Eunou Caucasian:
That was a wise saying of Lincoln
when he declared: "Vou can fool
some of the people all the time, all
of the people some of the time, but
you can ct fool all the people all
"the time." Th:? Democratic party
is now in a position to appreciate the
full force of thistiuth. It has fooled
all the members of the paity with
platform promises, but it will never
do so agiiu. The plain people have
begun to use a little plain language,
and they have enough common sense
to do their own thinking henceforth.
Every time I look at the platforms
of the two old parties I am remind
ed of the Delphian oracle, which
when consulted gave such impracti
cal answers as this. When Croesas
first sent to Delphi to inquire of the
oracle whither he should be success
ful in a war against the Persian
Iving, the oracle told him that he
' would destroy a grtat kingdom."
lie did indeed destroy a great king
dont" but contrary to expectation, it
was his own. Our modern platform
writers vie with each other in their
effort to construct platforms that
can be construed as favoring or op
posing certain things, as occasion
may requiie different interpretations.
They believe that "language was
made to conceal thought" and that
buncomb and humbuggery in the
party platforms are sine qua non.
