Show TRE NATIONS FLIGHT GROVER LEVELAND CLEVELAND ON THE rhe CURSE OF plutocracy ito ho 2111 mok tile th who iropoli Iro pofi tile tilt the go inell tit llin 1 I irli land anil that they in turn V cro ro f tar r tile no ko more parching analysis of american argei ican condition w c T r made than that bat made by mr Cleve cleveland lanil in ill bia cl closing in ille message asage that of december 1868 without doubt tho the ablest atto paper in ilk american archives PluE plutocracy in america means tho the control of tile tho government ern ment tho the enactment aid and merit of laws through thu the power of money no intelligent american will deny that such a plutocracy exists and that the issue now to be deter delei mined is between it n plutocrat im dud 1 a popular government ernin ern ment crit upon careful inspection writes mr cleveland in ill summarizing tile causes which have raised this issue we find tile tho wealth and luxury of our cities mingled with poverty aud ami w v retch edness arid anil toil A aroi crowded ded arid and constantly increasing indrea sin urban population suggests the of rural sections and discontent with agricultural pursuits wo we discover that the lie fortunes realized by our are n no 0 lo 10 longer solely ily Us alio results of sturdy in industry arid anil enlightened foresight but that they result from the discriminations favor of the go 0 eminent and are largely largel built upon undue exactions from froin the masses of our people tho the gulf between employer and employee is constantly widening and cl alases ases are rapidly forming ollo ono comprising tho the ery ery rich arid and powerful whilo in another are funis the toiling poor As wo we view the achievements of aggregated capital we discover tho the existence of trusts combinations bi arid and monopolies while the citizen is ia struggling far in ill the I 1 loar car or is is trampled beneath an iron heel corporations po pu rations which le carefully restrained creatures of the law are fast becoming the peoples masters the existing situation is injurious to tile the health of our entire holly body politic it stifles in those for benefit it is permitted all patriotic love of country and substitutes in m its place selfish greed and grasping avarice devotion to american citizenship for its own sal salo o arid and tor for what it should accomplish as a moth e to our nations advancement and the happiness of all our people is di displaced placed by tile assumption that tile the government instead of being tho the embodiment of equality is but an air instrumentality through N w bich especial ei arid and individual advantages are to be gained the arz ro anco of this assumption is unconcealed it appears in the sordid disregard g ard of ill all but personal interests iu in th refusal to abate for the benefit of others other one iota of selfish advantage and in combinations to perpetuate such advantages through efforts to control legislation and to influence improperly the suf gun frages raged of the people communism is ia a hateful thing anda and n menace to peace arid and organized nent dut but the communism of corn coin bained wealth arid and capital the avit outgrowth 11 rov th of if overweening cupidity and selL Ainess which insidiously undermines the justice and the integrity of cf free eions is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which exasperated by injustice ami discontent attacks with wild disorder the citadel cit idel of anle lie ile mocks the hie people who proposes that the government shall protect tile the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor auy any intermediary between the people and their government or the leist delegation of the iho caro care and protection pi the over owes to tile hu hanible nible t citizen makes the boast of free institutions a glittering delu delusion bion and the pretend ei et biou of american citizenship citizens hip a sham less imposition since mr Cloy Cl liland wrote this the plutocracy lias has dictated a great increase in taxes and in the alie expenses of goi 0 o ern ment it liis has a policy of paying out millions annually in subsidies a and bounties dirc ct from tho the treasury it liis has forced the agricultural states deeper ind and deaper into debt it has asserted a right to lu employ mercedia aies for use in private wars I 1 li i bur bor it lias has del liander comple completa tp con control trl of elections through a force bill provid it ing for and to take tho the places of judges ara of libers chosen by the people and after all this it comes one once more inore beffie thy people asserting its right to control theland them and to subject abe their r hi i alit berent manhood 1 ri rights hrs to its assumptions i of money linvil privilege egO aud on oil this bisno i iw of popular pular in goiton oarn against plutocratic government glover cleveland Clev rland is once iacre fit at the front of tile the democratic party lurty challenging the judgment of every enlightened american oil the justice of its cause st louis Ilc Ile public |