No "classes" In Republican America

When wi ■ eaáers an I d n ■s ee iü th.eir talk "clae i ; i i i l v. here everj aal 'ba v? ":,,,;; ... the jie itest d imes thu lias known, and wli '. h 1 n 1 the l ightesi luster to Americap history al'e the n:ini'.-s oí men i laa i carne up f oí i poverty ito greatnéss, aehieving honor and fame throuLh their own persistent effoite .n.l the natlve grandeur of their charactsr. Go away back to the beginning oi 'ihe history ol the Dnited Stal ■ .-11111 you will find the molding hand and the wise br'aln 0 , ii hohesl wo kingman. At 1 outset yon will find ttogèr Sherman, the ghoemaker, Judge 011 the Supreine Oourt beneh, and a franier of the Conetitutlon oi the ün.tcd Statea And in our own day there is Kneo n, the rall-splltter and the dweller in a log cabin, a student ly the light o. liii" knots, rising stap by step bj ■ of ■'■■ inherent courage and uo-ih to be the head o' a great nai Qoble 1 ader and an immor'taJ martyr. Grant, the tanner, coming up to maislial the inightlest armies the world ever, sa . % the spe ■ lionor 0 1 i civil woild, and ieav.n r a )i une that .- h i ■ . ■ a in long as lib rty e - 1:11-, ' 1 ' t coriii 1 ou ii 1 ,i 11 s hei . Gai-liel . eiooted ca lal boy, and, . the sesond mi dtnt' o t 1 n ; Ii . na me I hat 1 r D o; nisi end o i me 1 : :. . k ■., . the app entice 1 y t:ie ... ; e -U-j fin iigin . ui ikin ; hi . upwa il. 'i-'ni ing povI ob. 1 n . ;■ i e-p esidenl o thj v.o ld's 1 rea I esl r, public. With instauces i ks thtse be o e us, how can the t iug American ciTiztn harp continualiy o; "classes,1 oi labor and capital, as iï !y Boinë mig-Iily chain he was lul,! withiia cer: bain tanks, without the power to rise? I il,-'.: rank a man belon he is or may be, rests wlio ly with himself to determine. That pove existe in this ceuntry Is no fault oí our i Ii ystem. 1 arises wholly (10111 abuses that liare crept iv., and which there should be virtue enough in the people to remedy. J'.ve-y man, if he respecta him Ltuation is not all that sires, sel about, by the ioi-.-e of liis own Avill to remedy it, instead o; II ly yielding to despair and dsclari! ■ tha1 or him there is no hope in the .uure. Above all lie wil! npt be l lind to the fa -t that as he votes s i he must iep. I lie votes for a party whose policy is -wholly destruetlve iu character, lm w eau he complain ii tliu nation's industries languish and the whols people Bu'fer thereby? It is not an abstract something's fault whicli we cali the government, but it is tlie people's fault, for the people a re I ae govej mnent, and it cannot exis; independent oi tiiem. It will be our iinJoinj; ii we forget this, if, instead of the individual, we regard oniy 1 1 s.rs. and drii'1 away í:ou the oíd idea that every man is the sovereiii'n citiz 'ii. a unit oï the government ,ud a maker oí its la ws. Xhe class idea is !o:n oí foreign despotisnis. an l is bitmght liere by jgnor1 n and lawless aliens who have come ,'ii ! who a :-i' busy in fomenting' discord. Shall we accept this idea andgiveit place amona: us '! Rather, looking at the history óf our past, at t he gi 11 nesa which e ime oï 1 he humblest-born sons oí ibhe republic have achieved shall we nor take courage, nnd iei'l that any honorable occupaion becomes t'ie man who is hono - able, and is axnbltlous to do liis whole duty, and fchat fiom it a door may ■ ipen to the h'ghes t places in the land. Perhaps some o' the popul's.ic apos tles licie ilxiuts can exp-Jain why it was that every populist in the House of Reprea ntatlve3 voted for.the Nontleseüpt tariff bill with free wool and taxed svtgar provi ions ? The statement that President Cleveland left Washington because théiie was so much crow abouf neèds nö con i mat ion. ''Party peifiily,'" and "party dishonor'1 were hard to swnllow, bul they went down. Poor Tariff BUI ! Sush i roieerable tlilni that no one will o-.vn its parentajge ! Why hot eompel Havemeyer, ilu sugar trust kingj to own own offsprittg ? Surely lie will not denjr the amour that brought the thlng into exletence ? Now watch tho incomes shrink. The income tas clause of the new democratie tarifl' covers all the incomes of $4,000 m upwards of thls year, and must be paid on Dec. 31. Evidently the democratie "statesmen" don't propose to let any grass grow ander thelr feet in raising a revenue by direct rbaxation. Probably the incomé fellows will teil the dems. how they like it at the fall elections.