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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. I charge you to drop
every paltry and insignificant thought
for any man's success. It is nothing;
I am nothing; Judge Douglas is noth
ing. But do not destroy that immortal
embjem of humanity the Declaration
of American Independence."
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