Show PRODUCERS AGAINST TRUSTS PartY LineN Rubbed Ont in This Pcntlinpr Csunimign The nonpartisan looking over the political field says the San Francisco Examiner must be struck with the contrast between the Republican and the Democratic masses at the present time The general rule has been that the line of cleavage between the voters vot-ers of the two parties has not been affected I af-fected by calling or condition Men of I all vocations rich and poor employers and employees hand workers and brain workers have been found in each I camp I was impossible to tell from a mans station to which party he belonged be-longed I That is all changed now All who live by the manipulation of money and by the enjoyment of exclusive privileges privi-leges are on one side and all the wage earners all the poor all the producers produc-ers of raw material all who live by the exercise of a handicraft on the ther In the Republican camp frill be found bankers financiers promoters of trusts possessors of monopolies great manufacturers manu-facturers officers of corporations and generally those who lead the lives of I American princes The Democratic camp contains a totally different class You will find there the rank and file of the working men mechanics and craftsmen toilers who cannot afford to lose a day for that would mean stinting the household income farmers far-mers and farm l laborers the great army of railroad hands and the class which is often known a the people The interest in-terest of the lat r is a broad general interest which concerns everyone the interest of the former is invariably a narrow selfish interest aiming at the profit of the few I the Democrats have the shaping of the national policy it may be taken for granted that it will be shaped so as to benefit the largest number of the greatest mass of the people if that policy is shaped by the Republicans it will help trusts and monopolies manufacturers and employers em-ployers of labor rather than employees This division of voters is unprece I dented in our history The line between be-tween capital and labor was never before I be-fore sharply drawn in this country There have always been rich men among the leaders of the I Democracy and among the Republicans Re-publicans there have always I been sons of toil who have taken i a deluded view of their duty and espoused I es-poused the side of the party which falsely declared that protective duties I for the emolument of manufacturers were the mainstay of wages Now for I the first time the sheep have been separated sep-arated from the goats and voters have divided themselves into the party of I the rich and the party of the poor |