Show THE DEFAULT OF POPULISM all over tho country tharo 13 a feeling that whereas populism lial sprung into prominence and liaa a aie ance which even its opponents had recognized more fully than they dared to acknowledge eliat it had held out a hope of relief for grievances glie vances which the lees lobious and portentous because they are not very sharply de fined that it had sprung arora the ei cultural masses whose instincts abd purpose are held to bo simple honest and upright notwithstanding all ileese to lie rise of populism there isa univ ordal feeling that it now stands in default and that as at pleasnt organized and constituted it bag met its waterloo although some of its more prominent representatives claim that a gain of votes in the was made in alic recent elections yet in its strongholds it wag routed and every body knows that at any future election it come up weakened and demoralized from the prestige of defeat wo auve no enmity or ellwill toward populism rather hive we retrained from increasing inci easing the burdens which any new movement has naturally to carry but alie defeat of populism has ajr its cause tho earn cs that engulfed democracy tho free trade heresy ane principal leaders of populism have declared themselves in favor of free trade eccli as jerry si ra apson who la now relegated loathe shades cl life no creater mistake could have baan made by tho than to put themselves anio an attitude that when the people akk for bread they could only a stone when they should ask fur a fiah chay could only give them a international diee trade in prid acta that v ian our own is the cause anil promoter af the n degrading and impoverishing competition with foreign labor that may be endlessly scaled down in its antion sich a scheme is wholly adverse to the best interests and highest acl fire ul the american and yet the wai asked to endorse a program which ethod as the initiative to ilis certain downfall in all this great reverse in which populism lias borne its share it hag baen weighed in a balance and fomil want ing it has met its nemesia Nem esip its judgment day and it has received effectual gotico thai as at constituted it lias no mission eliat has any for tho american if populism would ll icard its free trado and inflation hero ecea and write protection and bimetallism upon its banner and then into tho republican ranks and fight for those grand issues it would help clear the way whereby other needed reforms could be realized trough legislation |