dollar for our pet millionaire. Of course you want the dear fellows to enjoy themselves and it is outrageous to have the dems to say you are not perfectly willing that he (pet millionaire) should have $2,600 to your $1. What a glorious record with which to surprise our aristocratie cousins across the sea, or upon which to claim a re-election to power. Surely you will recall us to government, so that we can care for these dear creatures of our love and hope. Just imagine into what a state these dems. would bring us. Why, even the common working man they claim is the one to protect. What folly! Where will be our proud aristocracy of wealth, if the working man is to be protected in the purchasing power of his wages, instead of putting protection where it will be a bonus to the capitalist and a tax upon the working man. Listen to us! Hear our cry! Your votes have enabled us to do this mighty work of placing the industrial hope of the country in the hands of a plutocracy who when they are threatened in any part of their sources of gain, make revolt and paralyze our whole industrial world. But surely surely we could not expect to have such a valuable aristocracy without some dangers. And then remember if you do not return us at once to power those dear pets will suffer, and you the wage earning, and produce raising voters will have the great annoyance of caring for a large amount of money now looked after by them. The great cry ceased and silence ell upon the desert. Voters can you afford to listen to his appeal ?