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tion In grncnbarka has more influence
than the written desire of thousands
of citizens." They will tell you that
the majority in power would through
Its popular majority pass all laws
which would bo presented to them
We of this side can show you by ex
ample, the strongest proof, that out of
nineteen measures submitted to the
people of Switzerland but six were
passed and Switzerland, having lt3
parties divided on questions of relig
ion, is more party-ridden than are we.
But seemingly the strongest argu
ment that Is used against us are that
the people are not capable of go -erning
themselves and that they are
not capable of acting together. WV
believe that we have controverted this
argument long since by the proof of
our first two propositions. Further
we will say that the argument is
weak for experience has proven other
wise. The question must notbe de
termined by what might happen, bui
by what has happened in lands where
the scheme has een tried. It ha
worked well in state elections in our
own country and irf national questions
in Switzerland, New Zealand, Canada,
Australia, Belgium and other places.
We believe the doctrine sound.
We hnve shown you our Utopia. We
have pictured to you the evils of a
system that keeps the people far from
the state. Fore' n countries with the
independence of FCheir monarchs have
lived; but in lands where the popular
will could spread, the lands have not
only lived, but thrived. We have
shown you the entrance to a better
and far more democratic home.
The art of government is not a hard
one. Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the
greatest of authorities on government,
in his article on the rights of British
America states another and a funda
mental truth when he says: "The
whole art of government is the art of
being honest. The great principles of
right and wrong are legible to every
reader. To pursue them needs not thrt
aid of many counsellors, but deal out
to all an equal and impartial right."
In another letter written to Benjamin
Waring, he says: "The will of the
people Is the only- legitimate founda
tion of any government." Upon the
truths of these statements we willing
ly rest our case. To make the opinion
of one man equal in electoral value to
that of another should be our aim.
The initiative and referendum will es
tablish it and then, as McCauley so
ably puts it:
"Then none was for a party, then all
was for the state
No rich nor poor, but equal all within
the city's gate."
WILLIAM W. BRIDE.
A Stay-at-Hcme
Shall It be Done
Editor Independent: You are right.
But the reorganizers are in control
and will write the next national plat
form for the democratic party. The
populists and Chicago platform adher
ents must stand together and go be
fore the people as popocrats on a
platform of principles embracing:
1. Liberty (anti-imperialism).
2. Anti-bank (government money).
3. Tariff revision (Iowa reform).
4. Home rule (county and city,
Colorado).
5. Direct legislation (Illinois).
6. Income tax.
7. Government ownership of gen
eral utilities.
Avoid all catch planks or bid for
labor votes. What say you to this?
I would suggest a procedure as fol
lows: Issue a call of kindred spirits
in each state to meet at their capital
city February 22, 1903, and there
choose three men who shall attend a
conference to taKe place the first Tues
day of March, 1903, at St. Louis.
This conference to formulate a dec
laration of principles. The three mem
bers from each state shall thereafter
call a convention in their respective
states to nominate a ticket and choose
1? dfles-ntes who shall attend a na
tional convention to be held February
22, 1904.
Wall street will float the stock of
the Mac-Lean-Gorman-Cleveland-Hill
merger, with Coler as promoter. I
would be pleased to hear from you.
We owe something to the reform forces
of our land, and a home for them
when the split comes. Voting the op
position ticket Is getting silly.
DR. R. IT. RUMELIN.
36 Garfield Place, Cincinnati, 0.
(What do the readers of The Inde
pendent sav to this plan? In a gen
eral way The Independent is oposed
to rushing off and forming a new par
ty every whipstitch but Doctor Rum
elin's plan is attractive, there's no de
nying. With two people's parties, two
or three socialist parties, and several
different kinds of democratic parties,
it does loo1-7 thoutrh somef"iintr misrht
be done. How does the outlined plat
form suit? Ed. Ind.)
