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Show H THE "HEPUKLIOAN LANDS1LDE. ' H All over the United States the big Hj and little g. o. p. papers are joining in B a tremenduous hiplhiplho-o-r-a yl ! lover H what they plesse to turn a "republican H landslide." To the thoughtful; to those H that have studied social science; that H look at social conditions as they really H are, and who are not blinded by selfish E partiBanism, the present "landslide" H means the defeat and further enslave H ment of the people. In order to better H understand what those "landslides" H really mean, it will ba necessary to H examine the quality of the material B . that constitutes the Bocial and political L force the people, upon whbm both Hj parties depend for victory. H ' ' " A large proportion of theh people' of kr . the United States are either foreigners IF i : or the children of those who were born Hj in foreign lands. That class of our H citizens, no matter how honest and jvH worthy they may be, cannot be ex-H ex-H poctea to fully understand the genius H of the constitution, nor the statutes H that are based on the fundamental law of the land. Even many native-born Americans, whose American ancestry IhVbI reaches backward during several gen-H gen-H eratione, are Bhamefully ignorant of K the genius of American institutions. In addition to the classes just named, Hj there have recently come to our shores H hordeB of the more ignornant class of H foreigners, who have not even become j assimilated with the people. They E flock to the coal, iron and manufacturers manufactur-ers ing districts and form colonies that are B just as foreign in instinct and habits VH as can be found on the other alAc nf H the Atlantic. Yet, each one of those B strange tongued and dark visaged for- B eigners can become a voter within a few months after landing from Italy, B ' Hungary or elsewhere. It will be B readily seen from the foregoing that H the political and social elements of the JIB United states are r,ot homogeneous, yHj and where that quality is lacking in H - the body politic, there is a correspond- HH ing lack of national solidity. V The institutions of human govern- B inents are in an embryonic state ior BB the reason that it is only a century or IvAV two since a portion of mankind emer- IK ged lrom a condition of governmental absolutism. The progress of men is H based on the fund of knowledge they HB possess of the laws of political cause BH and' consequence. The laws of nature BH are absolute and inexorable. A given II quanity and quality of physical force BH will produce an absolute quantity and pH quality of conseqencee. That 1H "law is as unchangeable and BH eternal as the Great Creator. 2H If it were not so, the universe would IH never have had an existence. Could II the unchangeable law of cause and ef- BH foct be abrogated, confusion would bo B f the result. One by one those magni- H ficent suns and worlds that sweep on- H ward in their yast orbits with such ftpj wonderful precision, would be R blotted from the sky, and H the last glimmer of celestial H light would become extinguished in H "eternal darkneBS. This beautiful H world of ours, that now throbs and K pulsates with conscious life, would k wander off into infinite space and in the presence of eternal night would H become passive in a death from which ft there would be no resurrection. B The human family is but a portion H of nature. The people are governed K absolutely by tne laws of nature, and HMp their material progress is in an exact T ratio with their knowledge of nat- H ural law. That progress will be ac- H gCelerated.'or retarded in exact propor- J H tion to their knowledge of political and I H social science or of the great law of cause and consequence that governs as absolutely and Inexorably in human hu-man govern monts, as do the laws of nature in the domain of the purely physical. Brief reference has been made to the social elements of the United States. With the present uninlight-ened uninlight-ened condition of the dagos, Puns and others, and of the evident lack of knowledge of political cause and effect on the part of the masses, but little progress can be made. This condition makes the people an easy prey to designing de-signing politicians who work in the interst of the money power, be cause the people see and feel only effects and cannot discern the causes. Thirty-five Thirty-five years of almost uninterrupted republican re-publican domination with the pernicious perni-cious and deception cry of protection, has produced certain results Those results are found in the terrible centralization cen-tralization of wealth in the hands ot 25 .000 to 50,000 persons who now own fully one-half of all tbe wealth in the United States. The enrichment of that select class has correspondingly impoverished the -people by protection taxes until they are struggling in the mesbes they have woven about themselves them-selves through their own ignorance of. the lawB of political cauBB and consequence. conse-quence. Farms are plastered with mortgages as security for the very money the larmers have voted to the protected manufacturers. Capital is timid, and at the first sign of a cloud in the financial sky. each possessor of wealth wrung from the people, begins to hunt cover, and by so doing the capitalists precipitate the storm they are seeking to escape. Were the wealth of the nation more justly and evenly distributed as would have been the case under the equal chances furniBhed by the democratic policy of a low tariff, it would be an impossibility to so easily pre3ipitate a panic, and if precipitated, its tffects would be far less than under present conditions. It was the force of centralized protectionwealth, pro-tectionwealth, that precipitated the panic of last year and which had been brewing for many years previously. The results of that panic haye seriously seri-ously affected the labsring class who were already carrying the burthen of republicanism. There is a mighty struggle for bread occasioned by the panic, armies of men were thrown upon the labor market by the closing down of factories which was caused by the Budden withdrawal of centralized wealth the financial life-blood of industry in-dustry and commerce. Under such conditions it is an easy matter for republican re-publican stumpers to go among tbe people and by telling them the illogical illogi-cal and silly lie that their condition is owing to a fear of democratic free trade, tO"stampede them into yoting a continuation of chains that will eat into their flesh, and corrode and torment tor-ment the people until like wild beasfce at bay they will arise and take by rorce that which is theirs by right of every law of nature and their equality before God, In such unfortunate "landslides" as the late republican "victory," ihoreis no evidence of virtue in the principles taught by tbe republican party, nor is there any evidence of any endorsement of republican policies. It is a woeful spectacle of a distressed people turn ing first In one direction ana then in another for that relief and succor that will never come until the blessed light of greater knowledge shall come to them. The picture is a gloomy one. But the people are in the mid3t of a great Bocial evolution that will never stop until the human family are placed on a social plane where there will be "equal and exact justice to all men," In the mean time the God nf nation has decreed that men must suffer the consequence s of their own folly. They are destined to reap tho results of their sowing. In imagination we look into the future fu-ture and see the human family on a higher social plane. The happiness ol each man and woman is indiBaolubly interwoven with the happiness and welfare of all. The pr blems of social life have been solved, the Ibwb of nature na-ture are better undarstood and are be ing utilized for man'B earthly progiees As we look, we see above them the smiling angels of peace and plenty, while the light of faith and hope gleames in a cloudless social sky and urges the human family onward and upward to the bights of infinite knowledge aad endless progress. That condition can never come under un-der the central zing tendencies of republicanism, re-publicanism, and for that reason there is more cause for sorrow than of foy in the hearts of intelligent men and women wo-men when they read of "republican landslides." |