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4 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT PASSING OF POPULISM Mr. Clark Comment 01 an Editorial la tb Caltlmor Anrlcaa Let ni all Unite for 1904 Editor Independent: The eastern dailies have begun to emit yelps of Joy over what they, call the "passing of populism." The American of this city a few days since in an editorial made the assertion that nevermore would the principles of populism be upheld by any considerable body of voters in a national election. When one pauses long enough to grasp the hidden significance of this; when it is seen that they mean that the end of all substantial opposition to the poli cies of governmental favoritism has come; then their glee seems justifiable. There is but one party in this coun try today which stands for those prin ciples of sterling Americanism upheld by the patriots of the past, by men like Jefferson and Lincoln, and that party is the people's party. To say that those principles have been forever re pudiated by the American people, and that they have for all time subscribed to the program of greed and commer cialism of the republican party, is go ing too far. I, for one, refuse to be lieve it The American people are cowed down by the power of organized wealth and they have become almost hopeless of wresting from it the con trol of the governments Temporary 'causes, such as large crops and foreign shortage, have been very kind to tho dominant party, and have delayed for a few years that day of reckoning which their damnable doings will bring them to, Just as certain as that a just God reigns on high. r These men edit who daily journals know In their hearts that the prin ciples of the people's party are right, and they know they are in line with the Declaration of Independence. Yet frr the sake of the dirty dollars they receive, they deliberately misstate facts and seek, to create false impres sions In the minds of the people. But they are destined to a rude a wakening. When 1904 rolls around, the lines of battle will be more closely drawn than ever before in the history of this country. Then the corporation agents masquerading as democrats will be driven into the ranks of the supporters of trusts, imperialism and robbery, and all those who favor righteousness , will range themselves under the banners of the opposition. If the men who now seek to turn the democratic party back to the days when Wall street owned it, succeed, then the millions democrats of the Bryan stripe will leave it forever, and the birth of a new party a party of the people will ensue. In 1896 the populists took posses sion of the democratic party. In 1904 the democrats will take possession of the people's party, and their combined forces will storm the citadel of greed. If all the voters who are opposed to republican policies could be welded to gether, there are enough of them at this present time to overwhelm the hosts of monopoly. Reformers of all shades of belief, our cause is the same. We are all fighting for the right Let us unite "against our common foe, for if we will, victory is assured. THOMAS 0. CLARK. Baltimore, Md. POPULIST DOCTRINE It If Fxrrj'wlirie lit ftnu-Kn lmjri ists n the Party They Stand by the Declaration of Independence A gentleman in. Massachusetts who has been reading some copies of The Independent given to him by a friend and who has taken an active part in public affairs for many years, writes to .the editor, saying that he has been much impressed with the copies of the paper that he has seen, but wants to know "where the people's party stands on the question of imperialism."' He says that he "was born in sight of Bunker Hill, my ancestors fought in the revolutionary war and every male member of the family served In the late civil war. For over a hundred years we have all of us stood by the doctrines of the Declaration of Inde pendence, but now we are confronted with a repudiation of those doctrines by the party with which we have al ways voted. We want some place to go to, where we will not be giving even a shadow of support to this, the vilest of all treason, to the foundation prin ciples of our government What has the populist party to say on this sub ject?" It is true that there has not been much published in The Independent of late on the question of Imperialism, but populists stand where they have always stood on that question. Their position can never be more accurately defined than in the following words from a speech made by Abraham Lin coln, delivered at Beardstown, August 12, 1858. It is the populist doctrine of today and is as follows: "These by their representatives in old Independence hall said to the whole race of men, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are cre ated equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness.' This was their maiestic interpretation of the economy of the universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to his creatures ves. een- tlemen, to all his creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothine stamped with the divine Image and likeness was sent Into the world to be trodden on and degraded and imbruted bv its fellows. They grasDed not onlv the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized uoon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children, and their children's children, and th countless myriads who should inhabit the earth In other ages. Wise states men as they were, they knew the ten dency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man. some factinn some interest, should set up the doc trine that none but rich men, none but white men. or none but Aneln- Saxon white men were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity mieht look n n a fain to the Declaration t of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers beean. so that truth and justice and mercy and all uie numane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the ryeat principles on which the temnie of liberty was built. Now, my countrymen, if vnu have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our chart of liberty, let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close to the blood of the revolution. Think nothing of me; take no thought for the political fate of any man whomsoever, but come back to the truths that are in the Dec laration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred prin ciples. You may not only defeat me for the senate, but you may take ine and put me to death. While pretend ing no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this con test by something higher than an anx iety for office. 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