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Show SCHURZ ATTACKS . THE REPUBLICANS BOLTON LANDINGr Oct S.-Carl Schurx, In a letter to the general secretary secre-tary of the Parker Independent clubs, made public today, writes at length ' on the issues of the campaign. "There never was," he says, "a political party in a democracy, however virtuous it may have been at the start, that was not by long possession of power more or less corrupted corrupt-ed and made arrogant and arbitrary." The Government of this Republic, he said, must be a Government not permanently perma-nently controlled by one political party, but by different parties alternating in the possession of power. Criticising the Republican Re-publican party, Mr. 8churs says: "It has become the advocate and servant serv-ant of a combination of pecuniary interests, inter-ests, in maintaining "a high protective tariff going far beyond Its professed objects, ob-jects, despoiling the many tot il-.c b"eflt of a few and striving to keep itself in power by a system of Corruption organized organ-ized on a national scale. "It has, by a policy of adventure, conquest con-quest and arbitrary rule over subject nation, na-tion, set aside the fundamental principles princi-ples upon which this Republic was founded, found-ed, and thus dangerously weakened in our democracy the highest conservative lnflu. ence the popular adherence to our tradl. tinnal doctrines and Ideals. "It has robbed tne American people of the inestimable privilege of being exempt from the burden of enormous armaments under which other nations are groaning, by imposing, without the slightest necessity, ne-cessity, similar burden on our backs. ' "It has thereby not only ceased to countenance coun-tenance and Inspire ' the efforts made in favor of direction of general disarmament, disarma-ment, but disquieting other, power by our building a great war fleet quite superfluous super-fluous except for aggressive purposes, it Is inciting them to follow suit, thus speeding speed-ing the ruinous race and ranging the American Republic among the instigators of a retrogressive tendency hostile to true civilisation." Mr. Schurs criticises the President sharply, and says: "There are two Roosevelt In the field the ideal, the legendary Roosevelt, as he onco appeared and as many people imagine imag-ine him still to be. and the real Roosevelt, as he has Ince developed. "President Roosevelt Is an exceedingly Interesting, -picturesque and forcible character who would have found a moct congenial and glorious field of action at the time of the Crusades, but sometimes strangely falls to appreciate the higher moral aims of modern civilization." |