In the hearts of the rank and file Socialists, are burning the same fierce fires as animated the Goths and the Huns when they bore down upon opulent Rome.
I have heard these people talk and I know what it is they really mean.
The Democratic Party, at present, hasn’t got any principles capable of proof.
They are waiting for the next National Convention to hand out a new suit of clothes.
They are awful sick and tired of that Parker platform, which is almost the same as the Republican platform—as poor old Gassaway Davis said.
But they cannot “point with pride” to any other platform until the National Convention meets. Just what will then be done, it would take an able-bodied prophet to tell. My own opinion is that they will adopt the leading principles of Populism and put Bryan to running for the Presidency again.
The Republican Party is doing just what Alexander Hamilton thought ought to be done—running the Government in partnership with the rich, for the benefit of the rich.
The Republican rule is a Plutocracy, tempered by an occasional spasm of Rooseveltism.
(2) No. Because I do not believe in Special Privilege, nor in the confiscation of $134,000,000 of money that belongs to the taxpayers. To take away the people’s money on the pretext that the Government needs it to pay expenses, and then to deliver it over to a few Pet Banks to be used without interest, is Confiscation. And it’s a burning NATIONAL INJUSTICE AND SHAME!
(3) No. Because Congress dare not do it. The people would not stand it.