Editor Independent: I am in a pros
pecting camp eight miles from post
oliice called Kedington, which is only
a ranch house where we get our mail
matter 3 times a week if we go for
it There are only four of us in the
(trap; two of the boys take the New
York American, San Francisco Ex
aminer, The Commoner and some
magazines. My partner and I take the
Rocky Mountain Daily News, The
Commoner and The Independent. Our
nearest neighbor is the Redington
postmaster. I have only been out of
camp once in the last thirteen months.
I like The Independent very well;
the only objectionable feature that I
see is that it is too much opposed to
socialism which is the only system
of government that does not give greed
a foothold in one way or other; but I
think that system can be more easily
obtained by work gradually through
populism. When I get time I would
like to write an article touching the
matter indirectly, yet conveying a fav
orable point
I received many letters commenting
favorably on the article, "Root of All
Evil." Some of the persons were en
tire strangers to me. One of them
living in a New England state wrote
me that he wanted copies to distri
bute? R. ROCKWELL.
Redington, Ariz.
(The Independent is opposed to so
cialism only to the extent that ff in
cludes the collective ownership of
ALL the means of production, believ
ing that after public ownership and
operation of the railroads is achieved
(including, of course, the telegraph
and all such means of communication)
the evils of the capitalist system will
ha. minimized. But populists are not
bitter in their opposition to socialism
something which cannot be said of
the two principal factions in the so
cialist party toward each other. The
Independent would be glad to receive
the article Mr. Rockwell mentions.
Ed. Ind.)
Hard to Dispute
Editor Independent: In comment
ing upon the results of the election
you say that upon the republicans
rests the responsibilities for financial
conditions for the next two years; that
within that itme will be demonstrated
the evils of republican financial poli
cies and when it comes the republican
party alone must bear the responsibil
ity. We will no doubt have the de
monstration, but I want to ask, Did
you ever see the republican party in
a hole lut what they could find some
crevice through which to crawl out?
They were in a great hole in '96 and
they found that' the only way out was
to slide out on populist planks and
they got out all right. Several times
during the present season they camo
verv nearly slipping in again, but by
imploring the bankers, etc., to save
them they have dodged it in their art
ful way. You see it would not do to
get into that hole just now as the
ground is slippery and they might
hurt themselves (politically), but a
little later on they can lay the blame
for getting into that hole to the demo
crats by saying. It is getting near pres
idential election and the people are
hoarding their money for fear that
the democrats will elect the president:
then these same republicans that are
now planning to have the Cleveland
wing capture the democratic party will
ee to it that a man of Cleveland or
Hill's stripe is nominated and elected;
then they will push everybody but
themselves into the hole and while
they gather in the proceeds they will
yell, We gave you prosperity and you
wera not satisfied; now take your
medicine and when you get enough
of democracy come back.
No, Mr. Editor, the republican party
will never get in a hole but what they
will get out in some way or other and
lay the blame and responsibility on
some one else. L. H. SUTER.
Neligh, Neb.
Corbin to Carlisle
Jay S. Corbin, the liberal democratic
nominee for governor in New York,
some days before election received a
letter from Chairman Carlisle of the
regular organization asking his sup
port for the Coler ticket. Mr. Corbin
replied as follows:
Gouverneur. Oct. 31, 1902. John N.
Carlisle. Chairman Democratic Execu
tive Committee, Hoffman House, N. Y.
Dear Sir: I have your favor asking
me to "do all in my power," etc., to
elect Birdie Coler, the combination
candidate of Thomas Piatt and David
B. Hill.
The other Corbins and myself repre
sent an unbroken line of Jeffersonian
dmocracv in this town for over 70
years and I see no reason at this late
period in my life for departing from
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the faith of the fathers.
Remembering the recreancy of your
self and Hill and Coler in 1896 and
Av00, I rejoice at the certainty of your
humiliating defeat on Tuesday next
and I will "do all in my power" to aid
that result.
I enclose a copy of the platform of
the loyal democrats of the state and
invite you to return to the party whose
name you have stolen and whose prin
ciples and candidates you have long
repudiated. Yours truly.
J. S. CORBIN.
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